Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how Associated Surgeons and Physicians, LLC went from a 100 percent physical to 100 percent virtual infrastructure.
The Evolution of Data Center Infrastructure Has Now Ushered in The Era of Dat...Dana Gardner
Ā
A discussion on how intelligent data center designs and components are delivering what amounts to data centers-as-a-service to SMBs, enterprises, and public sector agencies.
Telepresence - Not just for meetings any moreDave Martella
Ā
Telepresence aims to simulate face-to-face meetings through high-definition video and audio. While initially used mainly for meetings, applications are emerging in healthcare, education, and industry. Service providers play a key role in managing telepresence connections and enabling sites to interconnect. As the technology develops further opportunities for applications requiring real-time access to visual information and immersive environments are emerging.
Creative Solutions in Healthcare Improves Client Services and Saves Money wit...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a Briefings Direct podcast on how a major healthcare provider is improving internal operations and patient care with a hybrid cloud model.
Dark Side of Cloud Adoption: People and Organizations Unable to Adapt and Imp...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a discussion on how cloud adoption is not reaching its potential due to outdated behaviors and persistent dissonance between what businesses can do and will do with cloud model strengths.
How Big Data Generates New Insights into Whatās Happening in Tropical Ecosyst...Dana Gardner
Ā
This document summarizes a podcast discussion about how the TEAM Network at Conservation International is using big data analytics to study biodiversity in tropical rainforests. The TEAM Network collects sensor and camera trap data from protected areas worldwide and analyzes the data using Bayesian models on HP Vertica to monitor species populations and detect trends. Their end-to-end system brings field data into a central repository for analysis and shares results through a dashboard. They are working to expand monitoring to more countries and species using cloud deployment and advanced analytics that leverage hardware processing power.
Fostering Solutions had a slow and complicated network that frustrated staff. They implemented a new solution with Zen that simplified their network design, improved reliability and security, and freed up IT staff. The new IP VPN and centralized security platform provided faster connectivity and easier management. It allowed the organization to scale effectively as they grew. Staff were happier and IT could focus on other priorities rather than troubleshooting network issues.
The Evolution of Data Center Infrastructure Has Now Ushered in The Era of Dat...Dana Gardner
Ā
A discussion on how intelligent data center designs and components are delivering what amounts to data centers-as-a-service to SMBs, enterprises, and public sector agencies.
Telepresence - Not just for meetings any moreDave Martella
Ā
Telepresence aims to simulate face-to-face meetings through high-definition video and audio. While initially used mainly for meetings, applications are emerging in healthcare, education, and industry. Service providers play a key role in managing telepresence connections and enabling sites to interconnect. As the technology develops further opportunities for applications requiring real-time access to visual information and immersive environments are emerging.
Creative Solutions in Healthcare Improves Client Services and Saves Money wit...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a Briefings Direct podcast on how a major healthcare provider is improving internal operations and patient care with a hybrid cloud model.
Dark Side of Cloud Adoption: People and Organizations Unable to Adapt and Imp...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a discussion on how cloud adoption is not reaching its potential due to outdated behaviors and persistent dissonance between what businesses can do and will do with cloud model strengths.
How Big Data Generates New Insights into Whatās Happening in Tropical Ecosyst...Dana Gardner
Ā
This document summarizes a podcast discussion about how the TEAM Network at Conservation International is using big data analytics to study biodiversity in tropical rainforests. The TEAM Network collects sensor and camera trap data from protected areas worldwide and analyzes the data using Bayesian models on HP Vertica to monitor species populations and detect trends. Their end-to-end system brings field data into a central repository for analysis and shares results through a dashboard. They are working to expand monitoring to more countries and species using cloud deployment and advanced analytics that leverage hardware processing power.
Fostering Solutions had a slow and complicated network that frustrated staff. They implemented a new solution with Zen that simplified their network design, improved reliability and security, and freed up IT staff. The new IP VPN and centralized security platform provided faster connectivity and easier management. It allowed the organization to scale effectively as they grew. Staff were happier and IT could focus on other priorities rather than troubleshooting network issues.
Work from Anywhere: The Secret to Unlocking Once-Hidden Productivity and Crea...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a discussion on how a bellwether UK accounting services firm has shown how consistent, secure, and efficient digital work experiences lead to heightened team collaboration and creative new workflows.
The Essential Toolkit for Your: EDRM Renovation Australia 2017Steven Oest
Ā
The Essential Toolkit for Your: EDRM Renovation Australia 2017
A One-Day Hands-On Repair Workshop Module
1st February 2017, Novotel Sydney Central #edrmaus
http://www.arkgroupaustralia.com.au/events/edrm-renovation-australia-2017/
Hear practical hands - on and case study presentations from:
ActewAGL
University of Sydney
NSW Department of Finance, Services and Innovation
Johnson and Johnson Medical
Optus
AvePoint
The modern user is technologically savvy. As Records and EDRM professionals ā if we are not giving them the functionality they are used to in their daily life, they will quickly not adopt or adapt.
What can we do as professionals to not only keep up with the technology trends but also embed information governance, effective change management, user updates and get IT on board?
In this renovation day forum, our case study based presentations will help attendees to break down their problems with systems, strategies and demonstrate how to build them back up.
Feedback from the last EDRM Essentials:
Great and vast experience (MIKTYSH)
Very informative with lots of great innovations to think about (RACGP)
Good engagement (Maroondah City Council)
Great collaboration of experiences in IM (RACGP)
Lots of great innovative information (HUNTER TAFE, TAFE NSW)
Variety of speakers and opportunities for networking (Optus Business)
Great workshops driven from these experiences, some great stories provided (SAI Global)
Service transformation through new technology: Yorkshire Imaging CollaborativeDaniel Fascia
Ā
This document discusses the transformation of radiology services through new technology and regional collaboration in Yorkshire, England. It summarizes the goals of creating a connected radiology network across the UK and endorses regional collaborative networks. The Yorkshire Imaging Collaborative aims to connect 24 hospitals and 8 NHS trusts across Yorkshire serving 2.3 million people. This will be achieved through developing common practices, sharing core services and processes, reinventing radiology workforces, and considering new provider models like an imaging trust. The goals are to provide patients with access to their medical images and reports anywhere, create efficiencies through expert sharing and load balancing, and prepare the region for connected radiology in the future.
