Flopsar is a new application performance management (APM) tool developed by a Polish company that provides a more intuitive visualization of system performance compared to other solutions. It plots every transaction in a system on an x-y axis "galaxy" view, showing normal transactions clustered together while issues appear as outliers. This makes it simple to identify and diagnose problems. The tool was developed from scratch in C without external libraries for high performance. It has been implemented on over 100 production systems in Poland and is being tested by other companies.
Thought Leader Interview: Dr. William Turner on the Software-Defined Future ...Iver Band
As the Vice President, Datacenter Architecture at Presidio,
William Turner, PhD has more than 20 years of hand-son,
full-project-cycle experience in strategizing, designing and
deploying large-scale Fortune 500 networks and security
solutions. His extensive background in banking, security,
and government has yielded several well regarded industry
standards and noted reference models.
Dr. Turner envisions and drives a future in which sophisticated software provisions and de-provisions IT infrastructure automatically in response to business needs. The specialized appliances enterprises traditionally rely upon will be replaced by industry-standard hardware playing necessary roles on demand.
EAPJ conducted this interview from the perspective of an infrastructure architect considering a software-defined future for the networking, hosting and storage underlying a
major upcoming application investment.
OSMC 2008 | Application Transaction Monitoring using Nagios by Satish Jonnavi...NETWAYS
Nagios, a popular monitoring solution for network/ infrastructure, can also be used for application monitoring such as transaction monitoring within a Java virtual machine. This presentation shows how Nagios can be used to monitor various Java application services using standards such as JMX. These services provide a detailed view of heap/non-heap memory, threads etc that are only available with in each specific virtual machine. Through an example, this presentation will also show how to monitor transactions, such as financial deals processed etc, using a popular the popular open source SOA framework known as Mule.
Point-to-Point vs. MEAP - The Right Approach for an Integrated Mobility Solut...RapidValue
There are two commonly used approaches for building integrated mobility solutions: Point-to-point integration and Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP).
This paper explains why an enterprise mobility integration solution is needed, describes and compares the two approaches, and provides a guide for how to choose the right mobility integration technique for your organization. The paper also examines various MEAP platforms available and the key differences between popular platforms - Kony and SAP Unwired Platform.
From a mobile application development standpoint, there is another widely used approach: cross-platform development frameworks. These frameworks allow
developers to build once and deploy across multiple device platforms. However, these frameworks lack integration and mobile device management capabilities,
and therefore we have excluded them from consideration for the purposes of this whitepaper. To learn more about cross-platform development, download our whitepaper: “How to Choose the Right Architecture for your Mobile Application” -
http://www.rapidvaluesolutions.com/whitepaper/
APPCLARITY provides a single, accurate view of the software installed and active across the enterprise. It is the fastest, most cost-effective way to establish visibility and control of your software landscape and spend. Maximize savings and secure your software using 1E’s App Clarity.
Presentation by IBM's Martin Nally and Mike O'Rourke from Innovate 2010, including discussion on tool integration challenges and IBM's two pronged approach for addressing (OSLC - open linked lifecycle data, Jazz - alm services platform).
Lawyers and Licenses in Open Source-based Development: How to Protect Your So...Sonatype
You can build better software faster with Open Source Software (OSS) components, but you must ensure that your organization meets component-licensing terms. Violating the terms of an open source license is copyright or intellectual property infringement and can lead to legal and financial penalties. This white paper explains why certain types of open source licenses create legal risk and describes win-win methods for avoiding risk that give lawyers the confidence they need while giving developers the speed they need.
Thought Leader Interview: Dr. William Turner on the Software-Defined Future ...Iver Band
As the Vice President, Datacenter Architecture at Presidio,
William Turner, PhD has more than 20 years of hand-son,
full-project-cycle experience in strategizing, designing and
deploying large-scale Fortune 500 networks and security
solutions. His extensive background in banking, security,
and government has yielded several well regarded industry
standards and noted reference models.
Dr. Turner envisions and drives a future in which sophisticated software provisions and de-provisions IT infrastructure automatically in response to business needs. The specialized appliances enterprises traditionally rely upon will be replaced by industry-standard hardware playing necessary roles on demand.
EAPJ conducted this interview from the perspective of an infrastructure architect considering a software-defined future for the networking, hosting and storage underlying a
major upcoming application investment.
OSMC 2008 | Application Transaction Monitoring using Nagios by Satish Jonnavi...NETWAYS
Nagios, a popular monitoring solution for network/ infrastructure, can also be used for application monitoring such as transaction monitoring within a Java virtual machine. This presentation shows how Nagios can be used to monitor various Java application services using standards such as JMX. These services provide a detailed view of heap/non-heap memory, threads etc that are only available with in each specific virtual machine. Through an example, this presentation will also show how to monitor transactions, such as financial deals processed etc, using a popular the popular open source SOA framework known as Mule.
