AWS offers a variety of data migration services and tools to help you easily and rapidly move everything from gigabytes to petabytes of data. We can provide guidance and methodologies to help you find the right service or tool to fit your requirements, and we share examples of customers who have used these options in their cloud journey.
In this session, AWS will present an overview of the AWS Landing Zone – an automated solution for setting up a robust and flexible AWS environment. Customers can expect to learn how AWS works with customers to accelerate their journey to AWS confidently and securely and how the AWS Landing Zone can be customized to meet each organization’s specific needs.
Presenter: Sadegh Nadimi, Senior Consultant, Global Migrations, AWS
AWS offers a variety of data migration services and tools to help you easily and rapidly move everything from gigabytes to petabytes of data. We can provide guidance and methodologies to help you find the right service or tool to fit your requirements, and we share examples of customers who have used these options in their cloud journey.
In this session, AWS will present an overview of the AWS Landing Zone – an automated solution for setting up a robust and flexible AWS environment. Customers can expect to learn how AWS works with customers to accelerate their journey to AWS confidently and securely and how the AWS Landing Zone can be customized to meet each organization’s specific needs.
Presenter: Sadegh Nadimi, Senior Consultant, Global Migrations, AWS
here's where Microsoft has invested, across these areas: identity and access management, apps and data security, network security, threat protection, and security management.
We’ve put a tremendous amount of investment into these areas and the way it shows up is across a pretty broad array of product areas and features.
Our Identity and Access Management tools enable you to take an identity-based approach to security, and establish truly conditional access policies
Our App and Data Security help you protect your apps and your data as it moves around—both inside and outside your organization
Azure includes a robust networking infrastructure with built-in security controls for your application and service connectivity.
Our Threat Protection capabilities are built in and fully integrated, so you can strengthen both pre-breach protection with deep capabilities across e-mail, collaboration services, and end points including hardware based protection; and post-breach detection that includes memory and kernel based protection and response with automation.
And our Security Management tools give you the visibility and more importantly the guidance to manage policy centrally
Cloud migrations are hardly one size fits all. It can be challenging to migrate from a large-scale data center to an optimized AWS environment without draining IT resources. By leveraging CSC, organizations are able to determine exactly what they need from their IT infrastructure and efficiently migrate to a customized cloud environment on AWS that meets those needs. With 400+ AWS certified architects and 30+ experts with AWS professional-level certification, CSC helps organizations experience seamless, results-oriented migrations. Register for the upcoming webinar to hear speakers from CSC and AWS discuss the ins and outs of a successful large-scale migration to AWS.
Join us to learn:
How CSC helped a large federal systems integration company migrate their workloads to the AWS Cloud in less than three months
How CSC has facilitated customers split from their shared IT environment in less than 3 months
The step-by-step process of an efficient data center migration
Who Should Attend:
IT Manager, IT Security Manager, Solution Architect, Cloud App Architect, System Administrator, IT Project Manager, Product Manager, Business Development
Introduction to the Well-Architected Framework and Tool - SVC208 - Anaheim AW...Amazon Web Services
Most modern businesses depend on a portfolio of technology solutions to operate and be successful every day. How do you know whether your team is following best practices or what the risks are in your architectures? This session shows how the AWS Well-Architected Framework provides prescriptive advice on best practices and how the AWS Well-Architected Tool enables you to measure and improve your technology portfolio. We explain how other customers are using AWS Well-Architected in their businesses, and we share what we learned from reviewing tens of thousands of architectures across operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.
Microsoft Azure is the only hybrid cloud to help you migrate your apps, data, and infrastructure with cost-effective and flexible paths. At this event you’ll learn how thousands of customers have migrated to Azure, at their own pace and with high confidence by using a reliable methodology, flexible and powerful tools, and proven partner expertise. Come to this event to learn how Azure can help you save—before, during, and after migration, and how it offers unmatched value during every stage of your cloud migration journey. Learn about assessments, migration offers, and cost management tools to help you migrate with confidence.
AWS Landing Zone Deep Dive (ENT350-R2) - AWS re:Invent 2018Amazon Web Services
In this session, we discuss how to deploy a scalable environment that considers the AWS account structure, security services, network architecture, and user access. We present an overview of the AWS Landing Zone solution, an automated solution for setting up a robust and flexible AWS environment designed from the collective experience of AWS and our customers. The AWS Landing Zone helps automate the setup of a flexible account structure, security baseline, network structure, and user access based on best practices. Future growth is facilitated by an account vending machine component that simplifies the creation of additional accounts. Learn how the AWS Landing Zone can ensure that you start your AWS journey with the right foundation. We encourage you to attend the full AWS Landing Zone track, including SEC303. Search for #awslandingzone in the session catalog.
