Keynote by Diane Bryant, SVP and GM of the Data Center Group at Intel, at OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015.
Cloud computing provides tremendous agility and efficiency to organizations are the driver of the digital service economy. In her keynote, Diane Bryant will discuss how Intel was an early leader in adoption of cloud computing under her tenure as CIO and how this experience has shaped broader strategy to deliver tens of thousands of new clouds across the enterprise with Intel’s new Cloud for All Initiative. Attendees can expect to learn about OpenStack’s critical role in shaping the future of the enterprise data center and learn more about key industry efforts to drive enterprise readiness to the OpenStack platform.
Developing on OpenStack Startup Edmontonserverascode
The title of the presentation might be a bit off. We gave about a 30 minute introduction to OpenStack, and then about a 30 min demo on installing the Ghost blogging platform using Chef in an OpenStack cloud.
Keynote by Diane Bryant, SVP and GM of the Data Center Group at Intel, at OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015.
Cloud computing provides tremendous agility and efficiency to organizations are the driver of the digital service economy. In her keynote, Diane Bryant will discuss how Intel was an early leader in adoption of cloud computing under her tenure as CIO and how this experience has shaped broader strategy to deliver tens of thousands of new clouds across the enterprise with Intel’s new Cloud for All Initiative. Attendees can expect to learn about OpenStack’s critical role in shaping the future of the enterprise data center and learn more about key industry efforts to drive enterprise readiness to the OpenStack platform.
Developing on OpenStack Startup Edmontonserverascode
The title of the presentation might be a bit off. We gave about a 30 minute introduction to OpenStack, and then about a 30 min demo on installing the Ghost blogging platform using Chef in an OpenStack cloud.
Mirantis OpenStack 4.0 includes OpenStack Havana, hardened packages, the Savana, Murano, and Ceilometer projects, and most of all, the ease of deploying with Fuel.
Protecting Yourself from the Container ShakeoutMirantis
Keynote by Boris Renski, Co-Founder and CMO of Mirantis, and Lachlan Evenson, Team Lead of Cloud Platform Engineering at Lithium Technologies, at OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015.
The Docker-fueled container craze is much less of a threat to VMs or OpenStack than it is to PaaS vendors. The story of “do it the way Google does it” is proving just as tough to monetize with enterprises as commodity cloud was. Boris will talk about OpenStack as a “safe harbor” from the coming container shakeout, leveraging the project’s maturity as a place to try various container strategies until the winner emerges.
Lachlan Evenson of Lithium will join Boris to share how Lithium deployed Kubernetes on OpenStack.
OpenStack Day Seattle 2015, Enterprise Track
Title: Windows Containers, Hyper-V and OpenStack
Speakers: Ben Armstrong, Microsoft & Alessandro Pilotti, Cloubase Solutions
Making Openstack Really Easy - Why Build Open Source When You Can Buy? Danny ...OpenStack
Making Openstack Really Easy - Why Build Open Source When You Can Buy?
Audience: Beginner
Topic: Enterprise IT Strategies
Abstract: Delivering a a OpenStack platform is no small feat. Dell|EMC is now among a very small minority of vendors that have ventured into this space with a simplified IaaS model based on Open Source technologies to enable the building of next generation application.
Speaker Bio: Danny Elmarji, DellEMC
Danny Elmarji is a passionate technology advocate across Dell|EMC Australia and New Zealand. Danny joined EMC in 2005 and is responsible for running the Dell|EMC engineering community, focused on the both our Core Technology and Emerging Technology Divisions. From his original background in application development in Java and C++, Danny has further built extensive technical knowledge around cloud computing, third platform applications, DevOps and data science. Over the past 15 years he has received numerous industry certifications across virtualisation and Infrastructure solutions. Danny is originally from Canada where he completed his bachelor degree in Computer Science and Computing.
OpenStack Australia Day Government - Canberra 2016
https://events.aptira.com/openstack-australia-day-canberra-2016/
Jon Noble. Jon will give a brief overview of why you should consider security as part of your CloudStack deployment, why your approach to security needs to be different than in a traditional environment, and also talk about some of the motives behind the attacks – why they attack you and what they do once they have compromised a system.
Cloudenablers is a Cloud Technology Services Company with expertize in providing IP development services, System Integration and Cloud enablement services based on Openstack, ODL and Orchestration.
We engage in continuos research and development on Openstack, ODL and related ecosystem at our Cloud Lab.
Cloudenablers has also developed few solutions and frameworks for Orchestration, Hybrid Cloud Management and Hybrid Cloud Backup.
