Companies are facing cloud challenges; capacity expansion, commoditization, network and data center merging, network becoming a programmable platform, transformation at web speed. The answer is parallel scaling and the creation of the NFV Industry Group. NFV will greatly enhance the ability of "network applications" to elastically scale to meet changing demand patterns. Alcatel-Lucent is leading the way in this new reality.
Peleg Erlich presentation on the Principles and Attributes of NFV Orchestration and Automation at the ETSI Future Networks Workshop from 9-11, April 2013 in SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, FRANCE.
Alcatel-Lucent Cloud: Shaping the Future NFV OSS David Amzallag TM Forum 2013Alcatel-Lucent Cloud
Communication service providers have started to re-think the network with the objective to remove the walls between network services and network infrastructure, reduce expenditures and to achieve network elasticity and scalability. This new vision aims to change the way telcos are building and managing their networks and spans Software Defined Networking (SDN) as well as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). As many network services will be comprised of virtualized network functions together with non-virtualized network functions, the expectations for a new operational model are including, among others, a real-time, zero-touch and fully programmable OSS that will share responsibilities with legacy OSS, Cloud Management/ Orchestration System, SDN Controllers and a new OSS for Applications. Follow David Amzallag on twitter @david_amzallag
Implementing vCPE with OpenStack and Software Defined NetworksPLUMgrid
Service providers and the broader vendor community have made progress in virtualizing key vCPE network functions. Concurrently, there is a strong push to bring these functions to the cloud. This session will discuss how Openstack is enabling this transformation and the role played by technologies like SDN and NFV. It will also discuss the latest advances in the networking stack of the Linux kernel which further enable these network functions to run in a fully distributed architecture. Finally, it will tie all these concepts together proposing a model for implementing virtual CPE services.
V cpe deployment-best-practices-presentationNir Cohen
A review of the various vCPE implementation options available for service providers and the factors that should be considered to avoid pitfalls and ensure optimal results.
Peleg Erlich presentation on the Principles and Attributes of NFV Orchestration and Automation at the ETSI Future Networks Workshop from 9-11, April 2013 in SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, FRANCE.
Alcatel-Lucent Cloud: Shaping the Future NFV OSS David Amzallag TM Forum 2013Alcatel-Lucent Cloud
Communication service providers have started to re-think the network with the objective to remove the walls between network services and network infrastructure, reduce expenditures and to achieve network elasticity and scalability. This new vision aims to change the way telcos are building and managing their networks and spans Software Defined Networking (SDN) as well as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). As many network services will be comprised of virtualized network functions together with non-virtualized network functions, the expectations for a new operational model are including, among others, a real-time, zero-touch and fully programmable OSS that will share responsibilities with legacy OSS, Cloud Management/ Orchestration System, SDN Controllers and a new OSS for Applications. Follow David Amzallag on twitter @david_amzallag
Implementing vCPE with OpenStack and Software Defined NetworksPLUMgrid
Service providers and the broader vendor community have made progress in virtualizing key vCPE network functions. Concurrently, there is a strong push to bring these functions to the cloud. This session will discuss how Openstack is enabling this transformation and the role played by technologies like SDN and NFV. It will also discuss the latest advances in the networking stack of the Linux kernel which further enable these network functions to run in a fully distributed architecture. Finally, it will tie all these concepts together proposing a model for implementing virtual CPE services.
V cpe deployment-best-practices-presentationNir Cohen
A review of the various vCPE implementation options available for service providers and the factors that should be considered to avoid pitfalls and ensure optimal results.
Multilayer optimization deals with projected traffic demands of each type of service traffic, by constructing and analyzing different combinations for handling traffic across the transport layers to end up with a whole that is much less than the sum of the parts.
Moreover, when combined with centralized SDN control it promises to be a platform for innovative services that generate new revenue streams. While the payoffs are huge, SDN-controlled multilayer-optimized networks are not trivial.
There is a rocket science element to the underlying algorithms, and this increases in complexity when combined with real time control.
The presentation will discuss the motivations, benefits, and approaches, for SDN-controlled, multilayer optimized networks.
