Data center consolidation enables centralization, introduces standards, integrate systems and legacy support. Learn on 10 recommended steps for firms in a consolidation https://goo.gl/ztT1w1
Identifying Costs of Shadow Finance in FP&ASteve Potter
Are there incidences of Shadow Finance in your business? If there are, what impact are they having on your business? It is estimated that finance operations should cost 1% of revenue - is that the case for your business?
5 things that keep comptrollers up at nightWorkiva
Get ahead of future challenges in your CAFR process. These are the top 5 concerns state comptrollers have about the future of CAFR reporting. To find out more, visit www.workiva.com/industries/government.
Compliance: The Digital Imperative in Financial ServicesAppian
If you think financial services compliance is already too costly, brace yourself. It’s going to get worse…much worse. Regulatory compliance, the demands of KYC (Know Your Customer) and EDD (Enhanced Due Diligence) all continue to be top of mind for every financial service executive, and for good reason.
Learn more about how to meet these challenges while advancing your digital transformation efforts in this Executive Perspective: http://ap.pn/2ekWDnO
Business impact without data governanceJohn Bao Vuu
Presentation on common business issues and challenges in organizations that do not have formal data governance practices. Data management on the whole has evolved over the years, but data governance is still one of the greatest constraints in strategic transformation and operational effectiveness.
1. What is Data Governance?
2. Business Impact without Data Governance
3. Benefits of Data Governance
4. Implementing Data Governance
Identifying Costs of Shadow Finance in FP&ASteve Potter
Are there incidences of Shadow Finance in your business? If there are, what impact are they having on your business? It is estimated that finance operations should cost 1% of revenue - is that the case for your business?
5 things that keep comptrollers up at nightWorkiva
Get ahead of future challenges in your CAFR process. These are the top 5 concerns state comptrollers have about the future of CAFR reporting. To find out more, visit www.workiva.com/industries/government.
Compliance: The Digital Imperative in Financial ServicesAppian
If you think financial services compliance is already too costly, brace yourself. It’s going to get worse…much worse. Regulatory compliance, the demands of KYC (Know Your Customer) and EDD (Enhanced Due Diligence) all continue to be top of mind for every financial service executive, and for good reason.
Learn more about how to meet these challenges while advancing your digital transformation efforts in this Executive Perspective: http://ap.pn/2ekWDnO
Business impact without data governanceJohn Bao Vuu
Presentation on common business issues and challenges in organizations that do not have formal data governance practices. Data management on the whole has evolved over the years, but data governance is still one of the greatest constraints in strategic transformation and operational effectiveness.
1. What is Data Governance?
2. Business Impact without Data Governance
3. Benefits of Data Governance
4. Implementing Data Governance
The third webcast in this series focuses on ways to meet your health system’s specific needs and achieve a 360-degree view of your patients, processes, physicians, and costs without purchasing multiple, disparate solutions, and creating information silos.
Our speakers discuss their collective experience in working with organizations to create tailored platforms that provide convenient access to data collected by, and stored in, disparate clinical information systems and enabling that data to be securely used by users throughout the broader healthcare community. Actionable data – available to all users when they need it – serves as a foundation for analysis and decision-making aimed at improving how care is delivered.
You can find it online at http://www.informationbuilders.com/webevents/online/24637#sthash.RnwoH27x.dpuf
Cyber fraud and Security - What risks does family office's face intoday's wo...Kannan Subbiah
Presented at the Private Wealth Management Summit 2017 held at Mumbai, India.
Security has to be considered as the foundation on which one can build a business. Gone are the days when we can build a perimeter, sit back and feel secure. In today’s digital environment we partner with others, we outsource, we have alliances, we let our customers into our systems and as we extend our networks.
In the digital economy, effective cyber security can mean the difference between a business’s success and its failure.
