Get a better understanding of the relationships between compute and VMs when you aggregate the operational data for all your Dell EMC PowerEdge servers in VMware vRealize Operations. Learn more at bluemedora.com/vrops
The Path to Streamlining and Automating Data Center OperationsVMware
Streamlining and automating data center operations can help organizations experience increased resource utilization, greater infrastructure availability, and sharply reduced capital expenditures. Traditionally, relying on manual efforts and point solutions to manage operations can lead to issues like lack of visibility, idle resources from over-provisioning, unanticipated capacity shortfalls, and unpredictable bottlenecks. VMware customers achieved improvements like a 25% increase in operational visibility, 2.7x increase in infrastructure utilization, 25% average productivity gains, and a 40% reduction in problem detection and resolution time through streamlining and automating their data center operations.
Accelerate Your Sales with Application-Centric Storage-as-a-Service Using VMw...VMware
VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 provides major enhancements including 4x higher performance, 2x greater scale, and new enterprise data services. It allows for up to 90,000 IOPS per host, scaling to 64 nodes with 200 VMs per host and 62TB maximum virtual disk sizes. Virtual SAN 6.0 also delivers high performance snapshots and clones, rack awareness, and hardware-based checksum and encryption. It provides broader hardware support including expanded support for blades. Virtual SAN 6.0 is ready to support business critical applications with an all-flash architecture providing data persistence on SSD and intelligent caching.
PeaSoup, a VMware vCloud Air Network partner, adopted Virtual SAN to address challenges with traditional storage including
Virtualization allows operating systems and applications to run in virtual machines across physical hardware. This document discusses Microsoft's virtualization products from the datacenter to the desktop, including server, presentation, application, and desktop virtualization. It highlights benefits like accelerated provisioning, reduced costs, increased availability, and improved agility. It also provides examples of how organizations have benefited and reduced costs through server consolidation and eliminating application conflicts using virtualization.
InCycle presents how to leverage Azure in your development and testing cycles in order to increase your agility and have less reliability on operations.
Reducing release cycles with Visual Studio: a DevOps perspectiveInCycle Software
Reduce the time to release and simplify your Build-deploy-test-release process! Learn how Release Management practices and tools can significantly reduce the risks and costs related to release. Application Release is often complex, brittle and error-prone resulting in delays and many frustrations along the way. Thanks to new tools and approaches, the release process can now be successfully automated and managed.
Agenda:
• Source Control, Build & Packaging
• Provisioning for Testing on Azure
• Provisioning for Testing on Premise
• Automated Deployments
• Releasing to Operations
.NEXT is designed to equip you with the tools, knowledge, and network of people that can help you make real, tangible business impact in your organization.
Dynamic environment provisioning portal for a US based insurance solutions pr...Aspire Systems
The customer, in order to effectively adapt to industry changes had deployed a cloud-ops solution with a dedicated set of internal resources. The team was in charge of manual provisioning of cloud-based resources to the developers and testers anytime resulting in increased demand and dependency on the team.
Get a better understanding of the relationships between compute and VMs when you aggregate the operational data for all your Dell EMC PowerEdge servers in VMware vRealize Operations. Learn more at bluemedora.com/vrops
The Path to Streamlining and Automating Data Center OperationsVMware
Streamlining and automating data center operations can help organizations experience increased resource utilization, greater infrastructure availability, and sharply reduced capital expenditures. Traditionally, relying on manual efforts and point solutions to manage operations can lead to issues like lack of visibility, idle resources from over-provisioning, unanticipated capacity shortfalls, and unpredictable bottlenecks. VMware customers achieved improvements like a 25% increase in operational visibility, 2.7x increase in infrastructure utilization, 25% average productivity gains, and a 40% reduction in problem detection and resolution time through streamlining and automating their data center operations.
Accelerate Your Sales with Application-Centric Storage-as-a-Service Using VMw...VMware
VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 provides major enhancements including 4x higher performance, 2x greater scale, and new enterprise data services. It allows for up to 90,000 IOPS per host, scaling to 64 nodes with 200 VMs per host and 62TB maximum virtual disk sizes. Virtual SAN 6.0 also delivers high performance snapshots and clones, rack awareness, and hardware-based checksum and encryption. It provides broader hardware support including expanded support for blades. Virtual SAN 6.0 is ready to support business critical applications with an all-flash architecture providing data persistence on SSD and intelligent caching.
