Name: The role of ESG programs on IT decision making
Start: 2023-06-20T15:00:00Z
End: 2023-06-20T15:00:27.000Z
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The Enterprise Architecture channel  presents the next generation of Enterprise IT: recognizing the strategic importance of digital transformation and the data center to make companies more nimble and competitive. These presentations will help demanding IT and BizOps professionals achieve flexibility, scalability and performance with reduced risk and complexity.

Companies must have both the right tools and processes established at minimum to efficiently develop software.
 
Awareness in software development methodologies (SDM) help software developers choose the best models critical to the project success and the overall efficiency of development teams throughout the software development life cycle. The right approaches ensure the teams work in an organized manner and align the development process with project goals and customer expectations.  

Crafting the right SDM also requires IT leaders to be knowledgeable in:
- Programming paradigms
- Reusable software design
- Principles of construction of stochastic systems
- Relevant mathematical models.
 
Tune into this webinar to learn tips to design the right SDM for your organization so your developers can work in the most efficient manner to produce the highest quality software.

Choose the Best Software Development Methodology for Your Company

Object Storage has firmly established itself as a cornerstone of modern data centers and cloud infrastructure. Ensuring API compatibility has become crucial for object storage developers who want to benefit from the wide ecosystem of existing applications. However, achieving compatibility can be challenging due to the complexity and variety of the APIs, access control mechanisms, and performance and scalability requirements.

In this webinar, we'll highlight real-world incompatibilities found in various object storage implementations. We'll discuss specific examples of existing discrepancies, such as missing or incorrect response headers, unsupported API calls, and unexpected behavior. We’ll also describe the implications these have on actual client applications.
 
This analysis is based on years of experience with implementation, deployment and evaluation of a wide range of object storage systems on the market. Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of the challenges around compatibility and how to address them in their own applications.
 
During this webinar, we'll call for participation in a Cloud Object Storage Plugfest, facilitated by SNIA and co-located at Storage Developer Conference (SDC) 2024, aimed at improving cross-implementation compatibility for client and/or server implementations of private and public cloud object storage solutions. This endeavor is designed to be an independent, vendor-neutral effort with broad industry support, focused on a variety of solutions, including on-premises and in the cloud.

Navigating the Complexities of Object Storage Compatibility

The latest buzz around generative artificial intelligence (AI) ignores the massive costs to run and power the technology. Without any guard rails in place, what are the impacts of AI on sustainability and costs across our technology resources? This webinar will offer insights on the potentially hidden technical and infrastructure costs associated with generative AI, best practices and potential solutions to be considered, discussing:   

• Scalability considerations for generative AI in enterprises 
• Significant computational requirements and cost for Large Language Model inferencing 
• Fabric requirements and costs 
• Sustainability impacts due to increased power consumption, heat dissipation, and cooling implications 
• AI infrastructure savings - On-prem vs. Cloud
• Practical steps to reduce impact, leveraging existing pre-trained models for specific market domains

Addressing the Hidden Costs of AI

The majority of today’s SAN infrastructures leverage the traditional SCSI/FCP protocol. The relatively new NVMe/FC protocol has become ubiquitous in enterprise storage offerings, delivering multiple advantages including high performance, low tail latency, and precision error recovery that can run on the same Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure. In this talk we will discuss:

• The architecture of NVMe/FC at protocol level
• Building blocks of NVMe like NVMe subsystem
• NVMe controllers, Namespaces etc. 
• Overview of FC-NVMe T11 standards
• Key advantages of NVMe/FC, including application use cases

NVMe over FC: Deep Dive in Protocol, Architecture and Use Cases

Key Takeaways: 

At the end of session, you will:
- Understand the special significance of 5G applications, pivots by the top players during the pandemic
- Understand theboardiQ model
- Understand the importance of sustainable goals

The humanitization of business - building the emotional connect with the workforce, workplace and marketplace.

5G Centered Innovation - Application, Pivots, Inclusion and Sustainability

As organizations face increasingly complex changes at faster rates, it is vital that leaders have key capabilities for leading and managing change effectively. Having the right skills, knowledge and experience are vital for engaging stakeholders with organizational transformations and ensuring that change achieves benefits and is sustainable. 
 
