Cloud storage, like all areas of IT, has significant technical and economic challenges. In this session NetApp will explore these challenges including cost, migration, availability, performance, data protection, DR, inactive data, compliance and governance, security, and integration between hybrid and multiple clouds.

Speaker: Grant Caley

Breakout: NetApp cloud data services

#Data Security #Data Compliance #Backup and Recovery #Disaster Recovery #Data Governance #Cost Optimisation #NAS Storage #SAN Storage #SaaS #Cloud #Hybrid Cloud #Breakout #NetApp cloud data service

For many IT professionals containers, microservices, Docker and Kubernetes may not mean very much, but they are the key to Digital Transformation and therefore modern application development. In this session NetApp will provide an introduction to the technologies and discuss the current state of the cloud development market

Breakout: Spot by NetApp

#Cost Optimisation #SaaS #Cloud

The recent increase in home working has resulted in the need for cost-effective, and easy to deploy and scale virtual desktop solutions. In this session, NetApp will explore how VDS costs less than VMware and Citrix, whilst delivering the security, user experience and flexibility to choose a mix of public and private cloud host platforms.

Speaker: Leanne van Oostende

Breakout: NetApp Virtual Desktop Service

#Data Security #Virtual Desktops #Remote and Home Working #Disaster Recovery #SaaS #On-premises #Cloud #Hybrid Cloud

Enterprise-grade storage has evolved over the last three decades to provide a wide range of capabilities and efficiencies that native cloud storage simply cannot match. In this session NetApp will explore the benefits of their suite of cloud storage services including Cloud Manager, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Cloud Compliance, Cloud Backup Service, Cloud Sync and Cloud Tiering.

Speaker: Grant Caley

Breakout: NetApp cloud data services

#Data Security #Data Compliance #Backup and Recovery #Disaster Recovery #Data Governance #Cost Optimisation #NAS Storage #SAN Storage #SaaS #Cloud #Hybrid Cloud

For multi-site file sharing and collaboration OneDrive for Business would appear to be the obvious answer, but in reality it’s just not suitable for many use cases. In this session NetApp will explore how GFC provides high-performance global file sharing with real-time distributed file locking using cloud-based shares and local caches.

Breakout: NetApp cloud data services

#Backup and Recovery #Disaster Recovery #NAS Storage #SaaS #On-premises #Cloud #Hybrid Cloud, 

The cloud offers tremendous power to drive innovation, but with this power comes a great responsibility to not let costs get out of control. In this session NetApp will explore cloud pricing models and how their free Cloud Analyzer tool continuously identifies cost savings across any workload, from stateful single instances to large cloud-native stateless clusters.

Speaker: Byron Berrisford

Speaker: Spot by NetApp

#Cost Optimisation #SaaS #Cloud 

In theory, the cloud enables you to pay for just what you use, but in reality, there is still huge waste. Instances might be too large and there are trade-offs between Spot, Reserved and On-demand pricing in terms of cost, availability and flexibility. In this session NetApp will explore how their Elastigroup, Ocean and Eco suite of products can keep utilisation high, costs down and commitment terms low.

Speaker: Byron Berrisford

Breakout: Spot by NetApp

#Cost Optimisation #SaaS #Cloud

All organisations want their IT services to be highly optimised and provide the required performance and availability at the lowest cost, but the reality is there is nearly always significant waste. In this session NetApp will explore how Cloud Insights can efficiently identify that waste across multiple clouds and on-premises data centres.

Speaker: Grant Caley

Breakout: NetApp Cloud Insights

#Data Security #Cost Optimisation #Ransomware Protection #Data Governance #SaaS #On-premises #Hybrid Cloud

If your organisation is looking to get out of the on-premise data management business then you need to choose a solution that has a world-class pedigree. In this session Commvault will explore how Metallic uses proven Commvault technology, with built-in best practices, to provide fast, secure backups and speedy, granular restores to protect on-premises and cloud physical and virtual servers, Office 365 and endpoints against data loss.

Speaker: Glen Cattermole

Breakout: Commvault cloud backup and DR

#Backup and Recovery #Office 365 #SaaS #On-premises #Cloud #Hybrid Cloud 

Ransomware is not going away, in fact if anything it’s getting worse, so every part of the infrastructure needs protecting. In this session ProLion will explore how CryptoSpike can block known and unknown attacks to on-premises and cloud-based ONTAP systems, recover just the infected files and let you know who created, changed, copied and deleted specific files.