Containers for the Enterprise: It's Not That SimpleMirantis
Keynote by Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, at OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015.
Containers are rapidly finding their way into enterprise data centers. But enterprises like to consume complete products. How do technologies like containers make their way from hyperscale ubiquity to enterprise nirvana? Alex offers some clues.
The 'Untold' OpenStack Enterprise Customer Stories: Anthony Rees & Alex Tesch...OpenStack
The 'Untold' OpenStack Enterprise Customer Stories
Audience: Beginner
Topic: User Stories
Abstract: A real, unedited & uncut look into the untold stories of HPE’s enterprise customer journeys in OpenStack over the past 8 months. Alex and Anthony will take the audience through a number of Australian and NZ based customers and their previously untold journey in OpenStack looking at both their use cases, positives, negatives and how challenges were overcome. Wrapping up, we will take a quick look at the new features of Helion OpenStack 4.0 and what makes it truly ‘enterprise grade’.
Speaker Bio: Anthony Rees & Alex Tesch, HPE
Alex & Anthony have been working with Open Source enterprise technologies for the better part of 15 years and have presented at events such as the OpenStack Summit in Austin and LinuxCon NZ.
OpenStack Australia Day Government - Canberra 2016
https://events.aptira.com/openstack-australia-day-canberra-2016/
The Environment for Innovation: Tristan Goode, AptiraOpenStack
The Environment for Innovation
Audience: Beginner
Topic: User Stories
Abstract: What is OpenStack? Who uses OpenStack? How can OpenStack help Telco’s, ISP’s and Operators? What challenges are on the way, and what can you do?
This talk will discuss the benefits of OpenStack, with examples from some of the largest global companies currently using this platform. It will also cover a roadmap to identify new projects coming to the market (particularly around SDN and NFV), and the growing maturity of OpenStack and beyond.
Tristan will show the audience how to commit to a software defined strategy, how to build an innovation lab with a customer focussed partner, and more. This presentation will feature real world insights, industry leading trends, and use cases from compliance oriented cloud platforms with high compliance requirements.
Speaker Bio: Tristan Goode, Aptira
Over 25 years’ experience in the IT industry has given Tristan a solid reputation as an innovative architect in systems infrastructure and enterprise solutions. Forward-thinking with strong attention to detail, Tristan has been responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining solutions for the likes of BTR Nylex, NEC, OzEmail, Intel, and iPrimus.
Tristan has an unwavering commitment to exceed expectations for both the business and the customer, and is driven by his personal desire to create unique, effective solutions for any requirements Aptira’s customers may present. Tristan is a founding and 4 times elected Board Director of the OpenStack Foundation, an OpenStack Ambassador, and the founder of the Australian OpenStack User Group.
OpenStack Australia Day Government - Canberra 2016
https://events.aptira.com/openstack-australia-day-canberra-2016/
In this talk from the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona (October 2016), we explain the appetite for skipping OpenStack upstream releases in production deployments, talk about when skipping releases might or might not be right for your cloud deployment, and demonstrate how we successfully upgraded OpenStack clouds from IceHouse to Kilo (skipping Juno) and Kilo to Mitaka (skipping Liberty).
Implementing OpenStack in a Government Environment: Vanessa Binding, Departme...OpenStack
Implementing OpenStack in a Government Environment: 90% Culture / 10% Technology
Audience: Beginner
Topic: User Stories
Abstract: As a manager of a team tasked with implementing Cloud Technologies, I will explore the issues around implementing such and Agile technology into a predominately waterfall enterprise. I will provide recommendations around how to deploy cloud technologies into a Government enterprise and how culture of the cloud team is as important as the interactions with the rest of the organisation.
Speaker Bio: Vanessa Binding, Department of Defence
I am the lead for the team tasked with implementing a Private Cloud. I am an APS employee working for the Department of Defence. Before moving into management I was a Linux System Adminstrator.
OpenStack Australia Day Government - Canberra 2016
https://events.aptira.com/openstack-australia-day-canberra-2016/
RICON 2014 - Build a Cloud Day - Crash Course Open Source Cloud ComputingMark Hinkle
This crash course is designed to give an overview of cloud computing architecture and the open source software that can be used to deploy and manage a cloud computing environment.
Topics to be discussed in this session will include virtualization (KVM, LXC, and Xen Project), orchestration (Apache CloudStack, Eucalyptus, Open Nebula, and OpenStack), and storage (GlusterFS, Ceph, and others). The talk will also provide insight into how to deliver Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and what technologies can be used to compliment this evolving cloud computing paradigm.