Join Julie Hodges (Professor of Organisational Change at Durham University) as she explores the key capabilities for leading planned change effectively and considers how leaders can engage people in co-creating change so that they are committed and ensure that the change is sustainable.
 
You'll discover how to:
 
• Enhance your capabilities for leading digital transformations;
• Increase your engagement with stakeholders during digital transformations;
• Create a supportive environment for organizational change;
• Identify what you might do differently in leading digital transformations.

Leading Change: A Leader's Guide to Successful Transformation

The “If you deploy it, they will use it” approach doesn’t work when it comes to UCC. Too many IT professionals focus exclusively on the architecture and design for UCC solutions, without taking into account the role of end user usage, adoption, and training to drive the overall success of a UCC. solution. This session we will focus on why end user adoption and training are so important, key findings from a usage and adoption study, and steps to drive adoption in order to get the most out of your UCC solution.

Key Takeaways 
- Why usage and adoption are even more important than the UCC technology itself
- How to develop a UCC end user adoption strategy
- Best practices for UCC training and adoption
- How to overcome some of the roadblocks to driving user adoption

Rethinking Unified Comms User Adoption

All too often we hear from users that their end user device is woefully underpowered or they want different types of device for different tasks. We need power and we need flexibility so how do we manage this? How can we empower our users whilst allowing them to use different types of device seamlessly? 

Tune into this webinar and see how we can balance these ever-competing needs and achieve that elusive thing, the satisfied user by designing a solution that:
- Supports multiple end user device formats.
- Allows users to request resources on demand. 
- Enables users to work anywhere on any device securely and safely.

About the speaker
An established thought leader and innovator, Simon serves as a Virtual CIO, CIO Advisor and Leadership Mentor for a wide variety of organisations.  Simon works with organisations to build high performing IT teams, develop structured training and development plans and to foster a culture of innovation and change.  Simon holds a Masters in Psychology and is a trained accountant and former finance director as well as being an RFU Licensed Rugby Coach.

I Need More Power: How to Enable End Users to Work Wherever, Whenever

The enterprise storage market is rapidly expanding to include NVMe and NVMe-oF products pervasively. This presents the challenge: how do you manage these as part of your enterprise data center?

As the NVM Express family of specifications continue to develop, the corresponding Swordfish management capabilities are also evolving. The SNIA Swordfish management bundle (including the specification, schema, documentation, and more) has expanded to include full NVMe and NVMe-oF technology enablement and alignment across DMTF, NVMe and SNIA for NVMe and NVMe-oF technology use cases.

In conjunction with Redfish®, Swordfish's capabilities to manage NVMe and NVMe-oF devices in the enterprise provide a seamless management ecosystem. 

This presentation will introduce management of NVMe and NVMe-oF technology with SNIA Swordfish. Using an example of the SNIA Swordfish functionality, the presenters will introduce how to manage the complexity of discovery controllers with the simplified model presented to Swordfish clients.

Catch the Wave – Managing NVMe-oF™ in the Enterprise

What are the common challenges and success factors for implementing containerization and microservices? Learn about field implementations of different container, container orchestration, and microservices implementations across organizations of many sizes.  

This webcast will show what the common pitfalls are, industry learnings, and how your organization can take the lessons of others to assess and implement your own microservices and/or containerization strategy.

Follow Eric Wright, Technology Evangelist at Turbonomic, at discoposse.com and @discoposse.

Advantages and Challenges of Containers – Notes From the Field

The days of simple, static, self-contained file systems have long passed. Today, we have complex, dynamic namespaces, mixing block, file, object, key-value, queue, and graph-based resources, accessed via multiple protocols, and distributed across multiple systems and geographic sites. These complexities result in new challenges for simplifying management. 