CloudVPN – A Programmable Platform for Service Providers to evolve their VPN offerings with Cloud integration with a lower TCO (agility, automation, simplification) and low marginal cost achieved through Virtualization and SDN enablement.
vCPE 2.0 – the business case for an open vCPE frameworkCloudify Community
More at http://cloudify.co/webinars/open-vCPE-framework-webinar.html
Oded Nahum discusses the importance of the vCPE use case and why we need to make it more open. He also talks about why it makes financial sense for telcos to do this in the long term.
Alcatel-Lucent Cloud: CloudBand, a Platform for NFV by Dor SkulerAlcatel-Lucent Cloud
The service provider industry is investing heavily in NFV, which is more than just virtualization. NFV meets carrier app needs and drives operations efficiency. CloudBand provides the platform for NFV which allows you automate the cloud node in less than 3 hours. CloudBand manages the application lifecycle, leverages the network, allow you to be open and multi-vendor. CloudBand brings it all together.
Why all clouds are not created equal enterprise cloud, public cloud, carrier cloud strategic white paper. Cloud computing technology brings an unprecedented level of independence and liberation in deploying applications. Applications are no longer tied to dedicated hardware, yet clouds vary significantly in their capabilities and their cost. This paper helps readers understand the differences between enterprise clouds and public clouds, and explains the advances available in carrier clouds.
Five Ways Virtual CPE Reduces Costs and Enables Innovative Enterprise ServicesGCC Computers
How service providers can contain costs and complexity
by virtualizing CPE functions.
Follow GCC Computers
http://www.facebook.com/GccComputersLtd
http://www.linkedin.com/company/gcc-computers-ltd
http://twitter.com/gcc_computers
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjWj_h4lrCdw65x2xbM3lhQ
http://www.gcc.com.cy/
Learn more about how today's service provider's networks are built to deliver yesterday's services and how the Next generation service require a new approach with our Evolved Programmable Network's offerings will enable business transformation for new service deliveries.
Faced with the dual threats of rising operating costs and declining revenues, network service providers are increasingly turning to network functions virtualization (NFV) to help them keep up with constantly changing market conditions.
In a virtualized Telco environment, service providers can deploy and deliver new network functions, services and capacity on demand—reducing normal rollout time from months and weeks to just hours.
Leveraging the principles of cloud computing, network service providers can deliver a level of responsiveness never before available, easily scaling capacity up or down to meet the evolving needs of their subscribers.
The result is a highly agile system that allows new revenue-generating services to be quickly developed, exhaustively tested and selectively rolled out to targeted groups in a fraction of the time and at a much lower cost than previously thought possible.
In this session, the speaker will present how the solution from Juniper networks look like and how it can be deployed by service provider to improve their agility in delivering services to their customers.
SD-WAN brings today's Software Defined Networking concepts and principles to the world of Wide Area Networks (WAN) allowing IT Managers and Network Operators to provision, manage and upgrade services and network functions (Routing, Security, Threat Management, etc.) in a more agile and efficient way by:
Tightly integrating a massively scalable set of network functions for ease of operations and management
Virtualizing key network functions at the customer premise
Routing functions
VPN (securely encapsulating customer data)
Internet Security and Firewall
Focusing on real-time visibility, analytics and configurability
Features include application based routing and local internet access
Can support load balancing/failover between Comcast connection and customer’s existing network
Supports multiple WAN topologies
Any-to-Any
Hub/Spoke
Using the Public Internet as the underlying transport
Comcast Business Internet
Comcast Ethernet Dedicated Internet
Off-Net partner broadband
Replacing dedicated customer premise equipment with a Comcast owned/managed universal CPE (uCPE) deployed at each customer site
Across the US
The concept of service mesh is one of the new technologies that have grown up around the container and micro-service model over the last couple of years, and Istio is the latest entry into this space. As Istio was recently included as an incubated project in the CNCF, many companies are now looking to it to provide a set of key functions to accelerate their micro-service application management model. Istio enables bi-directional authentication and security of service communication via TLS based authentication and encryption, and at the same time is able to capture application level communication statistics, improving the application development team's visibility into the otherwise difficult to track communication patterns. In this way, Istio acts like an application level network, riding across the underlying capabilities of Kubernetes CNI based networks and network policy. We will implement Istio on a GKE kubernetes cluster, and instrument a simple application to get better insight into how Istio provides its capabilities.