Systems administrators and IT generalists will leave the discussion with a general overview of the options at their disposal to effectively build and manage their own cloud computing environments using free and open source software and understand the capabilities and benefits of a host of technologies.
Mirantis OpenStack 5.0 brings together the convenience of Fuel with the latest release of OpenStack, Icehouse. This presentation shows what's new, and what you can expect.
Liberate Your Files with a Private Cloud Storage Solution powered by Open SourceIsaac Christoffersen
Many of today's enterprises are working under a false assumption that there is a trade-off between consumer-centric file sharing and corporate IT policy compliance. This is because most market-leading SaaS solutions for file sync and share are not designed around enterprise IT's needs. They represent growing risks with vendor lock-in, data security, compliance and data ownership.
With a track record in delivering innovative Open Source solutions, Vizuri has an answer to help enterprises overcome these hurdles. By leveraging innovative Red Hat and ownCloud open source solutions, this solution help corporate IT provide a simple to use file sync and share solution for employees. As a result, organizations are able to retain a greater control over valuable intellectual property.
Mirantis OpenStack 4.0 includes OpenStack Havana, hardened packages, the Savana, Murano, and Ceilometer projects, and most of all, the ease of deploying with Fuel.
Protecting Yourself from the Container ShakeoutMirantis
Keynote by Boris Renski, Co-Founder and CMO of Mirantis, and Lachlan Evenson, Team Lead of Cloud Platform Engineering at Lithium Technologies, at OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015.
The Docker-fueled container craze is much less of a threat to VMs or OpenStack than it is to PaaS vendors. The story of “do it the way Google does it” is proving just as tough to monetize with enterprises as commodity cloud was. Boris will talk about OpenStack as a “safe harbor” from the coming container shakeout, leveraging the project’s maturity as a place to try various container strategies until the winner emerges.
Lachlan Evenson of Lithium will join Boris to share how Lithium deployed Kubernetes on OpenStack.
OpenStack Day Seattle 2015, Enterprise Track
Title: Windows Containers, Hyper-V and OpenStack
Speakers: Ben Armstrong, Microsoft & Alessandro Pilotti, Cloubase Solutions
Making Openstack Really Easy - Why Build Open Source When You Can Buy? Danny ...OpenStack
Making Openstack Really Easy - Why Build Open Source When You Can Buy?
Audience: Beginner
Topic: Enterprise IT Strategies
Abstract: Delivering a a OpenStack platform is no small feat. Dell|EMC is now among a very small minority of vendors that have ventured into this space with a simplified IaaS model based on Open Source technologies to enable the building of next generation application.
Speaker Bio: Danny Elmarji, DellEMC
Danny Elmarji is a passionate technology advocate across Dell|EMC Australia and New Zealand. Danny joined EMC in 2005 and is responsible for running the Dell|EMC engineering community, focused on the both our Core Technology and Emerging Technology Divisions. From his original background in application development in Java and C++, Danny has further built extensive technical knowledge around cloud computing, third platform applications, DevOps and data science. Over the past 15 years he has received numerous industry certifications across virtualisation and Infrastructure solutions. Danny is originally from Canada where he completed his bachelor degree in Computer Science and Computing.
OpenStack Australia Day Government - Canberra 2016
https://events.aptira.com/openstack-australia-day-canberra-2016/
Jon Noble. Jon will give a brief overview of why you should consider security as part of your CloudStack deployment, why your approach to security needs to be different than in a traditional environment, and also talk about some of the motives behind the attacks – why they attack you and what they do once they have compromised a system.
Cloudenablers is a Cloud Technology Services Company with expertize in providing IP development services, System Integration and Cloud enablement services based on Openstack, ODL and Orchestration.
We engage in continuos research and development on Openstack, ODL and related ecosystem at our Cloud Lab.
Cloudenablers has also developed few solutions and frameworks for Orchestration, Hybrid Cloud Management and Hybrid Cloud Backup.
Containers for the Enterprise: It's Not That SimpleMirantis
Keynote by Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, at OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015.
Containers are rapidly finding their way into enterprise data centers. But enterprises like to consume complete products. How do technologies like containers make their way from hyperscale ubiquity to enterprise nirvana? Alex offers some clues.
The 'Untold' OpenStack Enterprise Customer Stories: Anthony Rees & Alex Tesch...OpenStack
The 'Untold' OpenStack Enterprise Customer Stories
Audience: Beginner
Topic: User Stories
Abstract: A real, unedited & uncut look into the untold stories of HPE’s enterprise customer journeys in OpenStack over the past 8 months. Alex and Anthony will take the audience through a number of Australian and NZ based customers and their previously untold journey in OpenStack looking at both their use cases, positives, negatives and how challenges were overcome. Wrapping up, we will take a quick look at the new features of Helion OpenStack 4.0 and what makes it truly ‘enterprise grade’.
