The document discusses the "consumerisation of IT" where trends and technologies originating from consumer markets are increasingly being used in business settings. This is driven by factors like improved mobile devices, cloud services, and changing user expectations of consumer technologies in their personal and professional lives. While this poses risks to corporate IT like security and manageability issues, it also presents opportunities if IT can understand and adapt to these trends rather than fight them. The document provides examples of consumer technologies entering businesses and survey results on the extent companies are seeing this occur independently of IT strategy. It also outlines a balancing act for IT in addressing concerns while embracing opportunities and tips for policies, processes and skills to help manage the consumerisation of IT.
The document discusses the challenges of managing large, diverse data sources known as "Big Data". It notes that while data volumes are growing, not all data has high value. It also outlines the emerging ecosystem of tools for distributed storage, analytics and search that are helping organizations extract value from both structured and unstructured data sources. The document concludes that both traditional and new approaches to data management and analytics have important roles to play as organizations tackle new data-driven challenges.
- The document discusses cloud computing and provides perspectives from IT professionals on what qualifies as cloud computing. It addresses different cloud models like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
- Survey results show that IT professionals view hosted services as legitimate examples of cloud computing, rather than just the enabling technology. Factors like elastic scaling of resources and pay-per-use models are also seen as important.
- There is no single definition and different workloads may be suited to different deployment models between on-premise, hosted, dedicated, or shared/dynamic environments. The key is understanding individual requirements.
Dale Vile, CEO of Freeform Dynamics Ltd, gave a presentation on cloud computing trends and perspectives. He discussed how cloud computing has evolved from hype to emerging clarity, with confusion persisting over definitions. Vile outlined different views of cloud, including technology vs services and the service stack. He noted that cloud will have a significant impact on IT delivery and management, but that a hybrid model is emerging. Looking ahead, Vile argued organizations should focus on business services rather than aiming to "move to the cloud," and that cloud represents a shift to a service-centric view of IT.
3 Ways Companies Are Slashing IT Costs with VDICitrix
The need to reduce costs and simplify IT can’t come at the expense of security. By implementing VDI with Citrix XenDesktop, organizations can lower capital and operating expenses while avoiding costly breaches or regulatory fines. This white paper describes the experiences of three companies who reduced costs, simplified IT and met their business objectives.
The document discusses 7 ways for businesses to better protect data and improve their security posture in the modern workplace. It outlines steps to reduce threats through identity and access management, manage mobile devices and apps, leverage conditional access, increase enterprise data protection, prevent data loss, enable secured collaboration, and reduce malware exposure. The overall message is that businesses can give employees mobility and productivity while also protecting sensitive data through proper planning, tools, and education.
Top 3 Reasons to Deliver Web Apps with Application VirtualizationCitrix
Learn how you can simplify management and secure browser apps by using app virtualization to centrally host a single image of a browser and deliver them on-demand.
Rethinking Data Availability and Governance in a Mobile WorldHao Tran
The Briefing Room with Malcolm Chisholm and Druva
Live
The emergence of the mobile workforce has left an indelible mark on the enterprise; every employee is now mobile, and business data continues to be dispatched to the far reaches of the enterprise. While this has added enormous opportunity for increased productivity, it has also muddied the waters when it comes to controlling and protecting valuable data assets. As companies quickly evolve to address the new set of challenges posed by this shift in data usage, IT must ensure that all data, no matter where it’s generated or stored, is available and governed just as if it were still safely behind the corporate firewall.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Malcolm Chisholm as he explains the myriad challenges that mobile data introduces when addressing regulations and compliance needs, requiring new approaches to data governance. He’ll be briefed by Dave Packer of Druva, who will outline his company’s converged data protection strategy, which brings data center class capabilities to backup, availability and governance for the mobile workforce. He will share strategies to meet regional data residency, data recovery, legal hold and eDiscovery requirements and more.
The document discusses the "consumerisation of IT" where trends and technologies originating from consumer markets are increasingly being used in business settings. This is driven by factors like improved mobile devices, cloud services, and changing user expectations of consumer technologies in their personal and professional lives. While this poses risks to corporate IT like security and manageability issues, it also presents opportunities if IT can understand and adapt to these trends rather than fight them. The document provides examples of consumer technologies entering businesses and survey results on the extent companies are seeing this occur independently of IT strategy. It also outlines a balancing act for IT in addressing concerns while embracing opportunities and tips for policies, processes and skills to help manage the consumerisation of IT.
The document discusses the challenges of managing large, diverse data sources known as "Big Data". It notes that while data volumes are growing, not all data has high value. It also outlines the emerging ecosystem of tools for distributed storage, analytics and search that are helping organizations extract value from both structured and unstructured data sources. The document concludes that both traditional and new approaches to data management and analytics have important roles to play as organizations tackle new data-driven challenges.
- The document discusses cloud computing and provides perspectives from IT professionals on what qualifies as cloud computing. It addresses different cloud models like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
- Survey results show that IT professionals view hosted services as legitimate examples of cloud computing, rather than just the enabling technology. Factors like elastic scaling of resources and pay-per-use models are also seen as important.
- There is no single definition and different workloads may be suited to different deployment models between on-premise, hosted, dedicated, or shared/dynamic environments. The key is understanding individual requirements.
Dale Vile, CEO of Freeform Dynamics Ltd, gave a presentation on cloud computing trends and perspectives. He discussed how cloud computing has evolved from hype to emerging clarity, with confusion persisting over definitions. Vile outlined different views of cloud, including technology vs services and the service stack. He noted that cloud will have a significant impact on IT delivery and management, but that a hybrid model is emerging. Looking ahead, Vile argued organizations should focus on business services rather than aiming to "move to the cloud," and that cloud represents a shift to a service-centric view of IT.
3 Ways Companies Are Slashing IT Costs with VDICitrix
The need to reduce costs and simplify IT can’t come at the expense of security. By implementing VDI with Citrix XenDesktop, organizations can lower capital and operating expenses while avoiding costly breaches or regulatory fines. This white paper describes the experiences of three companies who reduced costs, simplified IT and met their business objectives.
The document discusses 7 ways for businesses to better protect data and improve their security posture in the modern workplace. It outlines steps to reduce threats through identity and access management, manage mobile devices and apps, leverage conditional access, increase enterprise data protection, prevent data loss, enable secured collaboration, and reduce malware exposure. The overall message is that businesses can give employees mobility and productivity while also protecting sensitive data through proper planning, tools, and education.
Top 3 Reasons to Deliver Web Apps with Application VirtualizationCitrix
Learn how you can simplify management and secure browser apps by using app virtualization to centrally host a single image of a browser and deliver them on-demand.
Rethinking Data Availability and Governance in a Mobile WorldHao Tran
The Briefing Room with Malcolm Chisholm and Druva
Live
The emergence of the mobile workforce has left an indelible mark on the enterprise; every employee is now mobile, and business data continues to be dispatched to the far reaches of the enterprise. While this has added enormous opportunity for increased productivity, it has also muddied the waters when it comes to controlling and protecting valuable data assets. As companies quickly evolve to address the new set of challenges posed by this shift in data usage, IT must ensure that all data, no matter where it’s generated or stored, is available and governed just as if it were still safely behind the corporate firewall.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Malcolm Chisholm as he explains the myriad challenges that mobile data introduces when addressing regulations and compliance needs, requiring new approaches to data governance. He’ll be briefed by Dave Packer of Druva, who will outline his company’s converged data protection strategy, which brings data center class capabilities to backup, availability and governance for the mobile workforce. He will share strategies to meet regional data residency, data recovery, legal hold and eDiscovery requirements and more.