Speaker Bio:
With over 20 years of experience as a systems reliability engineer, and a focus on automating not only application deployments but the underlying infrastructure as well, Robert Starmer brings a wealth of knowledge to the full application enablement stack. He has applied this knowledge in fields from high-performance computing to high-frequency trading environments, and everything in between. Robert also holds patents in network, data center, and application performance and scale enhancements. He is a Founder and the CTO at Kumulus Technologies, a DevOps, Systems Reliability Engineering and cloud computing consultancy. Additionally, Robert is an incurable photography nerd and has been known to stay up until dawn in remote locations to capture celestial time-lapses.
Traditional carriers' transport networks consist of vertically-integrated devices with vendor-proprietary interfaces, that causes "vendor lock in" environment and interferes with adopting software based control and configuration for carriers' transport networks. NTT Communications are trying to adopt disaggregation approach for them to transform our operations by integrating commoditized multi-vendor components and SDN technology.
In this presentation, we will talk about our expectations for disaggregated transport networks and its controller architecture with multiple SDN controllers including open source software. Furthermore, we will show our internal evaluation result of disaggregated transport network feasibility and discuss future development plans.
Multilayer optimization deals with projected traffic demands of each type of service traffic, by constructing and analyzing different combinations for handling traffic across the transport layers to end up with a whole that is much less than the sum of the parts.
Moreover, when combined with centralized SDN control it promises to be a platform for innovative services that generate new revenue streams. While the payoffs are huge, SDN-controlled multilayer-optimized networks are not trivial.
There is a rocket science element to the underlying algorithms, and this increases in complexity when combined with real time control.
The presentation will discuss the motivations, benefits, and approaches, for SDN-controlled, multilayer optimized networks.
CloudVPN – A Programmable Platform for Service Providers to evolve their VPN offerings with Cloud integration with a lower TCO (agility, automation, simplification) and low marginal cost achieved through Virtualization and SDN enablement.
vCPE 2.0 – the business case for an open vCPE frameworkCloudify Community
More at http://cloudify.co/webinars/open-vCPE-framework-webinar.html
Oded Nahum discusses the importance of the vCPE use case and why we need to make it more open. He also talks about why it makes financial sense for telcos to do this in the long term.
Alcatel-Lucent Cloud: CloudBand, a Platform for NFV by Dor SkulerAlcatel-Lucent Cloud
The service provider industry is investing heavily in NFV, which is more than just virtualization. NFV meets carrier app needs and drives operations efficiency. CloudBand provides the platform for NFV which allows you automate the cloud node in less than 3 hours. CloudBand manages the application lifecycle, leverages the network, allow you to be open and multi-vendor. CloudBand brings it all together.
Why all clouds are not created equal enterprise cloud, public cloud, carrier cloud strategic white paper. Cloud computing technology brings an unprecedented level of independence and liberation in deploying applications. Applications are no longer tied to dedicated hardware, yet clouds vary significantly in their capabilities and their cost. This paper helps readers understand the differences between enterprise clouds and public clouds, and explains the advances available in carrier clouds.
Five Ways Virtual CPE Reduces Costs and Enables Innovative Enterprise ServicesGCC Computers
How service providers can contain costs and complexity
by virtualizing CPE functions.
Follow GCC Computers
http://www.facebook.com/GccComputersLtd
http://www.linkedin.com/company/gcc-computers-ltd
http://twitter.com/gcc_computers
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjWj_h4lrCdw65x2xbM3lhQ
http://www.gcc.com.cy/
Learn more about how today's service provider's networks are built to deliver yesterday's services and how the Next generation service require a new approach with our Evolved Programmable Network's offerings will enable business transformation for new service deliveries.
