Assessing the impact of Hyperscale, Edge Computing and Hybrid Operating Models on IT Infrastructure

Free Online Event | 30 November - 01 December, 2021

Day One

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Taking A Hybrid Approach to Modernising the Data Center

• Lowering the cost of maintaining legacy equipment by taking some of your data center operations into the cloud and leaving some of your legacy equipment in place

• Find out why a hybrid approach is likely to be an easier and less costly approach than moving operations wholly into the cloud

• Determining the advantages of retaining legacy operations and which sensitive data is best kept in a legacy environment for maximum security

• What can you safely lift and shift into the cloud, and what must be completely rebuilt in the cloud? 


3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Utilising Hyper-Scalability to Extend Data Center Capabilities

• How cloud-native operations help to meet the growing demand for simple and personalized customer journeys, and provide customers with the kind of flexibility which they have come to expect from leading digital players

• Enabling your data centre to be fully scalable to handle peak levels of demand at any time of day

• Why hyperscale represents a high-performance and cost-effective way to provide customers with content and functionality

• Benefits of establishing partnerships with hyperscale players to strengthen your company’s own data center capabilities

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Benefits of Edge Computing: Bringing Data Access Nearer to the Customer

• Why tackling latency due to big data, the Internet of Things, cloud and streaming services, and other technology trends, is critically important

• How to meet end users’ devices demands anytime anywhere, with easy, scalable access to applications

• Bringing computing power closer to the data source to reduce both latency and bandwidth requirements

• How edge computing can enable your business to continue to scale and provide for your customers across the world, wherever they may be

• Outlining the top use cases for edge computing, such as smart cities, autonomous vehicles, finance, video monitoring, and much more


5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Accelerating Data Center Migration to the Public Cloud

Richard Reyher - Senior Director, Site Reliability & Cloud Engineering: Global Data Center Services, PayPal

As one of the five largest database holders anywhere in the world, PayPal have a huge responsibility to ensure that data is held securely and in a fully stable, reliable and accessible environment. This makes data center maintenance an incredibly part of their business.


In this exclusive discussion with the controllers of PayPal's full data center operation, discover the company's experiences of building and maintaining their data centers over the last decade, and their aims to become a fully 100% green data center operation by 2023


  • Discover how partnering with best-in-class cloud providers and migrating to the public cloud is enabling PayPal to better cater for peaks in demand
  • Find out how the public cloud is setting the stage to enable the company to stretch towards its ultimate goal of 1 billion active users in the next few years.
  • How do you get the hybrid business model right? What can you trust to the public cloud and what is best left on prem? And will the future data center look like?




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Richard Reyher

Senior Director, Site Reliability & Cloud Engineering: Global Data Center Services
PayPal