PeaSoup, a VMware vCloud Air Network partner, adopted Virtual SAN to address challenges with traditional storage including
Virtualization allows operating systems and applications to run in virtual machines across physical hardware. This document discusses Microsoft's virtualization products from the datacenter to the desktop, including server, presentation, application, and desktop virtualization. It highlights benefits like accelerated provisioning, reduced costs, increased availability, and improved agility. It also provides examples of how organizations have benefited and reduced costs through server consolidation and eliminating application conflicts using virtualization.
InCycle presents how to leverage Azure in your development and testing cycles in order to increase your agility and have less reliability on operations.
Reducing release cycles with Visual Studio: a DevOps perspectiveInCycle Software
Reduce the time to release and simplify your Build-deploy-test-release process! Learn how Release Management practices and tools can significantly reduce the risks and costs related to release. Application Release is often complex, brittle and error-prone resulting in delays and many frustrations along the way. Thanks to new tools and approaches, the release process can now be successfully automated and managed.
Agenda:
• Source Control, Build & Packaging
• Provisioning for Testing on Azure
• Provisioning for Testing on Premise
• Automated Deployments
• Releasing to Operations
.NEXT is designed to equip you with the tools, knowledge, and network of people that can help you make real, tangible business impact in your organization.
Dynamic environment provisioning portal for a US based insurance solutions pr...Aspire Systems
The customer, in order to effectively adapt to industry changes had deployed a cloud-ops solution with a dedicated set of internal resources. The team was in charge of manual provisioning of cloud-based resources to the developers and testers anytime resulting in increased demand and dependency on the team.
VMware is driving innovation in business mobility and desktop transformation through its Workspace Suite products. The document outlines four new introductions from VMware: 1) Support for Linux desktops with Horizon 6 for Linux, 2) Enhanced user experience features for Horizon, 3) VMware User Environment Manager (UEM) for comprehensive user, application, and environment management across physical, virtual, and cloud environments, and 4) New application management and delivery capabilities through the Horizon Application Management Bundle to improve management of XenApp and XenDesktop environments.
The Path to Streamlining and Automating Data Center Operations VMware
The Taneja Group polled over 300 VMware customer organizations about their IT priorities, challenges, and adopted capabilities to determine effective paths to streamlining and automating data center operations.
Virtualization to Cloud with SDDC Operations Management and Service ProvisioningVMware
IT as a Service (ITaaS) is a journey, not a one-time implementation. This presentation shows how, over time and with expanded adoption, VMware's customers are becoming more virtualized and decreasing costs with greater ROI.
VMware: Enabling Software-Defined Storage Using Virtual SAN (Business Decisio...VMware
VMware's Virtual SAN 6.0 software enables software-defined storage using the hypervisor. It provides a simplified storage solution that pools server-side storage and manages it through storage policies at the virtual machine level. Virtual SAN delivers high performance, scale, and availability while reducing costs through server-side economics and linear scalability. It is well-integrated with the VMware software stack and supports a variety of use cases including virtual desktop infrastructure, test/development environments, and disaster recovery.
DataCore software can significantly improve performance of virtual servers running SQL Server, Exchange, and file server workloads compared to physical servers with direct-attached storage. Using DataCore, these workloads saw performance increases of 346-538% in IOPS. DataCore also allows customers to achieve up to 500% faster performance, 90% utilization rates, 100% uptime, and 60% cost savings.
Business leaders want IT to deliver fast solutions and be a true partner. However, if IT cannot provide what the business needs or give a viable alternative, business units will purchase solutions externally. The document outlines how IT can drive innovation through a software-defined, cloud-based approach. This allows separating applications from infrastructure, simplifying management, enabling automation, and providing choice in deployment location. Adopting cloud economics in this way can free up budget for IT to invest in innovation that drives business growth.
Accelerate Your Migration to "Application-Centric" Storage-as-a-Service from ...VMware
This document summarizes a presentation by VMware and IndonesianCloud about accelerating migration to storage-as-a-service using VMware vCloud and Virtual SAN. It discusses IndonesianCloud's past issues with a traditional storage platform and how Virtual SAN addressed their needs for cost efficiency, operational simplicity, reliability, and scalability. Specifically, Virtual SAN allowed them to match competitors' storage prices, simplify operations through policy-based management and per-VM services, improve reliability through a scale-out design that accommodates failures, and easily scale capacity and performance by adding servers. IndonesianCloud deployed a Virtual SAN platform using SuperMicro servers with SSDs and HDDs to provide storage as a service.
The document discusses several reasons and use cases for automating processes using automation tools:
1) Automating middleware upgrades, migrations off premium software, building private clouds, core application upgrades/migrations, and platform migrations can speed up projects, reduce risks, and create more manageable environments.