Speaker: Steve Arlin

Breakout: ProLion CryptoSpike and RestoreManager

#Ransomware Protection #NAS Storage #On-premises #Cloud #Hybrid Cloud

Users have always needed to collaborate and share files, this was easy in the past – if you were a fairly small organisation you used a Windows Share otherwise you deployed a dedicated NAS platform. Today things are a little more complicated as we have a third option in OneDrive for Business. In this session NetApp will explore the benefits and suitability of each of these solutions.

Speaker: Grant Caley

Speaker: NetApp AFF/FAS unified storage

#NAS Storage #On-premises #Hybrid Cloud #Traditional 3-tier Architectures

Choosing between protocols comes down to a number of factors including performance, administration overhead, efficiency, flexibility and cost. In this session NetApp will explore the strengths and suitability of each and explain how their AFF/FAS unified storage platforms allow you to mix and match protocols as needed.

Speaker: NetApp AFF/FAS unified storage

#SAN Storage #NAS Storage #On-premises #Hybrid Cloud #Traditional 3-tier Architectures

Historically PB scale NAS systems only scaled-out, which typically resulted in high costs. In this session NetApp will explore how FlexGroup volumes can scale a single file system both up and out, all the way to millions of IOPS, billions of files and many tens of PBs.

Breakout: NetApp AFF/FAS unified storage

#NAS Storage #On-premises #Hybrid Cloud #Traditional 3-tier Architectures 

Object storage has been made popular by the cloud, but there are now more and more reasons to deploy your own on-premises solution. In this session NetApp will explore how a highly scalable and resilient StorageGRID system provides a great alternative to public cloud object storage.

Speaker: Grant Caley

Breakout: NetApp StorageGRID object storage

#Object Storage #NAS Storage #Backup Storage #Software-defined Storage #On-premises #Hybrid Cloud

Public sector organisations are under constant pressure to get the maximum ROI from their IT budgets, but at the same time they must meet performance and availability SLAs, and be compliant with the latest regulations. In this session NetApp will explore how their flexible and powerful enterprise-grade technologies allow public sector organisations to build solutions that utilise the optimal blend of on-premises and public cloud technologies.

Speaker: Adrian Cooper

Breakout: NetApp AFF/FAS unified storage

#Backup & Recovery #Backup Storage #Cloud #Data Security #Disaster Recovery #Hybrid-cloud #Microsoft Office 365 #NAS Storage #On-premises #Ransomware Protection #SAN Storage #Software-defined Storage #Storage Snapshots #Traditional 3-tier Architectures

Keeping your data secure and compliant with the latest regulations has never been more important, but at the same time more challenging. In this session NetApp will explore their many security capabilities including encryption of data at rest and in flight, immutable files and snapshots, multitenant partitioning, secure file purge and disk sanitisation, virus and ransomware protection, file system auditing and compliance reporting.

Breakout: NetApp AFF/FAS unified storage

#Backup & Recovery #Backup Storage #Cloud #Data Security #Disaster Recovery #Hybrid-cloud #Data Compliance #NAS Storage #On-premises #Ransomware Protection #SAN Storage #Software-defined Storage #Storage Snapshots #Traditional 3-tier Architectures

A storage platform that has been optimised for VMware vSphere is almost certainly not going to provide the best value for video and backup workloads. In this session NetApp will explore how E-Series delivers a low capacity and throughput cost, whilst providing enterprise-grade scaling and availability, making it optimal for these workloads. Tags: SAN Storage, Backup Storage, On-premises, Hybrid Cloud, Traditional 3-tier Architectures Breakout: NetApp E-Series SAN storage.

Speaker: Grant Caley

Speaker: NetApp E-Series SAN storage

#SAN Storage #Backup Storage #On-premises #Hybrid Cloud #Traditional 3-tier Architectures

For many organisations a Fibre Channel network is at the heart of their data centre and therefore its performance and reliability are key. In this session NetApp will explore how, working in conjunction with their partner Brocade, they can provide a free health check to ensure your Fibre Channel network is performing at its best.

Breakout: NetApp AFF/FAS unified storage

#SAN Storage #On-premises #Traditional 3-tier Architectures Breakout: NetApp AFF/FAS unified storage

All-flash storage guarantees ultra-high IOPS and low latency, but it comes at a cost, whereas cheaper hybrid-flash storage, consisting of separate tiers of flash and HDDs, can only provide ultra-high performance to a sub-set of the data. In this session NetApp will explore the capabilities and suitability of their all-flash FAS (AFF) and hybrid-flash FAS platforms.

