8:00 AM - 08:30 AM EST
Nasuni CloudBound21 - Day One Keynote
Keynote
Digital Transformation
In his keynote session, David Totten, CTO, Global Partner Solutions for Microsoft takes a look at the future of file sharing in the cloud through the lens of scale, security, and compliance. Attendees will leave with a firm understanding of how Microsoft is delivering on the power of the cloud and how its 5-step cloud data governance framework helps establish a foundation for success in effectively managing the growth of unstructured data.
8:30 AM - 09:15 AM EST
CIO Panel
Panel
Moderated by Andrew Smith, research manager at IDC, this session brings together several CIOs across a variety of industries for an interactive discussion around topic including key areas of focus they finish out 2021 and head into 2022, the top 2 things to consider when evaluating new technology, what their teams are doing or considering when it comes to ransomware and data protection, what keeps them up night, and finally each will share a lesson learned from 2020/21 that they would pass on to their peers.
9:15 AM - 09:45 AM EST
Fireside Chat: SMEC
Customer Story
Join this session to hear how Australian engineering giant, Snowy Mountain Engineering Corporation (SMEC) is leveraging the cloud to reduce costs, accelerate productivity, and mitigate risk. Listen in as IT Manager, Simon Hoby, takes attendees on a journey through the company's recent decision to stop investing further in its existing file storage infrastructure and switch to a cloud model. The combination of cloud-based file storage, fast local file access, integrated data protection, and cost savings made this switch a no brainer!
9:45 AM - 10:05 AM EST
10 Things Permanently Evolved Thanks to the Cloud
Business Session
Cloud Migration
The cloud began life being considered an existential threat to all things IT. Over the years, though, business and IT have discovered key services that needed an evolutionary kick, which, much to everyone’s delight, the cloud provided. In this learning segment, you will be taken on a journey of discovery as you learn about ten services forever transformed by the cloud and how these transformations have helped accelerate the business.
9:45 AM - 10:05 AM EST
Exploring the JFK Archives with Nasuni Analytics Connector and Azure Cognitive Search
Technical Session
Cloud Ecosystem
Using Nasuni Analytics Connector, Azure Cognitive Search, and some open-source code we explore a trove of unclassified files surrounding the JFK assassination and ensuing investigations. We will talk about how you, without any AI or ML skills, leverage GitHub and Analytics Connector to make your data available to advanced analytics and AI/ML services from Azure.
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM EST
Storing Files in the Cloud: Strategic, Tactical or Optional?
Customer Story
Ransomware
As one of the largest private companies in the U.S., Wegmans delivered annual sales of $9.2B in 2018. The company hasn’t experienced this kind of success by resisting innovation. So when the IT department at Wegmans realized that the cost of maintaining its traditional file storage and data protection infrastructure was climbing too high, the company looked for a cloud alternative. Join this session to hear first-hand how Wegmans has leveraged the cloud to eliminate the high costs and cumbersome maintenance of its former file storage and backup solution.
10:50 AM - 11:25 AM EST
How the power of the cloud is driving efficiencies for financial services and engineering organizations
Customer Panel
Cost & Considerations
Tune in for an interactive conversation between Wintel Manager Matt Wardle of the Man Group, the world's largest independent investment management firm and IT Manager Charles Douglass of McKim & Creed, a leading engineering services organization. Hear how each organization is leveraging the cloud to address the challenges of a globally dispersed workforce, increased efficiencies, and save money.
Charles Douglass
MCKim & Creed
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12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EST
Nasuni CloudBound21 Day Two - Keynote
Keynote
Digital Transformation
This keynote session takes a fireside chat approach in which Lakshmi Sharma, director of product management for Google Cloud, shares her personal cloud journey from her experience leading cloud platforms at Target to her current role at Google Cloud. She will deliver industry insights, lessons learned, and how Google Cloud poised for success.
12:30 PM - 1:20 PM EST
Ransomware Panel led by Anne Blanchard, Sr. Director of Product and Customer Marketing at Nasuni
Panel
Ransomware
Ransomware is evolving, forcing enterprises to change how they prepare for attacks. While the focus on preventing attacks continues, forward-thinking organizations have accepted that no defense is impenetrable, and that any solid ransomware strategy must include a robust, reliable, and testable recovery plan. In this session, leading analysts from Evaluator Group, DCIG, and Coldago Research share their insights, strategies for how minimizing risk, and how the cloud is playing a key role in mitigating the threat of ransomware.
Randy Kerns
Evaluator Group
Philippe Nicolas
Coldago Research
1:20 PM - 1:55 PM EST
Fireside Chat: Radiology Partners
Customer Story
Nasuni Founder and CTO, Andres Rodriguez, engages in a lively conversation with Todd Thomas, vice president of technology services for Radiology Partners, a national radiology practice. In this session, you'll hear of the various challenges their team faced around file storage and how the cloud is helping Radiology Partners realize the benefits of IT simplicity and cost savings. Learn how the cloud is bringing long-term flexibility and scalability to healthcare storage, without sacrificing security, access, and manageability.
Todd Thomas
Radiology Partners
1:55 PM - 2:10 PM EST
Key Costs and Consideration Factors of the Cloud
Business Session
Cost & Considerations
As a research manager in IDC’s Enterprise Infrastructure Practice, Andrew is at the forefront of the latest industry trends around public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platforms and solutions. This session looks at the key industry drivers accelerating cloud adoption and how the benefits of the cloud are forcing organizations to rethink their approach to current infrastructure investments in order to maintain a competitive edge.
1:55 PM - 2:10 PM EST
Ransomware Prevention Journey: Key Steps to Implement to Protect your Organization
Technical Session
Ransomware
It has become a matter of when, not if, ransomware impacts organizations. Therefore, every organization needs an effective counter-ransomware strategy. Analysts from the Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) will share key steps you can take to protect your organization.