Faced with the dual threats of rising operating costs and declining revenues, network service providers are increasingly turning to network functions virtualization (NFV) to help them keep up with constantly changing market conditions.
In a virtualized Telco environment, service providers can deploy and deliver new network functions, services and capacity on demand—reducing normal rollout time from months and weeks to just hours.
Leveraging the principles of cloud computing, network service providers can deliver a level of responsiveness never before available, easily scaling capacity up or down to meet the evolving needs of their subscribers.
The result is a highly agile system that allows new revenue-generating services to be quickly developed, exhaustively tested and selectively rolled out to targeted groups in a fraction of the time and at a much lower cost than previously thought possible.
In this session, the speaker will present how the solution from Juniper networks look like and how it can be deployed by service provider to improve their agility in delivering services to their customers.
SD-WAN brings today's Software Defined Networking concepts and principles to the world of Wide Area Networks (WAN) allowing IT Managers and Network Operators to provision, manage and upgrade services and network functions (Routing, Security, Threat Management, etc.) in a more agile and efficient way by:
Tightly integrating a massively scalable set of network functions for ease of operations and management
Virtualizing key network functions at the customer premise
Routing functions
VPN (securely encapsulating customer data)
Internet Security and Firewall
Focusing on real-time visibility, analytics and configurability
Features include application based routing and local internet access
Can support load balancing/failover between Comcast connection and customer’s existing network
Supports multiple WAN topologies
Any-to-Any
Hub/Spoke
Using the Public Internet as the underlying transport
Comcast Business Internet
Comcast Ethernet Dedicated Internet
Off-Net partner broadband
Replacing dedicated customer premise equipment with a Comcast owned/managed universal CPE (uCPE) deployed at each customer site
Across the US
The concept of service mesh is one of the new technologies that have grown up around the container and micro-service model over the last couple of years, and Istio is the latest entry into this space. As Istio was recently included as an incubated project in the CNCF, many companies are now looking to it to provide a set of key functions to accelerate their micro-service application management model. Istio enables bi-directional authentication and security of service communication via TLS based authentication and encryption, and at the same time is able to capture application level communication statistics, improving the application development team's visibility into the otherwise difficult to track communication patterns. In this way, Istio acts like an application level network, riding across the underlying capabilities of Kubernetes CNI based networks and network policy. We will implement Istio on a GKE kubernetes cluster, and instrument a simple application to get better insight into how Istio provides its capabilities.
Speaker Bio:
With over 20 years of experience as a systems reliability engineer, and a focus on automating not only application deployments but the underlying infrastructure as well, Robert Starmer brings a wealth of knowledge to the full application enablement stack. He has applied this knowledge in fields from high-performance computing to high-frequency trading environments, and everything in between. Robert also holds patents in network, data center, and application performance and scale enhancements. He is a Founder and the CTO at Kumulus Technologies, a DevOps, Systems Reliability Engineering and cloud computing consultancy. Additionally, Robert is an incurable photography nerd and has been known to stay up until dawn in remote locations to capture celestial time-lapses.
Traditional carriers' transport networks consist of vertically-integrated devices with vendor-proprietary interfaces, that causes "vendor lock in" environment and interferes with adopting software based control and configuration for carriers' transport networks. NTT Communications are trying to adopt disaggregation approach for them to transform our operations by integrating commoditized multi-vendor components and SDN technology.
In this presentation, we will talk about our expectations for disaggregated transport networks and its controller architecture with multiple SDN controllers including open source software. Furthermore, we will show our internal evaluation result of disaggregated transport network feasibility and discuss future development plans.
To view recording of this webinar please use the below URL:
http://wso2.com/library/webinars/2015/03/apis-the-foundation-of-the-future-telco
This session will look at how the future telco can accelerate their digital strategies by building an effective developer API ecosystem, specifically discussing
Participatory business models for telco
APIs as the currency for the telco’s digital economy
Reference architectures for a telco API ecosystem
API and Identity federation for telcos
Interop Tokyo 2014 SDI (Software Defined Infrustructure) ShowCase Seminoar Presentation. The presentation covers Neutron API models (L2/L3 and Advanced Network services), Neutron Icehouse Update and Juno topics.