Breakout: NetApp AFF/FAS unified storage

#SAN Storage #NAS Storage #Object Storage #On-premises #Hybrid Cloud #Traditional 3-tier Architectures 

Flash storage has transformed the data centre, but there is no doubt that there are very few organisations who need flash performance for 100% of their data. In this session NetApp will explore their FabricPool technology which will automatically and transparently tier inactive data to public or private cloud storage to reduce costs.

Breakout: NetApp AFF/FAS unified storage

#SAN Storage #NAS Storage #Object Storage #On-premises #Hybrid Cloud #Traditional 3-tier Architectures 

Most organisations take regular offsite backups of all their on-premises systems, but many do not backup SaaS applications such as Office 365 and Salesforce. In this session NetApp will explore the reasons behind this, the native recovery capabilities and any shortcomings that could result in data loss.

Speaker: Adrian Cooper 

Breakout: NetApp SaaS backup

#Data Security #Cost Optimisation #Ransomware Protection #Data Governance #SaaS #On-premises, #Hybrid Cloud #Cloud 

Organisations deploy SaaS applications to simplify their IT, many would also prefer to utilise a hosted data protection solution. In this session NetApp will explore how SaaS Backup provides the necessary recoverability capabilities that organisations need to avoid data loss.

Breakout: Adrian Cooper

Breakout: NetApp SaaS Backup

#Office 365 #Salesforce #Backup and Recovery #SaaS #Cloud

Regular backups are a critical discipline, but typically they cannot be taken more than once a day, and they take a long time to run and restore data. In this session NetApp will explore how ONTAP snapshots compliment traditional backups by overcoming these limitations and snapshot backups can be managed by their native tools, Veeam and Commvault.

Speaker: Grant Caley

Speaker: NetApp AFF/FAS unified storage

#Backup and Recovery #Backup storage #Snapshots #On-premises #Cloud #Hybrid Cloud

Many organisations require more than just backup and recovery for Office 365, so Commvault provides a full suite of services for the platform. In this session Commvault will explore how, in addition to backup and recovery, they can dramatically accelerate the migration process and provide powerful content searching for eDiscovery, Compliance and Data Governance.

Speaker: Glen Cattermole

Breakout: Commvault cloud backup and DR

#Office 365 #Backup and Recovery #SaaS #Cloud #eDiscovery & Compliance #Data Governance

Veeam’s success was built on its ability to efficiently backup, replicate and restore Virtual Machines, but today they go way beyond this to provide comprehensive cloud data management. In this session Veeam will explore their capabilities for protecting Office 365 data including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams.

Speaker: Kevin Ridings

Breakout: Veeam cloud backup and DR

#Backup & Recovery #Cloud #Microsoft Office 365 #SasS

The simplification of IT is a key goal for most organisations and it has been the major driver behind the rapid adoption of HCI, but one downside is that scaling is inferior to traditional separates. In this session NetApp will explore how their HCI solution overcomes this limitation by enabling independent scaling of storage and compute.

Speaker: Adrian Cooper

Breakout: NetApp HCI Networking 

#Compute #Hyper-converged Infrastructure #On-premises #Virtual Desktops #Wired Networking

Historically data centre infrastructure was built using separate compute, storage and networking, often from different vendors, but today there is a drive to significantly simplify IT so integrated stacks are popular. In this session Fujitsu will explore the individual strengths and suitability of each of the three architectures.

Breakout: Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX HCI and CI systems

#Compute #Converged Infrastructure #Hyper-converged Infrastructure #On-premises #Software-defined Storage #SAN Storage #NAS Storage #Traditional 3-tier architectures #Wired Networking

The recent increase in home working has resulted in the need for cost-effective, and easy to deploy and scale virtual desktop solutions. In this session, NetApp will explore how VDS costs less than VMware and Citrix, whilst delivering the security, user experience and flexibility to choose a mix of public and private cloud host platforms.

Breakout: Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX HCI and CI systems

#Data Security #Virtual Desktops #Remote and Home Working #Disaster Recovery #SaaS #On-premises #Cloud #Hybrid Cloud

HCI has become the dominant integrated stack architecture, but there are still scenarios where a converged infrastructure stack that utilises traditional storage may make more sense. In this session Fujitsu will explore their PRIMEFLEX Converged Infrastructure platforms for VMware vSphere, that are powered by PRIMERGY servers and a choice of Fujitsu’s own ETERNUS or NetApp ONTAP storage.

Breakout: Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX HCI and CI systems

#Compute #Converged Infrastructure #On-premises #SAN Storage #NAS Storage #Wired Networking 

NetApp and Fujitsu have been partners for over 20 years which has resulted in thousands of joint customers. They collaborate on engineering projects and Fujitsu provides support for NetApp hardware in many regions around the world. In this session Fujitsu will explore the class-leading performance and reliability of PRIMERGY servers and the single pane of glass management with NetApp ONTAP storage.