Cloud Migration, Application Modernization, and Security Tom Laszewski
As AWS continues to expand, enterprise customers are looking to our partner ecosystem to assist in migrating their workloads to the cloud. This session describes the challenges, lessons learned and best practices for large scale application migrations. We will use real examples from our consulting partners and AWS Professional Services to illustrate how to move workloads to the cloud while modernizing the associated applications to take advantage of AWS’ unique benefits. We will also dive into how to use an array of AWS services and features to improve a customer’s security posture as they are migrating and once they are up and running in the cloud
Cloud Migration Cookbook: A Guide To Moving Your Apps To The CloudNew Relic
The process of building new apps or migrating existing apps to a cloud-based platform is complex. There are hundreds of paths you can take and only a few will make sense for you and your business. Get a step-by-step guide on how to plan for a successful app migration.
Building an Enterprise-Grade Azure Governance ModelKarl Ots
As presented at the CloudBrew 2019 conference in 13.12.2019.
When proper governance model is followed, your Azure application development teams are operating in a secure and compliant Azure environment during design, development and operations. In this "lessons learned" type of session, Karl will will share practical tips on how to build a comprehensive Azure governance model, based on real-life experiences from working with multi-billion dollar corporations.
After this session, you should have a better understanding of Azure governance best practices and in-house team roles & responsibilities. You will also have an overview of the technical fundamentals of a comprehensive Azure Governance.
Cloud migration is more than simply a business efficiency or a cost-saving measure. It’s a critical step towards digital transformation, innovation and operational resilience that has opened up opportunities for those who’ve embraced cloud adoption.
Whether you are looking to embark on your cloud migration or scaling the number of applications you’re moving to the cloud, it does not need to be a daunting task or one that you go at alone. AWS offers 10 years of experience helping businesses to efficiently move their legacy on-premises systems to the cloud. We work closely alongside numerous local delivery partners to help you meet your business needs.
Our Cloud Migration insights forum helps you to learn how to simplify your cloud journey with AWS.
Presentation by John Mulhall of Maolte Technical Solutions Limited on Cloud Migrations for presentation to a meetup by Morgan McKinley Recruitment agency in their Dublin 4 offices on the 30th November 2022.
here's where Microsoft has invested, across these areas: identity and access management, apps and data security, network security, threat protection, and security management.
We’ve put a tremendous amount of investment into these areas and the way it shows up is across a pretty broad array of product areas and features.
Our Identity and Access Management tools enable you to take an identity-based approach to security, and establish truly conditional access policies
Our App and Data Security help you protect your apps and your data as it moves around—both inside and outside your organization
Azure includes a robust networking infrastructure with built-in security controls for your application and service connectivity.
Our Threat Protection capabilities are built in and fully integrated, so you can strengthen both pre-breach protection with deep capabilities across e-mail, collaboration services, and end points including hardware based protection; and post-breach detection that includes memory and kernel based protection and response with automation.
And our Security Management tools give you the visibility and more importantly the guidance to manage policy centrally
Cloud migrations are hardly one size fits all. It can be challenging to migrate from a large-scale data center to an optimized AWS environment without draining IT resources. By leveraging CSC, organizations are able to determine exactly what they need from their IT infrastructure and efficiently migrate to a customized cloud environment on AWS that meets those needs. With 400+ AWS certified architects and 30+ experts with AWS professional-level certification, CSC helps organizations experience seamless, results-oriented migrations. Register for the upcoming webinar to hear speakers from CSC and AWS discuss the ins and outs of a successful large-scale migration to AWS.
Join us to learn:
How CSC helped a large federal systems integration company migrate their workloads to the AWS Cloud in less than three months
How CSC has facilitated customers split from their shared IT environment in less than 3 months
The step-by-step process of an efficient data center migration
Who Should Attend:
IT Manager, IT Security Manager, Solution Architect, Cloud App Architect, System Administrator, IT Project Manager, Product Manager, Business Development
Introduction to the Well-Architected Framework and Tool - SVC208 - Anaheim AW...Amazon Web Services
Most modern businesses depend on a portfolio of technology solutions to operate and be successful every day. How do you know whether your team is following best practices or what the risks are in your architectures? This session shows how the AWS Well-Architected Framework provides prescriptive advice on best practices and how the AWS Well-Architected Tool enables you to measure and improve your technology portfolio. We explain how other customers are using AWS Well-Architected in their businesses, and we share what we learned from reviewing tens of thousands of architectures across operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.
Microsoft Azure is the only hybrid cloud to help you migrate your apps, data, and infrastructure with cost-effective and flexible paths. At this event you’ll learn how thousands of customers have migrated to Azure, at their own pace and with high confidence by using a reliable methodology, flexible and powerful tools, and proven partner expertise. Come to this event to learn how Azure can help you save—before, during, and after migration, and how it offers unmatched value during every stage of your cloud migration journey. Learn about assessments, migration offers, and cost management tools to help you migrate with confidence.
AWS Landing Zone Deep Dive (ENT350-R2) - AWS re:Invent 2018Amazon Web Services
In this session, we discuss how to deploy a scalable environment that considers the AWS account structure, security services, network architecture, and user access. We present an overview of the AWS Landing Zone solution, an automated solution for setting up a robust and flexible AWS environment designed from the collective experience of AWS and our customers. The AWS Landing Zone helps automate the setup of a flexible account structure, security baseline, network structure, and user access based on best practices. Future growth is facilitated by an account vending machine component that simplifies the creation of additional accounts. Learn how the AWS Landing Zone can ensure that you start your AWS journey with the right foundation. We encourage you to attend the full AWS Landing Zone track, including SEC303. Search for #awslandingzone in the session catalog.
