The document discusses how cloud computing can help businesses by enabling faster development and testing. It outlines challenges with traditional infrastructure for agile development processes like long provisioning times. The cloud offers rapid provisioning, easy environment changes, and lower costs through a pay-as-you-go model. This makes it well-suited for dynamic workloads like development, testing, and training. The document recommends starting with cloud adoption by moving suitable development and testing workloads to the cloud.
Application Modernization meets Cloud and Mobile ... Where to Start?John Head
Session Given at IBM InterConnect 2016 - It's 2016. Your application portfolio is being reviewed and scrutinized. Mobile and cloud are more than checkboxes on a list. User expectations are higher than ever. But there are so many options—what do you do? Looking through the lens of IBM Software, we will answer that question by providing a roadmap and experiences to help you choose the best path. We'll deep-dive into the five aspects of Application Modernization: User Experience, Social, Cloud, Mobile, and Modern Workflow. You'll see demos of actual transformations and the impact they have had within organizations. We'll put special attention on IBM Bluemix, SmartCloud, and the MobileFirst Platform. Learn how new functionality in the products will make your journey easier.
Building a hybrid, dynamic cloud on an open architectureDaniel Krook
Daniel Krook's version of the IBM open cloud overview, focusing on the business and technological imperatives driving the IBM strategy for customers.
Presented 9/30 and 10/1 at Boston TechFest, Cambridge, MA.
Bringing Your Web Apps to IBM Digital ExperienceJohn Head
Presented at IBM Connect 2016. For too long, WebSphere portal has been seen as the realm of the back end developer with specialized Java skills. This has been a barrier to entry to the IBM Domino community. IBM has transformed the product to the IBM Digital Experience platform – and it’s not just a name change! With the inclusion of the Script Portlet & IBM Portal on Cloud option, it’s time to look again. We will show you how to integrate your XPages applications, Bluemix and even Microsoft SharePoint. We will show content re-purpose without migration. If you are looking for a single point of integration for all your apps, this session is for you!
The Cloud and You - the 'as a service' disruption you can't ignoreJohn Head
In any discussion about cloud, there are lots of buzzwords being thrown out by analysts and vendors. "Digital Transformation", "Democratization of IT", "Citizen Developer", and many more. Add in the 'as a Service" explosion and it is hard to make heads and tails over what will add value to your business. This session will cut through the hype and help bring a reality check to how the Cloud can help you. This session is for everyone: Administrator, Developer, IT Executive, or Business User. Plan on leaving with a deeper understanding and ideas of where you can take advantage.
Hybrid Cloud Point of View - IBM Event, 2015Denny Muktar
My Slide for IBM Cloud Event on November 2015. The slide is talking about disruption, innovation, 4 guiding principles on hybrid cloud, and steps to cloud journey.
Link to IBM Cloud adoption Advisor is at the end of the slide.
Must watch video: Guy Kawasaki - TedX Talk.
Application Modernization meets Cloud and Mobile ... Where to Start?John Head
Session Given at IBM InterConnect 2016 - It's 2016. Your application portfolio is being reviewed and scrutinized. Mobile and cloud are more than checkboxes on a list. User expectations are higher than ever. But there are so many options—what do you do? Looking through the lens of IBM Software, we will answer that question by providing a roadmap and experiences to help you choose the best path. We'll deep-dive into the five aspects of Application Modernization: User Experience, Social, Cloud, Mobile, and Modern Workflow. You'll see demos of actual transformations and the impact they have had within organizations. We'll put special attention on IBM Bluemix, SmartCloud, and the MobileFirst Platform. Learn how new functionality in the products will make your journey easier.
Building a hybrid, dynamic cloud on an open architectureDaniel Krook
Daniel Krook's version of the IBM open cloud overview, focusing on the business and technological imperatives driving the IBM strategy for customers.
Presented 9/30 and 10/1 at Boston TechFest, Cambridge, MA.
Bringing Your Web Apps to IBM Digital ExperienceJohn Head
Presented at IBM Connect 2016. For too long, WebSphere portal has been seen as the realm of the back end developer with specialized Java skills. This has been a barrier to entry to the IBM Domino community. IBM has transformed the product to the IBM Digital Experience platform – and it’s not just a name change! With the inclusion of the Script Portlet & IBM Portal on Cloud option, it’s time to look again. We will show you how to integrate your XPages applications, Bluemix and even Microsoft SharePoint. We will show content re-purpose without migration. If you are looking for a single point of integration for all your apps, this session is for you!
The Cloud and You - the 'as a service' disruption you can't ignoreJohn Head
In any discussion about cloud, there are lots of buzzwords being thrown out by analysts and vendors. "Digital Transformation", "Democratization of IT", "Citizen Developer", and many more. Add in the 'as a Service" explosion and it is hard to make heads and tails over what will add value to your business. This session will cut through the hype and help bring a reality check to how the Cloud can help you. This session is for everyone: Administrator, Developer, IT Executive, or Business User. Plan on leaving with a deeper understanding and ideas of where you can take advantage.