A Case Study of the
Auckland District Health Board
Information Management and Technology Service
Johan Vendrig, Chief Information Officer
HINZ Conference Rotorua - October 2007
This new Accenture Finance & Risk document presents an approach to addressing the reporting demands and challenges of an evolving regulatory environment. Learn more about Accenture Finance & Risk Practice: bit.ly/2j2JD6X
I created this document to allow resources in the financial institutional sector to benefit from someone who is experienced in supporting BCBS projects from a PMO perspective. In summary it provides the reader with a deeper understanding of BCBS and what's required to be successfully compliant. It also provides information in layman's (rather then jargon) and gives a general insight into what BCBS is about, and how compliance requirements need to align to the 14 principles.
The Data Maze: Navigating the Complexities of Data GovernanceHealth Catalyst
Most organizations struggle to turn their data into a strategic asset. Oftentimes they lack the data they need, and don’t trust the data they have. This results in a struggle to surface meaningful opportunities, quantify the value of those opportunities, and transform insight into action. In this webinar, your host Tom Burton shares strategies for improving data literacy, ensuring data quality, and expanding data utilization.
This interactive, “choose your own adventure” style experience, allowed attendees to discover how investing in a deliberate, principle-based strategy can help them navigate the complexities of data governance and maximize the value of data for outcomes improvement.
View the webinar and learn:
- Demonstrate how to unleash data at your organization with efforts across the improvement spectrum.
- Recognize how to sustain and spread improvements across your entire organization.
- Illustrate the importance of investing in analytics training and infrastructure to prepare for massive improvement in healthcare outcomes.
- Understand the 5 key stages of the Data Life Cycle.
- Demonstrate strategies to overcome the common challenges around data quality, data utilization, and data literacy.
- Show how a data governance framework can accelerate improvement in clinical, cost, and experience outcomes.
Craft an End-to-End Data Center Consolidation Strategy to Maximize BenefitsInfo-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge
Data center operating costs continue to escalate as organizations struggle with data center sprawl.
While data center consolidation is an attractive option to reduce cost and sprawl, the complexity of these projects makes them extremely difficulty to execute.
The status quo is also not an option, as budget constraints and the challenges with managing multiple data centers continues to increase.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Despite consolidation being an effective way of addressing sprawl, it is often difficult to secure buy-in and funding from the business.
Many consolidation projects suffer cost overruns due to unforeseen requirements and hidden interdependencies which could have been mitigated during the planning phase.
Organizations that avoid consolidation projects due to their complexity are just deferring the challenge, while costs and inefficiencies continue to increase.
Impact and Result
Successful data center consolidation will have an immediate impact on reducing data center sprawl. Maximize your chances of success by securing buy-in from the business.
Avoid cost overruns and unforeseen requirements by engaging with the business at the start of the process. Clearly define business requirements and establish common expectations.
While cost improvements often drive data center consolidation, successful projects will also improve scalability, operational efficiency, and data center redundancy.
Real time responses to events will be feasible when enterprises are designed to be maneuverable and their flow of activity is not disrupted by a breakdown in any one component in the chain of business processes that enable the completion of an activity.
The third webcast in this series focuses on ways to meet your health system’s specific needs and achieve a 360-degree view of your patients, processes, physicians, and costs without purchasing multiple, disparate solutions, and creating information silos.
Our speakers discuss their collective experience in working with organizations to create tailored platforms that provide convenient access to data collected by, and stored in, disparate clinical information systems and enabling that data to be securely used by users throughout the broader healthcare community. Actionable data – available to all users when they need it – serves as a foundation for analysis and decision-making aimed at improving how care is delivered.
You can find it online at http://www.informationbuilders.com/webevents/online/24637#sthash.RnwoH27x.dpuf
Cyber fraud and Security - What risks does family office's face intoday's wo...Kannan Subbiah
Presented at the Private Wealth Management Summit 2017 held at Mumbai, India.
Security has to be considered as the foundation on which one can build a business. Gone are the days when we can build a perimeter, sit back and feel secure. In today’s digital environment we partner with others, we outsource, we have alliances, we let our customers into our systems and as we extend our networks.
In the digital economy, effective cyber security can mean the difference between a business’s success and its failure.
