VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) provides a complete set of software-defined services for compute, storage, networking, security, and cloud management to run enterprise apps — traditional or containerized — in private or public environments. Cloud Foundation drastically simplifies the path to the hybrid cloud by delivering a single integrated solution that is easy to operate, thanks to built-in automated lifecycle management. In this session, we will provide a VCF solution overview.

Many of CDI’s clients are in the midst of evolving from classic development paradigms to DevOps. They want faster cycle time, improved efficiency, and reduced risk. Hear from CDI partner, GitLab, about how we help those organizations accelerate their DevOps journey. GitLab’s vision is to replace DevOps toolchains with a single platform that is pre-configured to work by default across the entire DevOps lifecycle. Market analysts who have coined the approach as “Value Stream Delivery Platform.

“Happy People are Productive People” has been a saying of the founder of CDI for nearly three decades. Both CDI and ServiceNow have been recognized for workplace culture, and both companies run their business on ServiceNow. ServiceNow’s HRSD capabilities modernize the Employee Experience, helping organizations achieve automation, self-service, and sophisticated workflow across the enterprise for all employees. In this session, learn how ServiceNow is creating a better Employee Experience, streamlining the on-boarding and off-boarding processes, and becoming the Employer of Choice.

Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™) is an industry-leading secure, open, and comprehensive Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solution. It radically simplifies, optimizes, and accelerates infrastructure deployment and governance and expedites the application deployment lifecycle. During this breakout session, Ralph Carter, Chief Network Solutions Architect at CDI, will demonstrate the benefits customers can realize from Cisco ACI by discussing real world customer deployment examples.

Containers are rising in popularity - and for many enterprises what started as a couple of applications or side projects to experiment with them have grown into the need for an enterprise grade container platform that can be operated at scale. In this session you will learn about VMware's Tanzu portfolio and how it can help businesses deploy and operate Kubernetes at scale, so you can focus on what's most important - building your applications.

CDI has created an innovative service delivery offering to ensure you are getting the most value out of your ServiceNow platform investment. Learn how CDI can provide you with a complete team of the key roles you need to drive the continuous improvement, development, consumption, and evolution of your ServiceNow platform.

Understand why Splunk’s acquisition of SignalFx catapulted the leading log analytics ISV to visionary status for a complete APM solution. Features such as NoSample™ Full-Fidelity trace ingestion of all traces will show you highly granular details to pinpoint root causes of errors and performance anomalies.

Hear how CDI helped a healthcare organization rapidly deploy a software defined data center in the AWS cloud. The architecture was implemented to support a 30,000-seat virtual desktop infrastructure with VMware Horizon View.

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files. In this session, learn how Terraform can help you provision and lifecycle your infrastructure as code with specific examples derived from real world customer engagements.

CDI is seeing a high demand from its customers to implement ServiceNow Customer Service Management. In our ever-escalating world of technology and automation, companies that have a clear understanding of where bottlenecks exist in servicing their customers are able to use digital tools to redesign workflows and create a more streamlined experience, increasing their market advantage against their competitors. In this session, learn how to create a better Customer Experience with ServiceNow to fuel the strategic growth of your business.

Vertex, the leading and most-trusted provider of integrated tax technology solutions, was struggling with their outdated and unreliable Avaya phone system. Most of Vertex’s business comes directly from their call center, and with the future of Avaya not looking too bright, the Vertex team knew they needed to make a change sooner rather than later. While the phone system was the main priority, Vertex used this opportunity as a chance to upgrade its entire collaboration portfolio. With the help of the High Availability, Inc., a CDI Company collaboration experts, Vertex is now utilizing Cisco products and solutions for their phones, voice mail, emergency dials, call center, video conferencing, and room kits.

It’s been 5 years since Gartner coined the term AIOps as applying analytics and machine learning to big data to automate and improve IT operations. Now is the time to automatically analyze massive amounts of network and machine data to find patterns, both to identify the cause of existing problems and to predict and prevent future ones. You will hear from Big Panda, Cisco, LogicMonitor, ServiceNow, and Splunk about how to Improve Insights from IT Operations Monitoring Tools using an AIOps Data-Driven Approach to improve SLAs By 50%, reduce IT costs by 40% and improve IT productivity.

Grab a ringside seat for this panel discussion among the experts from Cohesity, Commvault, Dell Technologies, and Rubrik who will discuss all things hybrid cloud and data protection. Kyle Mullin, AVP, Data Center Solutions, CDI will ask panelists about topics ranging from the convergence of data protection and DR, protection of data in SaaS platforms, data protection for Kubernetes, ransomware, and more.

Are you struggling to achieve end-to-end visibility of applications and infrastructure components that collectively make up critical business services? Do you have overlapping tools that span the operational control of different teams within your organization? Worse yet, do you have gaps in coverage from a monitoring standpoint? Learn how CDI, together with its partners, can work together to deliver a comprehensive observability and investigation platform that will ensure your bases are covered.

We used to hear organizations say that Information Technology (IT) needs to keep up with and meet the demands of the business. In our modern digital age, “IT is the business!” In this session, learn how IT leaders and organizations are increasing business agility through modernized IT Operations Management workflows. We will cover how ServiceNow is delivering rapid time-to-value and visibility in the infrastructure, automating proactive alerting to avoid IT outages, maintaining health of the infrastructure through a robust CMDB, and mapping the infrastructure to have clear visibility into issues upstream and downstream.

In 2020, the global pandemic changed the way we live and work. Companies all over the world turned to technology to conduct business and stay connected with their customers. In this panel discussion, CDI's Preston Stover and Jason McKenry will moderate a roundtable of experts from Citrix and VMware, who will discuss how technology and "work from anywhere" will continue in a post-pandemic world.

As your business continues to push the boundaries of technology, service delivery, and geographical reach, so does the importance of having a strong supply chain risk program. In light of the constant cycle of breaches of trusted vendors such as SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange, what can you do to prepare a cybersecurity program that addresses this critical 3rd party risk within your environment? In this panel discussion we explore the technical and non-technical ways you can reduce your Supply Chain risk.

ONTAP® helps you create a smart, powerful, and trusted storage infrastructure that reduces costs, accelerates critical workloads, and protects and secures data across your hybrid cloud. In this on-demand session, NetApp will provide an overview of the ONTAP solution.

Today’s workforce is distributed and WFH is here to stay. It’s time to secure the sprawl of people and technology. In this panel, CDI will interview key security vendors to identify the best solution for securing your remote workforce. We will discuss the new perimeter (Identity) and how you can achieve a least privilege/zero trust environment. We will also discuss the importance of leveraging partners that help you identity true signals and real-events amongst the litany of false positives.

Cybercriminals are more sophisticated than ever. Ransomware attacks continue to rise. So what’s the right solution? In this panel, CDI will present evidence gathered from our RCA program that reveals the consistent control gaps that leave us most vulnerable to ransomware attacks. Joining CDI on the panel are the top security vendors who play a critical role to prevent, detect and respond to the latest ransomware threats within this new and distributed world. In addition, we will uncover ways to help you manage the process, reduce your risk and orchestrate the right response after a breach or attack.