Meet leading hybrid IT infrastructure experts

Join Runecast's CEO and Co-Founder Stan Markov for his Opening Keynote to officially kick off UPTIME 2021 virtual conference! This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.

In this session, we will discuss some soft skills that are useful in the development of your professional career. Whether you are starting your IT journey, or you have some years. Maybe these tips are useful to you. Ignacio Gonzales is a huge fan of technology in all of it's forms and has almost 8 years of experience working in IT. At the beginning of 2021 he was recognized with the vExpert award. This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.

See how Prianto uses Runecast to add value to their customers. Runecast has many different applications and benefits: vSphere upgrades, security, compliance, time saved over multiple operations and in this session Prianto will discuss how they use their role as a Runecast Partner and knowledge distributor to benefit their customers. This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.

What is the VMware User Group (VMUG) and what can you get out of joining? You may have heard of this global community, but maybe no one has asked you to join yet. This jam-packed session explores the many facets of the expansive community of VMware enthusiasts. You will find programs and education that will advance your career and allow you to connect and build relationships with global VMware users. Hear from Matthew Heldstab on how you can get involved. This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.

Each one of us already deals with FinTech every day. From buying goods with your iPhone to handling complex financial data at work. This enormous growth of the technology that we've been witnessing recently, triggered major changes in every aspect of our life. In this session, I will talk about the promising technologies as well as the opportunities of FinTech. Mohamed Adel is a former Nuclear Engineer, Technology/Digital Transformation/FinTech evangelist and Virtualization/data protection & HCI influencer. This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.

This session will look at practical examples of how to use the Configuration Vault and Remediation features in Runecast Analyzer. You can use Config Vault, one of Runecast Analyzer’s newest features, to see how your environment changes and produce detailed reports of your infrastructure. Use the Remediation tool to resolve issues in your environment in a simple and flexible way, giving you control over which environments receive which fixes. Come and see the feature that people are calling "RVTools on steroids". This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.

The benefits of a company to maintain well-protected infrastructure, in terms of security and vulnerability, are reflected both in avoiding the financial impact caused by a potential security breach and especially in maintaining an unaltered reputation. Ionut Radu is Co-Founder & Technical Partnerships Manager at Runecast. Before Runecast he spent over eight years at IBM, with his last two as a VMware engineer, designing and implementing virtual infrastructures and disaster recovery solutions. Ionut has been recognized as a vExpert for the past several years and holds several industry-level certifications, including VCAP-DCV. This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.

In the year 2021, it seems that it would soon be more accurate to talk about those who have been hacked and those who just don’t know about it yet. Organizations need to plan for how they would recover from a cyber attack, and not just focus on how they can minimise the risks of it being successful.Join this session with Technical Marketing Architect Kev Johnson, where he’ll walk you through some things that you can do to ensure that you can recover from just such an attack. There may be some low quality jokes, but there’s only one way to find out! This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.

The technologist's guide to depression, burnout, and the end of the world. Feel like you're buried under 10,000 angry bees? Do you feel like everyone is somehow handling the apocalypse better than you are? You're not alone! Looking at our industry's attrition numbers, the traditional approaches to employee wellness clearly aren't working. In this session we'll examine the importance of personal meaning in our work, and how we can help those we mentor. No Yoga, mediation, mindfulness or so forth, I promise! Trevor Pott is a hands-on technologist, with experience ranging from systems administration to technology marketing. He is the rare individual who can understand and operate almost any technology, but is also able to communicate the how, what, and why of a product to just about anyone. He uses this unique blend of experiences and talents to help technology vendors fine-tune their message to both business and technical buyers. This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.

Does virtualization make monitoring software obsolete? If you have all these great features, do you still need to monitor your IT infrastructure? The simple answer is yes. Join this CEO chat between Stan Markov, CEO & Co-Founder of Runecast, and Loop1 CEO & Chairman, Bill Fitzpatrick, as they share insights into best practices for insightful IT infrastructure monitoring and shine the light on virtualization. Discover how the alignment of teams, tools, and processes, across seven technology silos, can provide end-to-end visibility and deliver real-time insights to drive business outcomes and plan for what’s next. Download a copy of the Loop1 Monitoring Maturity Model (L1M3)—and assess the current maturity of IT Operations Management within your organization. This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.