Nov 29, 2016 Japan OpenStack Users Group 31st meetup presentation.
This presentation covers newer concepts introduced into Neutron recently and their use cases, for example, subnet pool, address scope, VLAN aware VMs (trunk port), Get-Me-A-Network, RBAC.
Interop Tokyo 2014 SDI (Software Defined Infrustructure) ShowCase Seminoar Presentation. The presentation covers Neutron API models (L2/L3 and Advanced Network services), Neutron Icehouse Update and Juno topics.
OpenStack Atlanta Summit Report: Neutron, Nova and design summit sessionsAkihiro Motoki
Report of OpenStack Atlanta Design Summit (May 2014). It focuses mainly Neutron design summit topics and also covers general topics on the design summit sessions and nova-related topics.
WSO2.Telco - The Open Source Digital Enablement PlatformWSO2
The mobile Internet ecosystem is fragmented, underserving the needs of people, businesses and brands. This session was presented at a joint partner event within the Mobile World Congress with Tone, who combines mobile content services from top brands with Axiata’s innovative MIFE platform, based on WSO2 Open Source technology. This initiative enables Telcos and brands to partner and offer subscribers personalised access to relevant mobile content services that they choose – the result: enduring customer engagement and sustainable revenues.
Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph. D Founder, CEO & Chief Architect of WSO2 and Mifan Careem, Director of Solutions Architecture presented this session at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
This webinar explains why PISA chips are inevitable, provides overview of machine architecture of such switches, presents a brief primer on the P4 language with sample programs for a variety of networks and demonstrates a powerful network diagnostics application implemented in P4.
Programmability in SDNs is confined to the network control plane. The forwarding plane is still largely dictated by fixed-function switching chips. Our goal is to change that, and to allow programmers to define how packets are to be processed all the way down to the wire.
This is made possible by a new generation of high-performance forwarding chips. At the high-end, PISA (Protocol-Independent Switch Architecture) chips promise multi-Tb/s of packet processing. At the mid- and low-end of the performance spectrum, CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and NPUs already offer great flexibility with performance of a few tens to hundreds of Gb/s.
In addition to programmable forwarding chips, we also need a high-level language to dictate the forwarding behavior in a target independent fashion. "P4" (www.p4.org) is such a language. In P4, the programer declares how packets are to be processed, and a compiler generates a configuration for a PISA chip, or a programmable target in general. For example, the programmer might program the switch to be a top-of-rack switch, a firewall, or a load-balancer; and might add features to run automatic diagnostics and novel congestion control algorithms.
What does performance mean in the cloudMichael Kopp
Performance problems are one of the most cited concerns about to the cloud. But is it really the cloud or the application? What does performance mean anyway when you can scale to thousands of servers? This session will discuss why traditional means of performance management and troubleshooting no longer work and how this affects everything. Most importantly we will look at how to identify the root cause of performance problems in such dynamic environments. Finally we will explain how to assess and manage performance when capacity is no longer the issue.
Juniper Networks introduced its SDN strategy during its 2013 Global Partner Conference. Executive Vice President of the Software Solutions Division, Bob Muglia, introduced the company's vision, strategy and licensing model for the SDN transition.
Cloud architecture and deployment: The Kognitio checklist, Nigel Sanctuary, K...CloudOps Summit
CloudOps Summit 2012, Frankfurt, 20.9.2012 Track 2 - Build and Run
by Nigel Sanctuary, VP Propositions at Kognitio (www.kognitio.com)
http://cloudops.de/sprecher/#nigelsanctuary
Find the video of this talk at http://youtu.be/wQrHQNOMlKc
Investments in information technology have a direct and fundamental impact on the success of an organization's revenue-generating activities. As a consequence, the business' financial leadership has a crucial stake in understanding and influencing IT decisions.