Speaker Bio: Anthony Rees & Alex Tesch, HPE
Alex & Anthony have been working with Open Source enterprise technologies for the better part of 15 years and have presented at events such as the OpenStack Summit in Austin and LinuxCon NZ.
OpenStack Australia Day Government - Canberra 2016
https://events.aptira.com/openstack-australia-day-canberra-2016/
The Environment for Innovation: Tristan Goode, AptiraOpenStack
The Environment for Innovation
Audience: Beginner
Topic: User Stories
Abstract: What is OpenStack? Who uses OpenStack? How can OpenStack help Telco’s, ISP’s and Operators? What challenges are on the way, and what can you do?
This talk will discuss the benefits of OpenStack, with examples from some of the largest global companies currently using this platform. It will also cover a roadmap to identify new projects coming to the market (particularly around SDN and NFV), and the growing maturity of OpenStack and beyond.
Tristan will show the audience how to commit to a software defined strategy, how to build an innovation lab with a customer focussed partner, and more. This presentation will feature real world insights, industry leading trends, and use cases from compliance oriented cloud platforms with high compliance requirements.
Speaker Bio: Tristan Goode, Aptira
Over 25 years’ experience in the IT industry has given Tristan a solid reputation as an innovative architect in systems infrastructure and enterprise solutions. Forward-thinking with strong attention to detail, Tristan has been responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining solutions for the likes of BTR Nylex, NEC, OzEmail, Intel, and iPrimus.
Tristan has an unwavering commitment to exceed expectations for both the business and the customer, and is driven by his personal desire to create unique, effective solutions for any requirements Aptira’s customers may present. Tristan is a founding and 4 times elected Board Director of the OpenStack Foundation, an OpenStack Ambassador, and the founder of the Australian OpenStack User Group.
OpenStack Australia Day Government - Canberra 2016
https://events.aptira.com/openstack-australia-day-canberra-2016/
In this talk from the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona (October 2016), we explain the appetite for skipping OpenStack upstream releases in production deployments, talk about when skipping releases might or might not be right for your cloud deployment, and demonstrate how we successfully upgraded OpenStack clouds from IceHouse to Kilo (skipping Juno) and Kilo to Mitaka (skipping Liberty).
Implementing OpenStack in a Government Environment: Vanessa Binding, Departme...OpenStack
Implementing OpenStack in a Government Environment: 90% Culture / 10% Technology
Audience: Beginner
Topic: User Stories
Abstract: As a manager of a team tasked with implementing Cloud Technologies, I will explore the issues around implementing such and Agile technology into a predominately waterfall enterprise. I will provide recommendations around how to deploy cloud technologies into a Government enterprise and how culture of the cloud team is as important as the interactions with the rest of the organisation.
Speaker Bio: Vanessa Binding, Department of Defence
I am the lead for the team tasked with implementing a Private Cloud. I am an APS employee working for the Department of Defence. Before moving into management I was a Linux System Adminstrator.
OpenStack Australia Day Government - Canberra 2016
https://events.aptira.com/openstack-australia-day-canberra-2016/
RICON 2014 - Build a Cloud Day - Crash Course Open Source Cloud ComputingMark Hinkle
This crash course is designed to give an overview of cloud computing architecture and the open source software that can be used to deploy and manage a cloud computing environment.
Topics to be discussed in this session will include virtualization (KVM, LXC, and Xen Project), orchestration (Apache CloudStack, Eucalyptus, Open Nebula, and OpenStack), and storage (GlusterFS, Ceph, and others). The talk will also provide insight into how to deliver Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and what technologies can be used to compliment this evolving cloud computing paradigm.
Systems administrators and IT generalists will leave the discussion with a general overview of the options at their disposal to effectively build and manage their own cloud computing environments using free and open source software and understand the capabilities and benefits of a host of technologies.
Mirantis OpenStack 5.0 brings together the convenience of Fuel with the latest release of OpenStack, Icehouse. This presentation shows what's new, and what you can expect.
Liberate Your Files with a Private Cloud Storage Solution powered by Open SourceIsaac Christoffersen
Many of today's enterprises are working under a false assumption that there is a trade-off between consumer-centric file sharing and corporate IT policy compliance. This is because most market-leading SaaS solutions for file sync and share are not designed around enterprise IT's needs. They represent growing risks with vendor lock-in, data security, compliance and data ownership.