Cloud Migration, Application Modernization, and Security Tom Laszewski
As AWS continues to expand, enterprise customers are looking to our partner ecosystem to assist in migrating their workloads to the cloud. This session describes the challenges, lessons learned and best practices for large scale application migrations. We will use real examples from our consulting partners and AWS Professional Services to illustrate how to move workloads to the cloud while modernizing the associated applications to take advantage of AWS’ unique benefits. We will also dive into how to use an array of AWS services and features to improve a customer’s security posture as they are migrating and once they are up and running in the cloud
Cloud Migration Cookbook: A Guide To Moving Your Apps To The CloudNew Relic
The process of building new apps or migrating existing apps to a cloud-based platform is complex. There are hundreds of paths you can take and only a few will make sense for you and your business. Get a step-by-step guide on how to plan for a successful app migration.
Building an Enterprise-Grade Azure Governance ModelKarl Ots
As presented at the CloudBrew 2019 conference in 13.12.2019.
When proper governance model is followed, your Azure application development teams are operating in a secure and compliant Azure environment during design, development and operations. In this "lessons learned" type of session, Karl will will share practical tips on how to build a comprehensive Azure governance model, based on real-life experiences from working with multi-billion dollar corporations.
After this session, you should have a better understanding of Azure governance best practices and in-house team roles & responsibilities. You will also have an overview of the technical fundamentals of a comprehensive Azure Governance.
Cloud migration is more than simply a business efficiency or a cost-saving measure. It’s a critical step towards digital transformation, innovation and operational resilience that has opened up opportunities for those who’ve embraced cloud adoption.
Whether you are looking to embark on your cloud migration or scaling the number of applications you’re moving to the cloud, it does not need to be a daunting task or one that you go at alone. AWS offers 10 years of experience helping businesses to efficiently move their legacy on-premises systems to the cloud. We work closely alongside numerous local delivery partners to help you meet your business needs.
Our Cloud Migration insights forum helps you to learn how to simplify your cloud journey with AWS.
Presentation by John Mulhall of Maolte Technical Solutions Limited on Cloud Migrations for presentation to a meetup by Morgan McKinley Recruitment agency in their Dublin 4 offices on the 30th November 2022.
Cloud Adoption Framework Phase one-moving to the cloudAnthony Clendenen
This is the first phase in the cloud adoption framework. It includes getting started and a cloud readiness section to determine the overall readiness for cloud adoption.
A Comprehensive Guide to Successful Cloud Migrations.pptxXcelligen Inc
Unlock the secrets to successful cloud migrations with our comprehensive guide. Get expert tips and strategies for a smooth transition. Don't miss out!
Migrating Thousands of Workloads to AWS at Enterprise Scale – Chris Wegmann, ...Amazon Web Services
At the end of this session participants will learn how to assess their enterprise application portfolio and move thousands of instances to AWS in a quick and repeatable fashion. Migrating workloads to AWS in an enterprise environment is not easy, but with the right approach, an enterprise sized organization can migrate thousands of instances to AWS quickly and cost effectively to ensure a strong ROI.
Enterprises need to manage these resources being provisioned as well as define a consistent methodology for adopting the cloud. Management refers to the tasks and processes required to maintain business applications and the resources that support them.
Azure Governance, one of the aspects of Azure Management, has various concepts and services that are designed to enable management of various Azure resources. Understanding the different available tools for a variety of management scenarios becomes necessary.
Getting Started: What Should My Enterprise Do in the First 90 Days?Amazon Web Services
It is critical that your cloud program gets off to a great start and delivers business value quickly, as this new IT endeavour will have high visibility across the business. In this session you will learn about the capabilities and activities needed to be able to host production enterprise applications within the AWS cloud within your first 90 days.
Speaker: Louise Stigwood, Enterprise Account Manager, Amazon Web Services
The Need for Cloud Migration Strategies:
1. Agility and Scalability
2. Cost Optimization
3. Enhanced Security and Compliance
4. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
(ENT206) Migrating Thousands of Workloads to AWS at Enterprise Scale | AWS re...Amazon Web Services
Migrating workloads to AWS in an enterprise environment is not easy, but with the right approach, an enterprise-sized organization can migrate thousands of instances to AWS quickly and cost effectively. You can leave this session with a good understanding of the migration framework used to assess an enterprise application portfolio and how to move thousands of instances to AWS in a quick and repeatable fashion.
In this session, we describe the components of Accenture's cloud migration framework, including tools and capabilities provided by Accenture, AWS, and third-party software solutions, and how enterprises can leverage these techniques to migrate efficiently and effectively. The migration framework covers:
- Defining an overall cloud strategy
- Assessing the business requirements, including application and data requirements
- Creating the right AWS architecture and environment
- Moving applications and data using automated migration tools- Services to manage the migrated environment
This session provides a holistic framework that can be used to build a Cloud Strategy that is tailor made for your organization. The Cloud Strategy covers 7 different perspectives of consideration including Business, People, Process, Operations, Security, Maturity, and Platform.