Rethinking Employee Well-Being in the New World of Digital Work: New Models D...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a discussion on the current state of employee well-being and how new pressures and complexity from distance working may need new forms of employer-managed support.
This document discusses cloud database as a service (CDaaS). It begins by outlining some key advantages of CDaaS, such as scalability, cost savings, and ease of use. It then examines some challenges of CDaaS, such as internet speed, query workloads, and privacy issues. Finally, it proposes that CDaaS will play an important role in the future of databases and computing.
Stewart Company was facing performance issues with their existing IT infrastructure comprising both on-premise and cloud-hosted systems. Sentis Managed Solutions proposed and implemented a hybrid cloud solution migrating the ERP system from cloud to on-premise servers while providing disaster recovery in the public cloud. This solution improved performance, integration, and disaster recovery capabilities while achieving annual savings of over Ā£40,000 for Stewart Company. The new infrastructure provides flexibility and scalability to support Stewart Company's business growth goals.
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how a major law firm has adopted desktop virtualization and BYOD to give employees more choices and flexibility.
DrEd is an online healthcare service based in London that provides remote doctor consultations to patients. It aimed to deliver private and secure online video consultations to expand access to healthcare. Cisco WebEx Meeting Center was selected as it could ensure patient data privacy and deliver high-quality video, allowing easy online doctor-patient meetings. Using WebEx, DrEd now serves up to 100 patients daily with online, phone and video consultation options. The video conversations help strengthen patient-doctor relationships and credibility of remote healthcare. DrEd plans to expand its online healthcare services to more countries and medical conditions.
This document provides an overview of Environmental Services (ES) at Defence Construction Canada (DCC). It describes how ES fits within the DCC business structure, working both at the business unit/site level and regionally/nationally across sites. The key roles of ES are to help procure and manage environmental services providers for the Department of National Defence and ensure their requirements are met. ES works in six technical practice areas and provides both dedicated environmental services and infrastructure support services. Performance is evaluated through compliance review reports and file audits. The document outlines training requirements and where to find support materials. It provides direction for ES to integrate with other DCC service lines and support infrastructure projects through managing environmental risks.
This document provides information about Minds-et-Motion and their services. They aim to improve client services by enabling smarter, more open and empathetic decision making. Their services can benefit any organization working to support marginalized groups. They offer innovative services using methods from various fields to create inclusive spaces and collective action. Their work focuses on looking outside systems and inside services to enable change. Minds-et-Motion works primarily in the UK and Belgium with daily and hourly rates provided.
Enterprise Architecture Faces Vast Promise -- or Lost OpportunityDana Gardner
Ā
This document summarizes a podcast discussion on the potential and challenges of enterprise architecture. The panel discusses how enterprise architecture can help organizations adapt to changing digital needs, but it faces an adoption challenge as it lacks established professional standards. Architects must focus on delivering near-term business value while establishing long-term strategic plans. Leadership skills are also important for architects to drive organizational change without direct authority. Overall, the discussion examines how enterprise architecture can create opportunities for businesses through improved IT and business alignment, but realizing this potential remains an ongoing challenge.
How Texmark Chemicals Pursues Analysis-Rich, IoT-Pervasive Path to the āRefin...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a discussion on how a Texas chemical company combines the best of operational technology with IT and now Internet of Things to deliver data-driven insights that promote safety, efficiency, and unparalleled sustained operations.
DEX: the way ahead (keynote at IntraTeam Event in Copenhagen, March 2020)James Robertson
Ā
Digital employee experience (DEX) is providing a strategic approach to delivering a better experience for staff, beyond just providing new tools. This keynote by James Robertson shares the story so far, the current state of DEX, and the way ahead.
This document is an introduction to an investigation into using Spring XD to analyze big data. It acknowledges those who provided support and outlines the table of contents, which includes sections on Spring XD architecture, functionality, and a comparison to Apache Storm and Spark Streaming. It also describes building a test system to analyze Spring XD's performance handling streams of data between 2MB and 50MB in size. The goal is to study Spring XD's methods for big data analysis.
Big Data Meets HCIāHow South African Insurance Provider King Price Gives Deve...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a discussion on how an insurance innovator built a modern hyperconverged infrastructure environment that rapidly replicates databases to accelerate developer agility.
Intranet Change
One-day interactive forum, site visit and workshop
28-29 May 2013, Brisbane, Queensland, $995 plus gst to attend
http://www.arkgroupaustralia.com.au/Events-E061Intranets.htm
Leave this highly interactive forum with new perspectives on how to connect, communicate and collaborate in your intranet redesign
This interactive forum will demonstrate how, through redesign, you can implement an intranet that will transform the way your organisation operates.
You will hear about:
* Building and presenting a business case to secure support for intranet projects
* Executing an intranet strategy and governance
* Conducting user research to ensure that the intranet remains fit for purpose
* Developing a collaborative culture through social media technology
* Best practice guide on developing information architecture
* Overcoming challenges for intranet change in a large organisation
PLUS: A Post Forum Site Visit
(Limited to 12 participants)
Intranet site visit to Oakton: Intranets on the move
About the Site Visit:
* The journey of building a social and collaboration intranet called Ozone
* Live intranet demonstrations of the key features of Ozone
* Information Architecture of Ozone
* Demonstration of the intranetās mobility
* Lessons learned and ROI to date
University of Southern Queensland,Qantas,Sinclair Knight Merz,Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (SA), Deloitte, REA Group, Olam
Department of Housing and Public Works, Queensland University of Technology, InfoRED Consulting, Oakton
Some recommended social media groups:
Intranets Asia Pacific Linked In
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3191639
Document and Records Management
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Document-Records-Management-2405147?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr
SharePoint Asia Pacific
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3744113&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr
Nominet Trust Charity Open Data Days - What is open data anywayTim Davies
Ā
Open data is a set of policies and practices that make data accessible, standardized and reusable. It is a response to changing technologies and social trends, and is both an ethical philosophy and a movement. Open data enables new applications, visualizations and websites by making public data available to everyone.
Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest at his home in 2009. His personal physician administered CPR but Jackson was pronounced dead at the hospital. The coroner determined Jackson's death was a homicide caused by drugs in his system. Jackson's memorial was held at Staples Center where he had been rehearsing. His burial was delayed multiple times and finally held on September 3, 2009 at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Service Virtualization Brings Speed Benefit and Lower Costs to TTNET Applicat...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how TĆ¼rk Telekom subsidiary TTNET has leveraged Service Virtualization to significantly improve productivity.
Work from Anywhere: The Secret to Unlocking Once-Hidden Productivity and Crea...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a discussion on how a bellwether UK accounting services firm has shown how consistent, secure, and efficient digital work experiences lead to heightened team collaboration and creative new workflows.
The Essential Toolkit for Your: EDRM Renovation Australia 2017Steven Oest
Ā
The Essential Toolkit for Your: EDRM Renovation Australia 2017
A One-Day Hands-On Repair Workshop Module
1st February 2017, Novotel Sydney Central #edrmaus
http://www.arkgroupaustralia.com.au/events/edrm-renovation-australia-2017/
Hear practical hands - on and case study presentations from:
ActewAGL
University of Sydney
NSW Department of Finance, Services and Innovation
Johnson and Johnson Medical
Optus
AvePoint
The modern user is technologically savvy. As Records and EDRM professionals ā if we are not giving them the functionality they are used to in their daily life, they will quickly not adopt or adapt.
What can we do as professionals to not only keep up with the technology trends but also embed information governance, effective change management, user updates and get IT on board?
In this renovation day forum, our case study based presentations will help attendees to break down their problems with systems, strategies and demonstrate how to build them back up.
Feedback from the last EDRM Essentials:
Great and vast experience (MIKTYSH)
Very informative with lots of great innovations to think about (RACGP)
Good engagement (Maroondah City Council)
Great collaboration of experiences in IM (RACGP)
Lots of great innovative information (HUNTER TAFE, TAFE NSW)
Variety of speakers and opportunities for networking (Optus Business)
Great workshops driven from these experiences, some great stories provided (SAI Global)
Service transformation through new technology: Yorkshire Imaging CollaborativeDaniel Fascia
Ā
This document discusses the transformation of radiology services through new technology and regional collaboration in Yorkshire, England. It summarizes the goals of creating a connected radiology network across the UK and endorses regional collaborative networks. The Yorkshire Imaging Collaborative aims to connect 24 hospitals and 8 NHS trusts across Yorkshire serving 2.3 million people. This will be achieved through developing common practices, sharing core services and processes, reinventing radiology workforces, and considering new provider models like an imaging trust. The goals are to provide patients with access to their medical images and reports anywhere, create efficiencies through expert sharing and load balancing, and prepare the region for connected radiology in the future.
Rethinking Employee Well-Being in the New World of Digital Work: New Models D...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a discussion on the current state of employee well-being and how new pressures and complexity from distance working may need new forms of employer-managed support.
This document discusses cloud database as a service (CDaaS). It begins by outlining some key advantages of CDaaS, such as scalability, cost savings, and ease of use. It then examines some challenges of CDaaS, such as internet speed, query workloads, and privacy issues. Finally, it proposes that CDaaS will play an important role in the future of databases and computing.
Stewart Company was facing performance issues with their existing IT infrastructure comprising both on-premise and cloud-hosted systems. Sentis Managed Solutions proposed and implemented a hybrid cloud solution migrating the ERP system from cloud to on-premise servers while providing disaster recovery in the public cloud. This solution improved performance, integration, and disaster recovery capabilities while achieving annual savings of over Ā£40,000 for Stewart Company. The new infrastructure provides flexibility and scalability to support Stewart Company's business growth goals.
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how a major law firm has adopted desktop virtualization and BYOD to give employees more choices and flexibility.
DrEd is an online healthcare service based in London that provides remote doctor consultations to patients. It aimed to deliver private and secure online video consultations to expand access to healthcare. Cisco WebEx Meeting Center was selected as it could ensure patient data privacy and deliver high-quality video, allowing easy online doctor-patient meetings. Using WebEx, DrEd now serves up to 100 patients daily with online, phone and video consultation options. The video conversations help strengthen patient-doctor relationships and credibility of remote healthcare. DrEd plans to expand its online healthcare services to more countries and medical conditions.
This document provides an overview of Environmental Services (ES) at Defence Construction Canada (DCC). It describes how ES fits within the DCC business structure, working both at the business unit/site level and regionally/nationally across sites. The key roles of ES are to help procure and manage environmental services providers for the Department of National Defence and ensure their requirements are met. ES works in six technical practice areas and provides both dedicated environmental services and infrastructure support services. Performance is evaluated through compliance review reports and file audits. The document outlines training requirements and where to find support materials. It provides direction for ES to integrate with other DCC service lines and support infrastructure projects through managing environmental risks.
This document provides information about Minds-et-Motion and their services. They aim to improve client services by enabling smarter, more open and empathetic decision making. Their services can benefit any organization working to support marginalized groups. They offer innovative services using methods from various fields to create inclusive spaces and collective action. Their work focuses on looking outside systems and inside services to enable change. Minds-et-Motion works primarily in the UK and Belgium with daily and hourly rates provided.
Enterprise Architecture Faces Vast Promise -- or Lost OpportunityDana Gardner
Ā
This document summarizes a podcast discussion on the potential and challenges of enterprise architecture. The panel discusses how enterprise architecture can help organizations adapt to changing digital needs, but it faces an adoption challenge as it lacks established professional standards. Architects must focus on delivering near-term business value while establishing long-term strategic plans. Leadership skills are also important for architects to drive organizational change without direct authority. Overall, the discussion examines how enterprise architecture can create opportunities for businesses through improved IT and business alignment, but realizing this potential remains an ongoing challenge.