Point-to-Point vs. MEAP - The Right Approach for an Integrated Mobility Solut...RapidValue
There are two commonly used approaches for building integrated mobility solutions: Point-to-point integration and Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP).
This paper explains why an enterprise mobility integration solution is needed, describes and compares the two approaches, and provides a guide for how to choose the right mobility integration technique for your organization. The paper also examines various MEAP platforms available and the key differences between popular platforms - Kony and SAP Unwired Platform.
From a mobile application development standpoint, there is another widely used approach: cross-platform development frameworks. These frameworks allow
developers to build once and deploy across multiple device platforms. However, these frameworks lack integration and mobile device management capabilities,
and therefore we have excluded them from consideration for the purposes of this whitepaper. To learn more about cross-platform development, download our whitepaper: “How to Choose the Right Architecture for your Mobile Application” -
http://www.rapidvaluesolutions.com/whitepaper/
APPCLARITY provides a single, accurate view of the software installed and active across the enterprise. It is the fastest, most cost-effective way to establish visibility and control of your software landscape and spend. Maximize savings and secure your software using 1E’s App Clarity.
Presentation by IBM's Martin Nally and Mike O'Rourke from Innovate 2010, including discussion on tool integration challenges and IBM's two pronged approach for addressing (OSLC - open linked lifecycle data, Jazz - alm services platform).
Lawyers and Licenses in Open Source-based Development: How to Protect Your So...Sonatype
You can build better software faster with Open Source Software (OSS) components, but you must ensure that your organization meets component-licensing terms. Violating the terms of an open source license is copyright or intellectual property infringement and can lead to legal and financial penalties. This white paper explains why certain types of open source licenses create legal risk and describes win-win methods for avoiding risk that give lawyers the confidence they need while giving developers the speed they need.
In order to maintain compliance in SAP systems, a well-established authorization management and a well-founded analysis of the separation of functions is necessary. This becomes all the more complex the more non-system solutions are available in your SAP ERP or S/4HANA landscape, because such systems usually have their own authorization structures.
It is therefore necessary to think about a reliable, cross-system authorization management in good time so that roles and authorizations are synchronized across all your SAP and non-SAP applications.
In this webinar, we will show you how to master comprehensive SoD analyses, business process analyses and the identification of authorization conflicts in the future – tool-supported and with a feasible administrative effort.
Topics of Focus:
• SoD analysis for SAP and non-SAP systems
• Cross-system authorization management with a central identity
• Evaluation of assigned roles and rights
• Advantages of the SAST User Access Management
• Best practice tips
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Für Informationen auf Deutsch, sprechen Sie uns gerne an: sast@akquinet.de
Tools & Techniques for Addressing Component Vulnerabilities for PCI ComplianceSonatype
Recent revisions to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) guidelines now require organizations to address potential vulnerabilities caused by use of open source components in their applications.
An industry-leading analyst discusses how you can take control of application performance and provide superior end-user experiences. Then, you’ll hear how a major US healthcare provider eliminated sporadic performance outages that affected its public-facing website, and prevented revenue loss and many hundreds of hours in support costs. To learn more, watch the webcast replay: http://rvbd.ly/1JGz1ke
Or to learn more about AppInternals, visit: http://rvbd.ly/1IsjC5t
Five Steps to Better Application PerformanceSumo Logic
Discover the five actionable steps organizations can take to better manage their applications. Reduce application downtime, while improving performance, and your end users' experience.
Experiences in Mainframe-to-Splunk Big Data AccessPrecisely
Adding mainframe data to the stream of machine-to-machine or “log” data for operational and security/compliance purposes is no longer a nice-to-have - it's a requirement.
View this presentation to hear the real-world experiences of four organizations who bridged the gap between the mainframe data and Splunk to create true operational and security intelligence. You'll learn:
The business needs that drove the requirements to bring their Mainframe data into Splunk
The options they considered to meet these requirements
How they are using Syncsort Ironstream® to meet and exceed their needs
Gluon Consulting - Specialized Software Development for FinanceDennis Cabarroguis
Gluon offers specialized software development and consultancy services for fintechs and financial services SMEs.
Our unique delivery model combines London based analysis, project management and QA with delivery from our team of talented developers in the Philippines.
Results, service and care levels are those you would expect from the best front-office tech teams in London, New York and Silicon Valley. Costs? Refreshingly close to your average total outsourcing initiative, but without the risk and the hassle.
OVER 40 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN LONDON
Our core team members are veteran software consultants and enterprise architects with a combined 40 years of experience writing high-performance, robust and scalable software for some of the world's largest financial organizations and independent technology providers.
TECH BEFORE FINTECH
In our journeys, we built trading and portfolio analytics platforms, distributed and parallel calculation and workflow engines, high volume messaging middleware, dashboards with advanced interaction and visualization features. We did numerical and statistical computing, machine learning and semantic processing.
