Private Event | RT Equinix Syd 26 Nov 19

“Do You Have a Digital Edge for 2020?”

Join 15 architect peers to learn, network and share your experience, expertly moderated by ADAPT’s Matt Boon.

Cloud has been the leading enabler for many organisations – but now cloud sprawl, complexity, legacy architectures and data silos are undermining further execution:

• ADAPT 2019 CIO Survey shows legacy challenges to be the #1 business barrier and silos at #2.
• ADAPT 2019 Cloud Migration Study suggests 72% of Australian workloads are predicted to migrate to some form of hybrid multi cloud environment by 2021.
• The CIOs Top 5 investment areas are in data analytics, automation and security, but all are hindered by silos, and need a secure and effective data infrastructure and digital ecosystem.

The challenge of modern business:

New digital services are being delivered through IT, often in experimental ways which conflict with legacy formats. This adds pressure to IT and architects to blend the new with inherited legacy, whilst still governing data movement, authentication, compliance, security and managing the catastrophic threat of downtime.

With integration and cloud migration challenges, the complexities of managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments, together with the looming risk of cloud sprawl – Chief Architects are under pressure to enable the execution of digital strategy.

Discussion Points: How to reduce complexity and enable the execution of digital strategy

In this highly constructed and interactive session, ADAPT’s Director of Strategic Research Matt Boon will share recent research around drivers, challenges and insights from our journey hosting 3,000 of your IT peers in the last 12 months.

The group will then debate and review their biggest challenges and obstacles.

Equinix’s Principal Solutions Architect, Tamas Horvath and a top customer (kept confidential until the event) will also outline a step-by-step transformation journey model for enterprises to build their digital edge for success.

Key Takeaways:

A selection of aligned use cases and studies, will show why and how an Interconnection Oriented Architecture (IOA) approach helped companies to manage modern challenges and transform their infrastructure for scale, performance and growth.

The group will build solution slides to solve common challenges:

• Share ideas for network optimisation, hybrid multi-cloud, distributed security and distributed data
• Optimise your service delivery value chain, integrate with devops and improve end user experience.
• Understand the evidence behind Equinix’s Interconnection Oriented Architecture.
• Evaluate the building blocks upon which to build a digital transformation journey.
• Drive a business-centred strategy and people-centred execution, not just technology alone.

Sessions run under Chatham House Rules to enable you to share and learn best practice among peers with privacy.