2) Implementing a DevOps process requires integrating tools throughout the development cycle, so automation tools should integrate with existing build engines.
3) The RapidDeploy plugin allows AnthillPro builds to be invoked from RapidDeploy for deployment, enabling automation of building and deploying new environments faster.
Save IT admin time with the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX platform and OpenManage En...Principled Technologies
The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX solution required 86.8 percent less admin time to implement VMware vSAN and 19 fewer steps to update firmware on a single system versus a Cisco UCS solution
VMware Outlines Its Own Journey to the CloudVMware
See how VMware, pioneers of the software-defined data center, are implementing their own IT transformation to take advantage of the benefits provided by an SDDC architecture.
Cloud Management Solutions for the EnterpriseRightScale
This document summarizes a presentation about Cloud Management Solutions from RightScale. It discusses RightScale's solutions for enterprises, including streamlining consumer applications, enabling self-service IT, maintaining security and user management, and supporting hybrid clouds. The presentation demonstrates RightScale's Enterprise Manager for deployments and access control, its tools for self-service IT, and its abilities for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments.
This document discusses hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions. It begins by describing how server virtualization has evolved from using standalone servers to converged infrastructure that combines computing, storage, and networking into a single rack. HCI takes this a step further by integrating these components into a single appliance for improved performance and efficiency. The document then compares converged and HCI solutions, outlines some key vendors, discusses future trends, and analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches.
The document discusses several compelling reasons for organizations to automate processes using automation tools. It describes projects like middleware upgrades, migrating applications to open-source platforms to reduce costs, building private clouds, upgrading core business applications, platform migrations, and rearchitecting IT infrastructure as examples of projects that can benefit from automation. The document also summarizes a Hudson plugin that allows builds to be invoked from within an automation tool and provides log streaming and monitoring capabilities.
What is the role of clouds in driving substantial IT organizational change? Adopters of private clouds are looking for more agility and speed, according to IT market research highlighted in the presentation.
These business benefits are made possible by the adoption of cloud automation. The presentation examines automation advantages such as:
• Reducing management costs while also cutting cloud deployment time
• Cutting complexity via standardization
• Optimizing resource utilization
• Accelerating service delivery times.
Power to Change also spotlights specific gains achieved by Dow Jones & Co.’s adoption of VMware cloud automation software, including an 80% improvement in operational efficiency and substantial operational savings.
Learn how adopting cloud automation tools will provide a competitive edge to your organization.
Agentless backup provides 7 key benefits: 1) Significant savings from eliminating server maintenance costs and agent licensing fees. 2) Simple licensing with a pay-as-you-grow model instead of agent-based pricing. 3) A single consolidated repository that is easy to install, manage, and diagnose without resource-draining updates. 4) Conservation of WAN, LAN, and CPU resources since the software runs with minimal impact. 5) Robust security with up to 256-bit AES encryption of data both in transit and at rest. 6) Elegant scaling of both capacity and performance. 7) More consistent backups and improved recoverability for remote sites through easy implementation and maintenance of backup programs.
Arcus:IT provides cloud computing services for disaster recovery in the Philippines. They operate data centers in Manila and California to provide a fast, flexible, secure and scalable cloud infrastructure. Most small businesses lack comprehensive disaster recovery plans, and downtime costs an average of $84,000 per hour. Cloud backup and disaster recovery services provide an affordable solution through frequent backups and self-service recovery of files, disks and systems.
VMworld 2013: Implementing a Holistic BC/DR Strategy with VMware - Part OneVMworld
VMworld 2013
Mauricio Barra, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Gaetan Castelein, VMware
The document discusses VMware virtual infrastructure solutions for financial services. It provides an agenda for the document and discusses how virtualization can help financial services companies address IT challenges like agility, availability, disaster recovery and desktop management. It provides examples of how several financial services companies leveraged VMware virtualization to increase flexibility, optimize resources, cut costs and ensure high availability.
This document discusses how automation can help organizations manage constant infrastructure changes in a cloud DevOps world. It provides examples of how to design infrastructure for constant changes like new environments, configuration updates, failures, and code deployments through automation using techniques like configuration management, auto scaling, immutable infrastructure, and security scanning. Automation improves security by reducing human errors and ensuring consistent patching and configuration across all environments.