Cloud Cost Optimization is developing a cost reduction strategy and implementation plan to reduce the cloud bill without negatively impacting the business and the performance. Take control of the total cost and continuously optimize your cloud spend, while building modern, scalable applications to meet your business needs.
The cloud is a metaphor for the internet. It signifies a shift from traditional, on-site data management to a network of powerful servers accessible from anywhere. This offers flexibility, scalability, and often cost savings compared to owning physical hardware.
Many large enterprises have begun using AWS to host development and test environments while also building greenfield applications in AWS. After realizing the benefits that AWS has to offer, many Enterprise look for ways to accelerate their migration to the cloud. In beginning this journey they are often faced with a number of challenges such as determining which applications should move, how they should move, and how can they be effectively managed in the cloud. Accenture, working with AWS Solution Architects, and AWS Professional Services have developed a framework, based on our experiences, to quickly, efficiently, and successfully move enterprise applications to AWS at scale. This session will review our approach, tools, and methods that can help Enterprises evolve their cloud transformation programs.
Cloud First does not mean you should jump into cloud without a well-constructed plan. The most successful organizations build the foundational capabilities first and create a roadmap that aligns people, technology, platforms, security, governance and culture. Many CIO’s want the benefits associated with cloud technologies but don’t necessarily know where to start and what questions to ask. This session will provide real world examples of the transformation process, challenges and successes that organizations have experienced in their cloud journey. We will define a low risk strategy and approach to achieve success in the cloud quickly. We will describe the sequencing requirements, milestones, and foundational services that need to be in place on Day 1. And finally, we will reveal the most critical and often overlooked component of your transformation strategy. Sponsored by Smartronix.
navigating the cloud key considerations for cloud computing solutions.pdfbasilmph
Cloud computing has become a pivotal part of modern business strategies due to its numerous benefits. - By driving innovative digital transformations, cloud technology accelerates the development and implementation of new business models.
Creating an Operating Model to enable a high frequency organizationTom Laszewski
Establishing an appropriate cloud operating model is critical to forming your organization’s successful adoption of cloud, and delivering greater business agility, increasing the cloud migration Return on Investment, and deliver a more secure, performant, reliable, and cost effective cloud computing environment. The impact of the cloud will be felt across your entire organization, including processes and people - not just Information technology. It will significantly affect, and be affected by, your organizational culture and Information technology delivery structures. This session will provide prescriptive guidance regarding the best approaches to evolving an operating model from projects to products, manual, process intensive governance to a ‘trust but verify’ model, long development cycles to continuous integration and deployment, silos between business and IT into a collaborative organizational structure, self-service processes, and continuous improvement. The recommendations in the presentation are based upon lesson learned, best practices, and anti-patterns from thousands of customer’s cloud transformation journeys.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
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.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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.
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
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
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
2. What is Cloud Adoption Framework
for Azure?
• It’s a collection of documentation, technical
guidance, best practices, and tools that aid in
aligning business, organizational readiness, and
technology strategies.
• It accelerates meeting business objectives and
guides decision making
2
3. The Cloud Adoption Framework approaches
cloud adoption as a self-service activity. The
objective is to empower each of the teams
supporting adoption through standardized
approaches
Azure solution providers (partners): Get connected
with Azure expert managed services providers
(MSP) and other Microsoft partners who have
service offerings aligned to the Cloud Adoption
Framework methodologies.
FastTrack for Azure: Use the Microsoft FastTrack for
Azure program to accelerate migration.
Azure Migration Program (AMP): The AMP
program aligns a mixture of partners and Microsoft
employees to accelerate and support your
migration.