How Texmark Chemicals Pursues Analysis-Rich, IoT-Pervasive Path to the āRefin...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a discussion on how a Texas chemical company combines the best of operational technology with IT and now Internet of Things to deliver data-driven insights that promote safety, efficiency, and unparalleled sustained operations.
DEX: the way ahead (keynote at IntraTeam Event in Copenhagen, March 2020)James Robertson
Ā
Digital employee experience (DEX) is providing a strategic approach to delivering a better experience for staff, beyond just providing new tools. This keynote by James Robertson shares the story so far, the current state of DEX, and the way ahead.
This document is an introduction to an investigation into using Spring XD to analyze big data. It acknowledges those who provided support and outlines the table of contents, which includes sections on Spring XD architecture, functionality, and a comparison to Apache Storm and Spark Streaming. It also describes building a test system to analyze Spring XD's performance handling streams of data between 2MB and 50MB in size. The goal is to study Spring XD's methods for big data analysis.
Big Data Meets HCIāHow South African Insurance Provider King Price Gives Deve...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a discussion on how an insurance innovator built a modern hyperconverged infrastructure environment that rapidly replicates databases to accelerate developer agility.
Intranet Change
One-day interactive forum, site visit and workshop
28-29 May 2013, Brisbane, Queensland, $995 plus gst to attend
http://www.arkgroupaustralia.com.au/Events-E061Intranets.htm
Leave this highly interactive forum with new perspectives on how to connect, communicate and collaborate in your intranet redesign
This interactive forum will demonstrate how, through redesign, you can implement an intranet that will transform the way your organisation operates.
You will hear about:
* Building and presenting a business case to secure support for intranet projects
* Executing an intranet strategy and governance
* Conducting user research to ensure that the intranet remains fit for purpose
* Developing a collaborative culture through social media technology
* Best practice guide on developing information architecture
* Overcoming challenges for intranet change in a large organisation
PLUS: A Post Forum Site Visit
(Limited to 12 participants)
Intranet site visit to Oakton: Intranets on the move
About the Site Visit:
* The journey of building a social and collaboration intranet called Ozone
* Live intranet demonstrations of the key features of Ozone
* Information Architecture of Ozone
* Demonstration of the intranetās mobility
* Lessons learned and ROI to date
University of Southern Queensland,Qantas,Sinclair Knight Merz,Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (SA), Deloitte, REA Group, Olam
Department of Housing and Public Works, Queensland University of Technology, InfoRED Consulting, Oakton
Some recommended social media groups:
Intranets Asia Pacific Linked In
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3191639
Document and Records Management
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Document-Records-Management-2405147?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr
SharePoint Asia Pacific
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3744113&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr
Nominet Trust Charity Open Data Days - What is open data anywayTim Davies
Ā
Open data is a set of policies and practices that make data accessible, standardized and reusable. It is a response to changing technologies and social trends, and is both an ethical philosophy and a movement. Open data enables new applications, visualizations and websites by making public data available to everyone.
Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest at his home in 2009. His personal physician administered CPR but Jackson was pronounced dead at the hospital. The coroner determined Jackson's death was a homicide caused by drugs in his system. Jackson's memorial was held at Staples Center where he had been rehearsing. His burial was delayed multiple times and finally held on September 3, 2009 at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Service Virtualization Brings Speed Benefit and Lower Costs to TTNET Applicat...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how TĆ¼rk Telekom subsidiary TTNET has leveraged Service Virtualization to significantly improve productivity.
Thought Leader Interview: HP's Global CISOĀ Brett Wahlin on the Future of Secu...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how increased and more sophisticated attacks are forcing enterprises to innovate and expand security practices to not only detect, but predict, system intrusions.
Combining Big Data and Cloud Capabilities for ECommerce Matches Buyers and Se...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect on how a mid-market company saw immediate results from participation in Ariba Discovery, eliminating the need for mailing half a million catalogs a year.
The Open Group Conference to Emphasize Healthcare as Key Sector for Ecosystem...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how the healthcare industry is poised to take advantage of enterprise architecture to bring benefits to patients, doctors, and allied health professionals.
Cybersecurity is a Necessity, Not an Option, in the Face of Global Security T...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a BriefingDirect podcast on the growing need for cybersecurity as an important organizational goal for businesses and government agencies.
Lancashire libraries have teamed up with UK Online Centres and Google to support small businesses, charities and
start-ups in Lancashire make the most of being online. Google Digital Garage consists of a series of free tutorials on everything from your website to online marketing and beyond. You can create a personal profile of your needs and choose the topics you want to learn. We are happy to offer introductory training and support.
Platform 3.0 Ripe to Give Standard Access to Advanced Intelligence and Automa...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how The Open Group is working to stay ahead of challenges organization face with an increase in data volume and sources.
Growing BYOD Trend Brings New Security Challenges for IT in Allowing Greater ...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how Dell Software is helping to bring standardized and flexible approaches to making BYOD a positive new force to enterprise productivity.
How a Widely Distributed Dental Firm Protects Sensitive Data While Making It ...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a discussion on how a rapidly growing dental services company combined hyperconverged infrastructure with advanced security products to efficiently gain data availability, privacy, and security.
Enterprise Mobile and Client Management Demands a Rethinking of Work, Play an...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a Briefings Direct podcast on the new landscape sculpted by the increasing use of mobile and BYOD and how Dell is helping companies navigate that terrain.
Need for Fast Analytics Across All Kinds of Healthcare Data Spurs Converged S...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how a triumvirate of big players have teamed to deliver a rapid and efficient analysis capability across disparate data types for the healthcare industry.
Big Data Pushes Enterprises into Data-Driven Mode, Makes Demands for More App...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how creating big-data capabilities are new top business imperatives in dealing with a flood of data from disparate sources.
Intralinks Uses Hybrid Computing to Blaze a Compliance Trail Across the Regul...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how regulations around data sovereignty are forcing enterprises to consider new approaches to data, intellectual property, and cloud collaboration services.