Desktop Virtualization: Reduce Costs, Improve Efficiencies with Proven VDI So...Citrix
This whitepaper busts myths and describes how VDI has proven to be successful—providing positive outcomes for IT and employees, addressing security vulnerabilities, and delivering favorable economics back to the business.
10 Reasons to Strengthen Security with App & Desktop VirtualizationCitrix
Explore 10 reasons why app and desktop virtualization should be the foundation for your layered approach to information security. It will enable organizations to pursue priorities such as mobility, flexwork and consumerization while effectively managing risk.
This document discusses data leakage prevention (DLP) and outlines best practices for implementing a DLP project. It defines DLP, explains how DLP technology works to monitor data in motion, at rest, and in use. The document recommends a multi-step DLP project that includes analyzing business environments and threats, classifying sensitive data, mapping data storage and business processes, assessing leakage channels, and selecting DLP tools. It also stresses the importance of organizational culture and policies to complement technical solutions and prevent data leakage.
Shariyaz abdeen data leakage prevention presentationShariyaz Abdeen
This document discusses data loss prevention (DLP) systems and solutions. It outlines key challenges in securing confidential data, including identifying where data is stored and located, monitoring where data is going, and enforcing data security policies. The document compares several DLP vendors and their solutions for discovering and protecting data at rest and in motion. It also provides examples of common data security incidents and evaluates risks to prioritize data types for protection. Overall the document promotes DLP systems as an important tool for securing organizations' confidential and regulated data.
This document provides an overview of data loss prevention (DLP) technology. It discusses what DLP is, different DLP models for data in use, in motion, and at rest. It also covers typical DLP system architecture, approaches for data classification and identification, and some technical challenges. The document references DLP product websites and summarizes two research papers on using machine learning for automatic text classification to identify sensitive data for DLP systems.
Humans Are The Weakest Link – How DLP Can HelpValery Boronin
SAS 2012 Official Video is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr8lmIhc0pk
Abstracts: All companies are invested in security, but far from all came to realize: employees’ awareness and education are the key factors to improve information protection and prevent data leaks. You can install most powerful DLP, encryption and other security tools, hire a lot of security officers and consulters to tune your business processes, eventually waste a lot of money and resources at security issues, but if end-users don’t understand threats, don’t know rules – they cannot follow internal policies and regulations, cannot correctly use appropriate tools. It’s all for nothing. Efficient information security strategy is to create a culture of awareness and enforcement – culture where users understand the consequences.
This session is about 3 main things:
1) What is user awareness in information security?
2) Why user awareness is required?
3) How to raise user awareness and what are key factors.
Practical recommendations for security user awareness program adopters and practitioners will be given. Role of the DLP in raising user awareness will be highlighted.
Related links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXlyuGXAZzU – Valery Boronin on Data Luxury Protection at DLP Russia 2011 (in Russian)
Ship it 2015 UniSystems: Facilitating Document Management Compliance for the ...Uni Systems S.M.S.A.
The document discusses document management challenges in the maritime industry and how EMC Documentum solutions can help address them. It notes the need for effective information governance to facilitate audits, comply with regulations, and ensure security and litigation readiness given massive information growth. EMC Documentum is presented as a solution with enterprise content management, intelligent platform, and compliance services to manage the full content lifecycle and ensure controlled access across distributed organizations like commercial vessel operators.
Windows Apps on Chromebooks: Deliver a Seamless ExperienceCitrix
The document discusses how Citrix XenApp allows organizations to deliver Windows applications to Chromebook devices running Chrome OS. XenApp virtualizes Windows apps and delivers them through the Chrome browser, providing users with seamless access on Chromebooks without sacrificing simplicity. This lets organizations support Chromebooks while still providing access to important Windows apps. Citrix and Google have worked together to integrate XenApp with Chrome OS. XenApp delivers apps in Chrome tabs and optimizes the experience for Chromebooks. Case studies show how Randstad and Shelton Public Schools benefited from using Chromebooks with XenApp to deliver Windows apps, improving productivity, mobility, and lowering costs.
ISSA DLP Presentation - Oxford Consulting Groupaengelbert
For many organizations, there is an unsettling reality that they do not have the adequate visibility over critical data assets within their environment. This is one of many factors that are driving companies to consider Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technologies. In this session, we’ll remove the typical fear, uncertainty and doubt spin surrounding this technology and focus on a holistic solution that leverages this technology to enable your business.
DLP 101: Help identify and plug information leaksAbhishek Sood
DLP tools can help organizations prevent data loss by monitoring data as it is used, transmitted, and stored. Standalone DLP products specialize in data loss prevention, while integrated DLP features are included in other cybersecurity products. Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages. Effective DLP requires customizing pre-defined policies to an organization's specific data types and formats, which has a learning curve. Organizations must also consider their existing security tools and budget to determine the best DLP strategy.
Integrated Distributors Incorporated (IDI) is a global logistics company with over 3,000 employees across six locations. IDI is facing pressure from competitors and needs to upgrade its aging IT infrastructure to support growth and security requirements. An assessment found hardware and software to be outdated across most locations, increasing risks. The Sao Paulo office was a rare exception with a well-standardized, secure environment. Upgrades are planned over multiple years to modernize the infrastructure and reduce risks.
Check Point's data loss prevention (DLP) solution combines technology and processes to prevent data breaches, enforce data policies across the network, and educate and alert users without involving IT staff. The solution uses the MultiSpect detection engine to detect sensitive data and proprietary forms, and the UserCheck technology provides real-time user alerts and remediation. Check Point DLP is available as an appliance or software blade and integrates with existing Check Point security gateways.
This document provides an overview of data loss prevention (DLP) systems. It defines DLP and describes how it can identify, monitor, and protect data in use, in motion, and at rest. It discusses typical DLP implementations for networks and endpoints/storage and how policies are defined. Common criticisms of DLP are outlined as well as the value it can provide by focusing on data security and improving communication between security and business teams. Lessons learned emphasize the importance of people, process, and technology in DLP deployments.
Ciso round table on effective implementation of dlp & data securityPriyanka Aash
The document discusses an effective implementation of data loss prevention (DLP) and data security. It covers key factors like the evolving threat landscape, business drivers for DLP, common challenges, and approaches to solve data security issues. An effective methodology is proposed, including identifying critical data and channels, deploying suitable policies, monitoring incidents, and establishing governance through continuous review and improvement. Critical success factors include business involvement, a phased implementation approach, and repeating the plan-do-check-act cycle periodically. The expected project outcomes are protection of critical channels, improved data tracking and awareness, and happier customers and auditors.
Forrester interviewed a Citrix customer currently using Citrix XenApp to determine the cost savings and business benefits of XenApp. In the process, they discovered that the company reduced desktop support costs by $1.7 million, by delivering key business applications via XenApp. Read this white paper to examine the use cases and the cost savings and benefits achieved.