The presentation content focuses on a three-stage approach geared toward building profit models around well-planned cloud implementations. Discover how CFOs are in a unique position to lead this effort and make the IT organization aware of its impact on revenue and profitability
Presentation of Vincent Desveronnieres, Oracle at the TMT.CloudComputing'11 Warsaw conference organized in Warsaw, Poland on February 10th, 2011 by New Europe Events
21st Century Service Oriented ArchitectureBob Rhubart
Service Oriented Architecture has evolved from concept to reality in the last decade. The right methodology coupled with mature SOA technologies has helped customers demonstrate success in both innovation and ROI. In this session you will learn how Oracle SOA Suite’s orchestration, virtualization, and governance capabilities provide the infrastructure to run mission critical business and system applications. And we’ll take a special look at the convergence of SOA & BPM using Oracle’s Unified technology stack.
(As presented by Samrat Ray at Oracle Technology Network Architect Day in Chicago, October 24, 2011.)
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
2. VIRTUALIZATION: A (CYNICAL) ENGINEER’S VIEW
VIRTUALIZATION IS THE ANSWER BUT WE NEED TO BE MORE THAN BLIND MONKEYS !
2
3. WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?
FORCES AT PLAY AND CONSEQUENCES
FORCE CONSEQUENCE
Evolution
Higher speed packet & optical transport and
Massive Capacity Expansion
backhaul for small cells
Commoditization of Access Wireless is the new “Wireline”
Move to software-defined and ‘virtualized’
Network & Data Center Merging
networks
Revolution
Network Becoming Any web service/enterprise ‘Cloud’ app can fully
Programmable Platform leverage the network
New delivery paradigm and OSS/BSS that adapts
Transformation @ web speed
at web scale and speed
INDUSTRY DISRUPTION DRIVEN BY AND AT WEBSCALE & SPEED
3
4. WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?
ANATOMY OF A TELCO APPLICATION (ATCA)
Specialized blades with dedicated processors
Many different/specialized OS’s
System Control & Management Cards
Specialized OAM middleware
I/O and load distribution
Specialized application middleware
Application Function A
More cards for more capacity
Application Function B
More (different) cards for more capacity
STANDARD COMPONENTS IN SPECIALIZED CONFIGURATION = ‘BOX SCALING RULES’
4
5. WHAT’S THE PROBLEM ?
BOX SCALING AND WEBSCALE ARE WORLDS AND DECADES APART
• Processors stopped getting faster
a decade ago
But more transistors per chip =
more processor cores
But need to create SW that
leverages this parallel scaling
SCALE COMES FROM RUNNING IN PARALLEL
5
6. WHAT’S THE ANSWER: PARALLEL SCALING
Amdahl’s Law
1
App Speed Up =
(1-P) + P/N
P = Parallel Portion of App
N= # Processors
With Virtualization, P 1
Source: Wikipedia
VIRTUALIZATION IS THE FASTEST PATH TO WEBSCALE FOR NETAPPS
6
7. WHAT IS THE INDUSTRY DOING?
NfV Industry Specification Group (ISG)
• ~60 Operator-led activity in ETSI
• Alcatel-Lucent leadership: only one of two
vendors on the NfV Management Team
Goals:
- Align on architecture and terminology
- Identify benefits and assess cost implications
- NFV ISG will not create it is own standards,
rather:
• Specifications that leverage existing industry
standards
• Provide recommendations to other SDOs
INDUSTRY IS VIRTUALLY UNITED
7
8. WHAT IS THE VALUE OF VIRTUALIZATION ?
Virtualization Value Factor Qualitative Benefit Quantitative Benefit
Greater ability to react to
Elastic scaling n/a
Gain Factors
changing demand
Dynamic
Control
Shorter time to market for new
Faster deployment cycles n/a
apps/SW releases
Domain-specific network Better network re-use and
n/a
slicing/control OAM/fault isolation
Factor
Depends on
Gain
Cost
Lower CapEx + OpEx (TCO) n/a
Application
NEED TO CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE GOALS TO DEFINE OPTIMAL ANSWER
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9. VIRTUALIZATION BENEFIT ANALYSIS
Dynamic Control: High Network
Media Gateways CPE
• Elastic scale Apps
• Resource pooling Orchestration
Dynamic Control Gain
Control Plane Functions Functions
• Rapid deployment Network
Media Servers Service Creation
• Location optimization Analytics Functions
Probes
Packet Analytics
Gateways Platforms
Element &
Ethernet Network
Switches Managers
Edge Routers
Core
Routers Cost (TCO):
• NPU vs CPU (CapEx)
Low
• Technicians (OpEx)
Less More
Cost Gain
VIRTUALIZATION BENEFITS MOST (BUT NOT ALL) NETWORK DOMAINS
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10. VIRTUALIZATION BENEFIT ANALYSIS: ePC
Specialized
CapEx OpEx Virtualized
$120M $300M
$100M $250M
$80M $200M
$60M $150M
$40M $100M
$20M $50M
$0M $0M
Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Operations Energy Maintenance Space
Traditional Cloudified Traditional Cloudified
Virtualization will typically lead to an ….which must be offset by a decrease
increase in CapEx for high in OpEx due to automated DC
throughput applications operations (fewer technicians)
LOW BW APPS TCO GAIN; HIGH BW APPS NO TCO GAIN (BUT DYNAMIC CONTROL GAIN)
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11. EVOLUTION OF NETWORK FUNCTIONS VIRTUALIZATION
AUTO-ONBOARDING
~Today
AUTO-SCALING
Operations
Evolution
“OPEN” Apps run on GPP + hypervisor,
Closed
VIRTUALIZATION but on specialized HW for
Virtualization
carrier grade reliability
Apps run on Cloud
“CLOSED” Open
infrastructure w/elastic scaling
VIRTUALIZATION virtualization
and Cloud-grade reliability
Auto- Automation of on-boarding,
Onboarding installation and test
Infrastructure Evolution Auto-Scaling
Automatic scaling of app
functions based on demand
WE ARE ALREADY ON THE PATH TO THIS NEW VIRTUAL REALITY
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12. EVOLUTION OF NETWORK FUNCTIONS VIRTUALIZATION
FROM CLOSED TO OPEN VIRTUALIZATION
Closed Virtualization Benefits (Both approaches) Open Virtualization
App A Mgt • More capacity per blade
System App A App A • More optimal use of HW
Middleware VM VM App A Mgt App B Mgt
• Able to reallocate HW to varying
Standard
Proprietary Hypervisor workloads APIs
APIs
Server Blade Common Cloud App A App B
Benefits (Open approach) Management VM VM
App B Mgt • Sharing HW across multiple Hypervisor
System App B App B applications
Middleware VM VM Server Blade
• Operations simplification due to
Standard APIs
Hypervisor common management layer
Proprietary
APIs Server Blade
Risks (Open approach)
• New reliability, performance &SLA models
• Impact on both NetOps & IT orgs
• Failure accountabilities change (NG OSS)
WITH EVERY REWARD COMES RISKS THAT NEED TO BE MANAGED
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13. BUT THE OPPORTUNITY IS BIG
Convergence
Automated, Automated,
Simplified Simplified
Choreography Choreography
Cloudscale
Dynamic Control
Network Services Control
Dynamic Dynamic
Control Control
Telco IP Network Infrastructure
KEY OPPORTUNITY FOR SOLUTION TO ENABLE SINGULAR FUTURE
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14. OUR VISION OF THE FUTURE
EVOLVING HLN TO A PROGRAMMABLE, CONSUMABLE CLOUD NETWORK
NETWORK APPLICATIONS
Virtualize
NETWORK SERVICES CONTROL
Software
IP INFRASTRUCTURE
Define
MASSIVE PARADIGM SHIFT FROM CLOSED, STATIC CONFIGURATION TO OPEN, DYNAMIC ADAPTATION
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15. EVOLUTION OF NETWORK FUNCTIONS VIRTUALIZATION
