Learn how hyperscalers and industry giants are deploying and managing their cloud network architecture
Silverlinings presents the Cloud Cover Virtual Event, taking place on March 14-15, 2023. This event will focus on the must do’s and don’t’s of creating a successful cloud strategy, including benefits and pitfalls. Sessions will discuss multicloud, essential telco cloud, and SASE strategies; taking a look at vendor capabilities, risks, redundancies, and cost to improve cloud infrastructure. Cloud network architects and those tasked with deploying cloud infrastructure within telcos, service providers, and enterprises will want to register for this event to hear what it takes to navigate this challenging market.
AGENDA
TUESDAY, MARCH 14
11:00AM-12:15PM ET:
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE - THE STATE OF THE ART
11:00AM-11:15AM: Keynote with AvidThink's Roy Chua
11:15AM-11:30AM: Keynote with AWS' Ishwar Parulkar
11:30AM-12:15PM: Panel Discussion
Cloud infrastructure is the largest and most disruptive communications transformation of all time, growing into a trillion dollar-plus market this decade. For service providers and enterprises alike, the technology promises fundamental improvements in the way they run their networks (flexibility, scalability, redundancy and lower cost) as well as provides a platform to deploy the next-generation services and applications that represent the future of business. But cloud infrastructure has also developed organically, into a hugely complex and challenging market. In this session we ask industry leading cloud infrastructure experts to share the dos and don'ts of creating a successful cloud strategy — one that delivers the full boat of cloud infrastructure benefits with none of the pitfalls.
AGENDA
TUESDAY, MARCH 14
12:15PM-12:40PM ET
INVOLTA CUSTOM SESSION - CIO FORECAST: MULTI-CLOUD
In the last 10 years, cloud computing has revolutionized the way we do business, and today technology is interwoven into the fabric of business. Cloud computing has enabled us to be more agile, more responsive, and more efficient than ever before, and in a post-Covid world, there is no going back to traditional technology approaches. As organizations have shifted to accommodate disruption in society, workforces, customer needs, and markets, they have found themselves not just working in the cloud but across multiple cloud providers. Now CIOs are struggling to manage the increasing complexity and sustain cost models for multi-cloud. Scott Larsen, Principal of Digital Transformation for Involta, discusses how CIOs need to approach a multi-cloud enterprise, including aspects of a true cloud strategy, common cloud implementation mistakes, and tactics and technologies that can simplify your multi-cloud ecosystem.
AGENDA
TUESDAY, MARCH 14
2:00PM-2:45PM ET:
MAKING SENSE OF MULTI-CLOUD
2:00PM-2:45PM: Panel Discussion
For most cloud network architects, deploying cloud infrastructure today means multi-cloud —using multiple cloud computing and storage services from different vendors to improve cloud infrastructure capabilities and cost.
During this session, you will learn:
- How to optimize business-critical application availability, performance and security without blowing the budget.
- How to manage network data, services and applications in a heterogeneous multi-cloud environment
- How to address security concerns and deploy telemetry to tune app performance.
AGENDA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15
11:00AM-12:15PM ET:
ESSENTIAL TELCO CLOUD STRATEGIES
11:00AM-11:15AM: Partner Keynote with Microsoft's Shawn Hakl
11:15AM-12:00PM: Panel Discussion
12:00PM-12:15PM: Closing Keynote with Amdocs' Stephen Ellis
Survive and thrive or risk intermediation by new cloud players — for telco operators, the cloud stakes could not be higher.
During this session, you will learn:
- How and when to forge profitable equitable partnerships with public cloud companies around everything from white-labeled business apps to data center hosting and joint research and development.
- How to modernize internal business practices to synchronize with enterprise customer environments.
- How to reduce risk, diversify investment and reduce total cost-of-ownership (TOC) by spreading traffic across multiple partner networks.
- How to avoid breaking data sovereignty regulations by mixing public and private cloud approaches with legacy solutions and data centers.
- The different strategies for CSPs in moving their core systems to the cloud
AGENDA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15
2:00PM-3:00PM ET:
SASE: CRITICAL CAPABILITIES, KEY CASE STUDIES
2:00PM-2:15PM: Fireside Chat with Marsh McLennan's Jonathan Eastern
2:15PM-3:00PM: Panel Discussion
The rise of work from anywhere culture has driven demand for distributed security services to an all-time high. Combine that with the move to cloud infrastructure and you have secure access service edge (SASE) — one of the hottest markets in the communications sector today.
Our expert speakers and panelists will discuss key issues, including:
- SASE cloud infrastructure is deployed over WAN edge services, and enforces security services edge (SSE) features, so what are the must-have capabilities in each category?
- Single-vendor SASE is in the news. How important is it to have your network and security capabilities delivered over a converged platform?
- SASE is still a developing category, and vendors are taking a wide variety of approaches. Tight integration, a single data lake, a unified model for information storage, and built-in analytics are all must haves. What else should be on the cloud network architect's list?
- Which enterprise applications are driving SASE deployments (and which are best left until the market matures)?