A Case Study of the
Auckland District Health Board
Information Management and Technology Service
Johan Vendrig, Chief Information Officer
HINZ Conference Rotorua - October 2007
This new Accenture Finance & Risk document presents an approach to addressing the reporting demands and challenges of an evolving regulatory environment. Learn more about Accenture Finance & Risk Practice: bit.ly/2j2JD6X
I created this document to allow resources in the financial institutional sector to benefit from someone who is experienced in supporting BCBS projects from a PMO perspective. In summary it provides the reader with a deeper understanding of BCBS and what's required to be successfully compliant. It also provides information in layman's (rather then jargon) and gives a general insight into what BCBS is about, and how compliance requirements need to align to the 14 principles.
The Data Maze: Navigating the Complexities of Data GovernanceHealth Catalyst
Most organizations struggle to turn their data into a strategic asset. Oftentimes they lack the data they need, and don’t trust the data they have. This results in a struggle to surface meaningful opportunities, quantify the value of those opportunities, and transform insight into action. In this webinar, your host Tom Burton shares strategies for improving data literacy, ensuring data quality, and expanding data utilization.
This interactive, “choose your own adventure” style experience, allowed attendees to discover how investing in a deliberate, principle-based strategy can help them navigate the complexities of data governance and maximize the value of data for outcomes improvement.
View the webinar and learn:
- Demonstrate how to unleash data at your organization with efforts across the improvement spectrum.
- Recognize how to sustain and spread improvements across your entire organization.
- Illustrate the importance of investing in analytics training and infrastructure to prepare for massive improvement in healthcare outcomes.
- Understand the 5 key stages of the Data Life Cycle.
- Demonstrate strategies to overcome the common challenges around data quality, data utilization, and data literacy.
- Show how a data governance framework can accelerate improvement in clinical, cost, and experience outcomes.
Craft an End-to-End Data Center Consolidation Strategy to Maximize BenefitsInfo-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge
Data center operating costs continue to escalate as organizations struggle with data center sprawl.
While data center consolidation is an attractive option to reduce cost and sprawl, the complexity of these projects makes them extremely difficulty to execute.
The status quo is also not an option, as budget constraints and the challenges with managing multiple data centers continues to increase.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Despite consolidation being an effective way of addressing sprawl, it is often difficult to secure buy-in and funding from the business.
Many consolidation projects suffer cost overruns due to unforeseen requirements and hidden interdependencies which could have been mitigated during the planning phase.
Organizations that avoid consolidation projects due to their complexity are just deferring the challenge, while costs and inefficiencies continue to increase.
Impact and Result
Successful data center consolidation will have an immediate impact on reducing data center sprawl. Maximize your chances of success by securing buy-in from the business.
Avoid cost overruns and unforeseen requirements by engaging with the business at the start of the process. Clearly define business requirements and establish common expectations.
While cost improvements often drive data center consolidation, successful projects will also improve scalability, operational efficiency, and data center redundancy.
Real time responses to events will be feasible when enterprises are designed to be maneuverable and their flow of activity is not disrupted by a breakdown in any one component in the chain of business processes that enable the completion of an activity.
BRIDGING DATA SILOS USING BIG DATA INTEGRATIONijmnct
With cloud computing, cheap storage and technology advancements, an enterprise uses multiple
applications to operate business functions. Applications are not limited to just transactions, customer
service, sales, finance but they also include security, application logs, marketing, engineering, operations,
HR and many more. Each business vertical uses multiple applications which generate a huge amount of
data. On top of that, social media, IoT sensors, SaaS solutions, and mobile applications record exponential
growth in data volume. In almost all enterprises, data silos exist through these applications. These
applications can produce structured, semi-structured, or unstructured data at different velocity and in
different volume. Having all data sources integrated and generating timely insights helps in overall
decision making. With recent development in Big Data Integration, data silos can be managed better and it
can generate tremendous value for enterprises. Big data integration offers flexibility, speed and scalability
for integrating large data sources. It also offers tools to generate analytical insights which can help
stakeholders to make effective decisions. This paper presents the overview on data silos, challenges with
data silos and how big data integration can help to stun them.