The good news is, that the SNIA Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI™), an open ISO standard (ISO/IEC 17826:2022) for managing data objects and containers, already includes extensive capabilities for simplifying the management of complex namespaces. In this webinar, attendees will learn how to simplify namespace management – the open standards way, including namespace discovery, introspection, exports, imports and more, discussing:

• Challenges and limitations with proprietary namespace management
• Overview of namespaces and industry evolution
• Lack of portability between platforms
• Using CDMI for simplified and consistent namespace management
• Use cases for namespace management

Simplified Namespace Management – The Open Standards Way

In this era of digital transformation, more and more data-driven and machine intelligent solutions are being developed and deployed, changing the profile of companies from ordinary to more intelligent. AI systems keep learning and improving themselves to deal with data in a way similar to how the human brain processes the information. Advances in this area significantly improves decision making, performance, computational accuracy and permanency, and even outperforms and fights human weaknesses, such as fatigue, lack of attention and lack of knowledge. Nowadays, besides business-oriented tasks, AI-inspired solutions provide data protection from external and internal threats and are the only way to detect and block advanced persistent threats in their lateral movements. AI incorporates theories and best practices from scientific and technological fields without restriction. The more natural and computational sciences are involved, the more predictable and controllable are the results. No humans are capable to provide such an integration and full control, also visibility of the enterprise in all its layers.    

This webinar introduces several approaches to develop and implement AI solutions which can promote intelligence of organizations through application of computational technologies, machine learning and data science driven tools to make the business processes of a required quality and of the expected behavior.

AI for Building, Maintaining, and Scaling Intelligent Enterprises

Data centers are not dead, and enterprises need new and refurbished data centers to be up to demands of the work to be deployed in them. Focusing on power in all its facets—energy, cooling, computing, storage, networking—to support work at very high densities is crucial. Building from the ground up to maximize automation at every level above the physical is equally important: the need to manage more capacity and high-importance infrastructure with fewer staff to hand will only become more urgent and more widespread. 

Join Nemertes as we tie together the threads and point you at the right considerations, questions, goals, technologies and techniques to take into account in your planning.

Power, Density, Automation: Keys to a Next Generation Data Center Approach

In recent years, data centers have shifted from being perceived as a clean industry to being a focal point in achieving the EU's 2030 climate protection targets. Despite the inherent drive for efficiency and sustainability in data center operations, realization of these goals has been inadequate.

The increasing energy demands of data centers and the stalling progress in improving their efficiency conflict with the EU's sustainability goals. In turn, data centers have been brought under the scope of the European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.

In response to this, the Data Center Maturity Model (TS 50600-5-1) has been developed to assess a data center's sustainability within the framework of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations. This model allows for an EU taxonomy-compliant evaluation of energy management and environmental impact, enabling the establishment of a pathway for continuous improvement and the achievement of higher maturity levels.

Join Fridtjof Chwoyka (Senior Data Center Consultant, Data Center Excellence GmbH) for this session to get to grips with the TS 50600-5-1 Model. 
Topics for discussion include:
- Understand the need for a maturity model in the assessment process and discover how key metrics like Power Usage Effectiveness shed light on data center efficiency.
- Explore how the maturity model facilitates the assessment process and understand how its structures and methodologies can be used to evaluate sustainability within data centers.
- Discover how to leverage the model to align with shifting regulatory requirements and industry standards. 
- And more..

Enhance Data Center Sustainability With Data Center Maturity Model TS 50600-5-1

Data centres played an unquestionably key role in addressing several key challenges during the pandemic – from enabling remote work, to facilitating online education and accelerating medical innovation to speed up vaccine roll outs.  

With demand for digital services higher than ever, digitisation projects are driving the development of new trends and services, such as smart cities, Internet of Things, AI and 5G amongst others. This skyrocketing demand is matched by a growing demand for equipment and energy to power the rapidly expanding data centre industry. This increasing demand for IT equipment presents serious global, environmental challenges.  

In this session join Dr. Umaima Haider, Lecturer in Computer Science and Digital Technologies at the University of East London, to explore the opportunities and challenges that exist with respect to the environmental impact of digital infrastructure. 

Topics for discussion include: 
- Quantifying the environmental impact of data centres.  
- Reducing data centre cost and consumption. 
- Environmentally sustainable approaches to data centre growth.
- And more...