Fast-Changing Demands on Data Centers Drives the Need for Automated Data Cent...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how organization need to deal with the impact that IT and big data is having on data centers and how DCIM can help.
Explore the Roles and Myths of Automation and Virtualization in Data Center T...Dana Gardner
Ā
The document is a transcript of a podcast discussion about virtualization and automation in data centers. It discusses how automation can help companies achieve higher levels of virtualization adoption, beyond the 30% level many are stuck at. Automation allows virtualization to extend to more applications, including tier 1 apps, and provides benefits like improved compliance, repeatability, and agility. It argues companies need to take a strategic view of virtualization through a full lifecycle lens to realize its full potential for transformation.
For Dellās Quest Software, BYOD Puts Users First with ITās BlessingDana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how Quest, a Dell company, leverages BYOD and VDI to improve user productivity, application support, and security.
HP Simplifies Foundation Care Services to Deliver Just-in-Time Pan-IT Support Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a sponsored podcast discussion on how HP has allowed CIOs to make easier choices about which support plan fits their need best at the most effective cost.
VMworld Case Study: CharterCARE Health Partners Leverages Cloud and VDI to Ai...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast from VMworld 2011 on how a large health-care organization is using the cloud and virtualization to put vital data into the hands of employees.
How Tunisian IT Service Provider Tunisie Builds Improved IT Service Managemen...Dana Gardner
Ā
Tunisie Electronique is a Tunisian IT services provider that faced challenges supporting a growing number of customer requests on various devices. To improve efficiency, it implemented the HP Service Anywhere ITSM solution in the cloud. This reduced costs while improving incident tracking and customer satisfaction through automated notifications and reporting. Tunisie Electronique plans to enhance the multi-tenant capabilities and add more customer content to the platform.
How INOVVO Delivers Analysis that Leads to Greater User Retention and Loyalty...Dana Gardner
Ā
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how advanced analytics drawing on multiple data sources provides wireless operators improved interactions with their subscribers and enhances customer experience through personalized insights.
Similar to As Indiana Health Care Provider Goes Fully Virtualized, it Gains Head Start on BYOD and DR Benefits (20)
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Ā
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
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Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
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What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdfUiPathCommunity
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In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
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What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
The UiPath End-to-End Automation Platform
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Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
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I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
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Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
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The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as āno strategyā. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If youāre wrong, it forces a correction. If youāre right, it helps create focus. Iāll share how Iāve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didnāt work so well.
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
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This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
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Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
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This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
This talk will cover ScyllaDB Architecture from the cluster-level view and zoom in on data distribution and internal node architecture. In the process, we will learn the secret sauce used to get ScyllaDB's high availability and superior performance. We will also touch on the upcoming changes to ScyllaDB architecture, moving to strongly consistent metadata and tablets.
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
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Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
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Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
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Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as ākeysā). In fact, itās unlikely youāll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, theyāll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
Youāll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024Vadym Kazulkin
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Java is for many years one of the most popular programming languages, but it used to have hard times in the Serverless community. Java is known for its high cold start times and high memory footprint, comparing to other programming languages like Node.js and Python. In this talk I'll look at the general best practices and techniques we can use to decrease memory consumption, cold start times for Java Serverless development on AWS including GraalVM (Native Image) and AWS own offering SnapStart based on Firecracker microVM snapshot and restore and CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) runtime hooks. I'll also provide a lot of benchmarking on Lambda functions trying out various deployment package sizes, Lambda memory settings, Java compilation options and HTTP (a)synchronous clients and measure their impact on cold and warm start times.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
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At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
inQuba Webinar Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr Graham HillLizaNolte
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HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT!Ā 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.Ā
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Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
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Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
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Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSF
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As Indiana Health Care Provider Goes Fully Virtualized, it Gains Head Start on BYOD and DR Benefits
1. Indiana Health Provider Moves to 100 Percent Virtualized
Data Center and is on Track to Realize BYOD and DR
Initiatives
Transcript of a Brieļ¬ngsDirect podcast on how Associated Surgeons and Physicians, LLC went
from a 100 percent physical to a 100 percent virtual infrastructure.
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Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes. Sponsor: VMware
Dana Gardner: Hi, this is Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and you're
listening to Brieļ¬ngsDirect.
Today, we present part one of a two-part sponsored podcast series on how a mid-market health
services provider has rapidly adopted server and client virtualization. In doing
so, they've gained signiļ¬cant new beneļ¬ts, including the ability to move to
mobile, bring your own device (BYOD), and ultimately advanced disaster
recovery (DR).
Today we'll hear how Associated Surgeons and Physicians, LLC in Indiana
went from 100 percent physical to 100 percent virtualized infrastructure, and
how both compliance and efļ¬ciency goals have been met and exceeded as a result. [Disclosure:
VMware is a sponsor of Brieļ¬ngsDirect podcasts.]
Stay with us now to learn more about creating the right prescription for allowing users to
designate and beneļ¬t from their own device choices, while also gaining an ability to better
manage sensitive data and to create a data-protection lifecycle approach.
Here to share his story on the best methods and technologies for better IT and business results in
the health services sector, we're joined by, and we welcome, Ray Todich, Systems Administrator
at Associated Surgeons and Physicians. Welcome, Ray.
Ray Todich: Hi. How are you?
Gardner: I'm good. Letās take this ļ¬rst at a high level. A lot of organizations are looking to
improve their IT and expand their business. They have various goals for compliance and making
sure that their users are kept up-to-date on the latest and greatest in respective client
technologies. Yet I'm curious what attracted you, at the beginning, to go to much higher total
levels of server -- and then client -- virtualization.
Todich: When I ļ¬rst started here, the company was entirely physical. And as background, I came
from a couple of companies that utilized virtualization at very high levels. So I'm very aware of
the beneļ¬ts, as far as administration, and the beneļ¬ts of overall redundancy and activities -- the
2. software and hardware used to allow high performance, high availability, access to peopleās data,
and still allow security be put in place.