- The editor is proud of the contributors writing for The Infinite Field magazine and welcomes new contributors joining that month
- The magazine has received positive responses and feedback from readers who are excited to read the articles
- Contributors have accepted the new editorial schedule and deadlines, which the editor appreciates
- Tips are provided about editing articles, making corrections after receiving edits, sharing the new issue on websites and social media to promote the magazine, and an upcoming teleconference featuring one of the contributors
The document compares Berkshire Hathaway's annual percentage change in per-share book value to the S&P 500's annual return from 1965 to 2010. Over this period, Berkshire outperformed the S&P 500 in most years and achieved a compounded annual gain of 20.2% compared to 9.4% for the S&P 500. The overall gains were 490,409% for Berkshire versus 6,262% for the S&P 500. In 2010, Berkshire's per-share book value increased 13% and its acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe increased expected future earnings by around 30-40%.
VMware is driving innovation in business mobility and desktop transformation through its Workspace Suite products. The document outlines four new introductions from VMware: 1) Support for Linux desktops with Horizon 6 for Linux, 2) Enhanced user experience features for Horizon, 3) VMware User Environment Manager (UEM) for comprehensive user, application, and environment management across physical, virtual, and cloud environments, and 4) New application management and delivery capabilities through the Horizon Application Management Bundle to improve management of XenApp and XenDesktop environments.
The Path to Streamlining and Automating Data Center Operations VMware
The Taneja Group polled over 300 VMware customer organizations about their IT priorities, challenges, and adopted capabilities to determine effective paths to streamlining and automating data center operations.
Virtualization to Cloud with SDDC Operations Management and Service ProvisioningVMware
IT as a Service (ITaaS) is a journey, not a one-time implementation. This presentation shows how, over time and with expanded adoption, VMware's customers are becoming more virtualized and decreasing costs with greater ROI.
VMware: Enabling Software-Defined Storage Using Virtual SAN (Business Decisio...VMware
VMware's Virtual SAN 6.0 software enables software-defined storage using the hypervisor. It provides a simplified storage solution that pools server-side storage and manages it through storage policies at the virtual machine level. Virtual SAN delivers high performance, scale, and availability while reducing costs through server-side economics and linear scalability. It is well-integrated with the VMware software stack and supports a variety of use cases including virtual desktop infrastructure, test/development environments, and disaster recovery.
DataCore software can significantly improve performance of virtual servers running SQL Server, Exchange, and file server workloads compared to physical servers with direct-attached storage. Using DataCore, these workloads saw performance increases of 346-538% in IOPS. DataCore also allows customers to achieve up to 500% faster performance, 90% utilization rates, 100% uptime, and 60% cost savings.
Business leaders want IT to deliver fast solutions and be a true partner. However, if IT cannot provide what the business needs or give a viable alternative, business units will purchase solutions externally. The document outlines how IT can drive innovation through a software-defined, cloud-based approach. This allows separating applications from infrastructure, simplifying management, enabling automation, and providing choice in deployment location. Adopting cloud economics in this way can free up budget for IT to invest in innovation that drives business growth.
Accelerate Your Migration to "Application-Centric" Storage-as-a-Service from ...VMware
This document summarizes a presentation by VMware and IndonesianCloud about accelerating migration to storage-as-a-service using VMware vCloud and Virtual SAN. It discusses IndonesianCloud's past issues with a traditional storage platform and how Virtual SAN addressed their needs for cost efficiency, operational simplicity, reliability, and scalability. Specifically, Virtual SAN allowed them to match competitors' storage prices, simplify operations through policy-based management and per-VM services, improve reliability through a scale-out design that accommodates failures, and easily scale capacity and performance by adding servers. IndonesianCloud deployed a Virtual SAN platform using SuperMicro servers with SSDs and HDDs to provide storage as a service.
The document discusses several reasons and use cases for automating processes using automation tools:
1) Automating middleware upgrades, migrations off premium software, building private clouds, core application upgrades/migrations, and platform migrations can speed up projects, reduce risks, and create more manageable environments.
2) Implementing a DevOps process requires integrating tools throughout the development cycle, so automation tools should integrate with existing build engines.
3) The RapidDeploy plugin allows AnthillPro builds to be invoked from RapidDeploy for deployment, enabling automation of building and deploying new environments faster.
Save IT admin time with the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX platform and OpenManage En...Principled Technologies
The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX solution required 86.8 percent less admin time to implement VMware vSAN and 19 fewer steps to update firmware on a single system versus a Cisco UCS solution
VMware Outlines Its Own Journey to the CloudVMware
See how VMware, pioneers of the software-defined data center, are implementing their own IT transformation to take advantage of the benefits provided by an SDDC architecture.