Embracing the Digital Era: Unlocking Data Centre Environmental Sustainability

There has been much talk about cloud repatriation as many organisations reverse their precipitate rush to the public cloud. But simply bringing it home isn’t the answer either. Hybrid cloud has been around for many years and the emerging trend for multi-cloud strategies is driving organisations to take a long hard look at their own data centres.

Building a truly cloud experience in an on-premises data centre is a challenge. Managing the resulting hybrid infrastructure with potential multi-clouds is a serious challenge. Join this webinar to look at options for building, managing, orchestrating and automating true hybrid clouds so they become an effective addition to an organisational strategy rather than the anchor that slows growth.

Find out:
- Why the modern enterprise data centre is still a good investment.
- How to manage across data centres and environments.
- How to move services between data centres quickly and easily.

About the speaker
An established thought leader and innovator, Simon serves as a Virtual CIO, CIO Advisor and Leadership Mentor for a wide variety of organisations.  Simon works with organisations to build high performing IT teams, develop structured training and development plans and to foster a culture of innovation and change.  Simon holds a Masters in Psychology and is a trained accountant and former finance director as well as being an RFU Licensed Rugby Coach.

The Enterprise Data Center: Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

Security is a top concern of CISOs and top management, but most EUC admins aren’t security experts. This session will deep dive into understanding virtual workspace security, as well as how to uplevel the defense posture of your environment.  Session content is applicable regardless of virtual workspace platform.

In this session, you’ll learn about:
- Encryption: A little packet dissection and a lot of maximized TLS security.
- Authentication: The nuts and bolts of more secure authentication, as well as standards-based recommendation. 
- User/Device Security: Increasing user/device security with an eye on risk management.

About the speaker 
Jo Harder is an industry veteran that has worked with Virtual Workspace technologies for 24 years, including roles in Consulting, Technical Marketing, Product Management, Technical Readiness, and Cloud Architecture.  In addition to her deep knowledge of 0s and 1s, she has shifted her focus to the security aspects of End User Computing as will be evidenced by an upcoming security-related announcement. When she’s not in nerd mode, Jo can be found zooming down forest trails astride a horse.

Security for the Virtual Workspace: "CISO Speak" for EUC Admins

AI is disrupting so many domains and industries and by doing so, AI models and algorithms are becoming increasingly large and complex. This complexity is driven by the proliferation in size and diversity of localized data everywhere, which creates the need for a unified data fabric and/or federated learning. It could be argued that whoever wins the data race will win the AI race, which is inherently built on two premises: 1) Data is available in a central location for AI to have full access to it, 2) Compute is centralized and abundant. 

Edge AI though, defies these assumptions. If centralized (or in the cloud) AI is a superpower and super expert, edge AI is a community of many smart wizards. As humans, we can appreciate the power of cumulative knowledge over a central superpower. In this webinar, we will touch on: 
• The value and use cases of distributed edge AI 
• How data fabric on the edge differs from the cloud and its impact on AI
• Edge device data privacy trade-offs and distributed agency trends
• Privacy mechanisms for federated learning, inference, and analytics
• How interoperability between cloud and edge AI can happen

Why Distributed Edge Data is the Future of AI

Taking a Strategic Approach to Your Third-Party Risk Management Program

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Methodology for leaders looking to make IT more environment friendly

The Impact of ESG on IT

Sustainability is moving higher and higher on the IT priority list. According to extensive research performed by Enterprise Strategy Group, there are six primary factors -- driven by sustainability and ESG initiatives -- changing the IT buying culture:
- IT supplier ESG programs do matter to IT buyers.
- IT buyers expect to pay a premium for ESG compliant goods.
- How buyers access supplier ESG is not yet mature.
- Corporate ESG is a branding exercise.
- The third-party ESG compliance tools and services market is set for rapid growth. 
- ESG is driving strategic IT/business alignment. 

In this research-based talk, Enterprise Strategy Group Senior Analyst Jon Brown, will present eye-opening results from their latest study exploring how ESG impacts IT strategy as well as discuss how buyers and sellers can better understand the current impact of ESG programs on IT purchasing in order to make better buying decisions.

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