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  • Interop Announces New Dates and Program Details for 2020 Digital Event

    SAN FRANCISCO – June 23, 2020 – Interop, the IT industry’s most trusted independent conference, announces new dates and details for Interop Digital 2020, taking place October 5-8. Interop Digital will offer a robust lineup of content including 50 sessions, 12 trainings and certifications, a virtual Expo Hall and networking opportunities, allowing the IT community to discover the newest and most valuable IT strategies surrounding the technology, people, and processes that make up an IT organization.

    “Interop Digital is more than just a technology conference,” said Meghan Reilly, General Manager, Interop. “We are listening to the needs of IT and network professionals and understand that technology leaders need education on IT management, talent issues, and business skills in addition to technology. We’re looking forward to hosting Interop digitally to be immersed in a community so passionate about the future of technology and the business opportunity it offers.”

    Program

    The 2020 event will feature new conference topics that allows attendees to address their specific needs across all aspects of IT. Through these new topics, Interop Digital aims to provide education on the latest technology while also addressing the management knowledge needed to ensure the right technology solutions are delivered to the right users in an effective, efficient, and secure fashion. Topics include:

    • Data and AI: It’s IT’s Time
    • Automation, Now!
    • Mastering the Modern Cloud
    • Recalibrating Networks and Infrastructure
    • Practical Defense
    • DevOps Rising
    • Leading the New IT Department
    • Elevating Workplace Experience

    Training & Certifications

    In addition to new tracks, Interop Digital has expanded its training and certification program to address the evolving needs of IT professionals. Taught by vetted experts, each training and certification is structured to provide attendees with the skills they need in critical areas that can immediately be put to use. All-new trainings and certifications include:

    • Offensive Security Operations: Introduction to Red and Purple Teams
    • Incident Response: Preparing Your Team and Organization
    • Choosing your SD-WAN Provider
    • Computing from Cloud to Edge
    • Migrating from IaaS to Containers
    • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation Certification

    Interop Digital is also bringing back attendee favorites such as:

    • Cybersecurity Crash Course presented by Dark Reading
    • Network Automation Summit presented by Network to Code

    Networking Opportunities

    Using artificial intelligence to help ensure more valuable connections, attendees will have ample opportunity to network with peers and create lasting connections. Interop Digital will offer pre-event access which includes networking events, video discussion groups and bonus content. Attendees will also have the chance to participate in 1:1 mentoring through the Ask the Experts program. In addition, there will be peer connection opportunities and special events including virtual happy hours, birds of a feather discussions, trivia games, and yoga.

    Interop Digital takes place online, October 5-8, 2020. Passes range from a $1,099 Conference + Certification pass to a free Business Hall pass. For more information and to register, visit: https://www.interop.com/ 

    About Interop

    Interop is the industry’s most trusted independent conference compiled by a community that evangelizes, supports, and unites enterprise IT professionals and fosters the next generation of technologists. For 30+ years, Interop has been dedicated to offering its community both strategic and actionable advice in critical areas, providing the breadth and depth necessary to uncover solutions that best meet their needs. Employed by a conference model committed to unbiased content, Interop focuses on a core set of technology and leadership competencies needed to run a modern IT department. For more information, visit www.interop.com. Interop is organized by Informa Tech.

    About Informa Tech
    Informa Tech is a market leading provider of integrated research, media, training and events to the global Technology community. We’re an international business of more than 600 colleagues, operating in more than 20 markets. Our aim is to inspire the Technology community to design, build and run a better digital world through research, media, training and event brands that inform, educate and connect. Over 7,000 professionals subscribe to our research, with 225,000 delegates attending our events and over 18,000 students participating in our training programmes each year, and nearly 4 million people visiting our digital communities each month. Learn more about Informa Tech.

  • DevOps front and center at Interop NY

    DevOps front and center at Interop NY

    Reporting from Interop NY where DevOps has made it presence felt. There are a number of DevOps related sessions over the course of the conference this week. I wanted to highlight 4 that I am looking forward to:

    Dustin Whittle_428215_1403108362The DevOps Pay Raise: Quantifying Your Value to Move Up the Ladder by Dustin Whittle, AppDynamics

    Location:  Room E08, Level 1

    Date:  Thursday, October 2

    Time:  2:45pm-3:45pm

    The official blurb for this session is: DevOps, when done right, usually goes unnoticed. It’s only when something breaks that all eyes turn to IT. If your boss only sees you when the app is down, however, that’s not really doing your career any favors. In this session we’ll talk about how to prove your value to the organization by looking at the positive side: that is, how much money you’ve saved your company. We’ll take a look at how you can use tools like Chef, Puppet, Sensu and Logstash to quantify your value to your company. After this session, you’ll be able to walk into a meeting with your boss ready to talk about your value to the company (and to ask for a raise).