This document profiles Siddick ELAHEEBOCUS, the director of SPILOG Partner Consulting Services (SPCS). It provides details on his background, areas of expertise including Microsoft technologies, and the territories he serves. It also lists some of the organizations and professional networks he is involved with. The document highlights some of the key challenges small and medium businesses face with technology today such as outdated systems, lack of mobility, security issues, and cyber threats. It promotes Microsoft 365 as an integrated solution to address these challenges through features for productivity, collaboration, and security.
The Essential Ingredient for Today's EnterpriseReadWrite
The innovation that comes with the mobile enterprise are immense but problems come with this new world of devices. Namely the huge security concerns that arise. Devices can carry so much important information. How do you control it?
This paper from CIO Custom Solutions Group examines the mobile security landscape, including myths surrounding the risks and threats, and how organizations can establish a solid mobile security strategy.
The document discusses how hybrid IT, which combines mobile devices, cloud computing, and on-premises systems, is transforming enterprise productivity. It describes the "three-legged stool" model of hybrid IT, with mobility, cloud, and traditional IT as the three legs supporting today's knowledge workers. The rise of mobile devices, cloud computing adoption, and the need to access all types of applications and data from any location has led to widespread use of hybrid IT. However, managing security risks from the distributed hybrid IT environment poses challenges for organizations. With the right security tools, hybrid IT can be implemented securely to improve productivity while mitigating risks.
OpenText PowerDOCS: A Cloud Solution for Document GenerationMarc St-Pierre
OpenText offers a comprehensive cloud solution that functions as a single source for document generation across all use cases, channels, technology platforms, and business systems.
The document discusses consumerization of IT, which refers to employees using their personal devices and internet services for work purposes. It summarizes research from a survey of 1,600 IT professionals on consumerization trends. Key findings include that about half of organizations now encourage, accept, or tolerate the use of personal equipment for work. The majority of employees, around 85%, are estimated to be using their own devices for work activities. Senior managers and executives are often early adopters. Personal smartphones, notebooks, and tablets are commonly used both officially and unofficially. Potential benefits discussed include improved productivity and job satisfaction.
Desktop Virtualization: Reduce Costs, Improve Efficiencies with Proven VDI So...Citrix
This whitepaper busts myths and describes how VDI has proven to be successful—providing positive outcomes for IT and employees, addressing security vulnerabilities, and delivering favorable economics back to the business.
10 Reasons to Strengthen Security with App & Desktop VirtualizationCitrix
Explore 10 reasons why app and desktop virtualization should be the foundation for your layered approach to information security. It will enable organizations to pursue priorities such as mobility, flexwork and consumerization while effectively managing risk.
This document discusses data leakage prevention (DLP) and outlines best practices for implementing a DLP project. It defines DLP, explains how DLP technology works to monitor data in motion, at rest, and in use. The document recommends a multi-step DLP project that includes analyzing business environments and threats, classifying sensitive data, mapping data storage and business processes, assessing leakage channels, and selecting DLP tools. It also stresses the importance of organizational culture and policies to complement technical solutions and prevent data leakage.
Shariyaz abdeen data leakage prevention presentationShariyaz Abdeen
This document discusses data loss prevention (DLP) systems and solutions. It outlines key challenges in securing confidential data, including identifying where data is stored and located, monitoring where data is going, and enforcing data security policies. The document compares several DLP vendors and their solutions for discovering and protecting data at rest and in motion. It also provides examples of common data security incidents and evaluates risks to prioritize data types for protection. Overall the document promotes DLP systems as an important tool for securing organizations' confidential and regulated data.
This document provides an overview of data loss prevention (DLP) technology. It discusses what DLP is, different DLP models for data in use, in motion, and at rest. It also covers typical DLP system architecture, approaches for data classification and identification, and some technical challenges. The document references DLP product websites and summarizes two research papers on using machine learning for automatic text classification to identify sensitive data for DLP systems.
Humans Are The Weakest Link – How DLP Can HelpValery Boronin
SAS 2012 Official Video is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr8lmIhc0pk
Abstracts: All companies are invested in security, but far from all came to realize: employees’ awareness and education are the key factors to improve information protection and prevent data leaks. You can install most powerful DLP, encryption and other security tools, hire a lot of security officers and consulters to tune your business processes, eventually waste a lot of money and resources at security issues, but if end-users don’t understand threats, don’t know rules – they cannot follow internal policies and regulations, cannot correctly use appropriate tools. It’s all for nothing. Efficient information security strategy is to create a culture of awareness and enforcement – culture where users understand the consequences.
This session is about 3 main things:
1) What is user awareness in information security?
2) Why user awareness is required?
3) How to raise user awareness and what are key factors.
Practical recommendations for security user awareness program adopters and practitioners will be given. Role of the DLP in raising user awareness will be highlighted.
Related links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXlyuGXAZzU – Valery Boronin on Data Luxury Protection at DLP Russia 2011 (in Russian)
Ship it 2015 UniSystems: Facilitating Document Management Compliance for the ...Uni Systems S.M.S.A.
The document discusses document management challenges in the maritime industry and how EMC Documentum solutions can help address them. It notes the need for effective information governance to facilitate audits, comply with regulations, and ensure security and litigation readiness given massive information growth. EMC Documentum is presented as a solution with enterprise content management, intelligent platform, and compliance services to manage the full content lifecycle and ensure controlled access across distributed organizations like commercial vessel operators.
Windows Apps on Chromebooks: Deliver a Seamless ExperienceCitrix
The document discusses how Citrix XenApp allows organizations to deliver Windows applications to Chromebook devices running Chrome OS. XenApp virtualizes Windows apps and delivers them through the Chrome browser, providing users with seamless access on Chromebooks without sacrificing simplicity. This lets organizations support Chromebooks while still providing access to important Windows apps. Citrix and Google have worked together to integrate XenApp with Chrome OS. XenApp delivers apps in Chrome tabs and optimizes the experience for Chromebooks. Case studies show how Randstad and Shelton Public Schools benefited from using Chromebooks with XenApp to deliver Windows apps, improving productivity, mobility, and lowering costs.
ISSA DLP Presentation - Oxford Consulting Groupaengelbert
For many organizations, there is an unsettling reality that they do not have the adequate visibility over critical data assets within their environment. This is one of many factors that are driving companies to consider Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technologies. In this session, we’ll remove the typical fear, uncertainty and doubt spin surrounding this technology and focus on a holistic solution that leverages this technology to enable your business.
DLP 101: Help identify and plug information leaksAbhishek Sood
DLP tools can help organizations prevent data loss by monitoring data as it is used, transmitted, and stored. Standalone DLP products specialize in data loss prevention, while integrated DLP features are included in other cybersecurity products. Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages. Effective DLP requires customizing pre-defined policies to an organization's specific data types and formats, which has a learning curve. Organizations must also consider their existing security tools and budget to determine the best DLP strategy.
Integrated Distributors Incorporated (IDI) is a global logistics company with over 3,000 employees across six locations. IDI is facing pressure from competitors and needs to upgrade its aging IT infrastructure to support growth and security requirements. An assessment found hardware and software to be outdated across most locations, increasing risks. The Sao Paulo office was a rare exception with a well-standardized, secure environment. Upgrades are planned over multiple years to modernize the infrastructure and reduce risks.