Framework Intent Strategy for partner alignment
Pitfall Avoidance - Don’t do it alone
Foundational Alignment
Every member of the team should have a basic
understanding of how azure works
Every technical team member should have a basic
understanding of fundamental Azure concepts
5. 5
Define Strategy
● Understand motivations
● Business outcomes
● Business justification
● Prioritize project
Plan
● Rationalize digital assets
● Initial organization alignment
● Skills readiness plan
● Cloud adoption plan
Ready
● Azure setup guide
● First landing zone
● Expand the landing zone
● Best practice Validation
Define strategy
Plan
Adopt Ready
ManageGovern
Adopt
Migrate
● Migration Guide
● First workload migration
● Expanded scenarios
● Best practice validation
● Process improvements
Innovate
● Innovation guide
● Expanded scenarios
● Best practice validation
● Process improvements
Govern
● Methodology
● Benchmark initial best practice
● Governance maturity
Manage
● Business commitments
● Operations baseline
● Operations maturity
https://aka.ms/adopt/overview
Cloud Adoption Framework
6. Defineanddocumentyour
motivations
Meet with key stakeholders and
executives to document the
motivations behind cloud
adoption
Documentbusiness
outcomes
Engage motivated stakeholders
and executives to document
specific business outcomes
1
2
Develop a business case
Develop a business case to validate
the financial model that supports
your motivations and outcomes
Choosethe right first
project
This first project will help align
motivations with technical effort
and must be chosen wisely
3
4
Defineyour strategy
7. Critical business events Migration Innovation
Datacenter exit
Merger, acquisition, or divestiture
Reduction in capital expenses
End of support for mission-critical
technologies
Response to regulatory compliance
changes
New data sovereignty requirements
Reduction of disruptions and improvement
of IT stability
Cost savings
Reduction in vendor or technical
complexity
Optimization of internal operations
Increase in business agility
Preparation for new technical capabilities
Scaling to meet market demands
Scaling to meet geographic demands
Integration of a complex IT portfolio
Preparation for new technical capabilities
Building new technical capabilities
Scaling to meet market demands
Scaling to meet geographic demands
Improved customer experiences and
engagements
Transformation of products or services
Market disruption with new products or
services
Democratization and/or self-service
environments
Strategy – Define document your motivations
9. XYZ Life Sciences Co. - Drug & Device Division
Stakeholder: Therapeutic Product Owner Business Outcome: Decrease Time to Market for drug/device
Business Drivers KPI Capabilities
Study Design $3M opportunity cost per day per drug Data-Driven protocol authoring
Study Conduct Trial Simulation
Structured collaboration for trial approval
Strategy - Document your business outcomes
Types of
Business
Outcomes
Fiscal
Outcomes
Agility
Outcomes
Reach
Outcomes
Customer
Engagement
Outcomes
10. Pitfall Avoidance –Identify meaningful KPIs including
hard/soft costs in business outcomes
KPIs support measurable successful
outcomes and can reduce anxiety
and resistance to cloud adoption
11. Tools you can use:
• Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Calculator: Use the TCO calculator to
estimate the cost savings you can
realize by migrating your application
workloads to Azure.
• Azure pricing calculator: Estimate your
expected monthly bill by using the
pricing calculator.
• Azure Cost Management: Use and
manage Azure and other cloud
resources through a multiple-cloud
cost management solution.
Cloud Accounting Models versus
Traditional (cost center model,
profit center models)
ROI = (Gain from Initial Investment
– Initial Investment) / Initial
Investments
Gain from investment = revenue
deltas + cost deltas
Strategy – Business Justification
12. Pitfall Avoidance– Dispel cloud migrationmyths
Thecloud is always cheaper
Everything should go into the cloud
Mirroringmy on-premises environmentwill help me
savemoneyin the cloud
Servercosts drive businesscasesfor cloud migration
An operating expense model is better than a capital
expense model
Moving tothe cloud is like flipping a switch
Myths
13. Your first adoption project should align with
your motivations for cloudadoption. Whenever
possible, your first project should also
demonstrate progress toward a defined business
outcome
Your team's first adoption project is likelyto result in a
production deployment of some kind. But this isn't
always the case. Establish proper expectations early.
Hereare afew wise expectations toset:
This project is a source of learning
This project might result in production
deployments, but it will probably require
additional effort first
The output of this project is a set of clear
requirements to provide a longer-term
production solution
Strategy – Choosethe first cloud adoption project
14. Develop your plan
1 2 3 4
DIGITAL ESTATE INITIAL ORGANIZATIONAL
ALIGNMENT
SKILLS READINESS
PLAN
CLOUD ADOPTION PLAN
Inventory and rationalize
your digital estate based
on assumptions that align
with motivations and
business outcomes
Establish a plan for initial
organizational alignment
to support the adoption
plan
Create a plan for
addressing skills
readiness gaps
Develop a cloud adoption
plan to manage change
across the digital estate,
skills, and organization
16. Plan -Rationalize your digital estate
Rehost
Refactor
Rearchitect
Rebuild/New
Replace
Also known as a lift-and-shift migration, a rehost effort moves a current state asset
to the chosen cloud provider, with minimal change to overall architecture
Also refers to the application development process of refactoring code to allow an
application to deliver on new business opportunities
When aging applications aren't compatible with the cloud, they might need to be
rearchitected to produce cost and operational efficiencies in the cloud
Unsupported, misaligned, or out-of-date on-premises applications might be too
expensive to carry forward. A new code base with a cloud-native design might be
the most appropriate and efficient path
Sometimes the best approach is to replace the current application with a hosted
application that meets all functionality required in the cloud
20. • Prerequisites: Confirm that all prerequisite steps have been
completed before you create your plan.
• Define and prioritize workloads: Prioritize your first 10
workloads to establish an initial adoption backlog.
• Align assets to workloads: Identify which assets (proposed or
existing) are required to support the prioritized workloads.
• Review rationalization decisions: Review rationalization
decisions to refine adoption path decisions: migrate or innovate.
• Establish iterations and release plans: Iterations are the time
blocks allocated to do work. Releases are the definition of the
work to be done before triggering a change to production
processes.
• Estimate timelines: Establish rough timelines for release
planning purposes, based on initial estimates.