We produced real-time, interactive scenario analysis for one of the most profitable trading desks on the planet. We helped e-commerce and brokerage companies to scale their operations without breaking a sweat. We contributed to pioneering robotics and field automation platforms before IoT and event streams were cool.
For more info, please contact
Dennis Cabarroguis
dennis.cabarroguis@gluonconsulting.com
How to add security in dataops and devopsUlf Mattsson
The emerging DataOps is not Just DevOps for Data. According to Gartner, DataOps is a collaborative data management practice focused on improving the communication, integration and automation of data flows between data managers and consumers across an organization.
The goal of DataOps is to create predictable delivery and change management of data, data models and related artifacts. DataOps uses technology to automate data delivery with the appropriate levels of security, quality and metadata to improve the use and value of data in a dynamic environment.
This session will discuss how to add Security in DataOps and DevOps.
Why not let apm do all the heavy lifting beyond the basics of monitoring | Sw...Swatantra Kumar
In a short period, the complexity of technology increased exponentially. The number of frameworks that appear “overnight”, together with new architectural patterns and distributed teams, can pose several challenges. Keeping such a complex landscape in check requires constant monitoring.
Choosing the right monitoring solution, not only for the project but also for the team dynamics, will help to identify the possible areas of improvement. Furthermore, embedding a monitoring solution within the development cycle of a product will help to reduce the number of problems that can appear in each step, and might also help shorten the amount of time generally needed in identifying the area of service disruption.
With Spring, Traficon has designed and delivered a new way of developing software. Without the constraints of the prior platform, the engineering team can get to market faster with more of the functionality desired by prospects and customers. In addition, the team is more productive and produces higher quality code. Together, these results position Traficon with an architecture designed for years ahead.
To learn more, visit pivotal.io/products/spring.
Splunk, Software Tools, Big Data, Logging, PCI, Information security, Cisco Systems, VMware ESX, Regulatory compliance, FISMA, Enterprise architecture, Data center, security software, SCADA, Windows,Unix,Scanners, Citrix, Microsoft Active Directory
As the Vice President, Datacenter Architecture at Presidio, William Turner, PhD has more than 20 years of hands-on, full-project-cycle experience in strategizing, designing and deploying large-scale Fortune 500 networks and security solutions. His extensive background in banking, security,
and government has yielded several well regarded industry standards and noted reference models.
Dr. Turner envisions and drives a future in which sophisticated software provisions and de-provisions IT infrastructure automatically in response to business needs. The specialized appliances enterprises traditionally rely upon will be replaced by industry-standard hardware playing necessary roles on demand.
EAPJ conducted this interview from the perspective of an infrastructure architect considering a software-defined future for the networking, hosting and storage underlying a major upcoming application investment.
20 Simple Questions from Exactpro for Your Enjoyment This Holiday SeasonIosif Itkin
Warmest wishes for a happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year!
We look forward to our continued collaboration in 2020. Thank you for your support.
Jade Global’s team of ServiceNow specialists work closely with global enterprises that need better visibility and efficiency in their software. Enriched software data can benefit functions across IT and the entire enterprise such as Security & Operations, HR, Application Portfolio Management, and IT Change.
In order to maintain compliance in SAP systems, a well-established authorization management and a well-founded analysis of the separation of functions is necessary. This becomes all the more complex the more non-system solutions are available in your SAP ERP or S/4HANA landscape, because such systems usually have their own authorization structures.
It is therefore necessary to think about a reliable, cross-system authorization management in good time so that roles and authorizations are synchronized across all your SAP and non-SAP applications.
In this webinar, we will show you how to master comprehensive SoD analyses, business process analyses and the identification of authorization conflicts in the future – tool-supported and with a feasible administrative effort.
Topics of Focus:
• SoD analysis for SAP and non-SAP systems
• Cross-system authorization management with a central identity
• Evaluation of assigned roles and rights
• Advantages of the SAST User Access Management
• Best practice tips
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Für Informationen auf Deutsch, sprechen Sie uns gerne an: sast@akquinet.de
Tools & Techniques for Addressing Component Vulnerabilities for PCI ComplianceSonatype
Recent revisions to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) guidelines now require organizations to address potential vulnerabilities caused by use of open source components in their applications.
An industry-leading analyst discusses how you can take control of application performance and provide superior end-user experiences. Then, you’ll hear how a major US healthcare provider eliminated sporadic performance outages that affected its public-facing website, and prevented revenue loss and many hundreds of hours in support costs. To learn more, watch the webcast replay: http://rvbd.ly/1JGz1ke
Or to learn more about AppInternals, visit: http://rvbd.ly/1IsjC5t
Five Steps to Better Application PerformanceSumo Logic
Discover the five actionable steps organizations can take to better manage their applications. Reduce application downtime, while improving performance, and your end users' experience.
Experiences in Mainframe-to-Splunk Big Data AccessPrecisely
Adding mainframe data to the stream of machine-to-machine or “log” data for operational and security/compliance purposes is no longer a nice-to-have - it's a requirement.
