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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Office 365 is not the only popular SaaS application, Salesforce and Google G Suite also need protecting. In this session Commvault will explore how, from a single extensible platform, they go beyond the basic native recoverability capabilities to allow organisations to make sure they avoid data loss.

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.

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.

To provide customers with the choice they need, HCI platforms need to be available with a range of different best-of-breed software options. In this session Fujitsu will explore their VMware vSAN, Nutanix Enterprise Cloud and Microsoft Azure Stack HCI solutions, that leverage high performance, energy-efficient PRIMERGY x86 servers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.