Azure DevOps Demo Generator
Plan - Cloud adoption plan
21. Azure setup
guide
Azure landing
zones
Expand the
landing zone
Best
practices
1 2 3 4
Review the Azure setup
guide to become familiar
with the tools and
approaches you need to
use to create a landing
zone
Choose the most
appropriate landing zone
option, to establish a
code-based starting point
for your environment
Meet the platform
requirements of your
cloud adoption plan by
expanding the first landing
zone
Validate landing zone
modifications against best
practices to ensure the
proper configuration of
your current and future
landing zones
Ready
22. Organize
resources
Manage
access
Manage
costs and
billing
Plan for
governance
, security,
and
compliance
Use
monitoring
and
reporting
Stay
current
with Azure
Track product updates
to enable a proactive
approach to change
management
Enforce and automate policies
and security settings that help
you follow applicable legal
requirements
Get visibility across resources to
find and fix problems, optimize
performance, and gain insight
into customer behavior
Identify your subscription
type, understand how
billing works, and learn
how to control costs
Use role-based access control
to make sure that users have
only the permissions they
really need
Set up a management
hierarchy to consistently apply
access control, policy, and
compliance to groups of
resources and use tagging to
track related resources
Ready – Azure setup guide
You'll learn
how to:
23. Azurelanding zones are the output of a multi-
subscription Azureenvironment that accounts for
scale, security, governance, networking, and
identity.
All Azurelanding zones providea scalable,
modular approach to building out your
environment based on a common set of design
areas.
Ready – Azure landing zones
CAF Foundation blueprint in Azure
24. Demo – CAF Blueprint - Landing Zone
Ready – Expand the landing zones
Implementation Options Blueprints Menu Blade
Get Started
Material referenced from Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework Documentation available at https://aka.ms/adopt/overview
Let’s first identify what the CAF is:
The Cloud Adoption Framework brings together cloud adoption best practices from thousands of Microsoft employees, partners, and customers. It provides a set of tools, guidance, and narratives that help shape technology, business, and people strategies for driving desired business outcomes during your adoption effort.
It follows agile principles and a requires a growth mindset.
This guidance aligns to the phases of the cloud adoption lifecycle, giving you easy access to the right guidance at the right time.
So, now hearing this glowing description of the CAF, let discuss the first potential pitfall to avoid
aka.ms/adopt.plan
While CAF Framework has the intent of providing a self-service approach to cloud adoption it is important to consider strategic partnership alignment.
Few corporations have the diversity of skills required to support the strategy, planning, readiness, adoption, governance, and management. Partners and other support models are often necessary to fill in the gaps in the team's skills and responsibilities.
The phases of the cloud adoption lifecycle consist of three main phases that are completed iteratively:
Plan, Ready, & Adopt
These three main stages are preceded by a business strategy phase and surrounded by an operations phase (that included Governance and Management) that expands through the cloud adoption journey.
Strategy - Define You Business Objects
Plan - Prepare you organization for the cloud
Ready - Prepare you environment to move work loads to the cloud
Adopt – Is when the rubber hits the road. The CAF offer guidance whether your intent is to Migrate current workload to the cloud of Innovate by taking advantage of what the cloud has to offer.
Govern & Manage - Establish well managed cloud environment by implementing governance and ensure alignment with you existing IT infrastructure as security best practices
Preferred view with Strategy at the core, surround by iterative plan, ready, and adopt phases, all within the bounds of Governance and Management
The phases of the cloud adoption lifecycle consist of three main phases that are completed iteratively:
Plan, Ready, & Adopt
These three main stages are preceded by a business strategy phase and surrounded by an operations phase (that included Governance and Management) that expands through the cloud adoption journey.
Strategy - Define You Business Objects
Plan - Prepare you organization for the cloud
Ready - Prepare you environment to move work loads to the cloud
Adopt – Is when the rubber hits the road. The CAF offer guidance whether your intent is to Migrate current workload to the cloud of Innovate by taking advantage of what the cloud has to offer.
Govern & Manage - Establish well managed cloud environment by implementing governance and ensure alignment with you existing IT infrastructure as security best practices
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/strategy/
So let dig deeper into the first phase of you journey – Defining you strategy
Defining and documenting your motivation requires all clear understanding of all stakeholder’s motivation. Motivation vary greatly between the business and technical side.
Motivations often include:
Organization is preparing for new technical capabilities
Gaining scale to meet market or geographic demands
Cost savings
Reduction in vendor or technical complexity
Optimization of internal operations
Increased business agility
Improvements to customer experiences or engagements
Disruption of the market with new products or services
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/strategy/motivations
Critical pitfall to avoid during the motivation step of the strategy phase is to not have all stakeholders involved. Discussion around your organization’s motivation with result in important decision further down you cloud journey path. Without coming to agreement regarding motivations, you are sure to underdeliver or overdeliver on the wrong goals of your organization.
Migration or Innovation
Establish clear business outcomes: Drive transparency and engagement for your journey across the organization.
Define business justification: Identify business value opportunities to then select the right technology.
