Enterprise reliance on mainframe technology to host critical applications is far exceeding and will outlast the critical resources supporting the technology. What are I&O Leaders to do to head off this looming crisis? This session will investigate this topic.

Containers continue to be a popular topic throughout IT. This session will look at the current state of container adoption and also where it is headed in the future. Among the topics covered will be vendor solutions, associated technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Service Mesh, etc.), use cases, deployment challenges, and how containers fit into the overall cloud-native area.

This session reviews the results of Gartner's most recent Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) MQ and CC. Here Gartner evaluated the world's leading hyperscale providers. The vendor's public cloud, distributed cloud and edge capabilities are evaluated against a challenging set of use cases.