AIOps & Management On Demand Webinars

OVERVIEW

IT users are presented with many issues from their Data Center Network including the need to increase bandwidth, quickly provision and reduce network operational costs. Software Defined Networking (SDN) provides a programmable and automated interface to help tackle those issues. IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator can help you manage and deploy cloud services including IBM and Juniper’s SDN solutions to help automate and optimize your Data Center Network. 

Learn About:

• Challenges of a Data Center Network
• How Software Defined Networking addresses the challenges of a Data Center Network
• The functionality and benefit of using IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator to automate the deployment and manage the lifecycle of cloud services including SDN’s. 
• Solutions to make your networks more capable including Juniper's Contrail and IBM's Software Defined Networks
• Functionality of IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator and how it serves as an open and scalable cloud platform that provides easy-to-use orchestration for cloud service automation. 
• IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator allows you to manage and deploy cloud services such as Software Defined Networks.
• How Software Defined Networking can solve the challenges of your Data Center network and some of the options of available SDN's.

THE SPEAKERS

Dilip Kandlur, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect of Network Management (IBM)

Dr. Dilip Kandlur is a Distinguished Engineer in IBM's Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure (formerly Tivoli) Software Division with responsibility for the technical strategy and product architecture for the Network Management portfolio.  IBM Tivoli develops a comprehensive portfolio of system management and integrated service management software and solutions, including the NetCool line of network management software. 

Prior to his current role, Dr. Kandlur was the Director of IBM Research - Austin (ARL) and Area Strategist for Systems Architecture.   Dilip's many accomplishments include his Research leadership on thePOWER7 launch, enabling technologies for breakthrough performance and innovations in chip modelling. Dilip also made significant contributions to IBM's Workload Optimized Systems agenda and the 2010 Global Technology Outlook. 

Dr. Kandlur's research work has been in the areas of networks and distributed systems and he has received numerous IBM awards for his technical contributions to IBM Server Systems in networking performance, quality-of-service, and policy based computing.  He is an IEEE Fellow and shared the IEEE Communications Society's 2003 William R. Bennett Award for the best original paper published in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.    He has held various executive positions in Research and IBM's Systems Division including Director of Storage Systems and Director of Systems Software Strategy.

Chris Rogers, Director, IBM Alliance (Juniper Networks)