When I came in, it looked like something you might have seen maybe 15 years ago. There were a
lot of older technologies in place. The company had a lot of external drives
hanging off the servers for backups and so on.
My ļ¬rst thing to implement was server virtualization, which at the time, was the
vSphere 4.1 package. I explained to them what it meant to have centralized
storage, what it meant to have ESX host, and how creating virtual machines
(VMs) would beneļ¬t them considerably over having physical servers in the
infrastructure.
I gave them an idea on how nice it is to have alternate redundancy conļ¬gured correctly, which is
very important. When hardware drops out, RAID conļ¬guration goes south, or the entire server
goes out, you've just lost an entire application -- or applications -- which in turn gives downtime.
I helped them to see the beneļ¬ts of going virtualized, and at that time, it was solely for the
servers.
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Gardner: So over the past 10 or 15 years, as you pointed out, technology has just become so
much more important to how a health provider operates how they
communicate to the rest of the world in terms of supplies, as well as
insurance companies and payers and so forth. Tell me a little bit about
Associated Surgeons and Physicians. How big is the organization,
what do you do, how have they been growing?
Todich: Pretty rapidly. Associated Surgeons and Physicians is a group of multi-specialty
physicians and practices in Northeast Indiana and Northwest Ohio.
It began at the practice level and then it really expanded. We're up to, I think, 14 additional
locations and/or practices that have joined. We're also using an electronic medical record (EMR)
application, given to us by Greenway, and thatās a big one that comes in.
We're growing exponentially. It went from one or two satellite practices that needed to piggyback
Greenway, to probably 13 or 14 of them, and this is only the beginning. With that type of growth
rate, you have to concern yourself with the amount of money it costs to serve everybody. If you
have one physical server that goes out, you affect hundreds of users and thousands of patients,
doctors, and whatnot. Itās a big problem, and thatās where virtualization came in strong.
Gardner: When I go to the physicianās ofļ¬ce, and I just happened to be there yesterday, they've
gotten so efļ¬cient at moving patients in and out, that the scheduling is amazing. It has to be tight.
3. Every minute is accounted for. Downtime is just very detrimental and backs up everything. You
can think about it, I suppose, like an airport. If one ļ¬ight gets backed up, the whole rest of the
country does. Is that the case with you all there too, that this critical notion of time management
is so paramount?
Todich: Oh, itās absolutely massive. If we have a snag somewhere, or even if our systems are
running slow, then everything else runs slow. The ability that virtualization gives us is the core or
heart of the entire infrastructure of the business. Without an efļ¬cient heart, blood doesnāt move,
and we have a bigger problem on our hands.
Gardner: How about this in terms of the size of the organization? How many seats are you
accommodating in terms of client, and then what is it about an IT approach to an organization
such as yours that also makes virtualization a good ļ¬t?
Todich: Right now, we have somewhere around 300 employees. As far as how many clients this
overall organization has, itās thousands. We have lots of people who utilize the organization. The
reality is that the IT staff here is used in a minimalist approach, which is one thing that I saw as
well when I was coming into this.
One or even two persons to manage that many servers can be a nightmare, and on top of that,
you try to do your best to help all the users. If you have 300-plus people and their desktops,
printers, and so forth, so the overall infrastructure can be pretty intimidating, when you donāt
have a lot of people managing it.
Going virtual was a lifesaver. Everything is virtualized. You have a handful of physical ESX
hosts that are managing anything, and everything is stored on centralized storage. It makes it
considerably efļ¬cient as an IT administrator to utilize virtualization.
The right answer
Thatās actually how we went into the adoption of VMware View, because of 300-plus users,
and 300-plus desktops. At that point, it can be very hairy. At times, you have to try and divine
what the right answer is. You have this important scenario going on, and you have this one and
another one, and how do you manage them all. It becomes easier, when you virtualize
everything, because you can get to everything very easily and cover everyoneās desktops.
Gardner: And you have a double whammy here, because you're a mid-market size company and
donāt have a large, diversiļ¬ed IT staff to draw on. At the same time, you have branch ofļ¬ces and
satellites, so you're distributed. To have people physically go to these places is just not practical.
What is it about the distributed nature of your company that also makes virtualization and View
5.1 a good approach for a lean IT organization?
4. Todich: It helped us quite a bit, ļ¬rst and foremost, with the ability to give somebody a desktop,
even if they were not physically connected to our network. That takes place a lot here.We have a
lot of physicians who may be working inside of another hospital at the time.
Instead of them creating a VPN connection back into our organization, VMware View gave them
the ability to have a client on their desktop, whether it be a PC, a MacBook, an iPod, an iPad, or
whatever they have, even a phone, if they really want to go that route. They can connect
anywhere, at anytime, as long as they have an Internet connection and they have the View client.
So that was huge, absolutely huge.
They also have the ability to use PC-over-IP, versus RDP, Thatās very big for us as well. It keeps
the efļ¬ciency and the speed of the machines moving. If you're in somebody elseās hospital,
you're bound to whatever network you are attached to there, so it really helps and it doesnāt
bother their stuff as much. All you're doing is borrowing their Internet and not anything else.
Gardner: Of course, we get back to that all-important issue for these physicians, surgeons, and
practitioners about their time management, scheduling, understanding where they are supposed
to be an hour from now, and in what ofļ¬ce. All of that is now getting much more efļ¬cient as a
result.
Todich: Yes, absolutely.
Data Gardner: Tell me a bit more about your footprint. We've spoken about vSphere 4.1 and
adopting along the path of 5.1. You even mentioned View. What else are you running there to
support this impressive capabilities set?
Todich: We moved from vSphere 4.1 to 5.1, and going to VMware View. We use 5.1 there as
well. We decided to utilize the networking and security vCloud Networking package, which at
the time was a package called vShield. When we bought it, everything changed, nomenclature
wise, and some of the products were dispersed, which actually was more to our beneļ¬t. We're
very excited about that.
As far as our VDI deployment, that gave us the ability to use vShield Endpoint, which takes your
anti-virus and ofļ¬oads it somewhere else on the network, so that your hosts are not burdened
with virus scans and updates. Thatās a huge.