Check Point's data loss prevention (DLP) solution combines technology and processes to prevent data breaches, enforce data policies across the network, and educate and alert users without involving IT staff. The solution uses the MultiSpect detection engine to detect sensitive data and proprietary forms, and the UserCheck technology provides real-time user alerts and remediation. Check Point DLP is available as an appliance or software blade and integrates with existing Check Point security gateways.
This document provides an overview of data loss prevention (DLP) systems. It defines DLP and describes how it can identify, monitor, and protect data in use, in motion, and at rest. It discusses typical DLP implementations for networks and endpoints/storage and how policies are defined. Common criticisms of DLP are outlined as well as the value it can provide by focusing on data security and improving communication between security and business teams. Lessons learned emphasize the importance of people, process, and technology in DLP deployments.
Ciso round table on effective implementation of dlp & data securityPriyanka Aash
The document discusses an effective implementation of data loss prevention (DLP) and data security. It covers key factors like the evolving threat landscape, business drivers for DLP, common challenges, and approaches to solve data security issues. An effective methodology is proposed, including identifying critical data and channels, deploying suitable policies, monitoring incidents, and establishing governance through continuous review and improvement. Critical success factors include business involvement, a phased implementation approach, and repeating the plan-do-check-act cycle periodically. The expected project outcomes are protection of critical channels, improved data tracking and awareness, and happier customers and auditors.
Forrester interviewed a Citrix customer currently using Citrix XenApp to determine the cost savings and business benefits of XenApp. In the process, they discovered that the company reduced desktop support costs by $1.7 million, by delivering key business applications via XenApp. Read this white paper to examine the use cases and the cost savings and benefits achieved.
This document profiles Siddick ELAHEEBOCUS, the director of SPILOG Partner Consulting Services (SPCS). It provides details on his background, areas of expertise including Microsoft technologies, and the territories he serves. It also lists some of the organizations and professional networks he is involved with. The document highlights some of the key challenges small and medium businesses face with technology today such as outdated systems, lack of mobility, security issues, and cyber threats. It promotes Microsoft 365 as an integrated solution to address these challenges through features for productivity, collaboration, and security.
The Essential Ingredient for Today's EnterpriseReadWrite
The innovation that comes with the mobile enterprise are immense but problems come with this new world of devices. Namely the huge security concerns that arise. Devices can carry so much important information. How do you control it?
This paper from CIO Custom Solutions Group examines the mobile security landscape, including myths surrounding the risks and threats, and how organizations can establish a solid mobile security strategy.
The document discusses how hybrid IT, which combines mobile devices, cloud computing, and on-premises systems, is transforming enterprise productivity. It describes the "three-legged stool" model of hybrid IT, with mobility, cloud, and traditional IT as the three legs supporting today's knowledge workers. The rise of mobile devices, cloud computing adoption, and the need to access all types of applications and data from any location has led to widespread use of hybrid IT. However, managing security risks from the distributed hybrid IT environment poses challenges for organizations. With the right security tools, hybrid IT can be implemented securely to improve productivity while mitigating risks.
OpenText PowerDOCS: A Cloud Solution for Document GenerationMarc St-Pierre
OpenText offers a comprehensive cloud solution that functions as a single source for document generation across all use cases, channels, technology platforms, and business systems.
The document discusses consumerization of IT, which refers to employees using their personal devices and internet services for work purposes. It summarizes research from a survey of 1,600 IT professionals on consumerization trends. Key findings include that about half of organizations now encourage, accept, or tolerate the use of personal equipment for work. The majority of employees, around 85%, are estimated to be using their own devices for work activities. Senior managers and executives are often early adopters. Personal smartphones, notebooks, and tablets are commonly used both officially and unofficially. Potential benefits discussed include improved productivity and job satisfaction.
1. The document discusses topics related to IT, including the impact of the global financial crisis, virtualization, and what organizations are planning to buy.
2. It explores user perceptions of IT and virtualization adoption across different company sizes. Significant drivers for implementing virtualization include scale, geography, and compliance.
3. Challenges and barriers to desktop virtualization adoption are discussed, along with the effect of virtualization on hardware acquisition strategies and operating system selection. The need for improved virtualization management and licensing models is also examined.
David Tebbutt discusses the context for, and the central role of, IT in an organisation's power management. He takes the listener from sustainability, through the link between climate change and energy use, all the time stressing the cost benefits of taking action. The presentation includes quick IT-powered wins for the enterprise, quick wins for IT itself and finishes with longer term suggestions which can deliver even bigger savings.
Petteri Uljas, Capgemini; Corporate VP, Head of Infrastructure Services; Eastern Europe, India and Latin America
Cloud doesn’t change everything
Evolutionary in implementation, revolutionary in usage.
Normal IT project methodologies apply (mostly).
Leverage processes and skills you already have.
Don’t throw everything out because a small part is new.
Everything that holds up “traditional” projects will hold up your first Cloud project.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Tony Lock of Freeform Dynamics on big data, analytics, and the future of data centers. Some key points:
- Freeform Dynamics is an industry analyst firm that researches IT trends and the evolving needs of businesses.
- The presentation covers topics like what big data is, how organizations are currently using data and analytics, and visions for the future of data center operations and management.
- Survey results are presented on topics like how organizations are using traditional and emerging data technologies, the challenges around exploiting data assets, and desires for more automated private cloud environments and hybrid cloud management.
Going to the SP2013 Cloud - what does a business need to make it successful?Matt Groves
This document discusses moving business operations to the cloud using SharePoint 2013. It begins by defining cloud computing and exploring why some businesses may not be ready to move core operations to the cloud. The rest of the document focuses on how businesses can successfully adopt a hybrid cloud strategy using both public cloud services and private on-premise infrastructure. It emphasizes that having the right data, people, and application strategies are the three pillars of a successful hybrid cloud deployment. The document concludes by providing recommendations and questions for businesses to consider when planning a transition to the cloud.
Webinar: Endpoint Backup is not Enough - You Need an End-user Data StrategyStorage Switzerland
More data outside of the data center is staying on endpoints and in the cloud than ever before. That means the risks to that data are also at an all time high. Plus regulations encompassing end-user data are also increasing, challenging IT to manage data when they have less control than ever. IT needs more than an endpoint protection plan, it needs an end-user data strategy.
In this webinar, learn how to evolve from an endpoint data protection plan to a comprehensive end-user data strategy.
Your Data is Waiting. What are the Top 5 Trends for Data in 2022? (ASEAN)Denodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/3saONRK
COVID-19 has pushed every industry and organization to embrace digital transformation at scale, upending the way many businesses will operate for the foreseeable future. Organizations no longer tolerate monolithic and centralized data architecture; they are embracing flexibility, modularity, and distributed data architecture to help drive innovation and modernize processes.
The pandemic has compelled organizations to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives and look for smarter and more agile ways to manage and leverage their corporate data assets. Data governance has become challenging in the ever-increasing complexity and distributed nature of the data ecosystem. Interoperability, collaboration and trust in data are imperative for a business to succeed. Data needs to be easily accessible and fit for purpose.