Staying on top of customer environments can be challenging at the best of times. Join Steve Salisbury to find out how you can use the full features of Runecast Analyzer with your customers or separate out specific features as services.MSPs who provide on-site remediation services also gain the ability to understand what the issues are and what will need to be done before they step foot on the customers premises.Find out how to stay on top of customer configurations, but do it from the comfort of your office, with the ability to provide full reporting for all aspects of configuration and compliance. Steve Salisbury has an IT background spanning eLearning production, programming, and software and hardware consultancy. On migrating to the Czech Republic, he taught computing at Prague College and moved on to work for HPE and CA Technologies before finding his new home at Runecast. This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.

During this presentation, Alexey Semeney from DevTeam.Space will share best practices and specific steps applied at his own organization and in over 150 other businesses across the globe. His presentation will be focused on how to structure communication, what tools to use and how to use them to achieve the best long-term development team performance. He will also share how this approach can be transferred to system administration and other departments. Alexey is the Founder and CEO of DevTeam.Space, an AI-powered community of expert dev teams. He is an expert in software product development, hiring, team and project management, as well as inbound marketing. This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.

In May, an article was released on Andreessen Horowitz | Software Is Eating the World, Silicon Valley's most prominent tech investors. Cloud offers many benefits but the costs of cloud can be very high when you start scaling. "You're crazy if you don't start in the cloud; you're crazy if you stay on it." In this session, Jeffrey Kusters (CTO, ITQ) discusses the takeaways from the article, reflects on them, and shows how you can break through this paradox with a cloud-smart strategy and the added value of VMware Cloud. This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.

Another year has passed and a lot has changed in this fast paced industry! Not just for you, but also for HCI and VMware vSAN in particular. In this session Duncan will discuss, and demonstrate ,what HCI, and vSAN specifically, can provide you! Duncan Epping is VMware’s Senior Director and Chief Technologist in EMEA for the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group with a primary focus on hyper-converged infrastructure, disaster recovery, and vSphere. This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.

Runecast does an excellent job at ensuring that your platforms are secure and adopting best practices spanning AWS, Azure, VMware, and Kubernetes. For clients running critical Linux workloads, how do you know that your OS is hardened to an appropriate security baseline? What security baselines are available and how do I choose the right one? How do you remediate the gaps? How do you know the remediation worked?Talor from Advent One will take you through what OpenSCAP is, and demonstrate how to easily apply security baselines to systems running on platforms secured by Runecast. This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.

How to protect your network perimeter if it moves all the time with hundreds and thousands of employees on the go? All the moving parts eventually rely on DNS resolution – it puts everything together and makes it work properly. On top of that, it is a great place to prevent unwanted activity and threats within the network or at Home Office. Robert Šefr believes that cybersecurity is a human right, not a privilege. That’s why he came up with the idea to develop a security solution available to broad masses with the best possible user experience. After four years of operation, Whalebone already protects millions of users.Having graduated from IT & Security, Robert joined McAfee VAD Comguard as a junior IT security consultant and climbed up to being the Comguard CTO. At this point, he’s the co-founder and CTO of Whalebone. This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.

Compliance management is a crucial task in every environment. Not just for regulatory concerns, but for any business that wants to apply their internal compliance rules and match with best practices, reference architectures, compatibility matrixes, security rules and more. Using periodic and static health checks is no longer enough - a dynamic and proactive approach is needed. Runecast Solutions can help you and your business move into a more accurate and effective approach. Andrea Mauro has worked in IT since 1996 and holds several technical certifications (VCP-*, VCAP-*, VCIX-NV, VCDX-DCV, MCITP, MCSA, MCSE, NPP, CCA). This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.

Availability is one of the main criteria that companies use to satisfy internal and external customer needs. There are different ways to reach it, with different RPOs as well as different implications. Sometimes different solutions are put together in the same category or confused with one another. There's no single "one size fits all" solution, the answer depends on the quality of the solution and the need of the business. Likewise the solutions can be combined, they do not necessarily replace each other. In this session we’ll take a look at which solutions to use based on several different use cases. Raffaello Poltronieri is a Cloud Solutions Architect at Netalia, an Italian Cloud Service Provider focused on data security and compliance. This session was first streamed live at Uptime 2021 virtual conference powered by Runecast.