AUTO-X (ONBOARDING, SCALING, NETWORKING)
Traditional and Applications Applications Application Network
Cloud-aware Aware
Applications Applications
cPaaS
OpenStack+ Nuage API
CloudBand Nuage Virtualized
Automated Management System Services Platform Automated, adaptive,
onboarding, application-specific
orchestration and DC (and WAN)
placement of networking, based on
Compute and Cloudstack
dynamic policy pull
BGP Federated
Storage resources vStorage VMs vSwitches Control Plane
L2/L3 IP/MPLS
VPN Services
Cloudnodes
Nuage DC
Network
MASSIVE PARADIGM SHIFT FROM CLOSED, STATIC CONFIGURATION TO OPEN, DYNAMIC ADAPTATION
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16. VIRTUALIZING AND SOFTWARE-DEFINING THE FUTURE NETWORK
INTERPRET
VIRTUALIZED, SOFTWARE- VIRTUALIZED, SOFTWARE-
DEFINED OPTICAL DEFINED CPE
NETWORKING Network OS
Local Regional National Public
ANTICIPATEData Center Data Center Data Center Cloud
Access Metro Core
ADAPT
VIRTUALIZED, SOFTWARE- VIRTUALIZED, SOFTWARE-
DEFINED WIRELESS DEFINED COMMUNICATIONS
NETWORKING
PERSONALIZED, DYNAMIC, PROGRAMMABLE NETWORKING
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17. VIRTUALIZED, SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKING (1/2)
Virtualized CPE Dynamic Optical Capacity
Dynamic, low cost/complexity Home Networking Dynamic, high BW, low-latency Enterprise Networking
• Simple ‘Media Converter’ CPE, with infinite flexibility • Automated turn-up, scaling, rearrangement of bandwidth
• Application chaining links vCPE functions based on user, across optical network
device, app • Rapidly recover from site, node, and link failures
• Network dynamically steers traffic to vCPE functions • Automated multi-layer optimization
CloudNode
SDN NFV SDN NFV
TOR Enterprise
Camera flow critical flow
Video Opt detected
detected Enterprise optical
Parental Ctrl DHCP capacity dynamically
Traffic Mgmt boosted
Virtual CPE IPv4/IPv6
Simple Steer traffic to right Metro Service
Access BNG Enterprise
CPE Service Chain Aggregation
Node (w/vCPE) Branch Provider DC
Node
OPTIMIZED NETWORKING WITH OPTIMUM ECONOMICS
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18. VIRTUALIZED, SOFTWARE-DEFINED WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Dynamic Wireless Capacity Dynamic Communications
Dynamic, lowest cost Wireless Networking Dynamic, lowest cost Comms Networking
• Slice spectrum for optimal multicast/unicast per cell, • Network applications with dynamic web scale and
per location, per time of day virtual instances per app
• Optimized delivery using all available capacity • Pay as you grow, transaction-based web comms
dimensions services
Dynamically
SDN Control eMBMS NFV SDN NFV
vs. unicast
Create
partition vCDN Create vIMS
eMBMS slice
instance for
app
eMBMS GW
WebRTC Provider
vIMS
GW IMS
eNB
Dynamically create
Dynamically
ePC and connect
Smartload using
WebRTC GW
off-peak capacity
DYNAMICALLY OPTIMIZED SPECTRUM SLICING AND COMMUNICATIONS
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19. SUMMARY PERSPECTIVE
• NFV will greatly enhance the ability of ‘network applications’ to elastically scale to
meet changing demand patterns:
- Changing demand by unpredictable usage of operator own applications (above ‘peak’ loads for special events)
- Changing demand by unpredictable usage by web applications accessing operator network apps
• NFV and SDN also create new value propositions
- Slicing to create individual, deterministic, automated and optimized DC and WAN networks
- Simplification of CPE but with infinite functionality (and lifetime)
- Simplification of operations (provisioning, management, on-boarding)
- Flexibility to roll out innovative applications quickly and with low risk (new revenue opportunities)
Value is not always about CapEx or TCO savings
• But significant challenges remain to realize full value
WE ARE LEADING THE WAY TO CREATE THIS NEW VIRTUAL REALITY
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20. To learn more about Alcatel-Lucent Cloud, visit us at
our website or at one of our social media platforms.
www.alcatel-lucent.com/solutions/cloud