View this presentation to hear the real-world experiences of four organizations who bridged the gap between the mainframe data and Splunk to create true operational and security intelligence. You'll learn:
The business needs that drove the requirements to bring their Mainframe data into Splunk
The options they considered to meet these requirements
How they are using Syncsort Ironstream® to meet and exceed their needs
Gluon Consulting - Specialized Software Development for FinanceDennis Cabarroguis
Gluon offers specialized software development and consultancy services for fintechs and financial services SMEs.
Our unique delivery model combines London based analysis, project management and QA with delivery from our team of talented developers in the Philippines.
Results, service and care levels are those you would expect from the best front-office tech teams in London, New York and Silicon Valley. Costs? Refreshingly close to your average total outsourcing initiative, but without the risk and the hassle.
OVER 40 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN LONDON
Our core team members are veteran software consultants and enterprise architects with a combined 40 years of experience writing high-performance, robust and scalable software for some of the world's largest financial organizations and independent technology providers.
TECH BEFORE FINTECH
In our journeys, we built trading and portfolio analytics platforms, distributed and parallel calculation and workflow engines, high volume messaging middleware, dashboards with advanced interaction and visualization features. We did numerical and statistical computing, machine learning and semantic processing.
We produced real-time, interactive scenario analysis for one of the most profitable trading desks on the planet. We helped e-commerce and brokerage companies to scale their operations without breaking a sweat. We contributed to pioneering robotics and field automation platforms before IoT and event streams were cool.
For more info, please contact
Dennis Cabarroguis
dennis.cabarroguis@gluonconsulting.com
How to add security in dataops and devopsUlf Mattsson
The emerging DataOps is not Just DevOps for Data. According to Gartner, DataOps is a collaborative data management practice focused on improving the communication, integration and automation of data flows between data managers and consumers across an organization.
The goal of DataOps is to create predictable delivery and change management of data, data models and related artifacts. DataOps uses technology to automate data delivery with the appropriate levels of security, quality and metadata to improve the use and value of data in a dynamic environment.
This session will discuss how to add Security in DataOps and DevOps.
Why not let apm do all the heavy lifting beyond the basics of monitoring | Sw...Swatantra Kumar
In a short period, the complexity of technology increased exponentially. The number of frameworks that appear “overnight”, together with new architectural patterns and distributed teams, can pose several challenges. Keeping such a complex landscape in check requires constant monitoring.
Choosing the right monitoring solution, not only for the project but also for the team dynamics, will help to identify the possible areas of improvement. Furthermore, embedding a monitoring solution within the development cycle of a product will help to reduce the number of problems that can appear in each step, and might also help shorten the amount of time generally needed in identifying the area of service disruption.
With Spring, Traficon has designed and delivered a new way of developing software. Without the constraints of the prior platform, the engineering team can get to market faster with more of the functionality desired by prospects and customers. In addition, the team is more productive and produces higher quality code. Together, these results position Traficon with an architecture designed for years ahead.
To learn more, visit pivotal.io/products/spring.
Splunk, Software Tools, Big Data, Logging, PCI, Information security, Cisco Systems, VMware ESX, Regulatory compliance, FISMA, Enterprise architecture, Data center, security software, SCADA, Windows,Unix,Scanners, Citrix, Microsoft Active Directory
As the Vice President, Datacenter Architecture at Presidio, William Turner, PhD has more than 20 years of hands-on, full-project-cycle experience in strategizing, designing and deploying large-scale Fortune 500 networks and security solutions. His extensive background in banking, security,
and government has yielded several well regarded industry standards and noted reference models.
Dr. Turner envisions and drives a future in which sophisticated software provisions and de-provisions IT infrastructure automatically in response to business needs. The specialized appliances enterprises traditionally rely upon will be replaced by industry-standard hardware playing necessary roles on demand.
EAPJ conducted this interview from the perspective of an infrastructure architect considering a software-defined future for the networking, hosting and storage underlying a major upcoming application investment.
20 Simple Questions from Exactpro for Your Enjoyment This Holiday SeasonIosif Itkin
Warmest wishes for a happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year!
We look forward to our continued collaboration in 2020. Thank you for your support.
Jade Global’s team of ServiceNow specialists work closely with global enterprises that need better visibility and efficiency in their software. Enriched software data can benefit functions across IT and the entire enterprise such as Security & Operations, HR, Application Portfolio Management, and IT Change.
How Can Your Organization Benefit From Application Modernization_.pdfAnil
Application modernization refers to the process of updating or transforming legacy software applications to make them more contemporary, efficient, and aligned with current business needs and technology trends. Adopting application modernization can bring several benefits to an organization
Swiss and Scottish Geoplutonic: How modern drilling technologies could provid...Adam Khan
New technologies are changing the way we communicate and treat medicly. New mining technologies now could change we extract energy for water and electricty production.