Hybrid Cloud Point of View - IBM Event, 2015Denny Muktar
My Slide for IBM Cloud Event on November 2015. The slide is talking about disruption, innovation, 4 guiding principles on hybrid cloud, and steps to cloud journey.
Link to IBM Cloud adoption Advisor is at the end of the slide.
Must watch video: Guy Kawasaki - TedX Talk.
Innovation Enablers: Culture, Community & Code Angel Diaz
IBM Cloud Innovation Forum - CA
Innovation Enablers: Culture, Community & Code
How to infuse a culture of innovation to advance digital transformation
In this session, Angel Diaz, VP Cloud Architecture and Technology, will share how enterprise clients are successfully instilling a culture of innovation in support of their organization's digital disruption goals. The session will include examples on how today's business leaders are cultivating workplace environments that drive continuous improvements, innovative thinking and reward employee-driven initiatives. How to instill and support a start-up culture within the Enterprise and why developer ecosystems are typically at the heart of digital disruption will be reviewed. Central to establishing a culture of innovation is a focus on the right code and right community. Specially, Angel will explain how an "open cloud architecture" has become the technology behind today's business imperatives and the foundation for tomorrow's competitive advantage. Angel Diaz will present a roadmap to innovations being delivered by IBM and open communities such as OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Node and Docker. Angel will be joined by Stephanie Trunzo, PointSource, Chief Operations Officer, to share how top-performing organizations are applying these innovative practices in order to advance mobile application development, infrastructure and management practices within their organizations.
Why do Open and Hybrid work so well together?
The hybrid cloud is about combining public cloud, private cloud and dedicated hardware into an ideal solution for your app, your idea, your innovation and your company.
Mixed that up with open standards and you get the perfect balance of flexibilty and control. You get:
• All public cloud benefits: Pay-as-you-go, no up front investment, instant scalability
• Total flexibility: To match platform with application and change it anytime without lock in or rearchitecting
• Control: You choose the best platform mix without relying on your provider
Get the full story in our easy-to-read slideshare story now.
Smashing Through Big Data Barriers with Tableau and SnowflakeSamanthaBerlant
Your analysts are working with more data than ever before in Tableau. Chances are, as the data volumes grow, your teams are experiencing some slowdowns. While it may be tempting to blame Tableau, the most likely explanation for performance and scalability pains lies in your data service layer. What if you could transform the way you do analytics without having to retrain your Tableau users? What if you could get more critical business value out of Tableau, and your data, without disrupting the way your business operates?
Join us for this session to learn how Tableau could be the ultimate window into ALL of your valuable data, no matter how large. Learn how precomputation technology and AI-augmented query optimization can help you break free of the downward performance spiral of legacy analytics approaches.
In this presentation, you will learn:
-How to get the fastest big data analytics experience on Tableau
-How a unified semantic layer can ensure that your current Tableau users are not disrupted by big data
-How to improve your analytics operations with automation and machine intelligence
Watch the webinar to see this technology in action during the live Snowflake demo. Enter the onramp to unmatched performance with big data analytics on Tableau.
Webinar delivered in September 2012 featuring experts from Informatica Cloud and customers from Dolby and Actelion. For more information on Informatica Cloud integration applications and platform, please visit: http://www.informaticacloud.com/
Webinar: Hybrid Cloud Integration - Why It's Different and Why It MattersSnapLogic
In this webinar, hear from 451 Research analyst Carl Lehmann about how IT organizations are challenged like never before with several disruptive changes. As hybrid clouds proliferate and as workloads shift across these disruptive venues, enterprises must now consider a thoughtful and strategic approach to hybrid cloud integration.
This presentation features a discussion of the business and technical trends driving hybrid cloud integration, how hybrid cloud integration is different from traditional approaches to integration, and why it matters.
To learn more, visit: www.snaplogic.com/connect-faster
Business success increasingly depends on
the ability to apply new and innovative
business models and supporting IT solutions
more quickly than one's competitors can. In
short, it requires an agile enterprise. Recent
advancements in cloud computing can provide
an enterprise with the essential capabilities it
needs to become an agile enterprise
Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid Cloud ComputingSkytap Cloud
Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid Cloud Computing, presented by Brett Goodwin, VP Marketing & Business Development at Skytap, Inc. at CAMP IT, 4.5.2013.
Webinar: The 5 Most Critical Things to Understand About Modern Data IntegrationSnapLogic
In this webinar, we talk to industry analyst, author and practitioner David Linthicum who provides a state-of-the-technology explanation of big data integration.
David also provides 5 critical and lesser known data integration requirements, how to understand today's requirements, and guidance for choosing the right approaches and technology to solve these problems.