2:10 PM - 2:40 PM EST
Towards a U3 model for Unstructured Data
Business Session
Cost & Considerations
Capitalizing on Coldago's recent survey, this session summarizes opinions, priorities and needs from end-users related to storage and data management. It then re-introduces some products, solutions and technologies to address unstructured data challenges. The presentation also illustrates Global File Services approach in the U3 - Universal, Unified and Ubiquitous - context and market reality with strong facts.
Philippe Nicolas
Coldago Research
2:10 PM - 2:40 PM EST
Harnessing the power of AI/ML with Nasuni & AWS
Technical Session
Cost & Considerations
Cost savings, synchronous access and reduced TCO are table stakes for any organization considering a change to a cloud based file infrastructure solution. Customers are increasingly looking into leveraging value of the file data managed by Nasuni on AWS. In this fire side chat session, Kris Skrinak and John Capello will share best practices in leveraging the AWS AI/ML offerings (e.g. Amazon Rekognition) for filesystem data managed by Nasuni at Petabyte scale on AWS.
2:40 PM - 3:05 PM EST
Fireside Chat: Leo A Daly Shares Their Ransomware Attack Story
Customer Story
Ransomware
In this highly-anticipated session, Stephen Held, vice president and CIO of Leo A Daly, an architecture, planning, and engineering firm takes attendees step-by-step through his organization's ransomware attack and recovery. Hear first-hand how the cloud is enabling organizations to simply dial back to point in time before the attack and minimize the impact on operaitons and productivity.
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10:00 AM - 10:25 AM ACT Local Time
Nasuni CloudBound21 - Day Three Keynote
Keynote
Digital Transformation
In his keynote session, David Totten, CTO, Global Partner Solutions for Microsoft takes a look at the future of file sharing in the cloud through the lens of scale, security, and compliance. Attendees will leave with a firm understanding of how Microsoft is delivering on the power of the cloud and how its 5-step cloud data governance framework helps establish a foundation for success in effectively managing the growth of unstructured data.
10:25 AM - 11:00 AM ACT Local Time
How the power of the cloud is driving efficiencies for financial services and engineering organizations
Customer Panel
Cost & Considerations
Tune in for an interactive conversation between Wintel Manager Matt Wardle of the Man Group, the world's largest independent investment management firm and IT Manager Charles Douglass of McKim & Creed, a leading engineering services organization. Hear how each organization is leveraging the cloud to address the challenges of a globally dispersed workforce, increased efficiencies, and save money.
Charles Douglass
MCKim & Creed
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM ACT Local Time
Fireside Chat: SMEC
Customer Story
Join this session to hear how Australian engineering giant, Snowy Mountain Engineering Corporation (SMEC) is leveraging the cloud to reduce costs, accelerate productivity, and mitigate risk. Listen in as IT Manager, Simon Hoby, takes attendees on a journey through the company's recent decision to stop investing further in its existing file storage infrastructure and switch to a cloud model. The combination of cloud-based file storage, fast local file access, integrated data protection, and cost savings made this switch a no brainer!
11:30 AM - 12:20 PM ACT Local Time
Ransomware Panel led by Anne Blanchard, Sr. Director of Product and Customer Marketing at Nasuni
Panel
Ransomware
Ransomware is evolving, forcing enterprises to change how they prepare for attacks. While the focus on preventing attacks continues, forward-thinking organizations have accepted that no defense is impenetrable, and that any solid ransomware strategy must include a robust, reliable, and testable recovery plan. In this session, leading analysts from Evaluator Group, DCIG, and Coldago Research share their insights, strategies for how minimizing risk, and how the cloud is playing a key role in mitigating the threat of ransomware.
Randy Kerns
Evaluator Group
Philippe Nicolas
Coldago Research
12:20 PM - 12:55 PM ACT Local Time
Fireside Chat: Leo A Daly Shares Their Ransomware Attack Story
Customer Story
Ransomware
In this highly-anticipated session, Stephen Held, vice president and CIO of Leo A Daly, an architecture, planning, and engineering firm takes attendees step-by-step through his organization's ransomware attack and recovery. Hear first-hand how the cloud is enabling organizations to simply dial back to point in time before the attack and minimize the impact on operaitons and productivity.
12:55 PM - 1:40 PM ACT Local Time
CIO Panel
Panel
Moderated by Andrew Smith, research manager at IDC, this session brings together several CIOs across a variety of industries for an interactive discussion around topic including key areas of focus they finish out 2021 and head into 2022, the top 2 things to consider when evaluating new technology, what their teams are doing or considering when it comes to ransomware and data protection, what keeps them up night, and finally each will share a lesson learned from 2020/21 that they would pass on to their peers.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERDavid TottenChief Technology Officer, US Partner EcosystemMicrosoft
KEYNOTE SPEAKERLakshmi SharmaDirector Product Management, Network Experience, Performance, Reliability & SolutionsGoogle
Mark RauschDirector of Technical ServicesWegmans
Kris SkrinakGlobal Machine Learning Segment Technical LeadAWS
Jerome WendtPresident and FounderDCIG
Philippe NicolasAnalystColdago Research
Todd ThomasVP of Technology ServicesARA
Stephen HeldVP, CIOLeo A Daly
Charles DouglassIT DirectorMcKim & Creed
Simon HobyDivisional Manager, ITSMEC
Matt WardleWintel ManagerMan Group
Scott LoweCo-Founder, CEO, and Lead Industry AnalystActual Tech
Ken ClippertonLead Analyst, StorageDCIG
Randy KernsPrimary and Secondary AnalystEvaluator Group
Todd DorseyAnalystDCIG