Cloud Management Solutions for the EnterpriseRightScale
This document summarizes a presentation about Cloud Management Solutions from RightScale. It discusses RightScale's solutions for enterprises, including streamlining consumer applications, enabling self-service IT, maintaining security and user management, and supporting hybrid clouds. The presentation demonstrates RightScale's Enterprise Manager for deployments and access control, its tools for self-service IT, and its abilities for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments.
This document discusses hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions. It begins by describing how server virtualization has evolved from using standalone servers to converged infrastructure that combines computing, storage, and networking into a single rack. HCI takes this a step further by integrating these components into a single appliance for improved performance and efficiency. The document then compares converged and HCI solutions, outlines some key vendors, discusses future trends, and analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches.
The document discusses several compelling reasons for organizations to automate processes using automation tools. It describes projects like middleware upgrades, migrating applications to open-source platforms to reduce costs, building private clouds, upgrading core business applications, platform migrations, and rearchitecting IT infrastructure as examples of projects that can benefit from automation. The document also summarizes a Hudson plugin that allows builds to be invoked from within an automation tool and provides log streaming and monitoring capabilities.
What is the role of clouds in driving substantial IT organizational change? Adopters of private clouds are looking for more agility and speed, according to IT market research highlighted in the presentation.
These business benefits are made possible by the adoption of cloud automation. The presentation examines automation advantages such as:
• Reducing management costs while also cutting cloud deployment time
• Cutting complexity via standardization
• Optimizing resource utilization
• Accelerating service delivery times.
Power to Change also spotlights specific gains achieved by Dow Jones & Co.’s adoption of VMware cloud automation software, including an 80% improvement in operational efficiency and substantial operational savings.
Learn how adopting cloud automation tools will provide a competitive edge to your organization.
Agentless backup provides 7 key benefits: 1) Significant savings from eliminating server maintenance costs and agent licensing fees. 2) Simple licensing with a pay-as-you-grow model instead of agent-based pricing. 3) A single consolidated repository that is easy to install, manage, and diagnose without resource-draining updates. 4) Conservation of WAN, LAN, and CPU resources since the software runs with minimal impact. 5) Robust security with up to 256-bit AES encryption of data both in transit and at rest. 6) Elegant scaling of both capacity and performance. 7) More consistent backups and improved recoverability for remote sites through easy implementation and maintenance of backup programs.
Arcus:IT provides cloud computing services for disaster recovery in the Philippines. They operate data centers in Manila and California to provide a fast, flexible, secure and scalable cloud infrastructure. Most small businesses lack comprehensive disaster recovery plans, and downtime costs an average of $84,000 per hour. Cloud backup and disaster recovery services provide an affordable solution through frequent backups and self-service recovery of files, disks and systems.
VMworld 2013: Implementing a Holistic BC/DR Strategy with VMware - Part OneVMworld
VMworld 2013
Mauricio Barra, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Gaetan Castelein, VMware
The document discusses VMware virtual infrastructure solutions for financial services. It provides an agenda for the document and discusses how virtualization can help financial services companies address IT challenges like agility, availability, disaster recovery and desktop management. It provides examples of how several financial services companies leveraged VMware virtualization to increase flexibility, optimize resources, cut costs and ensure high availability.
This document discusses how automation can help organizations manage constant infrastructure changes in a cloud DevOps world. It provides examples of how to design infrastructure for constant changes like new environments, configuration updates, failures, and code deployments through automation using techniques like configuration management, auto scaling, immutable infrastructure, and security scanning. Automation improves security by reducing human errors and ensuring consistent patching and configuration across all environments.
- The editor is proud of the contributors writing for The Infinite Field magazine and welcomes new contributors joining that month
- The magazine has received positive responses and feedback from readers who are excited to read the articles
- Contributors have accepted the new editorial schedule and deadlines, which the editor appreciates
- Tips are provided about editing articles, making corrections after receiving edits, sharing the new issue on websites and social media to promote the magazine, and an upcoming teleconference featuring one of the contributors
The document compares Berkshire Hathaway's annual percentage change in per-share book value to the S&P 500's annual return from 1965 to 2010. Over this period, Berkshire outperformed the S&P 500 in most years and achieved a compounded annual gain of 20.2% compared to 9.4% for the S&P 500. The overall gains were 490,409% for Berkshire versus 6,262% for the S&P 500. In 2010, Berkshire's per-share book value increased 13% and its acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe increased expected future earnings by around 30-40%.
This document highlights key areas of expertise including thought leadership, a wide perspective on client marketing issues in healthcare, in-depth experience, and marketing innovation. The focus is on providing knowledge and expertise in healthcare marketing through people with broad perspectives and experience innovating in the field.