To learn more, visit: www.snaplogic.com/big-data
Innovation Enablers: Culture, Community & Code Angel Diaz
IBM Cloud Innovation Forum - CA
Innovation Enablers: Culture, Community & Code
How to infuse a culture of innovation to advance digital transformation
In this session, Angel Diaz, VP Cloud Architecture and Technology, will share how enterprise clients are successfully instilling a culture of innovation in support of their organization's digital disruption goals. The session will include examples on how today's business leaders are cultivating workplace environments that drive continuous improvements, innovative thinking and reward employee-driven initiatives. How to instill and support a start-up culture within the Enterprise and why developer ecosystems are typically at the heart of digital disruption will be reviewed. Central to establishing a culture of innovation is a focus on the right code and right community. Specially, Angel will explain how an "open cloud architecture" has become the technology behind today's business imperatives and the foundation for tomorrow's competitive advantage. Angel Diaz will present a roadmap to innovations being delivered by IBM and open communities such as OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Node and Docker. Angel will be joined by Stephanie Trunzo, PointSource, Chief Operations Officer, to share how top-performing organizations are applying these innovative practices in order to advance mobile application development, infrastructure and management practices within their organizations.
Why do Open and Hybrid work so well together?
The hybrid cloud is about combining public cloud, private cloud and dedicated hardware into an ideal solution for your app, your idea, your innovation and your company.
Mixed that up with open standards and you get the perfect balance of flexibilty and control. You get:
• All public cloud benefits: Pay-as-you-go, no up front investment, instant scalability
• Total flexibility: To match platform with application and change it anytime without lock in or rearchitecting
• Control: You choose the best platform mix without relying on your provider
Get the full story in our easy-to-read slideshare story now.
Smashing Through Big Data Barriers with Tableau and SnowflakeSamanthaBerlant
Your analysts are working with more data than ever before in Tableau. Chances are, as the data volumes grow, your teams are experiencing some slowdowns. While it may be tempting to blame Tableau, the most likely explanation for performance and scalability pains lies in your data service layer. What if you could transform the way you do analytics without having to retrain your Tableau users? What if you could get more critical business value out of Tableau, and your data, without disrupting the way your business operates?
Join us for this session to learn how Tableau could be the ultimate window into ALL of your valuable data, no matter how large. Learn how precomputation technology and AI-augmented query optimization can help you break free of the downward performance spiral of legacy analytics approaches.
In this presentation, you will learn:
-How to get the fastest big data analytics experience on Tableau
-How a unified semantic layer can ensure that your current Tableau users are not disrupted by big data
-How to improve your analytics operations with automation and machine intelligence
Watch the webinar to see this technology in action during the live Snowflake demo. Enter the onramp to unmatched performance with big data analytics on Tableau.
Webinar delivered in September 2012 featuring experts from Informatica Cloud and customers from Dolby and Actelion. For more information on Informatica Cloud integration applications and platform, please visit: http://www.informaticacloud.com/
Webinar: Hybrid Cloud Integration - Why It's Different and Why It MattersSnapLogic
In this webinar, hear from 451 Research analyst Carl Lehmann about how IT organizations are challenged like never before with several disruptive changes. As hybrid clouds proliferate and as workloads shift across these disruptive venues, enterprises must now consider a thoughtful and strategic approach to hybrid cloud integration.
This presentation features a discussion of the business and technical trends driving hybrid cloud integration, how hybrid cloud integration is different from traditional approaches to integration, and why it matters.
To learn more, visit: www.snaplogic.com/connect-faster
Business success increasingly depends on
the ability to apply new and innovative
business models and supporting IT solutions
more quickly than one's competitors can. In
short, it requires an agile enterprise. Recent
advancements in cloud computing can provide
an enterprise with the essential capabilities it
needs to become an agile enterprise
Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid Cloud ComputingSkytap Cloud
Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid Cloud Computing, presented by Brett Goodwin, VP Marketing & Business Development at Skytap, Inc. at CAMP IT, 4.5.2013.
Webinar: The 5 Most Critical Things to Understand About Modern Data IntegrationSnapLogic
In this webinar, we talk to industry analyst, author and practitioner David Linthicum who provides a state-of-the-technology explanation of big data integration.
David also provides 5 critical and lesser known data integration requirements, how to understand today's requirements, and guidance for choosing the right approaches and technology to solve these problems.
To learn more, visit: www.snaplogic.com/big-data
Adapting to a Hybrid World [Webinar on Demand]ServerCentral
Learn:
- when hybrid IT works: successful deployment models we’ve seen
- when hybrid IT doesn’t work: how to avoid the "gotchas"
- which applications go where in hybrid environments
- pro tips from a managed infrastructure hosting provider's point of view
Cloud services are critical sources of speed and agility, and have evolved beyond the simple benefits of cost reduction. Cloud helps companies profit from disruption by allowing innovation in both the front and back office.
This Digital Realty webinar features Michael Bohlig (@bohlig), KC Mares (@kcmares) and Forrester Principal Analyst Dave Bartoletti (@davebartoletti).
