BrightTALK @ AWS re:Invent 2022

As cloud adoption continues to soar, IT and cybersecurity leaders must work together to keep up with the evolving market. Cloud and cybersecurity strategies should align in order for organizations to reap the most benefit from their IT investments, minimize threats and help prevent disruptions within the business.

This discussion with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) analyst, Melinda Marks and Fortinet will cover how organizations can modernize cybersecurity practices for the cloud. Discover:

• Keys to operationalizing data
• Uses of workflow automation
• How organizations can incorporate DevOps into their security practice

Demand is growing for observability data—especially for businesses that want to provide stellar customer experiences, remain secure and compliant, and mitigate risk. But as with adopting any new discipline or technology, embracing observability data should start with a plan. In this fireside chat, you will gain insights on:

• Challenges organizations are facing with observability data today and how they are trying to address them
• How organizations can get the most out of their observability data
• Key value drivers of observability pipelines
• And more

Observability is becoming a must as organizations are expected to deliver digital experiences that are fast, reliable, and engaging. While multiple vendors offer observability solutions, approaches vary and the cost of a bad decision can leave organizations over budget, exposed, and worse, seeing customers walk away and revenue plummet. This panel discussion explores:  

• The state of Observability today and why it’s critical for delivering digital experiences
• How leaders should think about Observability as foundational to their business
• The cost to your organization of not utilizing Observability – with recent examples
• Ways to accelerate your Observability ROI and how solutions and services providers can help
• And much more

Hear insights designed to help you meet the challenges of operating in today’s complex world. 

Moderator: Paul Nashawaty, Senior Analyst, ESG

Panelists:
Riya Shanmugam, GVP, Alliances & Channels, New Relic
Jonathan LaCour, CTO, Mission
Vikram Kosanam, Director/Head of - Data, Analytics and AI/ML Professional Service, Rackspace

With many organizations embarking or already embarked on modernization initiatives, anchored in cloud and AI capabilities, operational challenges can hinder the long run value realization of such transformations. Increasingly, organizations need to consider optimal data operations (DataOps) as part of the modernization efforts, to deliver and expand upon expected business value, and improve AI and data-driven decision making. In fact, the Enterprise Strategy Group’s April 2022 "State of DataOps" report found that out of 403 technical and business data professionals, 90% of those surveyed reported plans to make moderate to extensive investments in DataOps in the upcoming year.

Data and Business leaders, need to collaboratively map out desired outcomes and prepare for challenges before implementing a DataOps strategy.

Join this conversation among leaders from leading organizations, Deloitte and Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) as they discuss the foundations of a strong DataOps strategy. This conversation will focus on:

• The long-term goal of DataOps and key pillars that will drive its sustainability
• How Agile and DevOps approaches and teams that have the right roles and skillsets drive effective and value-adding operations
• How new technology will support DataOps
• How data governance needs to be embedded in DataOps
• Program management, governance and alignment
• And much more

Moderator:
Mike Leone, Senior Analyst, ESG

Panelists:
Hemathri Balakrishnan, Managing Director, Head of Architecture, Product Engineering & Data, J.P Morgan Wealth Management
Prakul Sharma, Managing Director, DataOps Practice Lead, Deloitte Consulting