The document discusses the Smart Work Center (SWC), a connected urban development project that aims to enable sustainable and flexible work. The SWC brings together work facilities and services near residential communities to optimize workers' days. It advocates an approach where information is brought to users rather than users going to information. The SWC pilot in Amsterdam provides comprehensive flexible workspaces to large employers through leases and services. It has a business model, ICT architecture, and aims to scale nationally and internationally through viable business models and experience sharing.
Evento Xenesys - Virtualizzare gli applicativi core e proteggere i dati azien...Xenesys
Le presentazioni dell'evento del 15 maggio 2012, organizzato da Xenesys al The Westin Excelsior Hotel di Firenze. Gli argomenti della virtualizzazione degli applicativi core, della protezione dei dati in azienda e del cloud computing affrontati con il contributo degli esperti di EMC, VMware e 9Proof.
Trends in Control and Power Technologies and Its Impact for Mineral Recovery ...Schneider Electric
Presented at the 2013 Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Annual Meeting (SME 2013). Mineral processing presents a major process challenge as it involves complexities in extraction and transformation into a final product, but also requires huge material movement, scheduling, and tracking. Learn how trends in information systems, reporting systems, energy management and efficiency, communications, process control, plant integration and other control technologies are aligned to address these current industry challenges.
Evento Xenesys - Virtualizzare gli applicativi core e proteggere i dati azien...Xenesys
Le presentazioni dell'evento del 15 maggio 2012, organizzato da Xenesys al The Westin Excelsior Hotel di Firenze. Gli argomenti della virtualizzazione degli applicativi core, della protezione dei dati in azienda e del cloud computing affrontati con il contributo degli esperti di EMC, VMware e 9Proof.
Trends in Control and Power Technologies and Its Impact for Mineral Recovery ...Schneider Electric
Presented at the 2013 Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Annual Meeting (SME 2013). Mineral processing presents a major process challenge as it involves complexities in extraction and transformation into a final product, but also requires huge material movement, scheduling, and tracking. Learn how trends in information systems, reporting systems, energy management and efficiency, communications, process control, plant integration and other control technologies are aligned to address these current industry challenges.
TOPDANMARK ● Industry: Insurance ● Location: Ballerup, Denmark ● Number of Employees: 2500 CHALLENGE ● Load-balance high volumes of encrypted traffic ● Enforce security policy as easily and cost-effectively as possible ● Simplify development and testing of new services SOLUTION ● Cisco ACE 4710 Application Control Engine RESULTS ● Greatly simplified processing of encrypted web traffic and policy enforcement ● Increased web server performance ● Accelerated migration between development, testing, and production environments
Cloud Summit- How can operators leverage networks to deliver innovative cloud services? Presentation by Mats Alendal from the Broadband World Forum, Amsterdam 2012. For more information on 4th Generation IP for mobility and the cloud: http://www.ericsson.com/yourbusiness/telecom_operators/fixed-broadband-convergence
Extreme Manufacturing Solutions
Operations Performance Analytics (OPA)
Business alignment - Over time, the proliferation of devices has created unnecessary complexity. Control Center delivers centralized visibility and granular control of network resources. One click can equal a thousand actions when you manage your network. Control Center can even manage beyond Extreme Networks switching, routing, and wireless hardware to deliver standards-based control of other vendors’ network equipment.
Pairing assets with intelligent sensors to gather, analyze, and communicate data is driving enormous new efficiencies in manufacturing and business operations. Just as in the consumer markets, where the first generation of personal fitness monitors and smart home devices leverage data sets to influence and shape events in the physical world, so too are operational efficiencies borne by the Internet of Things (IoT) generating high returns in manufacturing.
According to McKinsey, “business-to-business applications will account for nearly 70 percent of the value … from IoT in the next ten years.” The firm estimates that of the nearly $11 trillion a year in economic value generated globally, ‘nearly $5 trillion [will] be generated almost exclusively in B2B settings, including factories… such as those in manufacturing, agriculture, and even healthcare environments; work sites across mining, oil and gas, and construction; and, finally, offices.’