For more information visit http://www.digitalrealty.com
Gartner predicts that by 2026, 75% of organizations will adopt a digital transformation model predicated on cloud as the fundamental underlying platform. It is clear that cloud is here to stay and will continue to be top of mind for organizations of all sizes for years to come. To have a successful cloud strategy, not only is it important to know how other organizations are successfully migrating their architecture, but also how they are handling operations once they make the switch.
However, moving to and operating in the cloud successfully is not as easy as purchasing some public cloud credits and calling it a day. There are many common challenges that organizations face as they move to be cloud-first. By understanding more about these challenges, organizations can avoid expensive consequences.
Join this session to learn about:
Top trends in cloud migration and computingCommon challenges that organizations face as they move to a cloud-first approachConsequences that organizations face when they mishandle cloud adoption
Presented on June 10th, 2015 at .NEXT Conference in Miami Beach:
This strategic IT session will make the case for why enterprise datacenters should be built using hybrid cloud architectures. A Microsoft Azure expert will explain how to embrace public cloud resources, while still maximizing on-premise infrastructure. In addition, two IT professionals will share their first-hand experiences in building and operating a real-world hybrid cloud environments. The session will dive into ideal use cases, back up and recovery strategies, security and compliance considerations, and best management practices when using multiple infrastructures to deliver your applications and data.
Keynote: Software Kept Eating the World (Pivotal Cloud Platform Roadshow)VMware Tanzu
Software Kept Eating the World
Software is transforming our world at an ever quickening page. In the modern world, realtime information drives decision making in enterprises that were not traditionally considered technology companies. If you recognize software is a competitive advantage, delivering software rapidly and reliably takes the advantage to the next level.
Presentazione dello speech tenuto da Carmine Spagnuolo (Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Università degli Studi di Salerno/ ACT OR) dal titolo "Technology insights: Decision Science Platform", durante il Decision Science Forum 2019, il più importante evento italiano sulla Scienza delle Decisioni.
Application Darwinism: Why Most Enterprise Apps Will Move to the Cloud (SVC20...Amazon Web Services
(Presented by Skytap) Complex multi-tier enterprise applications that have been under development for decades assume reliable hardware and typically have dependencies on underlying operating systems, hardware configurations, and network topologies. The boundary between one application or service and another is often fuzzy, with many interdependencies. These traits make some enterprise applications difficult to refactor and move to a public cloud. Even the teams that manage these applications can be unfamiliar with cloud terminology and concepts. In this session for enterprise IT architects and developers, Brad Schick, CTO of Skytap and Skytap customers Fulcrum, DataXu and F5 will share their insights into why the evolution of enterprise applications will lead to hybrid applications that opportunistically take advantage of cloud-based services. Brad will then demonstrate Skytap Cloud with Amazon Web Services and discuss how enterprises can easily achieve this integration today for application development and testing.
What do you need to consider when moving to the cloud? Whether you are new to the cloud or if it’s part of your existing strategy, it’s crucial to understand the business impact to be successful and achieve your goals. In this webinar, we discussed the impact moving towards the Microsoft Cloud will have on your business. Understanding and managing these changes will help you reduce the costs of these changes and improve the business value of your cloud investments.
Digital workplace expert, Daniel Cohen-Dumani, CEO of Portal Solutions, and Dale Tuttle, Founder of Porter Briggs Consulting, discussed how to prepare, plan and successfully move your organization to the cloud.
Skytap parasoft webinar new years resolution- accelerate sdlcSkytap Cloud
In this webinar, co-hosted by Parasoft and Skytap, find out how to get your software lifecycle in shape for the New Year. You'll learn strategies for helping DevOps and Test collaborate in ways that make your SDLC leaner and more scalable.
Webinar: Removing Barriers to Continuous Delivery of Business ValueSkytap Cloud
Many organizations are recognizing that faster application delivery leads to better business results, but they struggle with how to overcome their barriers to faster delivery. In this webinar, guest speaker Kurt Bittner, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., discusses the most common barriers to faster delivery and how organizations work to remove those barriers.
In this webinar, Skytap and Sky IT Group share tips and advanced technology for how to build better software faster using cloud-based dev/test environments.
Webinar: Cloud Data Masking - Tips to Test Software Securely Skytap Cloud
Axis Technology and Skytap provide tips on how masked test data management eliminates the possibility of exposure of sensitive information to either hackers or malicious insiders, increases security and compliance, and allows dev/test teams to perform more complete and continuous testing in the cloud.
Creating Complete Test Environments in the Cloud: Skytap & Parasoft WebinarSkytap Cloud
By utilizing virtualization technology in the SDLC, specifically service virtualization and virtual dev/test labs, companies can increase test coverage in less time and ultimately produce better software faster.
Download this complimentary webinar from Skytap and Parasoft now and learn how to to combine service virtualization with cloud-based dev/test environments.
Tips to achieve continuous integration/delivery using HP ALM, Jenkins, and S...Skytap Cloud
To gain a competitive advantage in today's hyper competitive markets, businesses must constantly strive to develop, test, and release better software faster. This is made possible by means of continuously integrating, testing, and delivering new applications.
