AWS re:Invent 2018

The tsunami of technology disruption is far from over. The public cloud is disrupting the global IT industry, similar to how Uber and Airbnb re-invented the taxi and hotel industries. The disruption brings new norms of doing things and a paradigm shift towards automation of everything. This paradigm shift can drastically reduce and, in some cases, eliminate long-standing job functions in IT. While certain job functions will be eliminated, the people performing these functions still hold great value to the enterprise. Learn how you can take control of your career so you are not left behind in the journey. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, HPE.

Have you ever had sleepless nights because you couldn't meet your Recovery Point and Time Objectives? What about recovering data in the event of a disaster? If you're a backup or storage architect, the answer is most likely "yes." Come to this session to learn how Cohesity can help you build an enterprise-grade solution for long-term retention, development and testing, and disaster recovery. Hear how Airbud Entertainment is using the Cohesity DataPlatform and AWS storage services, such as Amazon S3, and Amazon Glacier, to simplify their backup and long-term retention strategy and architecture. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Cohesity, Inc.

Consolidating the data center continues to be imperative for most enterprises. There is a good chance that you've been asked to use the cloud as a disaster recovery (DR) solution and eliminate use of secondary on-premises sites. How should you think about this strategy? What are the key requirements you should consider? In this session, learn how Cohesity can help you build a bulletproof plan for disaster recovery on AWS. Hear how a joint customer is using the Cohesity DataPlatform on the AWS Cloud to meet audit requirements for DR and at the same time enable the archiving of backup data. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Cohesity, Inc.

In this session, we outline the five levels of cloud operations automation, providing a clear path and maturity model for achieving security, compliance, and architecture best practices. Using real-world case studies from Fortune 100 enterprises, we demonstrate how secure AWS Landing Zones and policy-based, automated guardrails accelerate the safe migration and ongoing operation of hundreds of enterprise applications, putting your team on the road to DevSecOps maturity. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Turbot HQ, Inc.

Enterprises are leveraging hybrid cloud architectures to accelerate their cloud migration journey and to adopt modern application strategies. VMware Cloud on AWS provides an easy cloud migration path for enterprises and empowers modern workloads with consistent infrastructure, operations, and reduced costs. In this session, learn how customers are using VMware Cloud on AWS for cloud migrations, data center extension, disaster recovery, next-generation applications, and app modernization. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] Top Strategic Priorities You Can Tackle with VMware Cloud on AWS (ENT215-R1)

Many customers lack the experience and skills to optimize performance and cost in the cloud. The breadth of AWS offerings meets any application need at any time. However, realizing full elasticity while adapting to dynamic application demands is a challenge that is beyond human scale. AI-powered software is the answer. Turbonomic workload automation lets applications self-manage cloud resources, anywhere, in real time, making intelligent sizing and placement decisions for cloud migrations. In this session, we discuss how an oil and gas company used the Turbonomic AI-powered decision engine to make the right continuous tradeoffs, maximizing efficiency without sacrificing elasticity. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Turbonomic.

DevOps is a powerful movement that can help enterprises speed up their rate of innovation. But many customers think DevOps can work only with their cloud-native applications. Enterprise DevOps is a set of best practices anchored by real-life customer experiences that enable large organizations to apply the speed and agility of DevOps to all of their applications without sacrificing security and compliance. And it all begins with production-ready migration. In this session, you learn 1) how to execute your migration with successful ongoing operations in mind, 2) how to integrate existing operational models (e.g., ITIL) with modern cloud best practices (e.g., DevOps), and 3) how enterprises like National Australia Bank are leveraging the Enterprise DevOps framework to run their business.

Corteva Agriscience, the agricultural division of DowDuPont, produces as much DNA sequence data every six hours as existed in the entire public sphere in 2008. On-premises processing and storage could not scale to meet the business demand. Partnering with Sogeti (part of Capgemini), Corteva replatformed their existing Hadoop-based genome processing systems into AWS using a serverless, cloud-native architecture. In this session, learn how Corteva Agriscience met current and future data processing demands without maintaining any long-running servers by using AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, AWS Batch, and more. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Capgemini America. Complete Title: AWS re:Invent 2018: Petabytes of Data & No Servers: Corteva Scales DNA Analysis to Meet Increasing Business Demand (ENT218-S)

In order to increase business agility, drive transformation, and reduce costs, enterprise customers are moving their entire SAP landscapes to AWS. Examples of enterprise customers running their core businesses on AWS include: AIG, BP, BMS, Brooks Brothers, and Zappos. In this session, hear why thousands of customers are running SAP workloads on AWS, and understand how AWS helps Fortune 500 companies migrate and transform their environments accelerate greater innovation with AWS.

The cloud is enabling the transformation of IT in the enterprise at an unprecedented rate. No longer is IT viewed just as a provider of services, but increasingly it is viewed as a strategically important team that plays a central role in the creation of new business value. How are enterprise IT leaders responding, and what are the people, process and technology shifts needed to build agile and innovative organizations?