BriForum is THE independent conference about end-user computing – we live, eat, and breathe at the point where end-users intersect with enterprise IT technology. Over the course of 3-days, and over 40 independent sessions, we talk about everything related to desktop virtualization, VDI, enterprise mobility, BYOD, DaaS and provide a vendor-neutral perspective on maintaining a balance between usability, security and control in today’s virtualized and mobile marketplace.

Join us at The Modern Infrastructure Summit to hear how enterprises, in a wide range of industries, have drawn upon the cloud to expand business opportunities and advance organizational goals. During this one-day event, take an inside look at how best-in-class companies are integrating scale-out, software-defined technologies into a traditional enterprise IT environment, to quickly deliver high-performance, reliable, services at a low-cost. Gain an advanced understanding of the Mpolicies and controls that need to be in place to make it possible for IT to safely embrace cloud without putting the organization at risk

This complimentary, half-day seminar that will arm you with a blueprint for building a cloud strategy that is unique to your enterprise. If your cloud strategy isn’t quite where you want it to be, join us and you will receive a framework to distinguish which applications to move to the cloud, and which to leave on premise, customized according to your enterprises’ unique requirements, evaluation criteria, and architecture principles.  Hear first-hand, from industry expert Robert Green of Enfinium Conulting, about what works, what doesn't, what's next and how to lead an efficient transition to the cloud, including the pitfalls to avoid around cost, modeling, management and security.  

The Modern Server and Storage Infrastructure Seminar is a ½ day event that will help you understand the up and down -sides of the emerging technologies that are transforming the data center, and help you to choose the right server and storage solution to support your organizations’ business needs. You will develop strategies for building an infrastructure that can support new scale-out workload types and address storage and data management challenges - including big data analytics, capacity planning, virtual desktop I/O storms and fast workload provisioning.  In part 1 of this seminar, you will learn about the different kinds of converged and hyper-converged systems, and explore the management and performance implications of each approach.  Part 2 will help you to navigate through the next generation of storage architectures and approaches on the market today to improve your storage performance.