With a track record in delivering innovative Open Source solutions, Vizuri has an answer to help enterprises overcome these hurdles. By leveraging innovative Red Hat and ownCloud open source solutions, this solution help corporate IT provide a simple to use file sync and share solution for employees. As a result, organizations are able to retain a greater control over valuable intellectual property.
LinuxFest NW 2013: Hitchhiker's Guide to Open Source Cloud ComputingMark Hinkle
Presented on April 27th, 2013 at LinuxFest NW
Imagine it’s eight o’clock on a Thursday morning and you awake to see a bulldozer out your window ready to plow over your data center. Normally you may wish to consult the Encyclopedia Galáctica to discern the best course of action but your copy is likely out of date. And while the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG) is a wholly remarkable book it doesn’t cover the nuances of cloud computing. That’s why you need the Hitchhiker’s Guide to Cloud Computing (HHGTCC) or at least to attend this talk understand the state of open source cloud computing. Specifically this talk will cover infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and developments in big data and how to more effectively take advantage of these technologies using open source software. Technologies that will be covered in this talk include Apache CloudStack, Chef, CloudFoundry, NoSQL, OpenStack, Puppet and many more.
Specific topics for discussion will include:
Infrastructure-as-a-Service - The Systems Cloud - Get a comparision of the open source cloud platforms including OpenStack, Apache CloudStack, Eucalyptus, OpenNebula
Platform-as-a-Service - The Developers Cloud - Find out what tools are availble to build portable auto-scaling applications including CloudFoundry, OpenShift, Stackato and more.
Data-as-a-Service - The Analytics Cloud - Want to figure out the who, what , where , when and why of big data ? You get an overview of open source NoSQL databases and technologies like MapReduce to help crunch massive data sets in the cloud.
Finally you'll get a overview of the tools that can help you really take advantage of the cloud? Want to auto-scale virtual machiens to serve millions of web pages or want to automate the configuration of cloud computing environments. You'll learn how to combine these tools to provide continous deployment systems that will help you earn DevOps cred in any data center.
[Finally, for those of you that are Douglas Adams fans please accept the deepest apologies for bad analogies to the HHGTTG.]
OpenShift is Red Hat's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that lets developers quickly develop, host, and scale Docker container-based applications. OpenShift enables a uniform and standardised approach to container management across all hosting options including AWS/EC2 and other private/public cloud and on/off-premise variants. At this session, you will learn how Red Hat's enterprise clients are using OpenShift to enable their digital transformation initiatives. Examples will cover how realising a hybrid cloud strategy can simplify and reduce the risk of migrating and transitioning application workloads to containers in the cloud.
Alex Smith, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services, ASEAN
Stephen Bylo, Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Storage Switzerland’s founder and lead analyst, George Crump and Cloudian’s Chief Marketing Officer, Paul Turner, describe the benefits of object and cloud storage but also describe how they can work together to solve your data problem once and for all. In addition, they cover specific next steps to begin implementing a hybrid cloud storage solution in your data center.
Tech Incubation. Delivering an enterprise platform on AWSNick Brown
Presentation by Eddie Wu, software developer in my team at AWS Summit 2015 in Hull on August 27th 2015. Overview about how we developed an enterprise search capability that was deployed for 60k users with elastic scaling using Amazon Web Services and Docker.
Build Your Own PaaS, Just like Red Hat's OpenShift from LinuxCon 2013 New Orl...OpenShift Origin
Learn how to build your platform as a service just like RedHat's OpenShift PaaS - covers all the architecture & internals of OpenShift Origin OpenSource project, how to deploy it & configure it for bare metal, AWS, OpenStack, CloudStack or any IaaS, and the community that's collaborating on the project to deliver the next-generation of secure, scale-able PaaS visit: openshift.com for more information
presented at LinuxCon by Diane Mueller in the CloudOpen track
Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit: Hitchhiker's Guide to the CloudMark Hinkle
Imagine it's eight o'clock on a Thursday morning and you awake to see a bulldozer out your window ready to plow over your data center. Normally you may wish to consult the Encyclopedia Galáctica to discern the best course of action but your copy is likely out of date. And while the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG) is a wholly remarkable book it doesn't cover the nuances of cloud computing. That's why you need the Hitchhiker's Guide to Cloud Computing (HHGTCC) or at least to attend this talk understand the state of open source cloud computing. Specifically this talk will cover infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and developments in big data and how to more effectively take advantage of these technologies using open source software. Technologies that will be covered in this talk include Apache CloudStack, Chef, CloudFoundry, NoSQL, OpenStack, Puppet and many more.