This document provides an overview of the Vietnam War from 1945 to 1975, including key events and people on both sides. It discusses the escalation of US involvement over time due to fears of communism spreading. Major events covered include the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the US backing of Ngo Dinh Diem as South Vietnam's president, the Gulf of Tonkin incident leading to greater US bombing, and the Tet Offensive turning public opinion against the war in the US. The document also examines domestic impacts and protests against the war on the US home front.
The World Health Organization has recommended the goal of promotion of Independent Function for programs addressing musculoskeletal pain. Pain sources, functional goals, biomechanical obstacles to recovery and the LASS strategic approach is described.
Learning is a process that takes time and involves acquiring new knowledge and skills through experience. There are different types of learning, including simple non-associative learning like habituation and sensitization, associative learning like classical and operant conditioning, and observational learning. Creating the right learning environment, ensuring students are motivated and ready to learn, and using positive reinforcement can help facilitate the learning process. Internal motivation that comes from an individual's own desire to learn tends to be more effective for learning than external motivation from rewards.
This document discusses how businesses can view information security differently by focusing on the business value it provides rather than just threats. It suggests businesses focus on the "3 R's" of revenue, reputation and regulations when considering security. The document also provides examples of how security can help opportunities like revenue, efficiency gains and helping meet regulatory requirements. It advocates seeing security as a way to help the business rather than just a cost center.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
Marsh Elevation Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the Effect of Alt...acomma1
Our scientific understanding of the marshes along the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, is limited in terms
of the processes required to sustain them and how to best manage them in the face of predicted rising sea levels. Subject
to localized subsidence and urban development, these marshes may also be affected by increased nutrient loading in the
future from proposed Mississippi River diversions and continued urbanization. This study presents data on marsh
surface elevation change across a series of experimental plots located in Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge,
Louisiana, that were subject to varying additions of phosphorus and nitrogen as well as a lethal herbicide treatment.
These plots were also affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. The rate of marsh elevation change prior to the
storm suggests these marshes were maintaining elevation in the face of sea-level rise. A dramatic increase in elevation
occurred following the storms but was followed by a proportional decrease in elevation. Soil data indicate the increase
was caused by an influx of highly organic material at all plots. The results show how both storm and nonstorm processes
contribute to elevation change and the maintenance of these marshes in the face of sea-level rise.
The document contains lyrics from the song "Supermassive Black Hole" by Muse, which describes the singer's feelings of being drawn into a supermassive black hole like the superstars. It also references glaciers melting at night and contains repetitions of the lines "Oooh, you set my soul alight" and descriptions of being sucked into a supermassive black hole.
Indoor tanning is an alternative to outdoor tanning that allows for controlled exposure to ultraviolet rays to produce melanin and vitamin D. While indoor tanning provides benefits like a faster tan and mood improvement, it also carries greater health risks than outdoor tanning such as eye damage, premature skin aging, and an increased risk of skin cancer due to higher UV exposure levels. Important factors in indoor tanning include using tanning lotion to prevent burning and maximize tan, and being aware that UVA rays penetrate deeper and contribute more to skin damage and aging than UVB rays.
Coaching And Mentoring Level 5 Slides Nov 2009guest13b131d
The document provides information about the ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching & Mentoring in Management, including its aims, objectives, assignment details and structure. It outlines the 3 units of the certificate and describes the work-based assignment involving proposing a coaching/mentoring program, undertaking coaching/mentoring sessions, and reflecting on performance. Key coaching and mentoring concepts such as GROW, MEDIC, and feedback models are also summarized.
Virtualizing SAP implementations can significantly reduce hardware costs, increase server utilization rates, and ease the burden of system upgrades and platform migrations. Virtualization allows organizations to streamline testing environments, accelerate upgrade planning, and meet availability and performance SLAs. It enables dynamic, on-demand provisioning of resources to build a more flexible and cost-effective IT infrastructure.
Cloud Done Right - PaaS is the Remedy to VM HangoverMohamad Afshar
Virtualized hardware is all the rage in enterprise IT. However, is a purely virtualization-focused, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) approach really the right one for enterprises and government? What’s becoming clear is that virtualization is but one piece of a much bigger strategy for fast, self-service deployment and ultra-efficient operations, referred to as “platform as a service” (PaaS). PaaS leverages a wider set of middleware capabilities to enable application deployment in minutes rather than days and reduces operational costs by up to 90%. This general session will compare and contrast the IaaS and PaaS approaches, discussing architectural and operational considerations for PaaS using examples of best practices. It's a must-attend session for anyone considering building a private cloud.