In this webinar, Skytap and Orasi will share tips to improve software quality and velocity with the automated creation and management of on-demand, scalable test environments. It will focus on best practices for continuous integration through the joint use of HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Jenkins and Skytap.
Specifically you learn how to:
-Integrate Jenkins with HP ALM
-Extend Dev/Test workloads to the cloud
-Integrate build automation with automated test management
Enable SAP Agility & Get the Most Out of the CloudSkytap Cloud
Emergys and Skytap are partnering together to ensure that customers are getting the most out of the cloud—particularly as it pertains to their business critical, enterprise applications like SAP.
This webinar reviews how these two companies leverage the cloud to empower your business to:
-Rapidly enable optimized business processes and applications without capital expenditure
-Enable significant TCO benefits by performing development, testing and training in the cloud
-Accelerate business innovation and embrace consumer experience in your business through cloud-delivered platform as a service
Webinar On-Demand: Skytap & Jenkins
The Skytap CI plugin for Jenkins provides development and test teams with a powerful tool to rapidly deploy complex environments form template, run build/test workflows, and then tear down environments once builds/tests are complete. Watch this webinar that dives into how Skytap and Jenkins can help you build better software faster.
A top focus for application development today is on acceleration, but faster is not always equal to better. The bigger challenge is to improve both the speed and quality of software releases. By utilizing virtualization technology, specifically service virtualization and virtual dev/test labs, in software development lifecycles, companies can increase test coverage in less time and ultimately produce better software faster.
HP Service Virtualization software allows development and testing teams to access limited or unavailable services in a simulated, virtual environment. This easy-to-use solution speeds application delivery, eliminates risks and reduces cost by virtualizing services within existing environments. By enabling parallel development and early functional testing, it eliminates wait times. HP Service Virtualization also reduces the use of high-cost, business-critical infrastructure or pay-per-use components for testing.
With the growth of cloud computing, technical managers are looking for ways to leverage this emerging platform to improve performance, reduce costs, and better serve their users. Due to the complexity of enterprise applications and their dependence legacy systems, some managers have concluded that making use of the cloud to power these applications is impossible, or prohibitively difficult.
This webinar will focus on the concept of “Hybrid Applications”; applications that take advantage of the latest cloud technologies while still retaining on-premise legacy systems. Specific examples of hybrid applications will be presented and discussed in order to show how development and IT managers can begin migration to the cloud.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
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.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI support
How To Leverage Cloud Computing for Business & Operational Benefit - CAMP IT
1. How To Leverage Cloud Computing for
Business & Operational Benefit
CAMP IT
Brett Goodwin
VP Marketing & Business Development
Skytap, Inc.
2. I 2
• Cloud Computing Overview
• Research & Trends
• Cloud Solution Requirements
• Where to Get Started?
• Integrating With Existing Environments
Agenda
3. I 3
Predicting The Future
When he saw a
demonstration of the
telephone in 1880, a
U.S Mayor declared:
“One day every town in
America will have a
telephone!”
4. I 4
Predicting The Future
133 years later…
Over 100 million total
smartphone users in
America
5. I 5
Innovation Is Accelerating…
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
YouTube is born
Apple launches
movies on iTunes.
The beginning of
the end for movie
stores
2012
Google buys
YouTube
Facebook
opens up
The world
starts tweeting
Google Books starts
scanning the world’s
literature
The iPhone
is born
Obama’s campaign
grows $21M - $150M
using social media
1 of 8 couples in
the US getting
married met online
Cloud computing
goes mainstream
Over 2.1 billion
global internet
users
Facebook has over
800M active users
Wikipedia grows to
25M+ pages
2M sold
in
24 hours
iPhone 5
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The Future Is Now
The internet revolution
changed everything…
Shop
Date
Conduct business
Consume media
Pay our bills
Conduct research
Learn
Collaborate
Cloud computing will too…
“Unlimited” capacity
On-demand
Self-service
Increased collaboration
Pay-as-you grow
Faster innovation
Increased agility
Next generation of
products & services
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• Compute, Storage, and Networking Resources
• Delivered as a service
• Self service access via web interfaces and APIs
• Provision / release resources in minutes
• Pay for usage model
What Is Cloud Computing?
7
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Top SaaS Applications Used
“What are your firm’s plans to use software-as-a-service (SaaS) to
complement or replace the following applications?”
Top categories:
>30% adoption
Next group of
SaaS solutions:
20% to 30%
Base: software decision-makers at firms with 20+ employees who currently use or are planning to use each application;
Source: Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2012
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Cloud Segments Are Converging
SaaS
› Fixed application
› Defined structures
› Singular purpose
› Look and feel
customizations
IaaS
› Virtual infrastructure
› OS/MW configuration
› Network and storage
definition
› SaaS extensions
› Customization tools
› Integrations
› Developer services
› APIs
PaaS
› Application container(s)
› App life-cycle mgmt.