Breakout: Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers

#Compute #On-premises #SAN Storage #NAS Storage #Traditional 3-tier architectures #Wired Networking

Today software license costs make up a huge proportion of a typical IT budget and purchasing too many server cores will significantly push up these costs. In this session Fujitsu will explore how to determine the optimal number of servers for your next refresh, and the best CPU and memory configurations to deliver the required performance, whilst minimising software licence costs.

Breakout: Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers

#Compute #On-premises #Traditional 3-tier architectures

It’s fair to say that if you go back 5 years or more Commvault had a reputation for being very powerful, but at the same time relatively expensive and complex to procure and administer. In this session Commvault will explore how today the solution is simple and cost-effective to license, and demonstrate how their transition to a modern web-based user interface has made it easy to administer.

Speaker: Marc Lucas

Breakout: Commvault on-premises backup and DR

#Backup & Recovery #Cloud #Data Governance #Disaster Recovery #eDiscovery & Compliance #Google G Suite #Hybrid-cloud #Microsoft Office 365 #On-premises #SaaS #Salesforce

Magnetic tape was invented way back in 1928 and cloud is seen by many as the way forward, therefore you would think it has no place in a modern data centre. In this session Commvault will explore how to successfully backup to the cloud and where tape still has some advantages.

Speaker: Nigel Tozer

Breakout: Commvault cloud backup and DR

#Backup and Recovery #Tape Systems #On-premises #Cloud #Hybrid Cloud

A modern data protection solution needs to do so much more than just backup on-premises VMs, support for physical devices is still important along with protection of cloud containers, IaaS and PaaS workloads. In this session Commvault will explore how, from a single extensible platform, they provide the leading data protection solution for physical, virtual and public cloud environments.

Speaker: Glen Cattermole

Breakout: Commvault cloud backup and DR

#Backup and Recovery #Snapshots #On-premises #Cloud #Hybrid Cloud

Many organisations are considering shutting down their secondary data centres and moving the services to the cloud. In this session Commvault will explore how Commvault Disaster Recovery provides an automated disaster recovery, testing, reporting and compliance validation solution for on-premises and cloud environments.

Speaker: Marc Lucas

Breakout: Commvault cloud backup and DR

#Disaster Recovery #On-premises #Cloud #Hybrid Cloud

Managing data today requires far more than just a sound backup strategy, organisations also need the ability to find specific data for legal reasons, and to be able to identify where sensitive data is stored. In this session Commvault will explore how by using a single global index, across on-premises, cloud and endpoint data, they enable organisations to respond faster to legal and compliance requests and better manage their sensitive data.

Speaker: Nigel Tozer

Breakout: Commvault eDiscovery, compliance and data governance

#Data Governance #eDiscovery & Compliance #On-premises #Cloud #Hybrid Cloud Breakout #Commvault #eDiscovery, compliance and data governance

With new strains of ransomware threats on the rise, data is continually at risk despite the many steps most organisations are already taking. In this session Commvault will explore how by protecting all of an organisation’s data, across endpoints, data centres and clouds, they can identify threats, provide immutable backup copies and ensure rapid restores to minimise the impact of an attack.

Speaker: Marc Lucas

Breakout: Commvault on-premises backup and DR

#Ransomware Protection #Backup and Recovery #On-premises #Cloud #Hybrid Cloud 

Fujitsu have decades of experience managing the data of many large enterprise customers, over this time they have developed a comprehensive backup target portfolio. In this session Fujitsu will explore the ETERNUS CS data protection appliances and ETERNUS LT tape systems, which can both scale to meet the needs of a small business all the way up to a large enterprise.

Breakout: Fujitsu ETERNUS backup targets

#Backup and Recovery #Tape Systems #Backup Storage #On-premises #Cloud #Hybrid

As organisations continue to expand their usage of AWS and Azure, they need a simple and cost-effective data protection strategy. In this session Veeam will explore their standalone solution for backup within AWS and Azure, and their integrated solution for cloud, virtual and physical workloads that enables seamless cloud mobility and data portability.

Speaker: Kevin Ridings

Breakout: Veeam on-premises backup and DR

#Backup & Recovery #Cloud #Disaster Recovery #Hybrid-cloud #On-premises

Snapshots and backups work better together and Veeam Backup & Replication has more integration points with NetApp ONTAP than any other storage platform. In this session Veeam will explore how by managing ONTAP snapshots they are able to take backups every few minutes and perform granular and volume restores in seconds, and with the v10 release they now have a powerful ONTAP NAS backup solution.

