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Making Sense of Multi-Cloud: Everything Your Business Needs To Know

May 14, 2020 11 a.m. ET-5 p.m. ET

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM

Keynote Session #1

Sponsored by:

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Microsoft Azure Explained: Is It Right for Your Multi-Cloud Environment?
Presented By: Orin Thomas

Microsoft's IaaS cloud services platform sets itself apart from competitors with a range of platform-as-a-service resources, alongside support for a variety of coding languages and programming tools. Azure also touts automation features for common repetitive network tasks. But data management poses challenges, and organizations that run on non-Microsoft operating systems may face significant integration issues. This session will address Azure’s positives and negatives, delivering expert insights into how or even if it fits into your company's multi-cloud plans.

11:45 AM – 12:00 PM

Fireside Chat featuring DivvyCloud

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Editorial Interview with Jeremy Snyer of DivvyCloud

12:00 PM – 12:15 PM

Networking Break

Spotlight Video: DivvyCloud

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM

Keynote Session #2

Sponsored by:

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Combating Multi-Cloud Complexity: Solutions and Strategies for Simplifying Your Future
Presented By: Mike Otey

Complexity looms large over multi-cloud deployment. Today most businesses are already using multiple clouds. According to Gartner most businesses have already adopted multiple clouds in 2020. Using multiple clouds provides increased benefits and flexibility by allowing businesses to pick and choose the most effective service offerings for their needs. However, it's all but inevitable that mixing and matching services from multiple cloud providers poses challenges.

There are tools and technologies to dramatically simplify and support your organization's multi-cloud implementations. This session will explore the common challenges facing multi-cloud implementation and management as well as providing solutions and expert best practices on how to cope with multi-cloud management pain points. Some of the topics that we will cover include:

  • Challenges in hybrid/multi-cloud management
  • Avoiding vendor lock-in
  • Strategies for simplifying multi-cloud operations
  • Tools offering unified cloud management
  • Keeping multi-cloud costs under control
  • Hybrid/multi-cloud security best practices

1:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Fireside Chat featuring Zerto

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Editorial Interview with Andy Fernandez, Zerto Product Marketing Manager

1:15 PM – 1:30 PM

Networking Break

Spotlight Video: Zerto

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Premier Session

Sponsored by:

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Making Sense of Multi-Cloud: What Your Business Needs To Know

Presented by: PG Menon

Please join one of Infoblox's Senior Product Marketing Directors for this session, where you'll learn:

  • Common challenges facing multi-cloud implementation and management efforts
    • Legacy architectures and processes hinder business agility
  • How businesses can gain greater visibility into their multi-cloud environment
    • Common network architecture across hybrid and multi-cloud is crucial
  • Security models and decisive measures to rein in spending
    • Explore ways to get more out of your existing investment

2:00 PM – 2:15 PM

Networking Break

Spotlight Video: Infoblox

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM

Spotlight Webinar

Sponsored by:

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10 Ways to Harden Your Multi-Cloud Security Posture?

2:45 PM – 3:00 PM

Networking Break

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Spotlight Webinar

Sponsored by:

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The IT Pro's Guide to Moving Disaster Recovery to the Cloud

The role of the cloud continues to evolve in modern IT. The technical, operational and financial value of the cloud is clear, but navigating the right approach while balancing tradeoffs with cost and control can be difficult. Taking your disaster recovery operations to the cloud is a strategic approach to leveraging cloud. Join Andy Fernandez, Zerto Product Marketing Manager, in this webinar discussion to::

  • Explore the successful decision-making criteria and modeling organizations use before they move to the cloud
  • Evaluate the technical, operational and economic benefits of moving DR to the cloud
  • Find the right platform: IaaS, DRaaS or VMware on IaaS
  • Find the right solution for disaster recovery in your hybrid-cloud environment

Leave this session with a clear understanding of which cloud DR strategy is a fit for you and how to utilize the Zerto IT Resilience Platform™ to realize cost savings coupled with industry-leading data protection and performance.

3:30 PM – 3:45 PM

Networking Break

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM

Panel Session

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Google Cloud and Citrix: Leveraging Multi-Cloud, Virtualization, and New Solutions to Build Resiliency
Moderated By: Bill Kleyman

Google's entry into the IaaS cloud services platform made a lot of people happy. What else made them happy? The fact that Google Cloud continues to advance its platform around new networking solutions, cognitive systems, application deployment, and even virtualization. In today's world of remote users, new requirements around workspace delivery, and application management Google sought out a partner to help them deliver security, powerful user experiences, and desktops and applications of all kinds. This is where Citrix comes in. But, outside of some traditional interconnect options, there is deep integration between GCP and Citrix. Most of all, new developments allow for even more control of multi-cloud resources. ing core services and applications really as hard as some say it is?

After working on numerous projects involving GCP, Citrix, as well as other cloud services, I'm excited to share some lessons learned and where Google Cloud, Citrix, Multi-Cloud, and new delivery solutions can get along. This session will address Google Cloud’s architecture and how it integrates with Citrix solutions. We'll dive into expert insights into how to leverage this kind of multi-cloud solution and why getting started isn't so hard. Specifically, this session will cover:

  • Hello GCP, Nice To Meet You: An Overview of the Google Cloud Platform
  • Getting over the 'this is so cool' factor and looking under the hood: How Citrix and Google Started this journey
  • GCP functions, features, and Citrix deployments methods
  • Real-world GCP multi-cloud deployments and architecture examples
  • Best practices and a list of things to be aware of