Virtual Instruments - Infrastructure Performance Management White PaperJohn McDonald
Summary
Enterprise IT Agility Challenges Mission critical Federal IT application delivery infrastructures are being virtualized at a break-neck pace, and are increasingly abstracted and complex. Agile development means changes are continual, and these same infrastructures are required to deliver a flawless end-user experience characterized by hyper-responsive performance and availability.
Impediments to Aligning IT Organizations with Mission Goals Not having the right people, processes and technology solutions, and leveraging old technologies that weren’t purpose-built to handle today’s complex and ever-changing infrastructure, prevents IT from delivering mission-aligned service levels.
Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) – a Platform to Ensure Federal IT Value IPM is a new platform category for managing the physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure.
Capabilities Required in an IPM Platform Key requirements include continuous, real-time, system-wide data collection from heterogeneous IT infrastructures, combined with unbiased correlation and analysis.
Benefits of an IPM platform Delivers ROI to Federal Agencies for both CAPEX and OPEX savings. Ensures optimal budget alignment. Guarantees performance, mitigates risk and aligns Federal IT infrastructures with agency application and mission requirements.
Virtual Instruments’ VirtualWisdom platform A comprehensive IPM platform providing 360o visibility into the performance, health and availability of the IT infrastructure
A consolidated data center has been an attractive alternative for CIOs to protect the IT investment as many of them have realized that centralized infrastructure and processes help optimize the shared resources and in turn bring greater ROI from their IT investments. This whitepaper explains the various benefits of data center consolidation and how CIOs can work collaboratively with service providers to build an outcome based IT framework that can deliver cost efficiencies, savings and innovation in an organization.
Managing It Innovation: Recessionary and Post-Recessionary Service and Staffi...IJMIT JOURNAL
Information Technology (IT) service and staffing models were increasingly reduced in the wake of
recession, which often limits focus for long-term innovation, as the remaining services and staff are focused
on producing short-term requirements. Despite these cutbacks, organizations must continue to innovate and
provide contributions to the set of stakeholders. In addition as the post-recessionary timeframe begins,
organizations that continued to innovate throughout the recession, must retain human capital and take
advantage of their prior investments. Organizations that focus on innovation during recessionary
timeframes, are more likely to emerge in a superior competitive position during post-recessionary
timeframes. This paper explores identified industry best practices for IT service and staffing models that
can be utilized to ensure adequate resources are dedicated to achieving innovation, and management
implications for post-recessionary methods. In addition, a review of the capacities and capabilities which
fall under the new IT service and staffing models are developed in the form of an innovation matrix. This
approach reduces IT requirements to focus on key strategic service areas, with considerations for reduced
staffing needs during periods of economic downturn, and staffing retention during the following economic
upturn.
DATA VIRTUALIZATION FOR DECISION MAKING IN BIG DATAijseajournal
Data analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) are essential components of decision support technologies that gather and analyze data for faster and better strategic and operational decision making in an organization. Data analytics emphasizes on algorithms to control the relationship between data offering insights. The major difference between BI and analytics is that analytics has predictive competence which helps in making future predictions whereas Business Intelligence helps in informed decision-making built on the analysis of past data. Business Intelligence solutions are among the most valued data management tools whose main objective is to enable interactive access to real-time data, manipulation of data and provide business organizations with appropriate analysis. Business Intelligence solutions leverage software and services to collect and transform raw data into useful information that enable more informed and quality business decisions regarding customers, market competitors, internal operations and so on. Data needs to be integrated from disparate sources in order to derive valuable insights. Extract-Transform-Load (ETL), which are traditionally employed by organizations help in extracting data from different sources, transforming and aggregating and finally loading large volume of data into warehouses. Recently Data virtualization has been used to speed up the data integration process. Data virtualization and ETL often serve unique and complementary purposes in performing complex, multi-pass data transformation and cleansing operations, and bulk loading the data into a target data store. In this paper we provide an overview of Data virtualization technique used for Data analytics and BI.
CSMT 442 Top of FormConstruction Management IIBottom of FormMargenePurnell14
CSMT 442: Top of Form
Construction Management II
Bottom of Form
Homework 4 : 30 points
answer all questions
1- What are the Stages of a VE study?
2- what does SWOT stand for? What is there purpose?