Speaker: Kevin Ridings

Breakout: Veeam on-premises backup and DR

#Backup & Recovery #Backup Storage #Cloud #Hybrid-cloud #NAS Storage #On-premises #SAN Storage #Storage Snapshots

VAO provides full DR orchestration for NetApp ONTAP platforms by automating testing, failover, failback and the creation of compliance documentation. In this session Veeam will explore how it manages ONTAP SnapMirror as well as Veeam Backup & Replication jobs, and how it’s a lower cost alternative to VMware Site Recovery Manager.

Speaker: Kevin Ridings

Breakout: Veeam on-premises backup and DR

#Disaster Recovery #NAS Storage #On-premises #SAN Storage #Storage Snapshots

NetApp ONTAP snapshot backups are very powerful, but they lack a couple of key features. In this session ProLion will explore how RestoreManager adds a central backup catalog to on-premises and cloud-based ONTAP systems, that enables searching, filtering and one click restore, and backup to S3 object storage. Tags: Backup and Recovery, Snapshots, On-premises, Cloud, Hybrid Cloud Breakout: ProLion CryptoSpike and RestoreManager.

Speaker: Steve Arlin

Breakout: ProLion CryptoSpike and RestoreManager

#Backup and Recovery #Snapshots #On-premises #Cloud #Hybrid Cloud

Demand for greater Wi-Fi capacity and reliability is relentless, and aging Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n) networks just cannot keep-up, which should not come as a surprise as the standard was ratified way back in 2009. In this session Ruckus will help to answer the question, should organisations upgrade to Wi-Fi 5 or will they get a better ROI from the very latest Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) standard?

Speaker: Steve Groves

Breakout: Ruckus wireless networking

#Wireless Networking #On-premises

Wi-Fi sizing is complex, you need to determine the optimal number and placement of APs to provide the necessary coverage. For capacity you must determine how many spatial streams they each need and to do this you should consider user count, data usage profiles, concurrency, client types and more. In this session Ruckus will explore how you can bring a little science to sizing your next Wi-Fi refresh project.

Speaker: Steve Groves

Breakout: Ruckus wireless networking

#Cost Optimisation #Wireless Networking #On-premises

The objective of good Wi-Fi management is to keep it simple, performant, reliable and most importantly automated. Dedicated teams, in large organisations, will have the time and knowledge to optimise the network, but most will simply want to get as close to plug-and-play as possible. In this session Ruckus will explore the management options available and their suitability

Speaker: Darrel Rhodes

Breakout: Ruckus wireless networking

#Wireless Networking #Network Management #On-premises #Cloud #SaaS

Most organisations have a wide range of IT, employee owned and guest devices, including laptops, printers, and mobiles, that all need to be securely and efficiently onboarded and authenticated to the Wi-Fi network. In this session Ruckus will explore the many options available including username/password and certificate authentication, guest access via vouchers, e-mail, SMS, sponsors and self-service, MAC authentication and Dynamic Pre-Shared Keys

Speaker: Eddie Felmer

Breakout: Ruckus device onboarding and authentication

#Network device onboarding & authentication #Wireless Networking #Network Management #On-premises #Cloud #SaaS

Once you have determined the optimal onboarding and authentication scenarios your organisation needs to support, you must workout how best to deploy them. In this session Ruckus will explore the options built-in to their various management platforms along with a dedicated solution that provides a very powerful and flexible workflow engine that can meet the needs of the most demanding environments.

Speaker: Eddie Felmer

Breakout: Ruckus device onboarding and authentication

#Network device onboarding & authentication #Wireless Networking #Network Management #On-premises #Cloud #SaaS

Home Wi-Fi has a reputation for poor coverage and being somewhat unreliable, so as more and more users work from home there is a need to deliver the same quality they experience in the office. In this session Ruckus will explore how they can deliver a superior home-user experience whilst maintaining the security and centralised control mandated by IT.

Speaker: Darrel Rhodes

Breakout: Ruckus wireless networking 

#Wireless Networking #Network Management #On-premises #Remote and Home Working

Ruckus has a broad range of switches that can meet most edge, distribution and core requirements. They are suitable for small deployments, but can scale up to 12 devices per stack and with state-of-the-art PoE and multi-gigabit Ethernet support they are optimised for Wi-Fi AP connectivity. In this session Ruckus will explore the capabilities of the ICX range and how unified AP and switch management is helping to simplify administration and reduce costs.

Speaker: Simon Williams

Breakout session : Ruckus wired networking

#Wired Networking #Wireless Networking #Network Management #On-premises #Cloud #SaaS