› Development tools
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Private, Hybrid, or Public Clouds?
Gartner: Private clouds are a last resort
Thorough analysis required to identify cloud computing benefits
By Neal Weinberg, Network World
October 19, 2011 10:00 AM ET
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Enterprises should consider public cloud services first
and turn to private clouds only if the public cloud fails to meet their needs.
That was the advice delivered by analyst Daryl Plummer during Gartner's
IT Symposium Tuesday. Plummer says that there are many potential
benefits to deploying cloud services, including agility, reduced cost,
reduced complexity, increased focus, increased innovation and being able
to leverage the knowledge and skills of people outside the company.
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Hybrid Cloud Architecture
24
Your Infrastructure Public Cloud
Multi-VPN via AutoNetworks™
On-Premise
Virtualized Resources
Cloud-Based Virtual
Environments
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• Some enterprise workloads are ideally suited for
in-house; some are ideal for cloud delivery
• The hybrid cloud becomes a secure, IT managed
extension to your existing internal IT infrastructure
• Hybrid clouds provide the best of both worlds
– Elasticity, on-demand, self-service nature of public cloud
– Security, control, and visibility of on-premise resources
Why Hybrid Cloud?
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IT Workload Management
• Contextual for IT operations
• Limited IT resources
• User managed changes
• 30% of the environment
70% of change requests
• Core to IT operations
• Dedicated IT resources
• IT managed changes
• 70% of the environment
30% of change requests
Dynamic Workloads
Ideal for Cloud Computing
Predictable Workloads
Ideal for Enterprise Data Centers
Predictable Dynamic
• Enterprises are moving dynamic workloads to the cloud
• Cloud model provides for dynamic capacity management
• Automation solutions decrease IT support burden
DynamicPredictable
Source: Customer interviews
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Cloud Computing – Where to Start?
27
Anatomy of a
Dynamic Workload
• Unpredictable capacity needs
• Frequent change requests
• Requires collaboration
• High costs
Leading Dynamic
Workloads for the Cloud
• Development and Testing
• Software Demos and Evaluations
• Virtual Training
The cloud is ideal for your dynamic workloads
Common challenges building
internal infrastructure
• Slow to provision
• Difficult to change
• Challenging to share
• Costly to maintain
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Business Benefits of Cloud Computing
28
Increase business agility
Reduce time to market
Ship better products faster
Boost productivity across teams
Lower your costs
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• Define requirements up front
• Difficult to change the outcome if requirements change
• IT infrastructure rarely changes during long dev/test cycles
Typical Software Development Life-Cycle
Design
Deploy &
Support
Develop
Test
6 to 12 month development and test cycle
Requirements
Shippable software
Testable software
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• Short release cycles which deliver customer value
• Welcome changing business requirements
• Collaboration with business and customer stakeholders
Agile Development Model
31
Design Develop
Test
Ship Ship
Customer
Problem 1
Customer
Problem 2
Customer
Problem 3
Design Develop
Test
Design Develop
Test
3 to 6 week release cycle 3 to 6 week release cycle 3 to 6 week release cycle
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The Weakest Link
32
Agile
Development
Agile
Infrastructure??
Dev/Ops
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• Ordering and provisioning requests take weeks or longer
• Lower priority than production operations
Infrastructure Challenges with Agile Development
33
Slow to
Provision
Difficult to
Change
• Difficult to change and recycle hardware once ordered
• Not easy to re-configured Memory, CPU, Disk
High Cost
• Costly to maintain state of the art dev/test hardware
• Costly to duplicate production environments
• Capital expense vs. Operating expense
Difficult to
Share
• Sharing environments or “copies” of environments with remote
teams or customers is not practical
• Reproducing complex bugs requires snapshots of full environments
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0 5 10 15 20 25
Hybrid
In-house
Time to Results Per Project
Purchasing Set-up Changes Tear down
Rapid Provisioning
1 day
2 to 3 weeks
In-house data based on customer input
Days
• Quicker Release Cycles
• Faster Time to Market
• Positive Business Impact
Time liberated to focus
for strategic priorities
35
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• No up-front capital expenditure
• Pay for use model
– Allows for simulating production environments
Lower Cost
38
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Putting the Agile into your Infrastructure
39
Agile development adoption is accelerating
Cloud computing offers significant
advantages for development and
test workloads
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• Can I import my existing VMs/configurations into my cloud
service provider “as is”?
• Do I have to write/rewrite my application to a new/specific set
of APIs? If so, will I be “locked in”?
• Can my cloud service provider handle complex networking and
muti-tiered environments?
• Can end users access the cloud resources from any browser?
Also RDP; SSH clients?