More informed decision-making and optimized operations across the extended supply chain are only some of the benefits. Wireless sensors, whether measuring hydrogen levels in the soil or temperature variables on the production line, are eliminating blind spots in traditional manufacturing processes and delivering a constant flow of data that optimize workflows. And while manufacturers have leveraged data in discrete applications for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) systems for years, the growth of sensors, real-time dashboards, cloud-applications, and mobile technologies are delivering new degrees of actionable intelligence to the precise location at the precise time it can be optimally leveraged.
Yet this goal of seamlessly moving data across plant and business functions, and applying analytical tools to enable new insights, requires a new degree of visibility into the performance of manufacturing applications, networks, and systems. Traditionally monitoring tools used in factory environments are often isolated, closed, proprietary, and offer only a keyhole view of IT system performance.
Urban EcoMap provides urban communities with relevant data regarding the primary GHG contributors—transportation, waste, and energy. Building awareness, fostering a sense of community connection and responsibility, and providing actions for citizens to take will enable the reduction of GHG in cities. In addition, it will support decision-making for policymakers and business organizations, as well as for urban design, development and operations, and the research of urban, earth, and social scientists.
Begun in fall 2008, the pilot project is a collaborative effort involving Cisco IBSG—the global strategic consulting arm of Cisco—and San Francisco’s Department of the Environment (SF Environment). The organizations are jointly applying an urban services platform approach toward which visionary cities and the ICT industry are moving.
Urban EcoMap is a landmark innovation and a key element of the Connected Urban Development program’s Connected and Sustainable Cities framework. San Francisco is the first city worldwide to launch Urban EcoMap, introduced on May 21st 2009.
This book, consisting of 14 essays from national governments, is about the concept of Connected Government and. examines the issues involved in developing and implementing compelling national e-government strategies. It explores the Connected Government strategy which is built on six pillars: citizen centricity, standardized common infrastructure, back-office reorganization, governance, new organizational model, and social inclusion.
CUD Conference BREAKOUT Agenda - Amsterdam 23-24 September 2008Shane Mitchell
Breakout sessions agenda detailing speakers and themes across the two day conference bringing together thought leaders from business, city governments and academia to share knowledge, experiences and collaborate to drive forward the CUD program.
TOPDANMARK ● Industry: Insurance ● Location: Ballerup, Denmark ● Number of Employees: 2500 CHALLENGE ● Load-balance high volumes of encrypted traffic ● Enforce security policy as easily and cost-effectively as possible ● Simplify development and testing of new services SOLUTION ● Cisco ACE 4710 Application Control Engine RESULTS ● Greatly simplified processing of encrypted web traffic and policy enforcement ● Increased web server performance ● Accelerated migration between development, testing, and production environments
Cloud Summit- How can operators leverage networks to deliver innovative cloud services? Presentation by Mats Alendal from the Broadband World Forum, Amsterdam 2012. For more information on 4th Generation IP for mobility and the cloud: http://www.ericsson.com/yourbusiness/telecom_operators/fixed-broadband-convergence
Extreme Manufacturing Solutions
Operations Performance Analytics (OPA)
Business alignment - Over time, the proliferation of devices has created unnecessary complexity. Control Center delivers centralized visibility and granular control of network resources. One click can equal a thousand actions when you manage your network. Control Center can even manage beyond Extreme Networks switching, routing, and wireless hardware to deliver standards-based control of other vendors’ network equipment.
Pairing assets with intelligent sensors to gather, analyze, and communicate data is driving enormous new efficiencies in manufacturing and business operations. Just as in the consumer markets, where the first generation of personal fitness monitors and smart home devices leverage data sets to influence and shape events in the physical world, so too are operational efficiencies borne by the Internet of Things (IoT) generating high returns in manufacturing.
According to McKinsey, “business-to-business applications will account for nearly 70 percent of the value … from IoT in the next ten years.” The firm estimates that of the nearly $11 trillion a year in economic value generated globally, ‘nearly $5 trillion [will] be generated almost exclusively in B2B settings, including factories… such as those in manufacturing, agriculture, and even healthcare environments; work sites across mining, oil and gas, and construction; and, finally, offices.’