The word huge doesnāt even represent how everybody feels about that going away. It's not going
away physically, just going away to another workhorse on the network so that the physicians,
medical assistants (MAs), and everybody else isnāt burdened with, "Oh, look, it's updating," or
"Look, it's scanning something." It's very efļ¬cient.
5. Network and security
Gardner: You mentioned the networking part of this, which is crucial when you're going
across boundaries and looking for those efļ¬ciencies. Tell me a bit more about how the vCloud
networking and security issues have been impacted.
Todich: That was another big one for us. Along with that the networking and security package
comes a portion of the package called the vShield Edge, which will ultimately give us the ability
to create our own DMZ the way that we want to create it, something that we donāt have at this
time. This is very important to us.
Utilizing the vShield Edge package was fantastic, and yet another layer of security as well. Not
only do we have our physical hardware, our guardians at the gate, but we also have another layer,
and the way that it works, wrapping itself around each individual ESX host, is absolutely
beautiful. You manage it just like you manage ļ¬rewalls. So itās very, very important.
Plus, some of the tools that we were going to utilize we felt most comfortable in, as far as
security servers for the VDI package, that you want them sitting in a DMZ. So, all around, it
really gave us quite a bit to work with, which we're very thankful for.
Gardner: How long did it take you to go from being 100 percent physical to where you are now,
basically 100 percent virtual?
Todich: We've been going at it for about about a year-and-a-half. We had to build the
infrastructure itself, but we had to migrate all our applications from physical to virtual (P2V).
VMware does a wonderful job with its options for using P2V. Itās a time saver as well. For
anybody who has to deal with the one thatās building the house itself, it can really be a help.
VMware, in itself, has the ability to reach out as far and wide as you want it to. Itās really up to
the people who are building it. It was very rapid, and itās so much quicker to build servers or
desktops, once you get your infrastructure in place.
In the previous process of buying a server, in which you have to get it quoted out and make sure
everything is good, do all the front-end sales stuff, and then you have to wait for the hardware to
get here. Once itās here, you have to make sure itās all here, and then you have to put it altogether
and conļ¬gure everything, so forth. Any administrator out there who's done this understands
exactly what thatās all about.
Then you have to conļ¬gure and get it going, versus, "Oh, you need another server, here, right
click, deploy from template," and within 10 minutes you have a new server. That, all by itself, is
priceless.
Gardner: We've talked a lot about software, but tell me a bit about your partners. It sounds as if
you went along a pretty comprehensive hardware upgrade path as well. Did you also go to things
6. like solid-state drives? Did you look for storage efļ¬ciencies through modernization? Tell me a bit
about the hardware infrastructure path.
Centralized storage
Todich: I'm a bit of a storage junky. I love storage and what it can do. I'm a ļ¬rm believer that
centralized storage, and even more the virtualized centralized storage, is the answer to many,
many, many issues. So I did a lot of research on whose price was efļ¬cient and whose hardware
and software packaging was efļ¬cient.
I came from an IBM storage background, but after doing a lot of research, I kept coming back to
Compellent, which Dell had purchased. I really liked what Compellent was doing. Even more so,
I started to do some research on EqualLogic, and thatās what we ended up going with. We ended
up with Dellās EqualLogic centralized storage, and I can't speak enough of how great that stuff is.
I believe they took some of the technologies of the Compellent storage and moved it down to
EqualLogic. Itās highly intelligent storage. We're very happy with that. And we went with an
entire Dell overall package. Our infrastructure in the data center is everything Dell, their
simplicity and their efļ¬ciency.
They make great hosts. Right now for out hosts we use Dell R710 servers as our ESX host, and I
believe we're going to move to 810 as well. They can expand a lot more.
As I said, we're using EqualLogic. We're even using Dellās Force10 as our backbone iSCSI
infrastructure. I'm a ļ¬bre guy by trade initially, and it just seemed more efļ¬cient to use iSCSI
backbone, which has been priceless as well. It's cost efļ¬cient and the quality is just as good. I see
no difference.
Gardner: Okay. We've talked a lot about infrastructure and how you've set things up. Let's talk a
bit more now about what you get for all that investment, work, and progress. One of the things,
of course, thatās key in your ļ¬eld is compliance and there's a lot going on with things like
HIPAA, documents, and making sure the electronic capabilities are there for payers and
provided. Tell me a bit about compliance and what you've been able to achieve with these
advancements in IT?
Todich: With compliance, we've really been able to up our security, which channels straight into
HIPAA. Obviously, HIPAA is very concerned with peopleās data and keeping it private. So itās a
lot easier to manage all our security in one location.
With VDI, it's been able to do the same. If we need to make any adjustments security wise, itās
simply changing a golden image for our virtual desktop and then resetting everybody's desktops.
Itās absolutely beautiful, and the physicians are very excited about it. They seem to really get
ahold of what we have done with the ability that we have now, versus the ability we had two
years ago. It does wonders.
7. Gardner: Ray, are there any other aspects to compliance and being in alignment with what the
market expects of you?
Todich: Upgrading to a virtual infrastructure has helped us considerably in maintaining and
increasing meaningful use expectations, with the ability to be virtual and have the redundancy
that gives, along with the fact that VMs seem to run a lot more efļ¬ciently virtually. We have
better ways to collect data, a lot more uptime, and a lot more efļ¬ciency, so we can collect more
data from our customers.
Exceeding expectations
The more people come through, the more data is collected, the more uptime is there, the more
there are no problems, which in turn has considerably helped meeting and exceeding the
expectations of what's expected with meaningful use, which was a big deal.
Gardner: I've heard that term "meaningful use" elsewhere. What does that really mean? Is that
just the designation that some regulatory organization has, or is that more of a stock-in-trade
description?
Todich: My understanding of it, as an IT administrator, is basically the proper collection of
people's data and keeping it safe. I know that it has a lot in with our EMR application, and what
is collected when our customers interact with us.