3- What would you do as a project manager if you have a great worker that was unsafe but has never had an accident in his twenty year career but he started to encourage new employee to be unsafe how can you convince the employee to reject his idealism?
4- How much retainage is usually taken out each pay period? When will the GC get the funds back?
5- tell me in your own words what the best qualities that you already have developed an what's your weaknesses? how can your weakness is hurt your leadership and what must you do to improve those weaknesses?
6- What are the keys to a successful project? how can you turn unsuccessful project into a successful project?
Chapter 14 office of CIO
Today we find that certain trends, such as globalization, mergers and acquisitions, competition for market position and market share, regulatory compliance, and maintaining strategic advantage, have become cornerstones in radically shaping business dynamics.1 Agility, having a holistic view of the enterprise, doing more with less, and lean methodologies have become more than just buzzwords in the corporate IT world. As a result, CIOs and their leadership teams are demanding that IT investments be spent wisely and that there is a compelling business case that demonstrates why they need to approve and fund new IT projects and justifies the risks and rewards. Many global corporations have launched dedicated efforts and/or disciplines by forming enterprise architecture departments, program management offices, or strategic planning groups.2 These disciplines exist at various levels of maturity ranging from intermediate for some to advanced for others. These disciplines typically work in concert with each other. The goals are many, including, but not limited to, rationalization of the IT landscape; building the next generation of the core competencies; leveraging real-world guidelines and applying industry best practices; and identification, prioritization, and management of portfolio investments in order to assess value, increase efficiencies, and realize long-term gains. The content described in this chapter represents the results of such rationalization efforts for a global corporation, which led to: the key recommendations in the form of the creation of various project proposals and business cases; provision of project oversight by establishing cross-functional organizational structures, processes, and governance mechanisms to maintain alignment over time; adoption of standard software suppliers; and creation of integration competency centers (ICCs). Situation For the aforementioned global corporation, the information landscape was comprised of the multifaceted portfolio of tools, applications, and projects across data warehouses (DWs), data marts, mas ...
How In-memory Computing Drives IT SimplificationSAP Technology
Discover how the in-memory technology of SAP HANA can reduce complexity and simplify the IT landscape to foster real-time results, innovation and lower costs.
Zoom Video Conferencing Solution for DGP Office Vijayawada | Case StudyRahi Systems
DGP Vijayawada Office was facing limitations to communicate with other state offices. Rahi assisted them with 1000 participants Zoom video conferencing solution.
Top Three Root Causes of Data Center OutagesRahi Systems
UPS failure, accident / human error & cooling system failure are major reasons for data center outage. DCIM can detect downtime issues with constant monitoring.
National Tech Day - Major Influential Days in HistoryRahi Systems
To celebrate National Technology Day, Rahi Engineers are reflecting on some of the major technical advances in history! From the first electronic computer to the beginning of artificial intelligence, technology is constantly developing.
Network assessment to detect and stop advanced threats and attacks with machine learning and AI technology that provide insight and visibility into all devices onto a single network.
Industry-leading expertise, tools, and resources to customers
building a cloud strategy for the future of their enterprise business. The cloud delivers proven business benefits, including greater IT agility, near infinite scalability, and an OpEx financial model. However, very few organizations will move all workloads to the cloud — most will maintain some applications and data in traditional IT infrastructure.
A high-performance, highly available network is critical to business operations, enabling communication, collaboration and
access to on-premises and cloud resources.
Rahi Systems understands these challenges, and has developed a comprehensive methodology for the design, implementation
and ongoing management of next-generation network architectures.
Sensor Fusion Box is used in the CameraITS sensor_fusion test and multi-camera sync test. It provides a consistent test environment for measuring timestamp accuracy of camera and other sensors for Android phones. Certified by the Android Team and utilized by Android Partners, each unit provides a fast and reliable solution to setup your development environment.
WFov Box is designed with an automated test system for both wide field of view (WFoV) and regular field of view (RFoV) camera systems. This system enables you to use one system to test different cameras with varying FoVs. Certified by the Android Team and utilized by Android Partners, each unit provides a fast and reliable solution to setup your development environment.
