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In a recent Harvey Nash / KPMG survey, 59 percent of CIOs and technology leaders report being held back from innovation due to lack of resources or funding. 55 percent of those leaders report that budget dedicated to ongoing maintenance and management has increased over the last three years. The bottom line: companies are spending more on maintenance and eating into critical budget dollars allocated for innovation. Listen to Blake Webber, EMS National Practice Manager at ePlus, discuss how ePlus Enhanced Maintenance Support was designed to help IT leaders combat this trend.

Hear from Wayne St. Jacques, vice president of executive and managed services at ePlus, discuss the significance of fostering an exceptional customer experience, especially as it relates to service differentiation and ROI, and ePlus' approach to getting closer to the customer to fuel success and satisfaction.

As hybrid IT becomes the standard, knowing how to provision your software and operational environment to support application development is key. Joe Brown, VP of cloud solutions at ePlus, explains why looking at hybrid cloud as a computing model versus a place is an important starting point. Joe provides tips and insights to address getting starting with hybrid IT to deliver flexibility and competitive advantage.

SD-WAN adoption rates are continuing to rise as traditional WAN network infrastructure inhibits the benefits of cloud such as speed, agility, elasticity, and cost reduction. Whether your network architecture is "born in the cloud," hybrid or a traditional on premise model, Bill Evans, National Principal Architect for Digital Infrastructure Solutions, explains how to leverage SD-WAN to deliver elasticity, save money, ensure a great user experience, and support transformational initiatives such as digital and IOT.

Learn how Network Operation Center (NOC) and Security Operation Center (SOC) services help provide peace of mind to customers grappling with a rapidly changing threat landscape. Wayne St. Jacques, V.P. of Managed and Executive Services, discusses how achieving higher visibility, monitoring, managing, and remediating exploits through a certified, compliant provider will be key for organizations overwhelmed by too many security products and a lack of in-house security talent.

In today's world, is every company a tech company? Mike Trojecki, V.P. of Digital Infrastructure, and Bill Evans, National Principal Architect, say they are--or at least they should be thinking that way. Learn how digitization, mobility and the Internet of Things are disrupting industries from retail to healthcare, and how assessing your environment, applying analytics and keeping a focus on the end-user experience can help IT keep their companies and organizations ahead of the disruption curve.

What if you could reduce costs, increase IT agility, visibility and performance all at the same time? Software-Defined Wide-area Networking (SD-WAN) promises to do just that, but a crowded vendor landscape and marketing hype can make choosing the right solution a daunting task. ePlus' Blake Webber, Solution Director, and Bill Evans, National Principal Architect, discuss how today's lines of business are driving new requirements into IT, and why taking a prescriptive step-by-step approach to SD-WAN can help reap the benefits many are seeking.

Predictions about where the cloud market is going abound. But when it comes to applications and workloads, knowing how to analyze what's cloud ready and what's not is a big challenge. Wayne St. Jacques, Vice President of Executive and Managed Services at ePlus, discusses how taking a measured approach for moving to the cloud coupled with cloud mapping and monitoring services can help clients achieve needed visibility and track investment spend in public, private and hybrid environments.

Availability has been a topic for many years in IT, but digitization is pushing organizations to think less about availability as an insurance policy and more as an accelerator for an "always on" world. Hear how Eric Lamp, National Partner Manager at Veeam, explains how customer expectations are affecting availability needs, the impact of virtualization, cloud and security, and how Veeam and ePlus work together to build architectures that support today's digital world.

Security is an ongoing journey--and being secure today doesn't guarantee your organization's security tomorrow. Wanda Castelvecchi, Cisco Security Practice Lead at ePlus, explains how the proliferation of security point products is contributing to less effectiveness in many organizations' security posture, and how concerns over budget and insufficient cybersecurity talent create a growing concern for all. Wanda will discuss specific ways ePlus and Cisco are helping address these specific challenges to ensure security and peace of mind for our clients.