In this session, Denodo experts will discuss 5 key trends that are expected to be top of mind for CIOs and CDOs;
- Distributed Data Environments
- Decision Intelligence
- Modern Data Architecture
- Composable Data & Analytics
- Hyper-personalized Experiences
Modernize your Infrastructure and Mobilize Your DataPrecisely
Modernizing your infrastructure can get complicated really fast. The keys to success involve breaking down data silos and moving data to the cloud in real time. But building data pipelines to mobilize your data in the cloud can be time consuming. You need solutions that decrease bandwidth, ensure data consistency, and enable data migration and replication in real-time; solutions that help you build data pipelines in hours, not days.
Watch this on-demand webinar to learn about the trends and pitfalls related to modernizing your infrastructure to cloud, how the pace of on-prem data growth demands accelerating data streaming to analytics platforms, and why mobilizing your data for the cloud improves business outcomes.
Analyst Webinar: Discover how a logical data fabric helps organizations avoid...Denodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/3zVUXWp
In this webinar, we’ll be tackling the question of where our data is and how we can avoid it falling into a black hole.
We’ll examine how data blackholes and silos come to be and the challenges these pose to organisations. We will also look at the impact of data silos as organisations adopt more complex multi-cloud setups. Finally, we will discuss the opportunities a logical data fabric poses to assist organisations to avoid data silos and manage data in a centrally governed and controlled environment.
Join us and Barc’s Jacqueline Bloemen on this webinar to get the answer and further insights on how to better avoid falling into a #datablackhole. Hope to see you connected!
The document outlines an agenda for a presentation on big data. It discusses key topics like the state of big data adoption, a holistic approach to big data, five high value use cases, technical components, and the future of big data and cloud. The presentation aims to provide an overview of big data and how organizations can take a comprehensive approach to leveraging their data assets.
It's not a question of IF but WHEN your organization will get audited. Get the latest advice on how to handle an audit request and best prepare what the auditors are looking for.
Tdwi austin simplifying big data delivery to drive new insights finalSal Marcus
Khader Mohiuddin, a Big Data Solution Architect at Oracle, presented on simplifying big data delivery and driving new insights. He discussed opportunities and challenges with big data, including using customer data to improve experiences and manage risk. Mohiuddin also outlined Oracle's vision for analyzing all data types and described Oracle's big data platform and engineered systems for high-performance data acquisition, organization, analysis, and visualization. Case studies were presented on customers achieving new revenue, optimizing operations, and managing risk through big data analytics on Oracle's platform.
Where in the world is your Corporate data?Ashish Patel
Your employees – and your company data – are on the go every day. As a result, your employees are relying on the use of 3rd party online services without IT approval – that is Shadow IT in your own organization. That’s some risky business. Where in the world is your Corporate Data?
With TeraGo Cloud Drive we are giving you back control of your most valuable asset, your data.
In this webinar you will learn about:
How Shadow IT is picking up velocity due to the accessibility and ease of cloud applications
Consequences of weak corporate security mechanisms
How to give your IT department control of your data and its’ security
Innovation Without Compromise: The Challenges of Securing Big DataCloudera, Inc.
Hadoop is a powerful tool for today’s enterprise – providing unified storage of all data and metadata, regardless of format or source, and multiple frameworks for robust processing and analytics. However, this flexibility and scale also presents challenges for securing and governing this data.
Join IDC analysts, Carl Olofson and Mike Versace, as they discuss the changing world of big data security with Eddie Garcia, Information Security Architect at Cloudera, and Anil Earla, Chief Data and Analytics Officer of IS at Visa.
During this live roundtable discussion, you will:
Gain an understanding of how securing big data differs from traditional enterprise security
Learn about the latest tools and initiatives around Hadoop platform security
Hear how one of the largest payment processors approaches big data security and regulatory concerns
IBM Relay 2015: Cloud is All About the Customer IBM
Debuting new research data, Forrester's John Rymer discusses the rapid growth of "customer-centric" workloads in the cloud and the challenges many organizations have faced with private cloud.
Learn more by visiting our Bluemix Hybrid page: http://ibm.co/1PKN23h
Speaker: John Rymer (Analyst, Forrester)
This document discusses Klarna Tech Talk on managing data. It provides an overview of IBM's data integration, governance, and big data capabilities. IBM states it can help clients turn information into insights, deepen engagement, enable agile business, accelerate innovation, deliver enterprise mobility, optimize infrastructure, and manage risk through technology innovations like big data analytics, security intelligence, cloud computing, and mobile solutions. The document promotes IBM's data fabric and smart data solutions for integrating, governing, and providing access to data across an organization.
IBM Power Migration without the Risk and DowntimePrecisely
Whether you are refreshing server hardware to POWER9, reorganizing storage, or consolidating data centers, migration plays an important role in keeping your IBM i environment up to date, efficient, and productive. Yet, IT pros often fear migration projects due to past experiences with intolerable downtime, lack of predictability, and time demands. View this webinar on-demand and learn how Syncsort can help organizations like yours accelerate your migration project, minimize risk and eliminate downtime.
Key topics include:
• What your peers say about their migration challenges
• How to migrate without downtime using replication
• Minimizing migration risk and resource demands
• How Syncsort can help
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/3mdj9i7
You will often hear that "data is the new gold"? In this context, data management is one of the areas that has received more attention from the software community in recent years. From Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to new ways to store and process data, the landscape for data management is in constant evolution. From the privileged perspective of an enterprise middleware platform, we at Denodo have the advantage of seeing many of these changes happen.
In this webinar, we will discuss the technology trends that will drive the enterprise data strategies in the years to come. Don't miss it if you want to keep yourself informed about how to convert your data to strategic assets in order to complete the data-driven transformation in your company.
Watch this on-demand webinar as we cover:
- The most interesting trends in data management
- How to build a data fabric architecture?
- How to manage your data integration strategy in the new hybrid world
- Our predictions on how those trends will change the data management world
- How can companies monetize the data through data-as-a-service infrastructure?
- What is the role of voice computing in future data analytic
Five Things to Consider About Data Mesh and Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Data mesh was among the most discussed and controversial enterprise data management topics of 2021. One of the reasons people struggle with data mesh concepts is we still have a lot of open questions that we are not thinking about:
Are you thinking beyond analytics? Are you thinking about all possible stakeholders? Are you thinking about how to be agile? Are you thinking about standardization and policies? Are you thinking about organizational structures and roles?
Join data.world VP of Product Tim Gasper and Principal Scientist Juan Sequeda for an honest, no-bs discussion about data mesh and its role in data governance.
Enterprise Data Marketplace: A Centralized Portal for All Your Data AssetsDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/3OLv0jY
Organizations continue to collect mounds of data and it is spread over different locations and in different formats. The challenge is navigating the vastness and complexity of the modern data ecosystem to find the right data to suit your specific business purpose. Data is an important corporate asset and it needs to be leveraged but also protected.
By adopting an alternate approach to data management and adapting a logical data architecture, data can be democratized while providing centralized control within a distributed data landscape. The web-based Data Catalog tool a single access point for secure enterprise-wide data access and governance. This corporate data marketplace provides visibility into your data ecosystem and allows data to be shared without compromising data security policies.