Gardner: I'm going to guess, Ray, that you have a variety of personality types, when it comes to
IT adoption. I know people who are just dying to get the latest and greatest. And then I have
folks who I know, where if it works, they donāt want to budge.
So given that you probably had a variety of cultural approaches to IT among your constituents,
how have you been able to basically satisfy that diversity? How have you been able to keep
everyone moving along towards some of these newer capabilities?
Todich: Just by exposing them to the ultimate efļ¬ciency that we are creating was a big thing to
them. It still is and it always will be, especially in their ļ¬eld. These people are here to help other
people and they have to be able to get their data. At some point, they have to be able to get it
whenever, wherever, immediately.
Whether they were IT savvy or not, the ability to explain to them, anywhere, anytime, 365, 24x7,
really seals the deal right there. It's the simplicity of, "Doc, you could be sitting at a coffee shop
in New Hampshire, and if you need, for whatever reason, to be able to get into your computer at
work, you launch your View client and away you go, as long as you have Internet" I think that
spoke to them.
8. Gardner: Are there any milestones or achievements you've been able to make in terms of this
adoption, such as behaviors and then the protection of the documents and privacy data that has
perhaps moved you into a different category and allows you to move forward on some of these
regulatory designations?
Todich: It's given us the ability to centralize all our data. You have one location, when it comes
to backing up and restoring, versus a bunch of individual physical servers. So data retention and
protection has really increased quite a bit as far as that goes.
Gardner: How about DR?
Disaster recovery
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Todich: With DR, I think there are a lot of businesses out there that hear that and donāt
necessarily take it that seriously, until disaster hits. Itās probably the same thing with people and
tornadoes. When they're not really around, you donāt really care. When all of a sudden, a tornado
is on top of your house, I bet you care then.
VMware gives you the ability to do DR on a variety of different levels, whether itās snapshotting,
or using Site Recovery Manager, if you have a second data center location. Itās just endless.
One of the most important topics that can be covered in an IT solution is about our data. What
happens if it stops or what happens if we lose it? What can we do to get it back, and how fast,
because once data stops ļ¬owing, money stops ļ¬owing as well, and nobody wants that.
Itās important, especially if you're recording peopleās private health information. If you lose
certain data thatās very important, itās very damaging across the board. So to be able to retain our
data safely is of the highest concern, and VMware allows us to do that.
Also, itās nice to have the ability to do snapshotting as well. Speaking of servers and whatnot, I'll
have to lay it on that one, because in IT, everybody knows that software upgrades come.
Sometimes, software upgrades donāt go the way that they're supposed to, whether itās an EMR
application, a time-saving application, or ultrasounds.
If you take a snapshot before the upgrade and run your upgrade on that snapshot, if everything
goes great and everybody is satisļ¬ed. You can just merge the snapshot with the primary image
and you are good to go.
If it doesnāt work out in your favor, you have the ability to delete that snapshot and you're back
to where you started from before the migration, which was hopefully a functioning state.
Gardner: Letās look to the future a bit. It sounds as if with these capabilities and the way that
you've been describing DR beneļ¬ts, you can start to pick and choose data center locations,
9. maybe even thinking about software-deļ¬ned networking and data center. That then allows you to
pick and choose a cloud provider or a hosting model. So are you thinking about being able to
pick up and virtually move your entire infrastructure, based on what makes sense to your
company over the next say 5 or 10 years.
Todich: Thatās exactly right, and the way this is growing, something that's been surfacing a lot in
our neck of the woods is the ability to do hosting and provide cloud-based solutions, and
VMware is our primary site on that as well.
But, if need be, if we had to migrate our data center from one state to another, we'll have the
option to do that, which is very important, and it helps with uptime as well. Stuff happens. I
mean, you can be at a data center physically and something happens to a generator that has all
the power. All of a sudden, everybody is feeling the pain.
So with the ability to have the Site Recovery, itās priceless, because it just goes to location B and
everybody is still up. You may see a blip or you may not, and nothing is lost. That leaves
everybody to deal with the data-center issue and everything is still up and going, which is very
nice.
Creating redundancy
Gardner: I imagine too, Ray, that it works both ways. On one hand, you have a burgeoning
ecosystem of cloud and hosting, of providers and options, that you can pursue, do your cost
beneļ¬t analysis, think about the right path, and create redundancy.
At the same time, you probably have physicians or individual, smaller physician practices, that
might look to you and say, "Those guys are doing their IT really well. Why donāt we just
subscribe to their services or piggyback on their infrastructure?" Do you have any thoughts about
becoming, in a sense, an IT services provider within the healthcare ļ¬eld? It expands your role
and even increases your efļ¬ciency and revenues.
Todich: Yes, our sights are there. As a matter of fact, our heads are being turned in that direction
without even trying to, because a lot of people are doing that. Itās a lot easier for smaller
practices, instead of buying all the infrastructure and putting it all in place to get everything up,
and then maintaining it, we will house it for you. We'll do that.
Gardner: Great, we've had a wonderful discussion, part one of a two-part sponsored podcast
series, on how a mid-market health services provider has rapidly adopted server and client
virtualization. Weāve seen how Associated Surgeons and Physicians, LLC has gained signiļ¬cant
beneļ¬ts from virtualization by extending the beneļ¬ts to mobile, embracing BYOD, and then
moving into advanced DR.
10. We've seen how they used a VMware-centric infrastructure approach to go from a 100 percent
physical to a 100 percent virtualized infrastructure in less than two years, and in doing so,
gaining compliance and efļ¬ciency goals that have met and exceeded their initial goals.
So a big thank you to our guest, Ray Todich, Systems Administrator at Associated Surgeons and
Physicians in Indiana. Thanks so much, Ray.
Todich: Thank you for having me. I greatly appreciate it.
Gardner: This is Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Thanks also to you,
our audience, for listening, and donāt forget to come back next time.
Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes. Sponsor: VMware
Transcript of a Brieļ¬ngsDirect podcast on how Associated Surgeons and Physicians, LLC went
from a 100 percent physical to a 100 percent virtual infrastructure. Copyright Interarbor
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