See how small UK company -with Zakiewicz game -changer technologies in energy production - is changing the way the entire Swiss and Scottish population are supplied with decentralized low cost, CO2, renewable energy: electricity and heat. This solutions once implemented worldwide could solve the oil, gas, nuclear waste and coal problems without financial burden of subsidies. Watch out and support::)
Subsidies - Egypt - Indonesia - How to solve this problem in sustainable way. Adam Khan
The problems of uplifting subsidies is wide spreading. From Yemen, Egypt to Indonesia people are scared of living without it..Fear creates angry and in consequence aggression. On the other hand more and more countries can not afford spending on fuel, food and infrastructure. The main reason is interest based economy and burden of unnecessary debt. Read this presentation to see how new technology and interest free payment system can solve this dilemma of Government.
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
As Europe's leading economic powerhouse and the fourth-largest hashtag#economy globally, Germany stands at the forefront of innovation and industrial might. Renowned for its precision engineering and high-tech sectors, Germany's economic structure is heavily supported by a robust service industry, accounting for approximately 68% of its GDP. This economic clout and strategic geopolitical stance position Germany as a focal point in the global cyber threat landscape.
In the face of escalating global tensions, particularly those emanating from geopolitical disputes with nations like hashtag#Russia and hashtag#China, hashtag#Germany has witnessed a significant uptick in targeted cyber operations. Our analysis indicates a marked increase in hashtag#cyberattack sophistication aimed at critical infrastructure and key industrial sectors. These attacks range from ransomware campaigns to hashtag#AdvancedPersistentThreats (hashtag#APTs), threatening national security and business integrity.
🔑 Key findings include:
🔍 Increased frequency and complexity of cyber threats.
🔍 Escalation of state-sponsored and criminally motivated cyber operations.
🔍 Active dark web exchanges of malicious tools and tactics.
Our comprehensive report delves into these challenges, using a blend of open-source and proprietary data collection techniques. By monitoring activity on critical networks and analyzing attack patterns, our team provides a detailed overview of the threats facing German entities.
This report aims to equip stakeholders across public and private sectors with the knowledge to enhance their defensive strategies, reduce exposure to cyber risks, and reinforce Germany's resilience against cyber threats.
Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation - Final Version - 5.23...John Andrews
SlideShare Description for "Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation"
Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Description:
Discover how Chatty Kathy, an innovative project developed at the UNC Bootcamp, aims to tackle the challenge of low physical activity among older adults. Our AI-driven solution uses peer interaction to boost and sustain exercise levels, significantly improving health outcomes. This presentation covers our problem statement, the rationale behind Chatty Kathy, synthetic data and persona creation, model performance metrics, a visual demonstration of the project, and potential future developments. Join us for an insightful Q&A session to explore the potential of this groundbreaking project.
Project Team: Jay Requarth, Jana Avery, John Andrews, Dr. Dick Davis II, Nee Buntoum, Nam Yeongjin & Mat Nicholas
Explore our comprehensive data analysis project presentation on predicting product ad campaign performance. Learn how data-driven insights can optimize your marketing strategies and enhance campaign effectiveness. Perfect for professionals and students looking to understand the power of data analysis in advertising. for more details visit: https://bostoninstituteofanalytics.org/data-science-and-artificial-intelligence/
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
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Empowering the Data Analytics Ecosystem: A Laser Focus on Value
The data analytics ecosystem thrives when every component functions at its peak, unlocking the true potential of data. Here's a laser focus on key areas for an empowered ecosystem:
1. Democratize Access, Not Data:
Granular Access Controls: Provide users with self-service tools tailored to their specific needs, preventing data overload and misuse.
Data Catalogs: Implement robust data catalogs for easy discovery and understanding of available data sources.
2. Foster Collaboration with Clear Roles:
Data Mesh Architecture: Break down data silos by creating a distributed data ownership model with clear ownership and responsibilities.
Collaborative Workspaces: Utilize interactive platforms where data scientists, analysts, and domain experts can work seamlessly together.
3. Leverage Advanced Analytics Strategically:
AI-powered Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like data cleaning and feature engineering, freeing up data talent for higher-level analysis.
Right-Tool Selection: Strategically choose the most effective advanced analytics techniques (e.g., AI, ML) based on specific business problems.
4. Prioritize Data Quality with Automation:
Automated Data Validation: Implement automated data quality checks to identify and rectify errors at the source, minimizing downstream issues.
Data Lineage Tracking: Track the flow of data throughout the ecosystem, ensuring transparency and facilitating root cause analysis for errors.
5. Cultivate a Data-Driven Mindset:
Metrics-Driven Performance Management: Align KPIs and performance metrics with data-driven insights to ensure actionable decision making.
Data Storytelling Workshops: Equip stakeholders with the skills to translate complex data findings into compelling narratives that drive action.