Catch this on-demand session to understand how this approach can transform how you leverage data across the business:
- Empower the knowledge worker with data and increase productivity
- Promote data accuracy and trust to encourage re-use of important data assets
- Apply consistent security and governance policies across the enterprise data landscape
Data Trends for 2019: Extracting Value from DataPrecisely
To get the most business value from data, you need to keep up with the latest tech trends – or do you?
View this webinar on-demand as we share the results from our 2019 Data Trends Survey! We'll reveal what organizations around the world are really up to at the intersection of technology, big data and business.
Key topics include:
• Business initiatives getting the most IT support in 2019
• Highest-priority IT initiatives
• Tech adoption rates, benefits and challenges
A Successful Data Strategy for Insurers in Volatile Times (EMEA)Denodo
This webinar discusses how data virtualization can help insurance companies address challenges from trends like digital disruption and mergers and acquisitions. It provides examples of how Denodo has helped customers like AXA XL and Prudential Financial improve data access, consistency, and governance through a data fabric architecture built on data virtualization. Key benefits highlighted include reduced data replication, increased data accuracy and reliability, role-based access controls, and more agile use of data to support initiatives like analytics and regulatory reporting.
Simplifying Security Management in the Virtual Data CenterAlgoSec
As enterprise data centers evolve to private and hybrid clouds, orchestration and automation are key to unleashing business agility.
But for most organizations, managing security and application connectivity involves manual, time-consuming processes that are error-prone and slow down the business. Complex application connectivity requirements, bloated firewall policies, poor processes and lack of communication between application developers, network and security teams create business disruptions and expose organizations to risk.
Join AlgoSec and guest Forrester Research to learn how organizations can automate security operations in the data center to manage security at the speed of business. By attending you will learn:
* How the concept of Zero Trust enables the business and minimizes risk
* Why management is the new backplane and security policy orchestration is critical in virtual environments
* How to ensure security policy accuracy throughout data center migration and consolidation projects
* How to securely deploy, maintain and decommission connectivity for data center applications
Audience – Sales and pre-sales audience selling to large enterprises and government.
Occasion – Annual channel partners of Thales – April 2010
Presenter – Tony Lock, Programme Director, Freeform Dynamics
The document discusses the need for enterprises to have a mobile strategy to address the growing use of mobility in businesses. It outlines four grades of enterprise mobile strategies that most companies currently sit at and discusses the challenges of a piecemeal approach that results in isolated "wireless islands". An effective enterprise mobility strategy needs to go beyond just mobile and should include assessing current networks and devices, user access needs, security requirements, cost minimization, and future proofing to account for new technologies and partner strategies.
- Infrastructure management is facing challenges in keeping up with user expectations of 24/7 availability as well as new technologies like virtualization.
- There is a growing need for sophisticated IT service management solutions to handle asset/change management, service level monitoring, root cause analysis, and reporting to both support processes and demonstrate business value.
- While systems management tools are developing rapidly to address these needs, effective implementation of the new solutions also requires advancement of support processes.
By Dale Vile
Evolution of licensing models
Virtualization related considerations
A scenario based analysis of options
Other licensing considerations
Top line recommendations
Comments and questions
This document discusses how adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach can help organizations respond to economic pressures. While SOA is often touted for cost and efficiency benefits, these are not always realized. To be effective during downturns, SOA requires a balanced approach that streamlines application development and maintenance, enhances business visibility and responsiveness, and drives process automation and optimization, rather than just focusing on cost cutting. The document provides advice on taking a strategic yet tactical approach to SOA adoption by beginning with real project requirements, reviewing existing initiatives, managing expectations, and ensuring business impact is considered.
The document discusses ways for companies to optimize their use of IT during an economic downturn. It recommends 3 ways to optimize the IT infrastructure, 3 ways to optimize how IT is used in the business, and 3 ways to enable the business to be more efficient. Some specific recommendations include server virtualization, desktop management, systems management, application training, mobile access, unified communications, and making smarter use of data through business intelligence. The overall message is that during tough economic times, companies should take a balanced approach to IT and focus on using IT to help drive revenue and business objectives.
The document discusses key stakeholders in financial services and the challenges they face regarding availability of management and performance information. It also discusses trends around empowering employees and shifting to broader, more continuous information delivery. Common challenges included fragmentation of systems and a lack of structured and inclusive approaches to meeting information needs.
The document discusses a survey of organizations and their commitment to green IT initiatives to reduce power consumption and environmental impact. The survey found that larger organizations have broader green policies and are further along in implementing initiatives. Respondents believe that reducing power consumption and enabling more efficient business operations through IT are important goals. However, many organizations do not accurately track or measure IT power usage at a granular level, which could help identify opportunities to minimize power consumption through solutions like server virtualization and desktop power management features. Overall green considerations are still not a prominent part of IT strategies for many organizations.
This document discusses the benefits of asset management for businesses. It notes that today businesses want to reduce costs, increase agility, manage risk, and be good corporate citizens. Asset management provides visibility into IT assets which helps reduce spending and risk. The costs of not doing asset management include wasted time, money, and poor utilization of resources. Effective asset management leads to maximum return on investment, improved decision making, increased flexibility, cost savings, and supports compliance. It directly impacts financial and operational performance.
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
"NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search", Taras KlobaFwdays
This is a session that details how PostgreSQL's features and Azure AI Services can be effectively used to significantly enhance the search functionality in any application.
In this session, we'll share insights on how we used PostgreSQL to facilitate precise searches across multiple fields in our mobile application. The techniques include using LIKE and ILIKE operators and integrating a trigram-based search to handle potential misspellings, thereby increasing the search accuracy.
We'll also discuss how the azure_ai extension on PostgreSQL databases in Azure and Azure AI Services were utilized to create vectors from user input, a feature beneficial when users wish to find specific items based on text prompts. While our application's case study involves a drug search, the techniques and principles shared in this session can be adapted to improve search functionality in a wide range of applications. Join us to learn how PostgreSQL and Azure AI can be harnessed to enhance your application's search capability.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
In our second session, we shall learn all about the main features and fundamentals of UiPath Studio that enable us to use the building blocks for any automation project.
📕 Detailed agenda:
Variables and Datatypes
Workflow Layouts
Arguments
Control Flows and Loops
Conditional Statements
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Variables, Constants, and Arguments in Studio
Control Flow in Studio
QA or the Highway - Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend appl...zjhamm304
These are the slides for the presentation, "Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend applications" that was presented at QA or the Highway 2024 in Columbus, OH by Zachary Hamm.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 2 – CoE RolesDianaGray10
In this session, we will review the players involved in the CoE and how each role impacts opportunities.
Topics covered:
• What roles are essential?
• What place in the automation journey does each role play?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
inQuba Webinar Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr Graham HillLizaNolte
HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT! 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.
In this webinar, we explored essential aspects of Customer Journey Management and personalization. Here’s a summary of the key insights and topics discussed:
Key Takeaways:
Understanding the Customer Journey: Dr. Hill emphasized the importance of mapping and understanding the complete customer journey to identify touchpoints and opportunities for improvement.
Personalization Strategies: We discussed how to leverage data and insights to create personalized experiences that resonate with customers.
Technology Integration: Insights were shared on how inQuba’s advanced technology can streamline customer interactions and drive operational efficiency.
