When people talk about moving workloads to the Cloud, most times they just hear the technical mumbo-jumbo – IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DevOps & automation, containers, and so on.

This session argues we should perhaps sit back for a bit and discuss the need to develop a coherent, long-term Cloud strategy, even before taking the first step towards a Cloud-centric or hybrid approach.

In the end, it’s all about looking at the hows and whys of moving to the Cloud, planning a clear roadmap of your migration, and making sure that once you get there, you can sleep better at night knowing you’ve got everything under control.

We’ve all heard of “treating your servers as cattle, not as pets”. I’ll be talking about how we manage our on-demand infrastructure at UiPath. The only good VM is a dead VM!

Did you ever ask yourself, after reading or hearing about a cyber security event, if that could ever affect you? If you thought to yourself “Naahhh, this won’t happen to me”, then I would like to prove you wrong, during this session. We will cover the most common cyber security threats and see how Microsoft 365 can help you prevent them.

During this session we will provide an overview of SQL Hybrid Features capabilities such as SQL Stretch database, Backup to Azure, Replication & Data Sync to Azure. We will present and demo the available options to leverage Azure with local SQL Server, which address common customer challenges like:

• Storage and query increasing amounts of data
• Safeguard data in your databases
• Data availability
• Processing data

We are living in truly exciting times. Companies have more opportunities than ever before to use technology to massively improve organizational performance, productivity, and profit, and to launch themselves into new, previously inaccessible markets. Every day we hear stories of established businesses that have used technology to create unparalleled corporate advantage, or technology entrepreneurs achieving billion-dollar valuation just years or even months from launch. Technology should be among the most important focuses of CEOs or executive leaders; for company survival, not only must they adapt to technology, they must be on the forefront.

However, many CEOs and C-suite leaders struggle with determining how to choose and execute the right idea, sometimes with devastating effects: scope and budget blowout, low user adoption, staff frustration, and – worst of all – harm to their careers. This is not their fault; after all, most CEOs are not technology experts. They are business leaders, who must have their eyes on sales, marketing, financials, management, and a host of other factors that keep the business running effectively. The truth is, you’d have to maintain a single-minded focus on technological evolution to stay up to date on all that’s available to help you continually grow your business. And that just isn’t possible when you’re running an entire organization.

But this doesn’t mean a CEO should simply roll the dice and hope for the best. Before even speaking to a development team about your proposed technology implementation, there are three things you absolutely must do at the 1000-foot level to ensure you’re betting on a winning horse.

Choosing the right digital tools for your business, in a constantly changing market, is a vital decision for the future of the company. Every day new products emerge promising you maximization of productivity, a decrease of costs, automation, better management of resources; and some of them are right with the mention that most of them solve one problem at a time.

In this new era of Business Applications, the ideal solution is not a unique product but a blend of applications and services. There are no two identical companies, even if they activate in the same industry and have the same profile; the main differentiator of each one of them is its people and values. Every company has today the possibility to thrive by creating its own personalized solution which integrates the latest apps and services, in order to serve not only their company’s needs but also those of their employees.

Today’s Business Applications are easier to implement, less expensive, more flexible and intuitive but what does it take to choose the right ones for your business?

• Telco provider becomes an integrative business partner
• Complete solutions for any organization. Case study for cloud usage | Cambridge School of Bucharest
• Future of communications

In this session, we will explain how you can use Fortinet solutions to implement the same level of security for your cloud infrastructure, as for your physical one.
When moving to the cloud, the security should not be neglected but should be enforced at least at the same level as the one inside your existing network.
By using Fortinet Security Fabric, the companies can now easier identify threats, correlate threat vector and react faster to security incidents.