• Am I comfortable that my cloud environment is secure? My DC
to cloud; users to cloud; not exposed to the Internet unless I
want it to be…
Integrating With Existing Infrastructure
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• Self-service and ease of use
• Visibility and control
• Fast on-demand provisioning
• Complete complex environments vs. VMs
• Designed for teams vs. individuals
• Hybrid/public cloud architecture
Key Things To Look For
42. • Cloud transformation is underway
• Take a holistic view
– Private infrastructure
– Private cloud
– Public/hybrid cloud computing
• Cloud computing enables best of both worlds
– In-house data centers for mission critical applications
– External hybrid/public clouds for dynamic workloads
Summary
43. Thank You!
CAMP IT
Brett Goodwin
VP Marketing & Business Development
Skytap, Inc.
bgoodwin@skytap.com
44. How To Leverage Cloud Computing for
Business & Operational Benefit
CAMP IT
Brett Goodwin
VP Marketing & Business Development
Skytap, Inc.
Editor's Notes
Your slide. Title says it all.
First, a quick side not on “What is cloud computing?” There is so much hype in the industry it is worth just defining what I mean by this.First, it is about compute (virtual machines), storage, and networks. These are the resources that make up dev, integration, test, staging, and production environments.Second, they are delivered as a service. You may have heard of Infrastructure as a Service. This is essentially the heart of cloud computing.The service is available from both web interfaces and APIs in a self service manner.Cloud computing is characterized by the ability to provision apparently infinite resources in minutes vs. hours. The reverse is true, resources can be returned to the pool in minutes so that they can be repurposed.Finally, the business model is pay for use, operating expense vs. a purchase/capital expense where you pay for the resources regardless whether they are being used or not.
Slide Purpose/Objective:Define what is a dynamic workload, reinforce leading Skytap Cloud use cases, and tee up the Skytap differentiators slideTalking Points:Now that I’ve introduced you to the Skytap Cloud, which was designed to make the process of supporting dynamic workloads fast, easy and secure, let’s spend a for moments talking about why the cloud is ideal for your dynamic workloads.First, what are the common characteristics of a dynamic workload?Dynamic workloads often present businesses a range of challenges making them difficult to manage and maintain in an efficient, cost-effective fashion.By their very nature, dynamic workloads are difficult to resource since they have unpredictable capacity needs due to fluctuating demand which may require increased scale at a moments notice. For example, a product development process enters into the latter stages of performance testing or an IT training class for your new product offering is exceeding registration numbers. In both these examples, IT would either need to have spare capacity handy and idle or would need to rapidly procure, prepare and provision new equipment to meet these demands. In today’s volatile economy, few businesses are willing to plan and purchase IT resources based on a forecasted “high-water mark” of demand, only to have these equipment sit underutilized. Requires frequent changes to applications and underlying infrastructure, as experience with the growing adoption of Agile development processes, is a second characteristic of a dynamic workloads. Users, such as a developer, can be frustrated having to wait for operations to “load up” the next build of their project. This not only results in stalled progress, but could increase the risk to quality if adequate testing cycles are stymied by slow, manual processes. Adding to this, it is not uncommon—in cases like product demos or virtual training—where entire multi-machine environments need to be repeatedly setup and torn down at a rapid pace.Continuing on the theme, dynamic workloads are ones that experience high demand for sharing and collaboration. Whether it is sharing between in house development teams and contracted test resource or enabling a customer to interact with the proof of concept environment you’ve built out to demonstrate your product’s fit, trying to securely yet easily collaborate with multiple parties is no small task, involving opening up access over the Internet amongst other requirements.Lastly, all of these conditions mean one thing: higher costs. Whether your users need to collaborate with partners across the office or around the world, need complex virtual data centers “spun up” to triage a newly discover product bug, or your new product is driving increased demand for demos, you’ll find yourself spending a lot of time and resources just to keep up. <CLICK TO ADVANCE SLIDE ANIMATION>And, it is not uncommon for businesses to attempt to build out virtual lab infrastructure on-premises in an effort to address these ranging demands dynamic workloads can place on IT. However, there are a number of challenges and risks associated with this approach:It can been tough to keep up with the often times breakneck speed and user demand for fast turn around on infrastructure requests.Being too slow risks application delivery and once you’ve setup an environment, it’s very likely changes will be requested.And, while you may struggle with keeping pace, users will often seek ways to share these virtual environments with collaboration partners within your company and outside. Do you have the mechanisms in place to address these needs in a secure, scalable and timely fashion?Again, costs can add up quickly and these are many of the reasons customers, like yourself, have turned to cloud-based computing solutions to handle these dynamic workloads.<CLICK TO ADVANCE SLIDE ANIMATION>This is why Skytap focuses on dynamic workloads which are ideal candidates for cloud computing. Great examples of these, and why many leading companies like Symantec, TrainSignal, BinaryTree and CommVault have turned to Skytap Cloud, include:Development and testing, especially those who are embracing Agile developmentSoftware demonstrations and product evaluations (or proof of concepts) as part of a sales cycleAnd, after a sale is closed, training your new customers on these technologies (or even your own teams)By now, I suspect you can clearly see why the cloud is perfect for these types of dynamic workloads
