IT infrastructure professionals are perhaps facing the greatest challenge of all these days. The network edge is in your marketing manager’s den, and your IT staff is managing the infrastructure from their dining rooms. Maintaining security, availability, and performance becomes much more complicated. Adding to these challenges, IT teams must accommodate major business trends, including the widespread use of cloud, and the growing use of sophisticated analytics and artificial intelligence -- which are putting legacy infrastructures to the test.

Join me and the Network Computing team as we explore these issues and more online at Interop Digital, October 5-8.Save 50% on most trainings/conference passes when you register with promo code: SAL50*

Visit interop.com to learn more about our virtual event.

Here’s a sampling of sessions that may be helpful to you and other members of your infrastructure team during these critical times:

Network Automation Summit, which aims to provide greater insight into the trends and developments that will help you do more with fewer resources.

Choosing Your SD-WAN Provider, which explores how SD-WAN supports and is driven by business and tech trends, key components of an SD-WAN solution, pros and cons of DIY vs. managed solutions, and more.

The New Enterprise Compute Eco-system, which will highlight what the adoption of cloud, edge, and AI mean for your compute, networking and storage equipment procurement strategies.

What Does Networking Circa 2022 Look Like?, which will explore what you should be doing now to get ready for the changes that are coming.

Destination Colocation: Off-Premises & Cloud Compatible, which will review how colocation’s top benefits – rapid scalability and putting data close to users – are a natural fit to address the pandemic’s IT problems.

See the full conference agenda here: schedule.interop.com

I hope to “meet” you there at our first virtual Interop.

Salvatore Salamone

Managing Editor, Network Computing