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
Discover the Unseen: Tailored Recommendation of Unwatched ContentScyllaDB
The session shares how JioCinema approaches ""watch discounting."" This capability ensures that if a user watched a certain amount of a show/movie, the platform no longer recommends that particular content to the user. Flawless operation of this feature promotes the discover of new content, improving the overall user experience.
JioCinema is an Indian over-the-top media streaming service owned by Viacom18.
Lee Barnes - Path to Becoming an Effective Test Automation Engineer.pdfleebarnesutopia
So… you want to become a Test Automation Engineer (or hire and develop one)? While there’s quite a bit of information available about important technical and tool skills to master, there’s not enough discussion around the path to becoming an effective Test Automation Engineer that knows how to add VALUE. In my experience this had led to a proliferation of engineers who are proficient with tools and building frameworks but have skill and knowledge gaps, especially in software testing, that reduce the value they deliver with test automation.
In this talk, Lee will share his lessons learned from over 30 years of working with, and mentoring, hundreds of Test Automation Engineers. Whether you’re looking to get started in test automation or just want to improve your trade, this talk will give you a solid foundation and roadmap for ensuring your test automation efforts continuously add value. This talk is equally valuable for both aspiring Test Automation Engineers and those managing them! All attendees will take away a set of key foundational knowledge and a high-level learning path for leveling up test automation skills and ensuring they add value to their organizations.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Keywords: AI, Containeres, Kubernetes, Cloud Native
Event Link: https://meine.doag.org/events/cloudland/2024/agenda/#agendaId.4211
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Getting the Most Out of ScyllaDB Monitoring: ShareChat's TipsScyllaDB
ScyllaDB monitoring provides a lot of useful information. But sometimes it’s not easy to find the root of the problem if something is wrong or even estimate the remaining capacity by the load on the cluster. This talk shares our team's practical tips on: 1) How to find the root of the problem by metrics if ScyllaDB is slow 2) How to interpret the load and plan capacity for the future 3) Compaction strategies and how to choose the right one 4) Important metrics which aren’t available in the default monitoring setup.
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation F...AlexanderRichford
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation Functions to Prevent Interaction with Malicious QR Codes.
Aim of the Study: The goal of this research was to develop a robust hybrid approach for identifying malicious and insecure URLs derived from QR codes, ensuring safe interactions.
This is achieved through:
Machine Learning Model: Predicts the likelihood of a URL being malicious.
Security Validation Functions: Ensures the derived URL has a valid certificate and proper URL format.
This innovative blend of technology aims to enhance cybersecurity measures and protect users from potential threats hidden within QR codes 🖥 🔒
This study was my first introduction to using ML which has shown me the immense potential of ML in creating more secure digital environments!
Leveraging the Graph for Clinical Trials and Standards
Big data and analytics
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Big Data, Analytics and the
Future of Data Centres
Where are we and where are we going?
www.freeformdynamics.com
Tony Lock – Programme Director
tony@freeformdynamics.com
www.freeformdynamics.com
VMUG Meeting, Manchester February 12, 2013
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About Freeform Dynamics
Industry analyst firm
Track IT industry developments and offerings
Track the evolution of IT related activity and needs in business
Advise both end user organisations and suppliers
Research approach
IT vendor and service provider briefings
Large scale studies - face to face, telephone and online
Community research programme
Investigate strategy, business case, architecture, best practice
Vendor patronage model allows free distribution
Media partnerships for both input and output
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Agenda
Big data and Analytics
Where are we today?
The evolution of the data centre
Visions of the future
Will we ever reach Nirvana?
Closing thoughts
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Big Data
What is it?
Is anyone doing it?
The only game in
town?
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Defining Big Data?
Analogies
Panning for gold
Finding the needle in the hay stack
Identifying a weak signal in a very noisy environment
Find valuable patterns, trends, correlations, etc. in noisy,
unstructured, often complex, and high volume data sets
Doing analytics better / differently?
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How much do you agree or disagree with the following
statements?
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
The emergence of advanced storage, access
and analytics solutions means the end of the
traditional RDBMS
Regardless of substance and reality of
emerging technologies and techniques, the
term ‘big data’ is currently being over-hyped…
I have a clear understanding of what the term
‘big data’ means
5-Totally agree 4 3 2 1-Totally disagree Unsure
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The three Vs of Big Data
Volume
Variety
Velocity
Rule of thumb
Generally think
of Big Data
when two of
these three
apply
High physical volumes with low value
density
Different sources and formats or
information
Rapid rate of data movement, generation
or acquisition
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The concept of value density
Traditional search and
document management
Traditional BI and data
warehousing
High value density
High value densityLow value density
Low value density
Structured
Unstructured
Structured
Unstructured
BIG
DATA
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What level of growth are you seeing in the following
types of data within your organisation?
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
5 (Extremely high growth) 4 3 2 1 (No growth)
Structured data
(e.g. tabular data in RDBMSs)
Unstructured data
(e.g. documents, messages,
multimedia content, etc.)
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In what form is your organisation’s most valuable or critical data
held (i.e. your crown jewels in information terms)?
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Exclusively structured
Mostly structured
Equal split
Mostly unstructured
Exclusively unstructured
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How is this changing?
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Steady
shift
(25%)
Steady
shift
(21%)
No
change
(43%)
Rapid shift
towards value in
unstructured
data
(4%)
Rapid shift
towards value in
structured data
(7%)
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To what degree does your organisation exploit its
information assets for analysis and decision making?
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
5 (Fully) 4 3 2 1 (Very poorly)
Structured data
(e.g. tabular data in RDBMSs)
Unstructured data
(e.g. documents, messages,
multimedia content, etc)
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Use of traditional and emerging technologies
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Legacy databases and file systems
General purpose RDBMS servers
High performance RDBMS configurations
OLAP multi-dimensional database systems
Write once read many (WORM) databases
Rule-based stream processing engines
In memory databases
Scale-out storage architectures
Distributed indexing and search
Distributed data analytics engines
5 (Extensive use) 4 3 2 1 (Not used at all) Unsure
-60% -40% -20% 0% 20% 40% 60%
Less use More use
Current level of use Change over next 3 years
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How much do you agree or disagree with the following
statements?
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Developments in advanced storage, access and analytics are allowing
us to tackle problems today that were either too hard or too expensive
to deal with in the past
Developments in advanced storage, access and analytics are allowing
us to take different and better approaches to tackling some key
business requirements
Vendors and consulting firms are well geared up to providing us with
the support and services we need to take advanced storage, access
and analytics on board effectively
We have a clear idea of the business benefits available to us through
the use of big data technologies and solutions
We have a clear idea of the advanced data storage and big data
analytic technologies that are becoming available
Database vendors are well geared up to support their customers with
appropriate licensing and commercial arrangements as data related
needs continue to evolve and become more demanding
5-Totally agree 4 3 2 1-Totally disagree Unsure
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Elephants in the room
Access to data – what data is there and where is it?
Are there governance / regulatory / legal restrictions in play
concerning certain data sets?
Skill shortage?
IT skills
Numerical skills in user base
Just what questions could ‘Big Data’ help with?
How do we exploit any results we generate?
Feedback into ‘mainstream systems’
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Data Centre Evolution
Where are we now?
‘Perfect Visions’
Will we ever get to Nirvana?
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How much have you virtualised the following elements of your
IT landscape?