Benefits of a Precise Ecosystem:
Sharpened Focus: Precise access and clear roles ensure everyone works with the most relevant data, maximizing efficiency.
Actionable Insights: Strategic analytics and automated quality checks lead to more reliable and actionable data insights.
Continuous Improvement: Data-driven performance management fosters a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
Sustainable Growth: Empowered by data, organizations can make informed decisions to drive sustainable growth and innovation.
By focusing on these precise actions, organizations can create an empowered data analytics ecosystem that delivers real value by driving data-driven decisions and maximizing the return on their data investment.
CIO Interview about Flopsar APM - Application Performance Management
1. Galaxy
or the escape fromillusion
Michał Zabiełło
A newwayto visualize systemperformance developedbyaPolishcompanyhasbeengaining
recognition.The solutionisalreadyusedbyseveraldozenPolishcompaniesandresolutelycutsthrough
the well-knownweaknessesof APMsolutions.
One of the elementswhichmayimplementrational savingsinITisthe groupof toolsforapplication
performance management(APM).Large corporationsare investinginpurchasesof APMtools.The
providersof suchsolutionsare implementingtensof dashboards,hundredsof graphsandflow
diagrams.Theydefine thousandsof variousalertsandinundate the mailboxesof relevantrecipients
withmessagesaboutthe “healthcheck”of businessprocesses. Thisisdesignedto convince thatthe
scatteredIT infrastructure isundercontrol.Itall worksuntil aseriousmalfunctionoccurs.ITspecialists
try to identifythe cause of the problem, analyze millionsof out-of-date,unnecessaryorerroneous
piecesof informationcoming fromthe implementedtools.
Bombarded by alerts
The toolsto diagnose ormonitorapplicationsare of keyimportance.Goodtoolsare expensive –they
require manylaboratorychecks,tests,anda precise manufacturingprocess.Goodandexpensivetools
are, in turn,complicated.
It isworth notingthatsuch productshave a specificmethodologyconnectedwithperformance
management:we install atool,configurethe scope of reportedmetricsandbuildacomplicated“health
check” applicationtowarnusabout problemsoccurringinthe monitoredapplications.Inpractice,the
systemwarnsus abouta problemthathas occurred – but the cost of using,maintaininganddeveloping
the applicationisoftenhigherthanplanned.
Dashboardshave become,paradoxically,the Achilles’footof those tools –everymonitoredapplication
has to have a setof hierarchical dashboards,andeachbitof informationpresentedonitrequiresaset
of definedSLA perimeterswhichallowtochange the resultof the “healthcheck” – whichis signaledby
colorsgreen,yellow,orred.Thissignalingisnotunequivocal –it isnot clearwhetheritmeansa failure
of the systemorjust a slowdown,whetherthe problemconcernsasingle functionora whole set.
The toolsare bombardingthe administratorswithinformation.The commandcenterhasitshandsfull
withsiftingandseparatingfalse alarmsfromthose responsiblefordisruptionsindataprocessing.The
implementationspecialistsresponsible fortoolsare constantlyworkingonupdatingand adaptingthe
dashboardsto frequentlychangingapplicationsorrequirementsconcerningnotificationsabout
applicationproblems.
2. The command centerhasits handsfull with
separatingfalse alarms.The implementation
specialistsresponsible fortoolsare constantly
workingonupdatingandadaptingthe
dashboardsto frequentlychangingapplications
or requirementsconcerningnotificationsabout
applicationproblems.Thatishow APM
operates.
In search of an intuitive APM
In 2012 a group of programmersexperiencedinimplementingandadministrationof APMsolutions
formeda company.Itsgoal wasto create a solutionwhichwouldovercomethe weaknessesand
limitationsof monitoringsystemsandincrease the performance of applications.“Ourpointof departure
increatingthe systemwasa fundamental question:Dodatafrom monitoredsystems,alertsandtrends
have to be representedinawaywhichrequireshuge outlays?” –says GrzegorzPawluk,CTOand one of
the co-foundersof FlopsarTechnology.
Perhapsitis possible toshow ina
simple, intuitive mannerwhatis
the most importantforIT services:
that a malfunctionhasjustoccurred;
that the usersmay complainaboutthe systemworkinginefficiently;
that the providerimplementedabadlywritten applicationwhichcannotfunctioninan
overloadedenvironment;
that the applicationisusinguptoomuch of the powerof the expensive equipment.
Those commonsensical assumptionsare behindFlopsar(FlopSearchandRescue).The creatorsof
FlopsarSuite askedthemselvesone more question“Whatisreallyimportantinthe tangle of
informationreportedfromthe monitoredsystem?”Andtheyformulatedthe followinganswers:
1. Simple implementationandnoneedforanadvancedconfiguration:Plug-and-play.
2. No need totrainpeople whobenefitfromthe tool.
3. SIMPLE, intuitiveinterface (preferablyone window).
4. Maximumproductivity - todiscoveraproblemandto finditscause,the usershouldnotneedto
performmore thanthree operations.