RFoV Box is designed to test cameras with a field of view (FoV) that is less than 90 degrees. Equipt with cut-outs for camera including flash and laser operation. Certified by the Android Team and utilized by Android Partners, each unit provides a fast and reliable solution to setup your development environment.
AV Design And Implementation For EnvoyRahi Systems
Rahi team helped Envoy optimize the experience in its smaller conference rooms while also creating an all-hands space that
worked well with the facility’s open floor plan.
With its field engineering expertise and global footprint, Rahi streamlining the procurement and delivery of the Pure Storage solution for Navis and negotiated favorable terms.
Network Design Architecture & Data Center BuildoutRahi Systems
Rahi Systems architected for software platform provider, the network and data center infrastructure to support remote monitoring, management and high levels of automation.
Holistic Data Storage Solution With Enterprise Storage Operating SystemsRahi Systems
Rahi's storage expertise enabled TID to outgrew legacy storage architecture and deliver a holistic data storage solution that offered better agility, performance and scalability.
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
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
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!
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
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
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:
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.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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.
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.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf
Benefits and Challenges of Data Center Consolidation
1. Benefits and Challenges of Data Center Consolidation
Given the ever-increasing business demands for IT services, physical space is at a premium in
many data center facilities. On the other hand, a number of organizations are looking to
consolidate their data centers in order to save money, streamline operations and improve energy
efficiency.
There are a number of drivers for data center consolidation projects. In some cases, the
organization grew through mergers and acquisitions, inheriting multiple data centers that
replicate services. In addition, many organizations have effectively reduced their IT footprint
through virtualization and the adoption of hyper-converged infrastructure solutions. These
technologies make it possible to eliminate underutilized equipment and replace what remains
with smaller form factors.
The rationalization of data center services can also facilitate consolidation. This has been a
priority within the federal government through the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative.
Federal agencies have been working to reduce the cost of their data center operations by
eliminating waste and implementing a shared services model.
Similar efforts are underway at the state level. According to the National Association of State
Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), 42 percent of states had completed data center
consolidation projects in 2016, up from just 14 percent in 2007. In addition, 47 percent of states
are currently working on consolidation projects, and 11 percent are in the planning stages.
That data comes from a newly released report, “Shrinking State Data Centers: A Playbook for
Enterprise Data Center Consolidation.” The report notes that consolidation enables centralization
of data center infrastructure, which streamlines maintenance and strengthens security.
2. Consolidation also offers an opportunity to introduce standards, better integrate systems and
applications, improve support for legacy systems and enhance business continuity.
There are, of course, challenges. Resistance to change is always a huge hurdle — one that only
intensifies when technical problems emerge or consolidation doesn’t meet business needs. In
some instances, costs are higher than anticipated and regulatory compliance requirements aren’t
met.
To help minimize risk, the NASCIO playbook recommends 10 steps organizations should take in
a consolidation initiative:
Conduct a needs analysis. IT should meet with business stakeholders to discuss their
current requirements as well as anticipated growth.
Remain engaged with stakeholders throughout the project. Making stakeholders feel
they are part of the process helps minimize resistance to change.
Plan carefully but remain flexible. The project plan should identify all impacts and
provide enough flexibility to accommodate unforeseen issues.
Document existing assets. Thorough documentation helps identify underutilized or
unneeded resources, opportunities for reuse, and any resource gaps.
Conduct a cost analysis. By understanding current costs, the organization can better
calculate the savings afforded by consolidation.
Implement standards wherever possible. Standards such as ITMS and ITIL help
increase efficiency and security and further reduce costs.
Expect the best but prepare for the worst. Maintain constant communication with
stakeholders to manage expectations.
Get buy-in. If all stakeholders are on board for the project, it is more likely to deliver
long-term benefits.
Report successes. Show the organization how much money has been saved, and the
greater efficiencies and security that are gained.
While public sector agencies are leading the charge for data center consolidation, organizations
across industry sectors can benefit from rationalizing and rightsizing their operations. Rahi
Systems can help you identify opportunities for consolidation and develop a plan that will take
your data center into the future.