Business Outcomes step of your Strategy phase is where you document your agreed upon business outcomes.
The CAF provide business outcome templates to help drive these conversations. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/strategy/business-outcomes/
Which focus around:
Fiscal Outcomes
Agility Outcomes
Reach Outcomes - Growth
Customer Engagement Outcome
Common pitfall during the business outcome step of the Stagey phase are frequently related to not defining meaningful KPIs.
To help drive the development of good KPIs. It is helpful to view this as a discovery process.
Stakeholders: Who in the organization is likely to see the greatest value in a specific business outcome? Who is most likely to support this transformation, especially when things get tough or time consuming? Who has the greatest stake in the success of this transformation? This person is a potential stakeholder.
Business outcomes: A business outcome is a concise, defined, and observable supported by a specific measure.
Business drivers: Business drivers capture the current challenge that's preventing the company from achieving desired outcomes.
KPIs: How will this change be measured? How does the business know if they are successful? How frequently will this KPI be observed?
Capabilities: What applications must be included in the transformation to achieve business objectives? How do various applications or workloads get prioritized to deliver on capabilities?
The third step in the Strategy phase is Business Justifications.
Cloud Accounting models are quite different from traditional cost models.
Understanding how to determine ROI can be complicated. One common finical model recommend by the CAF is mentions:
Revenue deltas
Revenue deltas should be forecast in partnership with business stakeholders. After the business stakeholders agree on a revenue impact, it can be used to improve the earning position.
Cost deltas
Cost deltas are the amount of increase or decrease that will be caused by the transformation. Independent variables can affect cost deltas. Earnings are largely based on hard costs like capital expense reductions, cost avoidance, operational cost reductions, and depreciation reductions. The following sections describe some cost deltas to consider.
Cost Deltas
Physical asset recovery
Operational cost reductions
Software licensing.
Hosting expenses.
Electric bills.
Real estate rentals.
Cooling expenses.
Temporary staff required for operations.
Equipment rentals.
Replacement parts.
Maintenance contracts.
Repair services.
Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) services.
Other expenses that don't require capital expense approvals that often provide the highest earning deltas. When you're considering a cloud migration, time invested in making this list exhaustive is rarely wasted.
Cost avoidance
Soft-cost reductions
Headcount reductions
Capital expense avoidance due to removal refresh cycles
Common pitfalls to avoided during the business justification phase of the Strategy Phase are often tied to myths about the cloud. Dispel these common myths.
Myth: The cloud is always cheaper
It's commonly believed that operating a datacenter in the cloud is always cheaper than operating one on-premises. While this assumption might generally be true, it's not always the case. Sometimes cloud operating costs are higher. These higher costs are often caused by poor cost governance, misaligned system architectures, process duplication, atypical system configurations, or greater staffing costs. Fortunately, you can mitigate many of these problems to create early ROI. Following the guidance in Build the business justification can help you detect and avoid these misalignments. Dispelling the other myths described here can help too.
Myth: Everything should go into the cloud
In fact, some business drivers might lead you to choose a hybrid solution. Before you finalize a business model, it's smart to complete a first-round quantitative analysis, as described in the digital estate articles. For more information about the individual quantitative drivers involved in rationalization, see the five Rs of rationalization. Either approach will use easily obtained inventory data and a brief quantitative analysis to identify workloads or applications that could result in higher costs in the cloud. These approaches could also identify dependencies or traffic patterns that would necessitate a hybrid solution.
Myth: Mirroring my on-premises environment will help me save money in the cloud
During digital estate planning, it's not unheard of for businesses to detect unused capacity of more than 50% of the provisioned environment. If assets are provisioned in the cloud to match current provisioning, cost savings are hard to realize. Consider reducing the size of the deployed assets to align with usage patterns rather than provisioning patterns.
Myth: Server costs drive business cases for cloud migration
Sometimes this assumption is true for other companies can five-year to eight-year hardware refresh cycle are unlikely to see returns on their cloud migration.
Myth: An operating expense model is better than a capital expense model
As explained in the fiscal outcomes article, an operating expense model can be a good thing. But some industries view operating expenditures negatively.
Myth: Moving to the cloud is like flipping a switch
Migrations are a manually intense technical transformation. You must consider
Bandwidth limitations: The amount of bandwidth between the current datacenter and the cloud provider will drive timelines during migration.
Testing timelines: Testing applications with the business to ensure readiness and performance can be time consuming. Aligning power users and testing processes is critical.
Migration timelines: The amount of time and effort required to implement the migration can increase costs and cause delays.
Technical and cultural impediments can slow cloud adoption.
Migration-specific initial investment
Final step in the Strategy phase -choosing your first cloud adoption project.
The CAF provides a few example project that can help guide you
You may be choosing your first project as a result of:
A Critical business events: Where a tool like Azure Site Recovery might be a good first project. The CAF allow highlights how the Azure Migrate tools can help you quickly migrate datacenter assets.
Migration motivations: When migration is the primary motivation, it's wise to start with the migration of a noncritical workload. The Azure setup guide and the Azure migration guide can provide guidance for the migration of your first workload.