5. No “earlywarningsystems”basedonlabor-intensive development.
Flopsar Galaxy
3. Innovation can be seen in the approach to
the project. The Flopsar project started with
designing the infrastructure: messages,
protocols, engines, data structure,
mechanisms for load-balancing and
bypassing the malfunction. The entire
infrastructure was programmed in C
language.
Flopsardoesnotaggregate data. It doesnoesnot
showaverages,mediansorquartiles.With
unstable systemsthe sampleistoolarge and
therefore notcredible.The galaxyshowsEVERY
single operationperformedwithinthe monitored
system.Each time atransferwas performedor
someone loggedinto anapplication,adotwould
appear,locatedwithinthe timescale of the event
(axisX) andthe response timescale (axisY).The
majorityof “correct” times(the oneswith
sufficientprocessingquality) isconcentrated
withinthe lowerregistersof the galaxy.The dots
forma multicoloredplane there.If anapplication
or its functionhassloweddownor
malfunctioned,the dotsmigrate intothe upper
registersof the galaxyandformvarious
concentrationpatterns.The factthat those
concentrationsappearinthe galaxyisthe reason
for furtherinvestigation.The concentrationsare
automaticallydetectedbyasystembasedon
artificial intelligence algorithmsormaybe
markedmanuallyinordertoidentifythe reason
for theiroccurrence.Aftermarking,the user
receivesaprecise diagnosisof whatand whyis
not workingcorrectlyinthe system.
Afterseveral daysof workingwiththe Flopsar
systemadministratorsbegintofeel thatthey
knowwhattheysee.Basedoneventsobservedin
the past and interpretedconcentrationstheymay
say “the queue systemgotdisconnectedagain,”
Flopsar in UFG:
productionmonitoring of critical
applications
Reduction of production problems
related to application performance
Code optimization – shorter
response times
Reduced use of hardware
infrastructure
How quickly does conclusion-making learn
based on Flopsar visualization?
“We collect millions of data on policies,
drivers and road events. It is critical to
ensure the reliability and quality of
operation of the IT systems which perform
our statutory tasks. We selected the Flopsar
Suite because of its intuitiveness and
functionality. The tool was implemented
within a few hours and its effective
operation by the team of administrators
started immediately after the
implementation. The factors in favor of
choosing Flopsar included also costs, the
level of after-sales service, flexibility and the
range of additional solution services offered
by the provider. The data used from
monitoring indicate unequivocally where
the problem has occurred and, therefore,
who is responsible for its servicing or repair.
Today, we use the information obtained
from Flopsar software in many cases as an
argument in our negotiations with our IT
service providers” – says Grzegorz
Rymarski, IT Department Director, The
Insurance Guarantee Fund (UFG).
4. or “webservice isnotworkingagain”or evenignore the patternassomethingnatural.
The systemworkswithoutconfiguration –there isno needtoconstruct dashboards,todefine staticSLA
for selectedmethods,toprovideexpensivesystemmaintenance.Once the monitoringsystemhasbeen
switchedon,the applicationserverprocessesdata,the monitorstartsshowingconcentrationsandthe
administratorstartslookingforunnatural anddisturbedconcentrationpatterns.
Innovation through goingback to the roots
Is the “galactic” wayof showingdatainnovativeandunique?Scatter-plotisusedinstatisticstovisualize
data. GrzegorzPawlukexplains:“Flopsarreportseverytransactionperformedinthe monitoredsystem
separately.Itconnectsstackframesintostacktraces and thenreportsthe aggregateddurationof the
transactionas one point(withfull accesstoall the remainingdata).Inthistype of service,the volume of
data whichneedstobe recordedinthe monitoringbase isgigantic.Therefore,itisthe database
infrastructure (datapersistence)andnotdata-generatingagentwhichisthe ‘heart’of the Flopsar
system.”
Innovation –or perhapsratherthe returnto healthyroots – can be seeninthe approachto the project.
The Flopsar project started with designing the infrastructure: messages, protocols, engines,
data structure, mechanisms for load-balancing and bypassing the malfunction. The entire
infrastructure was programmed in C language – the most efficient programming language. The
code which has 5,000,000 lines was written from scratch and entirely without using any
external (e.g. OpenSource) libraries. The engineers and Flopsar support are responsible for
100% of the solution. Tests and production implementation prove that Flopsar can process
around 40,000 metrics per second or a cumulated load at the level of 200 MB/sec for a single
data base instance in the 24/7/365 mode.
In 2013 Flopsar Technology implemented its solution as the only APM software provider on
approximately 100 production application servers in the Polish market and in cooperation with
strategic business partners it carried out several dozen projects to optimize critical systems.
