Mission Essentials for the Application Economy
Technology is empowering customers as never before—creating the need for new levels of transparency, availability and reliability to meet growing demands. This customer revolution is the foundation of a new application economy, with the mainframe playing a mission essential role. Digital disrupters are having success using mainframe as an enabler of digital transformation to remove barriers to data, reduce costs, improve compliance and shore up transactional operations.
Attend the InformationWeek Mainframe Virtual Summit, where a team of industry experts will show you how mainframe IT leaders are removing barriers to drive game-changing digital transformation in the application economy.
Without having to leave your desk, you’ll be able to engage with experts on mainframe modernization, predictive analytics, business agility, mainframe DevOps and data security. You will learn:
- How to drive down overall IT costs while managing increasing transaction volumes and data
- Ways to increase your organization’s business agility through better automation, collaboration, visibility & control
- Methods for optimizing skill sets in an evolving and mobile workforce through modernization, analytics and automation
- Strategies to keep ahead of threats to your critical enterprise data and maintaining compliance in increasingly regulated environments
- Updates from CA experts on the CA products you use every day
Join us on July 20 for a virtual experience that will help you better navigate the tsunami of change coming to the enterprise and discover the critical role of the mainframe in digital transformation.
AGENDA (all times Eastern):
11:00 am
Doors Open
Join Live Booth Chats with Industry Experts and learn about technical sessions available throughout the day
11:30 – 11:45 am
“The Digital Transformation Landscape: The InformationWeek Point of View” – Lenny Liebmann, Contributing Editor, InformationWeek
InformationWeek Editor Lenny Liebmann offers insights on digital transformation and the challenges businesses face in capitalizing on the application economy and coping with a faster pace of change, managing agility and maintaining security. Citing InformationWeek research, he’ll discuss the critical role and increasing value of the mainframe in this transformative environment.
12:15 – 1:00 pm
“The Economics of the Mainframe” – Keynote: Ashok Reddy, CA Technologies and Matt Eastwood, IDC
As companies drive more and more transactions to the mainframe, it is becoming an increasingly critical component of agile business strategies. Smart companies have learned how to maximum the return on their enterprise IT investment, and as a result are outpacing companies that rely on less robust technologies. IDC analyst Matt Eastwood shares research that outlines how your peers are reducing TCO on the mainframe, and CA Technologies’ Ashok Reddy shares real-world best practices from customers that are using Linux, virtualization, cloud and other cost optimization strategies to improve the economics of the mainframe.
1:30 – 2:15 pm
“End-to-End Business Agility and the Role of the Mainframe” – Panel discussion: Rob Stroud, Forrester; Sreenivasan Rajagopal, CA Technologies
Business agility is about much more than swift response to changing conditions. Today’s high performing organizations are able to prioritize the highest-value initiatives, reduce work-in-process bottlenecks and continually optimize investment. Truly agile businesses require a continuous delivery model with critical ops and security feedback loops built in. Join industry experts as they explore how companies are embracing DevOps and Agile to deliver more value, faster, from mobile to mainframe.
2:45 – 3:30 pm
“Work Smarter Not Harder with Advanced Mainframe Analytics” - Panel discussion: Desikan Madhavanur, CA Technologies; Customers TBD
Join industry experts as they discuss the evolution of analytics on the mainframe and the critical role this plays in maintaining business and skills continuity in the digital economy. As companies learn to mine more valuable insights from their data, they’re finding that predictive and prescriptive analytics are giving them the opportunity to discover not just what may happen, but what they should do about it. The panelists discuss how to achieve and leverage actionable analytics that ultimately leads to the “intelligent enterprise” – an environment that can detect changes, mine live data, and respond automatically to events even before users can see them.
4:00 – 4:45 pm
“Defending Mainframe Data: Protecting Your Most Sensitive Assets” - Panel discussion: Marie Godfrey, CA Technologies; Customers, TBD
With the explosion of data in the enterprise, a solid security strategy is essential to the survival of all companies. As the mainframe becomes even more critical for the delivery of mission essential services, security is being reframed for the application economy. Panel experts discuss new approaches to mainframe security management, including mitigating the risk of data exposure, reducing the effort involved with regulatory compliance, maintaining a unified approach to overall enterprise security, and improving results associated with audits.
4:45– 6:00 pm Live Chats with Industry Experts