Francois Martel, Solutions Architect of Portworx explains how you can tackle Data Gravity, Kubernetes, and strategies/best practices to run, scale, and leverage stateful containers in production.
OSCON 2013 - The Hitchiker’s Guide to Open Source Cloud ComputingMark Hinkle
And while the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG) is a wholly remarkable book it doesn’t cover the nuances of cloud computing. Whether you want to build a public, private or hybrid cloud there are free and open source tools that can help provide you a complete solution or help augment your existing Amazon or other hosted cloud solution. That’s why you need the Hitchhiker’s Guide to (Open Source) Cloud Computing (HHGTCC) or at least to attend this talk understand the current state of open source cloud computing. This talk will cover infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and developments in big data and how to more effectively deploy and manage open source flavors of these technologies. Specific the guide will cover:
Infrastructure-as-a-Service – The Systems Cloud – Get a comparison of the open source cloud platforms including OpenStack, Apache CloudStack, Eucalyptus and OpenNebula
Platform-as-a-Service – The Developers Cloud – Learn about the tools that abstract the complexity for developers and used to build portable auto-scaling applications ton CloudFoundry, OpenShift, Stackato and more.
Data-as-a-Service – The Analytics Cloud – Want to figure out the who, what, where, when and why of big data? You’ll get an overview of open source NoSQL databases and technologies like MapReduce to help parallelize data mining tasks and crunch massive data sets in the cloud.
Network-as-a-Service – The Network Cloud – The final pillar for truly fungible network infrastructure is network virtualization. We will give an overview of software-defined networking including OpenStack Quantum, Nicira, open Vswitch and others.
Finally this talk will provide an overview of the tools that can help you really take advantage of the cloud. Do you want to auto-scale to serve millions of web pages and scale back down as demand fluctuates. Are you interested in automating the total lifecycle of cloud computing environments You’ll learn how to combine these tools into tool chains to provide continuous deployment systems that will help you become agile and spend more time improving your IT rather than simply maintaining it.
[Finally, for those of you that are Douglas Adams fans please accept the deepest apologies for bad analogies to the HHGTTG.]
Updates to Apache CloudStack and LINBIT SDSShapeBlue
In this session, speakers Giles Sirett and Philipp Reisner shared insights into CloudStack and LINBIT. Giles detailed Apache CloudStack’s scalability, multi-tenancy, and compatibility with various hypervisors. He also discusses CloudStack’s integrated, easy-to-use nature, rapid time-to-value, and its active community. Following this, Giles delves into different use cases, such as IaaS/Cloud Provisioning, Disaster recovery, Sovereign Clouds, and the list goes on. CloudStack’s features, including its support for Kubernetes clusters, its scalable architecture, high availability and other features were also discussed.
Following this, Philipp highlighted the 4 key ways in which LINBIT can help an organisation: ‘Protecting data, Always Keeping Your Services On, Shaping Your Destiny and Exceeding with Best Performance”. Philipp also delved into the different reasons why LINBIT SDS is so fast, and what the next steps are for DRBD, LINSTOR and the LINSTOR Driver for CloudStack.
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On October 10th 2023, ShapeBlue, Ampere Computing and LINBIT held a joint virtual event – Building Next-Generation IaaS. The event explored how the synergy between ARM, Apache CloudStack and LINBIT’s storage solutions can achieve a formidable price-to-performance ratio. There were a total of 3 sessions held by speakers from all 3 organisations.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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/
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.
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/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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AllThingsOpen 2013 - Liberate Your Files
1. Liberate Your Files
Private Cloud Storage on Your Terms
Isaac Christoffersen
Architect, Vizuri
Allen Gigler
Product Consultant, ownCloud
24 October 2013
4. The Problem “Dropbox” Created
The Problem:
“Dropbox” created huge demand for file
sync and share...
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Simple
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Free
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Fast to obtain
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It just works
...at the risk of user and IT security.
5. The Problem “Dropbox” Created
The Problem:
“Dropbox” created huge demand for file
sync and share...
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Simple
•
Free
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Fast to obtain
•
It just works
*
44%
...at the risk of user and IT security.
* Use Dropbox in the enterprise without permission, Osterman Research
7. Private Cloud Storage … without giving up the
features we want
Extensible
& Open APIs
On-Demand
Scaling
Search &
Retrieval Tools
Automated File
Synchronization
Security &
Encryption
Collaboration
& Sharing
Access from
Anywhere
10. What is ownCloud
ownCloud helps enterprises concerned about sensitive data
leakage via Dropbox deliver a secure file sync and share
solution on their storage inside their data center.