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Your x86 server estate
Storage infrastructure
Your corporate network
Your desktop environment
Totally Extensively Partially A bit Not at all Unsure
Enterprise 481 respondents
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How much have you architected your IT infrastructure in the
form of shared resource pools such a private clouds?
Unsure
6%
Not at all
40%
A bit
19%
Partially
20%
Extensively
11%
Totally
4%
Enterprise 481 respondents
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YOUR VISION FOR DATA CENTRE COMPUTING
Following charts based on this question:
Putting all of the existing constraints and the current
state of the industry to one side for a minute, how
desirable would the following be as part of your perfect
IT vision?
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0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
All/most of our IT
requirements would be
fulfilled via hosted cloud
services
All/most of our own IT
infrastructure would be
based on private clouds
Highly desirable-5 4 3 2 Not at all desirable-1 Unsure or N/A
THE CLOUD HOSTING THING (Perfect IT Vision)
Enterprise 481 respondents
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THE WHOLE CLOUD THING
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
All/most of your IT requirements are fulfilled via
hosted cloud services
All/most of your in-house (or co-located) IT
infrastructure is based on private cloud
architecture
Already there Within 1 yr Within 3 yrs Within 5 yrs
Within 10 yrs Later Never Don't know
Enterprise 481 respondents
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0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
We’d be able to provision workloads and new systems capacity on our private
clouds with a few clicks on a management console
Automation would mean that shared resource usage was continually
optimised as demands fluctuate, with no human intervention
We’d be able to migrate applications and workloads back and forth between
public and private clouds with ease
Hybrid cloud management capability would allow us to take an agnostic view
of resources, mixing and matching internal and external capacity freely
We would have end-to-end visibility across on-premise and hosted systems
for management and troubleshooting purposes
We would have a consistent/joined-up way of managing security and access
across in-house and hosted systems
We would have a consistent/joined-up way of managing and protecting data
across in-house and hosted systems
We’d be taking a unified approach to operations and management across
servers, storage, networking, security, etc
Highly desirable-5 4 3 2 Not at all desirable-1 Unsure or N/A
OPERATIONS & MANAGEMENT (Perfect IT Vision)
Enterprise 481 respondents
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OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
New workloads and systems capacity are generally provisioned with just
a few clicks on a console
Use of key shared resources is continually optimised as demands
fluctuate, with no human intervention
You can quickly and easily move workloads back and forth between
public and private clouds
An agnostic view of resourcing means choices between internal and
external deployment are made purely on requirements and fitness for
purpose
You have end-to-end operational visibility across on-premise and hosted
systems
You have a consistent/joined-up way of managing security across in-
house and hosted systems
You have a consistent/joined-up way of managing data across in-house
and hosted systems
Already there Within 1 yr Within 3 yrs Within 5 yrs Within 10 yrs Later Never Don't know
Enterprise 481 respondents
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0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Server, storage, networking, security and other specialists would
be working together seamlessly as part of a fully integrated ops
team
Other IT teams (developers, testers, support staff, departmental
IT, etc) would have self-service provisioning capability to obtain IT
resources
Non-technical users would have self-service provisioning
capability for new applications and services
IT activity and investment would revolve around the concept of
business services rather than systems
We would be able to easily and accurately charge or report IT
costs back to the business based on activity or consumption
Highly desirable-5 4 3 2 Not at all desirable-1 Unsure or N/A
ORGANISATION & SERVICES (Perfect IT Vision)
Enterprise 481 respondents
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ORGANISATION AND SERVICES
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Self-service provisioning is in place for IT teams
Self-service provisioning is in place for end users
IT activity and investment revolves around the concept of
business services rather than systems
You can easily and accurately charge or report IT costs back
to the business based on consumption
Already there Within 1 yr Within 3 yrs Within 5 yrs
Within 10 yrs Later Never Don't know
Enterprise 481 respondents
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How much are the following standing in the way of progressing
towards the vision?
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Inability of suppliers to deliver on visions and promises
Lack of interest/appreciation from senior management
The business not ready to upset the status quo
IT not ready to upset the status quo
Cultural impediments to investment in shared infrastructure
Ingrained IT funding models don’t support new ways of working
Historical under-investment means the mountain’s too high to
climb
Lack of a formally defined vision and strategy
We simply don’t have the time, resources or budget to focus on
anything other than short term priorities
Big impediment Significant challenge Minor challenge Not a problem Unsure
Enterprise 481 respondents
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When it comes to driving forwards, how is it playing out, or
how do you think it’s going to play out in your organisation?
Other
4%
Things will be left largely
as they are for the
foreseeable future
18%
Just let adoption of modern
architectures, tools and
techniques creep along in
an ad hoc manner
20%
Build a modern
environment for new stuff,
and migrate older systems
into it incrementally
43%
Build a modern
environment for new stuff,
and leave older systems
where they are
11%
Single big transformational
initiative to modernise
things across the board
4%
Enterprise 481 respondents
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Summing Up
Can you have you cake
(OK Apple) and eat it?
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Moving forwards
• Understanding is needed
• Communicate – often and in language business users can understand
• Ensure governance processes are ‘big data aware’
Senior business
awareness raising
• Proactive local involvement in planning/prioritisation
• Don’t forget about getting ‘big data’ derived results back into business use
• Clear policies/discipline around data usage
Minimisation of ad
hoc adoption
•Monitor usage patterns to spot trends early
•Don’t get hung up on transient fads and fashions
•Embrace, substitute or block more persistent activity
Identify and deal with
real business issues
•More of an orchestration approach to IT leadership
•Architect systems with hard core and flexible edges
•Virtualise the edge to handle diversity and personal use
Facilitate flexibility via
core IT
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Adoption attitudes and tactics
Resist new ideas and solutions
Allow new stuff to creep in passively
Ad hoc opportunistic adoption
Draw a line, target new apps only
Establish beachhead, then expand
Big bang migration of everything
Recommended by
most early movers
Recipe for
disappointment
Rarely affordable
in cost or risk
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Editor's Notes
MB to modify to tune to how she likes to define the BD problem
Emerging foundation for consistent pundit/vendor viewA bit contrived, but useful, and need to know because the 3Vs and becoming increasingly prominent
When you look at some of the information feeds, including structured (logs, M2M, etc) and unstructured (social, web), along with unstructured internal sources, you find a lot of them are very ‘dilute’ when it comes to valueThis these are the areas put into the ‘too difficult’ or ‘not cost effective’ to solve categoryThis is where parallel, distributed scale-out architectures – aka Big Data come inStress that it is not just about unstructured – e.g. one of the most common starting points for IT departments cutting their teeth is systems log file analysis
But not just about Hadoop. Players like EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, Oracle and others all have offerings in the Big Data arenaZooming out, here are some of the common categories (there are many ways of categorising, this is more of a stack view)Scale out storage can be used for large traditional warehouses as well as big dataDistributed analytics can run on proprietary grids as well as things like HadoopThe point being that no element of Big data is exclusiveIndeed there is nothing exclusive about big data at all – it will live alongside existing solutions (see next slide_
Has advantages that derivative insights are a lot more accessible when extracted from Big Data environment and placed in a traditional environment – skills sets/familiarity, toolset availability, well established integration and propagation mechanismsm,etc