More informed decision-making and optimized operations across the extended supply chain are only some of the benefits. Wireless sensors, whether measuring hydrogen levels in the soil or temperature variables on the production line, are eliminating blind spots in traditional manufacturing processes and delivering a constant flow of data that optimize workflows. And while manufacturers have leveraged data in discrete applications for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) systems for years, the growth of sensors, real-time dashboards, cloud-applications, and mobile technologies are delivering new degrees of actionable intelligence to the precise location at the precise time it can be optimally leveraged.
Yet this goal of seamlessly moving data across plant and business functions, and applying analytical tools to enable new insights, requires a new degree of visibility into the performance of manufacturing applications, networks, and systems. Traditionally monitoring tools used in factory environments are often isolated, closed, proprietary, and offer only a keyhole view of IT system performance.
Urban EcoMap provides urban communities with relevant data regarding the primary GHG contributors—transportation, waste, and energy. Building awareness, fostering a sense of community connection and responsibility, and providing actions for citizens to take will enable the reduction of GHG in cities. In addition, it will support decision-making for policymakers and business organizations, as well as for urban design, development and operations, and the research of urban, earth, and social scientists.
Begun in fall 2008, the pilot project is a collaborative effort involving Cisco IBSG—the global strategic consulting arm of Cisco—and San Francisco’s Department of the Environment (SF Environment). The organizations are jointly applying an urban services platform approach toward which visionary cities and the ICT industry are moving.
Urban EcoMap is a landmark innovation and a key element of the Connected Urban Development program’s Connected and Sustainable Cities framework. San Francisco is the first city worldwide to launch Urban EcoMap, introduced on May 21st 2009.
This book, consisting of 14 essays from national governments, is about the concept of Connected Government and. examines the issues involved in developing and implementing compelling national e-government strategies. It explores the Connected Government strategy which is built on six pillars: citizen centricity, standardized common infrastructure, back-office reorganization, governance, new organizational model, and social inclusion.
CUD Conference BREAKOUT Agenda - Amsterdam 23-24 September 2008Shane Mitchell
Breakout sessions agenda detailing speakers and themes across the two day conference bringing together thought leaders from business, city governments and academia to share knowledge, experiences and collaborate to drive forward the CUD program.
Because of the impact of work on adoption of these patterns and, ultimately, on development of a model for a sustainable and livable city, CUD believes the opportunity to introduce innovation in work enablement using ICT is equally important to delivering solutions to problems for energy, transportation, housing, buildings, and society
at large.
This whiepaper explores the factors driving the evolution of knowledge work, the principles
of sustainable work, and solutions that incorporate these principles.
Setting the Foundation for Data Center Virtualization Cisco Canada
Today the Data Centre is at the heart of IT and business innovations. As the Data Centre evolves from a pure cost centre to a strategic asset to achieve business goals, Cisco is evolving our Data Centre Architectural Framework to help accelerate IT Innovations that deliver better business value. Ed Bugnion will explain that to do this successfully it is important to have a reliable and strategic roadmap to establish the DC foundation, the virtualized services that support the key cloud capabilities such as automation, provisioning and metering.
Connect, Secure & Automate the Distribution Grid with CISCO SCADA RTU - Eximp...Bosnia Agile
We are proud to present one of the biggest Innovations in the Energy Utilities sector, developed from scratch to address the Smart Grid challenge of connecting hundreds of thousands of Electrical Secondary Sub-Stations, while ensuring SCADA Automation and Security in each sub-station, all in a cost-effective, easy to manage solution. While traditionally, the SCADA RTU, Router and Firewall components have been thought about as 3 different physical devices, Cisco, together with Eximprod Group, have developed a 3-in-1 device, that encompasses all 3 functionalities. We have named it the Cisco Scada Gateway. As a SCADA RTU, the device works with any SCADA Dispatcher and offers superior RTU functionality. As a Router, the device offers the full functionality of Cisco IOS having the Cisco IR809 as a hardware platform, capable of multi-protocol connectivity, including dual-sim 4G. As a Firewall, the device includes a full-features zone-based firewall solution, to segment and govern network access through the SCADA network.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
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/
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
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.
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