Let's talk about Blockchain, Site Recovery, Operations and Support Tools

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Another packed evening for our next meetup with three very interesting topics:

Blockchain in the Cloud

Speaker: Sherif Messiha & Frank Boucher

Blockchain has become popular primarily through its initial implementation of digital currencies. However, Blockchain at the core of it is a trust-building platform where multiple parties can ensure that data shared among them is authentic and immutable. Currently many institutions and enterprises are eagerly looking to adopt Blockchain solutions, however often struggling with where it actually fits within their environment, technology stack, or business model…

Join us in this session to know more about design considerations when thinking about adopting Blockchain technology and some of the real-life applications using Blockchain in Azure based on our experience at Lixar.

Cloud Adoption: An operations management point of view

Speaker: Brendan O'Halloran

Cloud technologies are inevitable for many organizations, many analysts (look at Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends (http://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartners-top-10-technology-trends-2017/)) predict huge growth in cloud technology investments by businesses. However, not many organizations truly know what is involved in cloud adoption. Topics and areas of focus include having a Cloud Strategy, Data Management Strategy, DevOps, Operations Management and Monitoring, and Security to name a few.

In this session, we will focus on Operations Management and Monitoring, and we will be sharing the tools and techniques that we use to monitor and support cloud applications for large-scale enterprise deployments.

Azure Site Recovery

Speaker: Eric Leonard

Technological facilities such as data centers are under more risk of outages and downtime than ever, and IT departments must provide solutions to respond to disasters that occur. Azure Site Recovery provides business continuity and disaster recovery to keep workloads available and your data resilient and secure during an unplanned outage and recovers to a healthy working environment as quickly as possible.

Learn how to use Azure Site Recovery to keep your application available in case of disaster, orchestrates the replication of workloads and test your disaster recovery solution