Build your private cloud with paa s using linuxz cover story enterprise tech ...Elena Nanos
This article has been published as a cover story of Enterprise Tech Journal Jun 2013 issue, at - http://enterprisesystemsmedia.com/article/build-your-private-cloud-with-paas-using-linux-on-system-z.
Do you know that according to Gartner poll, Private Cloud project deployments are increasing significantly in 2013 and nearly 90% of customers are looking at Private Cloud implementation and are either in the planning or early deployment stages? Is your shop currently looking into Private Platform as a Service (PaaS) Cloud implementation? Have you looked into what zEnterprise has to offer in this space?
This article gives insight on Private Cloud Implementation on zEnterprise and can help you learn how your organization can benefit from implementing a Dev/Test private cloud using PaaS with Linux on System z and why WebSphere Application Server (WAS) may be a perfect fit for a Dev/Test Private Cloud.
Learn how your organization can cut IT costs by deploying “self-service” for developers, using Dev/Test Private Cloud.
This article goes over what Applications are a good fit for Dev/Test Private Cloud and the benefits of this implementation, such as :
• Reduce the number of Dev/Test WAS environments using dedicated resources
• Reduce hardware and software license costs
• Improve speed of upgrades
• Standardize procedures and software levels
• Let developers set up and use new environments in minutes instead of days or weeks
• Simplify WAS infrastructure management
Article also goes over the key differences in managing cloud infrastructure on distributed platforms vs. mainframes and shows how Linux on System z plays a critical role in creating PaaS clouds.
• Mainframes can scale vertically, while distributed servers can scale horizontally.
• Linux on System z has much higher densities of virtual machines per processor core compared to distributed servers.
• Cloud implementation on zEnterprise can dynamically allocate workloads to available pooled resources.
• Linux on System z leverages z/VM’s ability to virtualize CPUs and memory, as well as share those resources among many Linux guests. One IFL can run the equivalent of many distributed servers.
• Consolidation of Linux workloads on a single physical hardware server allows multiple Linux images to run on z/VM IFLs without affecting IBM software charges for existing System z general processors.
Creating private cloud to host dev/test environments can save your company money and increase efficiency. Start small, but think big; create a cloud strategy and roadmap that involves getting leadership buy in, building business cases and presenting them in stages within your organization, standardizing procedures and using a fit-for-purpose approach to select pilot applications.
Connect with author of this article, Elena Nanos, on Linkedin at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/elena-nanos/1/a47/70a
E’ un’estensione di VMware vCenter che fornisce ai professionisti IT la possibilità di disaster recovery, migrazione di siti e funzionalità di test non distruttive.
This document discusses DevOps automation using Puppet Enterprise and VMware solutions. It describes how Puppet Enterprise can be used to automate the provisioning of multi-node applications on VMware vCloud Automation Center. This allows for self-service provisioning and lifecycle management of applications across heterogeneous infrastructure according to policies and approvals. It also enables drift remediation to fix configurations that deviate from the blueprint.
Vizioncore Economical Disaster Recovery through Virtualization1CloudRoad.com
Virtualization enables more affordable disaster recovery for SMBs. Previously, having a duplicate backup site required duplicate expensive hardware and infrastructure. With virtualization, virtual machines can easily be copied to alternate backup sites for quick recovery in the event of failure. Testing backups is also simpler through virtual machine replication. Vizioncore provides virtualization solutions like vReplicator that optimize replication speeds and storage usage to enable cost-effective disaster recovery for SMBs through virtualization.
Presentation business critical applications in a virtual envsolarisyourep
This document discusses virtualizing business critical applications. It begins by explaining why IT operations and application owners sometimes differ on virtualization, with the former wanting infrastructure efficiency and the latter concerned about performance and support. The document then shows trends of increasing virtualization for various workloads. It outlines operational benefits and new features in vSphere 5 that further reduce barriers to 100% virtualization. The rest of the document focuses on how virtualization can improve quality of service, availability, and time-to-market for applications through features like dynamic resource allocation, high availability, disaster recovery, and faster test/development cycles. It also addresses specific application information and licensing models. In the end it provides recommendations for getting started with virtualizing critical applications.
IBM PureApplication System provides a simplified and optimized application platform built for private cloud. It arrives ready to deploy with pre-integrated and pre-optimized IBM software, virtualized across the stack for efficiency. Patterns of expertise capture proven best practices learned from client engagements to enable efficient and repeatable application deployments.