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Protect and Manage sensitive data by storing it on-site,
on their servers, managed to their policies
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Integrate seamlessly into existing infrastructure
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Extend functionality through extensive APIs
AND STILL provide the seamless, easy-to-use access to
sensitive data that end users have come to expect from
consumer-grade services.
11. ownCloud's mobile, web, and desktop
clients enable you to ...
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Host in your data center
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Store on your storage
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Integrate via Plug-ins
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Extend with Plug-ins
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Sync files and folders
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ownCloud Server – the brains
Share files and folders
iOS and Android –
mobile access apps
Windows, Mac and Linux –
desktop file sync clients
13. Demonstration
ownCloud Deployed in the Cloud
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ownCloud at OpenShift
–
http://liberate-summit2013.rhcloud.com
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User – admin
Password - OpenShiftAdmin
14. OpenShift PaaS
…Bridging App Dev Worlds
Established
Enterprise-Class
Strength
• Enterprise Java EE6 via JBoss
• Multi-tenancy and Security via
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Jenkins, Maven, Git
• Auto-Scaling
• On-Premise, Hosted, or Hybrid
New
Cloud-Class Agility
• Designed for No Lock-In
• Polyglot with Java, Ruby, PHP,
Perl, Python
• Mobile and Responsive Web
• REST and Javascript
OpenShift = Open Hybrid PaaS
OpenShift = Open Hybrid PaaS
15. Unique SELinux Approach Enables
Security and Multi-tenancy
SELinux Policies securely subdivide
the Node instances.
RHEL
Broker
RHEL
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Node
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Node
RHEL
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Node
AWS / CloudForms / OpenStack (IaaS) / RHEV (Virt) / Bare Metal
16. OpenShift User Applications Run
in OpenShift Gears
Linux kernel cgroups are used to
contain application processes
and to fairly allocate resources
RHEL
Broker
RHEL
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Node
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Node
RHEL
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Node
AWS / CloudForms / OpenStack (IaaS) / RHEV (Virt) / Bare Metal
18. Demonstration
Deploying your own ownCloud Instance on OpenShift
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Video of deploying OpenShift
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ownCloud at OpenShift
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http://liberate-summit2013.rhcloud.com
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User – admin
Password - OpenShiftAdmin
21. GLUSTERFS STORAGE BENEFITS
Highly Scalable Storage
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Multiple peta-byte clusters
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Highly Flexible
Geo-replication to disperse data
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Physical, virtual, cloud and
hybrid deployment models
File and object access protocols
Highly Cost-Effective
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Leverages commodity x86
servers
Leverages existing capacity
within virtual Machine
environment
Deployment Agnostic
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Deploy on-premise, in the public
cloud or a hybrid setup.
Open & Standards Based
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NFS, CIFS, HTTP
22. Demonstration
Key Components in Action
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OpenShift
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Gluster Storage
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1 Broker with 2 Nodes
2 Nodes with 1 Brick per Node in a distributed
configuration
ownCloud
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Deployed as an OpenShift Gear
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MySQL
Php 5.3
23. Next-generation cloud storage on your
terms
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Secure multi-tenant
environment with built-in
autoscaling and encryption
Example text
Geo-replication support with
massive redundancy and proactive self-healing
Mobile, desktop, and web
clients let you work from
anywhere
Example text
Integrates with existing
infrastructure and corporate
audit & compliance policies
Free of lock-in and
extensible through open
APIs
Example text
Built on top of enterpriseclass, professional open
source software
For main parts to the solution
Control – you server
Physical, virtual, private cloud
Where everything is integrated and admins control access and administer the system
Storage – Your storage – AGNOSTIC
NAS, SAN, direct attached – whatever you have or want
Hybrid too if you choose
Access – web clients, mobile devices, desktop clients, and a standard WebDAV connection
Extensibility – the secret sauce of ownCloud, this extensible framework for creating plug-ins
ALL Runs inside your firewall, managed by your admins, to your security and access polocies
So what is the problem?
Dropbox created something amazing
Simeple
Easy to get
Easy to use
It just works
Drop a file in the folder, it show up on server, and then to all other devices or users
The problem is it is not secure – lots of news to this affect
However, in an attempt to be more productive, users use it anyway
In a recent survey, 44% of enterprise users (>1000+) use dropbox without Its permission
Not all that secure,
Lots of people using it anyway
Opens you to risk of lost sensitive data
The little dropbox can be a big source of leaks – why it is upside down over here
And one more layer down, you see the server
The APIs are part of why we are so flexible, as is the standard n-tier architecture
We are PHP, support Oracle, MySQL, Postgres as databases
We have a management panel and logging apps to provide insight and control
External provisioning api for use with automation
Sharing
Capability
Storage abstraction layer: whatever you have plus cloud storage, all abstracted by ownCloud to make it simple to use the storage you have
OpenShift provides a Cloud Application Platform that bridges today’s two diverging application development worlds. OpenShift brings Enterprise-class strength and maturity to the Cloud and also enables both proven enterprise application stacks like Java EE as well as newer rapid-development oriented application stacks like LAMP, Ruby and Node.JS.
