The Data Center Reset seminar is a half-day event that will help you understand the emerging server and storage technologies that are transforming the data center, and help you to choose the right infrastructure to support your organizations' business needs. Keynote speaker Marc Staimer, will explore how best to apply these infrastructure options to different application workloads, and the implications of new infrastructure form factors on data center networks.

Keith Townsend, expert in the enterprise virtualization space, leads this two part seminar Modern Infrastructure and Operations: The Next Era of Hybrid Cloud, Virtualization Management, and Containers. Part one is all about optimizing your environment. Townsend identifies factors that drive up costs, including memory, networked storage, and operating system licenses, and most importantly - how to manage them. This information then determines whether it’s necessary to right-size existing deployments or move in to adjacent technologies that replace the hypervisor in order to support modern workloads. In part two, these “adjacent technologies” are detailed as Townsend details the taxonomy of technologies available to complement server virtualization, including the benefits that containers can bring to data management. In just one half-day seminar you will leverage your server virtualization investments, and have strategic steps to reduce virtualization as a line item.

According to 2016 IDC Research, 51% of organizations say infrastructure complexity is inhibiting the progress of their digital transformation efforts. That’s why, at this complimentary seminar, veteran IT expert Scott Lowe will shed light on the strategies and technologies that lead to accelerated digital best practices, high availability, and real-time analytics. You’ll return to the office with a solid understanding of how to:

•Transform your business processes by updating your digital infrastructure
• Migrate any existing legacy apps to the cloud and mobile for easier access to business data
• Modernize your infrastructure to support rapidly evolving workload demands and improve system performance
• Incorporate new types of data (big data, IoT) into ERP platforms and other critical business systems
• Integrate disparate applications and consolidate complex hybrid environments
• Streamline processes and gain the agility to build new application functionality really quickly