InnoTech San Antonio

Microsoft SQL Server is gaining more and more market share. IT Leaders find SQL Server is a great place to store your company’s most valuable data so it can be readily accessed when needed. This raises the question: How do I protect my precious data, as well as speed up access to it so people don’t complain? In this session, we’ll learn new features in Microsoft SQL Server 2016, the best methods of backing up/restoring the database, methods for cloning the data real-time and distributing access across other VM’s (AlwaysOn) and how to determine why SQL Server is hogging up all of the CPU and how to turbo-boost performance without upgrading hardware! This will be a lot to cover in a short time, including multiple demos, so prepare to take lots of notes.

Welcome to the team! You were hired to help us automate our existing systems. Don’t worry, they’re all working reasonable well, each server has a meaningful name so you’ll know what it does, and our set-up procedures have been thoroughly documented in the wiki.

Perhaps you have walked into a similar situation or face one back at work today. Where do you start?! How do you know when you’re done?

Few of us are starting from scratch. Our systems are already in production, delivering business and customer value. But perhaps these systems were built and are being managed by hand. This talk will provide practical advice for an approach to automating these systems.

Start by figuring out what you have, decide where to start, and get to work. Oh, but don’t bring down production! The last person who did that is no longer on the team.

Learn the right way to implement tools like ServiceNow, Cherwell, and BMC Remedy with the analogy of owning a chain of bakeries. Learn how to align IT stakeholders and extend the Service Catalog beyond IT. See a sample Service Catalog and what that looks like from the consumer and supplier side. Lastly, learn why the Configuration Management database is key to a high Return on Investment (ROI).

What does it mean to be cloud native? Who’s driving these definitions? Let’s tour the cloud native ecosystem’s tooling, starting with an understanding of why containers have taken our infrastructure by storm and what function container orchestrators do and do not provide. What place do service meshes and serverless in this new landscape?

Who’s running these new tools? We’ll reflect on the shift from enterprise-architected software to continuously-delivered software and the cultural and organizational changes that accompany change in software delivery - from sysadmin to SREs.

Ever wonder what has made Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies so valuable? Join me and learn about the underlying technology that is taking over many boardroom conversations and the launching technology for many startups. There is a fabric being woven to support “web 3.0”, and after this talk, you will be in the know.

DATA is the central asset of your company. The growth of data has accelerated beyond even the opportunistic forecast of a few years ago.  The new definition of convergence is very different from even a decade ago.
The new trends of Big Data, Data Science, Cloud, A I, Mobility and IoT are changing how organizations are using data. It is now a critical business asset.

New business processes will revolve around the data and it will soon become even more intensive through massive streaming data coming from ubiquitous sensors in the Internet of Things. Variety, not volume or velocity will drive the investments.  During this session you will see how the data has become a strategic business advantage and its value will only increase in the next decade.

Join us for an interactive session showing tips, tricks and new features you don’t even know you have! We will be covering key shortcuts and new features that have been released to make you more productive. Come learn how easy it is to Focus on the important conversations, tag contacts and be heard. Did you know keyboard shortcuts make Teams more accessible and you can connect your Team to the world with connectors? Lean how to set up a chat-based workspace for your marketing projects, share files and folders for real-time collaboration and much more! This session will teach you how. Not an Office 365 subscriber but using Office 2016? Come find out what's available in your version.

•We hear this term “Converged Infrastructure” thrown around, but what exactly does it mean?

•We will define the term, talk about what IT forces drove the creation of this “Nirvana” of Datacenter infrastructure and then talk about how various solutions have interpreted our tidy definition.

• Finally, what does Converged Infrastructure do to the IT organization?

This session will focus on the required wide range of skills required to lead successful change initiatives. You will learn integrated ideas to immediately improve your ability to address the challenges that leading change of any type or scale.  Business & organizational agility, to include agile development transformations, can present unforeseen issues to can stall or kill your vision and goals.
This program will show you was to leverage new skills to become more successful in achieving your goals and reducing stress.

Objectives:

• 1. Learn the framework that leads to successful change that sticks.
• 2. Understand the keys to organizing and executing your plans.
• 3. Understand intelligent change management for results, satisfaction and growth.
• 4. Practice these techniques to collaborate, obtain feedback and improve.