    I spoke to Dustin who occasionally writes for devopsy.kinsta.cloud about this session. Beyond getting a raise for your hard work, the session is about how you show the value of DevOps to your organization. Of course if you try to implement some DevOps type of processes and behavior and something goes wrong, it is easy to blame, but how do you show the benefit.  No one notices when things are running right. How do you build on success to expand the rollout of DevOps to the rest of your organization?  I have seen Dustin speak on this topic before and I am sure it will be an interesting session.

    Dave Roberts_428551_1406316930DevOps Gold: What the Olympics Teaches Us About Agile Development and Release by Dave Roberts, Sr. Director Solutions Marketing, Cloud, DevOps, and Data Center Automation, BMC Software

    Location:  Room E15, Level 1

    Date:  Thursday, October 2

    Time:  4:30pm-4:50pm

    The official blurb for this session is: At the recent winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, we saw athletes from all over the world striving for excellence. Some turned in the best performance of their lives and came home with a gold medal. Others, some favorites, struggled and saw their dreams slip away. In this session, we’ll see how DevOps done right is a lot like the Olympics. If you set reasonable goals, train hard, and execute well, you’ll reach DevOps Gold, too. But if you take your releases for granted, you may end up with failure. This session is for developers and operations personnel working toward implementing a DevOps process. You’ll learn best practices for achieving DevOps success and how to best implement them in your own company.

    I spoke with Dave on this one as well. I love the idea of comparing DevOps to athletes training for the gold.  Dave will talk about that there is no magic with DevOps success. It takes careful planning, reasonable goals and lots of preparation. You don’t just walk strap on skis and think you are a downhill Olympic champion. There is more to competing and winning than just showing up.

    Dave is an accomplished speaker and this is a great topic. It should be a very interesting session. Note that this is part of the Cloud Connect Day 2 sessions and there are some other great sessions throughout the day there.

    The next two already took place by the time you read this (thanks to my laptop crashing and this not being published earlier). They are both by Lori Macvittie, another devopsy.kinsta.cloud contributor.

    lori macvittie_427169_1400194987Achieving Operational Excellence Through DevOps by Lori Macvittie, Principal Technical Evangelist, F5 Networks

    Location:  Room E16, Level 1

    Date:  Tuesday, September 30

    Time:  9:00am-12:00pm

    This is actually a day long workshop by a number of people with Lori kicking things off early and then chairing a panel at 10:45:

    Panel: What Does DevOps do for the Network?
    DevOps is to application deployment as SDN is to networking. They’re both ultimately about achieving operational excellence to improve time to market, reduce risks and costs associated with operational overhead. DevOps tends to focus on scripting and APIs as a means to achieve operational excellence, so how does that fit with the move to bring automation and orchestration to the network? We’ll explore questions that are on everyone’s minds such as: Do you have to have a soft network to take advantage of DevOps? Will network engineers need to become developers?

    Interop Debate: Learn SDN vs. Traditional Certifications: What’s Better for Your Career? by Lori Macvittie, Principal Technical Evangelist, F5 Networks

    Location:  Room E13, Level 1

    Date:  Wednesday, October 1

    Time:  2:45pm-3:45pm

    This is another panel discussing: The networking industry views the CCIE certification as one of the most difficult and desirable titles to obtain. Many CCIEs enjoy extraordinary career opportunities as well as financial gain as a direct benefit of passing the notorious lab exam. Recently, the relevance of the CCIE certification has come into question by those who see a different future for networking. The big idea is this: if networking is headed in an automated, software-defined direction, is the CCIE still relevant? Or should networkers who want to be at the top of the industry differentiate themselves by learning the emerging tools and techniques of the SDN revolution? Our all-CCIE panel (including a former CCIE program manager) & CCIE moderator will discuss.

    This panel will discuss what it the future of the CCIE certification in an age of SDN. With software eating the world and networks, is hardware relevant even anymore?  Should be great discussion and promises some fireworks!