Innovation motivations: Creation of a targeted dev/test environment can be a great first project.
Starting a first project adoption process in parallel with the development of the next phase – the plan phase may provide some benefits such as:
Establish a growth mindset to encourage learning and exploration.
Provide an opportunity for the team to develop necessary skills.
Create situations that encourage new approaches to collaboration.
Identify skill gaps and potential partnership needs.
Provide tangible inputs to the plan.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/plan/
Most organization tend to focus the energy on Rationalize your Digital Estate and creating of the Cloud Adoption Plan as these are the more technically focused steps in this phase.
Rationalize your digital estate: Understand the organization's current digital estate to maximize return and minimize risks by running a Workload Assessment.
Create your cloud adoption plan: Develop a plan where prioritized workloads are defined and aligned with business outcomes.
Pitfall avoidance – don’t skip steps 2 and 3
The most important aspect of any cloud adoption plan is the alignment of people who will make the plan a reality.
No plan is complete until you understand its people-related aspects.
Throwing your organization into the cloud without a skills readiness plan can have devasting effect. In addition to having lost cycles it can destroy a team’s morale
Rehost - Also known as a lift-and-shift migration, a rehost effort moves a current state asset to the chosen cloud provider, with minimal change to overall architecture.
Reduce capital expense.
Free up datacenter space.
Achieve rapid return on investment in the cloud.
Refactor - also refers to the application development process of refactoring code to allow an application to deliver on new business opportunities.
Experience faster and shorter updates.
Benefit from code portability.
Achieve greater cloud efficiency in the areas of resources, speed, cost.
Rearchitect - When aging applications aren't compatible with the cloud, they might need to be rearchitected to produce cost and operational efficiencies in the cloud.
Gain application scale and agility.
Adopt new cloud capabilities more easily.
Use a mix of technology stacks.
Rebuild/New - Unsupported, misaligned, or out-of-date on-premises applications might be too expensive to carry forward. A new code base with a cloud-native design might be the most appropriate and efficient path.
Accelerate innovation.
Build apps faster.
Reduce operational cost.
Replace -Sometimes the best approach is to replace the current application with a hosted application that meets all functionality required in the cloud.
Standardize around industry best practices.
Accelerate adoption of business process-driven approaches.
Reallocate development investments into applications that create competitive differentiation or advantages.
To create a balance between speed and control, at a minimum, you must have people accountable for the cloud adoption and cloud governance
Adoption Only is anti-pattern!
To align your origination you must understand
Structure types and Define the type of organizational structure that best fits your operating model.
You must also understand Cloud functions and what is required to adopt and operate the cloud.
And you must account for mature team structures to Define the teams that can provide various cloud functions.
RACI matrix help to Clearly defined roles are an important aspect of any operating model.
The CAF provides RACI matrix that help guide your efforts when aligning your organization:
Cloud adoption plans convert the aspirational goals of a cloud adoption strategy into an actionable plan.
It is an iterative project plan that helps a company transition from traditional IT approaches to modern, agile approaches.
The CAF provide an Azure DevOps template the generate a project for you, that is extremely helpful
The CAF provides a lot of tools and automation to get quickly on your path in the Ready phase.
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CAF provides a wealth of best practices that decision guides to help you
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For an interactive experience, view this guide in the Azure portal. Go to the Azure Quickstart Center in the Azure portal, select Azure migration guide, and then follow the step-by-step instructions.
Assess each workload's technical fit. Validate the technical readiness and suitability for migration.
Migrate your services. Perform the actual migration, by replicating on-premises resources to Azure.
Manage costs and billing. Understand the tools required to control costs in Azure.
Optimize and promote. Optimize for cost and performance balance before promoting your workload to production.
Get assistance. Get help and support during your migration or post-migration activities.
It is assumed that a landing zone has already been deployed, in alignment with the best practices in the
For an interactive experience, view this guide in the Azure portal. Go to the Azure Quickstart Center in the Azure portal, select Azure migration guide, and then follow the step-by-step instructions.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/innovate/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/govern/methodology
Cloud governance creates guardrails that keep the organization on a safe path throughout the journey.
Easiest if you define corporate policy up front
Incremental governance relies on a small set of corporate policies, processes, and tools to establish a foundation for adoption and governance. That foundation is called a minimum viable product (MVP). An MVP allows the governance team to quickly incorporate governance into implementations throughout the adoption lifecycle. After this MVP is deployed, additional layers of governance can be quickly incorporated into the environment.
Cloud governance is an iterative process. For organizations with existing policies that govern on-premises IT environments, cloud governance should complement those policies. The level of corporate policy integration between on-premises and the cloud varies depending on cloud governance maturity and a digital estate in the cloud. As the cloud estate changes over time, so do cloud governance processes and policies. The following exercises help you start building your initial governance foundation.
The historical IT operating model was sufficient for over 20 years. But that model is now outdated and is less desirable than cloud-first alternatives. When IT management teams move to the cloud, they have an opportunity to rethink this model and drive greater value for the business. It is necessary to modernized model of IT management.
Operations management workbook
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