The document discusses containers and Docker Enterprise Edition (EE). It notes that by 2020, over 50% of organizations will be running containers in production. Containers simplify infrastructure by allowing applications to run on any infrastructure. Docker EE provides additional capabilities for enterprises like security features, automation, and support that are required beyond the open source Docker Engine. It highlights customer examples where Docker EE helped accelerate projects, increase scalability, and migrate applications to the cloud. The document promotes Docker services to help customers develop a containerization strategy and achieve benefits like cost savings, agility, and productivity gains.
Accelerating and Protecting your Virtualize EnvironmentCTI Group
VNX storage solutions provide a comprehensive infrastructure for deploying virtual desktop environments. Tight integration with VMware and Microsoft hypervisors allows for automated and powerful desktop virtualization. Features like FAST caching and tiering optimize performance of boot storms, logins, and other I/O-intensive operations common in virtual desktops. VNX solutions deliver affordable, simple and scalable storage for end user computing.
This document discusses virtualizing tier 1 applications. It begins by showing how virtualization adoption has increased significantly for mission critical applications. It then discusses specific steps and considerations for virtualizing tier 1 applications, including:
1. Ensuring the platform (hardware, virtualization software, etc.) can adequately support the application.
2. Ensuring the people and processes are in place to design, implement, operate and troubleshoot the virtualized application. This includes discussing skills, support models, change management and monitoring.
3. Reviewing the application itself and existing reference architectures to understand virtualization best practices and sizing for that application. The goal is to virtualize at the application layer rather than physical server layer.
Managing IT environment complexity in a Multi-Cloud WorldShashi Kiran
IT environments are continuing to get complex. How do you better manage this to speed up digitization and application modernization efforts using environments-as-a-service
Virtualization allows organizations to reduce hardware costs and improve efficiency by running multiple virtual machines on a single physical server. This allows applications to be isolated from one another while sharing common resources. Virtualization provides benefits like faster deployment times, reduced maintenance costs, increased availability, and better performance. While virtualization introduces dependencies on vendors, it provides clear returns on investment for testing environments through lower costs and faster setup times.
VMware provides several technology extensions for ISVs to extend their product capabilities in virtual and cloud environments. These include vSphere client plugins, SRM SRA adapters, VAAI plugins, and vCO plugins. These integration points allow ISVs to integrate their solutions into the VMware ecosystem to deliver value to customers through increased efficiency, reduced costs, improved performance, and ensuring SLAs are met.
Webinar: Automating the Creation and Use of Virtual Testing Environments Skytap Cloud
Skytap provides on-demand cloud environments to help enterprises deliver better software faster by removing inefficiencies in the product development lifecycle. Traditional on-premise environments cause delays, restrict parallel development, and lead to defects due to inconsistent environments. Skytap's self-service cloud environments eliminate these problems by providing on-demand, pre-configured environments that developers can access immediately, reducing the time spent on environment management and reproducing defects.
Grid Economics for the Next Generation Data CenterGeorge Demarest
Grid computing utilizes virtualization and clustering techniques to consolidate workloads, enabling pay-as-you-go scaling and automated management. This reduces capital and operating expenses while improving quality of service, user productivity, and staff efficiency. Oracle provides a complete grid stack across all tiers from database to storage to middleware to management.
Build & Deploy Scalable Cloud Applications in Record TimeRightScale
The document summarizes a presentation about developing and deploying scalable cloud applications using WaveMaker and RightScale. WaveMaker is a platform for rapidly developing web and cloud applications while RightScale is a cloud management platform that allows deploying and managing applications across different cloud infrastructures. The presentation included demos of building an application with WaveMaker and deploying/managing it using RightScale's automation and scaling capabilities.
Dynamic Data Centers - Taking it to the next levelsanvmibj
Delivering on the Promise of a Virtualized Dynamic Data Center
-Maximize economic value with end-to-end virtualization
- Break down your silos (silos of virtualization are still silos)
- Explore the potential of cloud services
The document discusses challenges and best practices for building applications for the cloud. Traditional architectures are not well-suited for the cloud as they are bound to static resources, hard to maintain, insecure, and non-scalable. Applications need an elastic architecture that can grow and shrink based on demand, with no downtime and data or transaction loss. They also need to be memory-based and easy to operate on the cloud. GigaSpaces XAP provides a solution through application-level virtualization that is linearly scalable, secure, fast, and easy to deploy and monitor on the cloud.
5. Virtualization? What is Virtualization? Virtualization is software solution that allows hardware to be allocated based on host system requirements, use cases and application needs. These components include but not limit to disk (storage), CPU, memory, network interfaces.