OpenShift includes the tools needed for rigorous application development like Maven and Jenkins, as well as support for NoSQL databases and Mobile application development.
Soon to be available in either public, private, or hybrid cloud implementations, OpenShift delivers the Control and Security that IT Operations demands and the Velocity and Agility that Application Developers desire.
OpenShift is the industry’s first Open Hybrid PaaS.
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One of the unique features of OpenShift is that within the Nodes, OpenShift provides secure, fine-grained, multi-tenancy by leveraging powerful Red Hat Enterprise Linux subsystems such as SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux), CGroups (Control Groups), and NameSpaces to divide up the RHEL instances into slices that can be dedicated to each user application firewalled off from each other.
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These slices of RHEL are called OpenShift Gears. OpenShift Gears are super-secure and highly efficient containers that host user applications in OpenShift. To the user, the Gear appears like an instance of RHEL. They can even SSH in to the gear. They can see their processes, their memory, and their filesystem, but they are prevented from seeing or impacting anyone else’s environment or the system as a whole.
SELinux was built by Red Hat in conjunction with the National Security Agency in order to support some of their strict requirements. It is a “Deny everything, and allow by exception” policy subsystem that allows very strict control of what processes and users can do. In OpenShift, SELinux policies are used to enable hi security in a container based multitenant environment.
Likewise, Control Groups are used to carefully control what resources an OpenShift Gear is able to consume. Cgroups allow Gears to consume CPU and RAM but also limits that consumption based on configurable policies.
And finally NameSpaces are used to allow each Gear to have it’s own file system complete with the system directories that it may need including /tmp, /var, and others.
Red Hat has been able to leverage these technologies to build a secure and yet efficient multi-tenant PaaS because Red Hat has incredible knowledge with respect to the Operating System underneath, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With some of the best linux kernel coders in the world, Red Hat has used these smarts to build a cloud Platform-as-a-Service on top of the industry leading enterprise Linux operating system.
OpenShift Gears represent the resulting benefit of leveraging this wealth of knowledge in the Operating System Platform to build a Cloud Application Platform that is both super-secure and highly efficient.
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The OpenShift Gear-based architecture provides two other key benefits:
Deploying multi-tenancy inside of RHEL Nodes allows many, many applications to be maintained by deploying maintenance to a much smaller set of RHEL Operating System instances. The Sys Admins job becomes much easier when they only need to patch and perform maintenance on a small number of nodes instead of 1000s of Virtual Machine instances (as would be the case with VM-based multi-tenancy).
OpenShift also has the ability to “Idle” Gears that are not actively being used. In this situation the Broker will take a snapshot of an application Gear and write it to disk to take it out of RAM. Network connections are maintained so when an application URL is requested, the Gear will be “un-idled” and able to service the request quickly. This Idling technology allows many more Gears to be supported within one instance of RHEL because not all Gears will be active at the same time. Implemented for the OpenShift hosted service, this Idling capability is also beneficial to the enterprise that wants to optimize resource consumption as much as possible.
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And, once the application is launched within the OpenShift PaaS, OpenShift provides the elasticity expected in a Cloud Application Platform by automatically scaling the application as needed to meet demand.
When created, applications can be flagged as “Scalable” (some apps may not want to be scaled). When OpenShift sees this flag, it creates an additional Gear and places an HA-Proxy software load-balancer in front of the application. The HA-Proxy then monitors the incoming traffic to the application. When the number of connections to the application crosses a certain pre-defined threshold, OpenShift will then horizontally scale the application by replicating the application code tier of the application across multiple Gears.
For JBoss applications, OpenShift will scale the application using JBoss Clustering which allows stateful or stateless applications to be scaled gracefully. For Ruby, PHP, Python, and other script-oriented languages, the application will need to be designed for stateless scaling where the application container is replicated across multiple gears. The Database tier is not scaled in OpenShift today.
Automatic application scaling is a feature that is unique to OpenShift among the popular PaaS offerings that are out there.
Automatic scaling of production applications is another example of how OpenShift applies automation technologies and a cloud architecture to make life better for both IT Operations and Development.
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