Slide Purpose/Objective:Clearly articulate the business value (core value proposition) Skytap Cloud delivers to customersTalking Points:Skytap Cloud provides companies, like yours, with a fast, easy and secure way to use cloud computing to accelerate your business.By mixing the best of what cloud computing can offer with the advanced automation and self-service capabilities of the Skytap Cloud Intelligent Automation Platform, you will experience:Increased business agility to keep pace with the ever changing dynamics of today’s markets, stay ahead of competitors, and support bursts in demandReduced time to market thanks to the flexibility to quickly meet the often fluctuating needs and frequently changing requirements of your users, especially for those who have embraced methodologies like Agile developmentThe ability to ship better products and do to so more quickly because you have an elastic sandbox to test your new products rapidly, at scale and across multiple platforms and configurations. Find a bug? Simply snapshot and share the environment to give developers an easy way to triage and get to the root cause without slowing down productivityA boost to productivity across teams whether through secure collaboration or training your sales team on the latest functionality, all from the convenience of an intuitive, browser-based interface.And, lowered costs by not having to worry about having enough capacity on hand (which could be underutilized due to fluctuating demand) or the having to spend extra cycles managing it to keep pace with requests
To set the context, describe a traditional software development lifecycle. This is called the “waterfall” method of development as you can see by how it is typically diagramed, as the water runs down the phases. It is characterized by defining requirements up front so you know what you are building, then doing the development, then testing, etc. Typically long development cycles sometimes years. Infrastructure is usually provisioned up front and rarely changes throughout the process. Very hard to react to changing requirements and often projects complete that are way of the mark originally set many month ago.
Agile methods on the other hand are characterized by short release cycles focused on solving specific customers problems and delivering software at each iteration. The short cycles (typically weeks) allow teams to quickly react to changing requirements. The focus on delivering smaller, more incremental changes to customers allows teams to get feedback from customers and then quickly iterate. You may also here this method discussed as “iterative development” We use this method at Skytap with “4 week iterations”. Unlike waterfall methods, there is increased pressure using Agile to deploy/ship features and as such there is more likely hood of infrastructure changes being made more frequently than in water fall method.
So, if you are using Agile development methods. What does that mean for your infrastructure requirements and for operations of that software? The weakest link in the chain from development to test to operations may become the infrastructure as your teams deliver more features faster.Let’s look at the challenges development teams using agile may face.
Development teams face big hurdles when they need new infrastructure. Clearly ordering hardware, having it shipped, unpacked, installed in the racks, and configured can take weeks to months. This is the state of many IT organizations. Projects using waterfall methods can deal with these delays, but not agile development teams. Even companies that are fully virtualized, tend to take 24-48 hours to provision a new virtual machine. On top of all that development/test teams tend to take second priority to keeping the lights on in produtions.Q: How many of you are happy with how quickly your IT organizations deliver new servers?2) The second challenge is in changing/recycling existing hardware. As an application scales and grows, a development team may decide they need to double the CPU or memory for the servers supporting the application. It is not easy nor quick to do this with existing hardware resources.3) Sharing environments is not very practical. If a tester finds a bug and the developer is unable to reproduce it in their own environment, the tester may be stalled as the developer takes over the test environment to troubleshoot. Likewise, creating copies and reproducing replicas of existing environments is not feasible.4) There can be high costs in maintaining dev/test infrastructure. As compute and storage resources grow, maintaining staging environments that closely mirror production can be expensive. A lot of the times these staging environments sit unused. Larger up-front capital expense to start a project. Again for projects that will run for 12+ months this ok, but for agil projects it is very costly to get started.
So, if you are doing agile development, you will want more agile infrastructure. Can cloud computing help address these challenges?
So cloud computing brings rapid provisioning to address issue #1.
Cloud computing also makes it easy to change infrasructure on the fly. Shown here is Amazon web services where you can select specific VM configurations with their own CPU/Memory, you can also create volumes of different sizes. Rackspace has similar pre-configured VMs to chose from.
Thirdly cloud computing can bring better tools for collaborating with teams. A user can build out an set of VMs, define the networking configurations, and get everything running. [BUILD1] These cloud environments can then be “Saved” or snapshotted into a library as a template. [BUILD2] For example, imagine a developer creates a “golden” development environment and saves it as a template. A second developer can then create their own separate environment from that original template.[BUILD3] Another tenant of agile development is sharing software with customers. Rather than stopping development, you can provision a separate enviornment, and then add it to a project or publish it so other team members or even external customers can try out new changes.
Finally cloud computing can lower costs. No up-front capital expenditures. Pay for use.Many people still think they can run things more cheaply in-house.
So in summary, agile development adoption is accelerating. We see cloud computing as offering signfiicant advantages to development and test teams who are making that transition. Agile development requires Agile infrastructure. The next link in the chain to explore is operations and the movement toward dev/ops where development teams are more intimately involved in the production operations of applications.