During the same period of time, the competitors have record a few individual license sales in
Poland. At this time, the company, together with a number of partners is running a few Proof of
Concept projects. “We estimate that until the end of 2014 the number of implementations will
exceed 300 monitored application servers in mission critical-type systems. This will make
Flopsar Technology an unrivalled market leader in the field of monitoring and managing the
performance of critical applications based on Java servers” – says Grzegorz Pawluk. In the boxes
you can see examples of using Flopsar at UFG and Generali – together with their top IT
managers’ comments.
5. CIOMagazineasked MichałZaremba,IT Infrastructure Project Manager,IT Department Support and
Infrastructure Section,Generali Group,to commenton detailed changesrelated to the Generali Group
APMsolution implementation.
The Generali Group:
Salesmanagement systemproduction monitoring
Complete detectionof all productionissues(failures,delays,defects)
Full control overIT systemproductionversionacceptance –earlyissue detection,application
code optimizationsuggestions,architecture andperformanceissue consulting
Code refactoring– processingoptimization(performanceincrease)
Capacityrequirementestimationforincreaseddataprocessingperiods
Flopsar Suite – Whoshouldmanage quality and efficiency?
Until recentlyFlopsarSuite wasutilizedbythe Generali Grouponlyforearlydetectionof performance
issuesinproductionsystems. Itwashandledbythe teamresponsible forITsystemandservice
monitoring.Duringperformance testingdeveloperswere usingittodiscoverinefficientmethodsand
queries. Furtherexperienceswiththe FlopsarSuite helpeddevelopadifferent,more effective
applicationperformance monitoringmodel.
If you take a closerlookat the tool,itisdifficulttodecide,whetherthisisanadvancedapplication
serverperformance monitoringsystem,orareportingsystemdesignedforanalyzingITsystem
operationperformance. Inthe firstcase Flopsarmaybe perceivedasjustanothermonitoringsystem
utilizedinmaintenance activities,andinthe secondcase,as an additional systemforsupporting
applicationdevelopmentandservice transitionfromthe developmenttothe maintenance stage. -
However,one mustrealize,thatinorderto provide ourcustomerswithtopvalue andperformance,a
verydeepsynergyof these areasisrequired.Thisalsoopensupextensive processoptimization
capabilitiesbyeliminatingunnecessaryITresource consumers, whichprovide novalue toservice
recipients.
Departmentstructure transformationandtransitiontoa dev-opsconceptenabledFlopsarSuite to
finallyendupina spot,where itsfull capabilitiesmaybe utilized –inthe handsof a team responsiblefor
IT applicationsandservices –boththeirdevelopmentandoperationalactivities. The importantfactis
that systemutilizationinbothareasisverysimilar,andthereforerequiresnochangesinteamwork
style ormode,or any additional training.
Theoretical conclusionsand diagnosisare supposedlydeliveredbyFlopsarvery quickly.How quickly,
and have you beensuccessful intransforming them intoIT processand product optimization?
The use of Flopsarenablesustogreatlyimprove the speedof handlingincidentsinaproduction
environment. The time betweenananomalyappearinginaproductionsystem, andcorrective actions
beinglaunchedbythe team,isnearlynull.Inthe past,if an end-userhadasubjective feeling,thatthe
systemisnotperformingwell,suchinformationhadtopass throughmultiple ITorganizationlevels. Now
thisinformationisvisibletoan expertpreciselywhenthe userbeginstofeelthe systembecomingless
6. responsive. All inall,the userreportsproblemstothe service desklike before,butthe service desk
alreadyknowsaboutfaultysystemoperations,andaboutaninterventionbeingunderway.Thisgreatly
cuts downon the time requiredtoresolve incidents,due tobeingable tofindthe problem-causing
method,service,orqueryinaquickand intuitive fashion.
Applicationdevelopmentandtestprocesseshave alsobeenoptimized.Thankstomonitoring
applicationsindevelopmentandtestenvironments,we are able todiscoveroperationswithexecution
time beyondacceptable limits.
By analyzingthe numberof particularcallsina givenperiodof time we are able todefine business
activitypatterns,andas a result,properlymanage ITservice capacity,performance,anddemands. This
alsoenablesustoproperlyschedule change managementprocesses,includingplannedmaintenance
outages.
Based on those patterns and querystatistics, is it possible tooptimize otherorganizational processes
and activities?Can the solutionbecome a source of other innovations?
If the businessprocessisperformedinanITsystem, whichiscoveredbyFlopsaranalysis,all system
operationsare registered,andmaybe analyzed. Specificdatavisualizationenablesustoestablish
businessprocessactivitieswhichare performedinefficiently.
Usuallya businessprocessperformedinanITsystemistreatedbya businessuserasanoperationwitha
definitestartandend. In reality,thisprocessincludesmultiple operationswhichreachbeyondthe
application,towardsthe integrationarchitecture,the database,andothersystems. AdvancedBPM
systemsfeature aBusinessActivityMonitoring(BAM) component,whichmaybe utilizedtooptimize
businessprocesses.However,if applicationsare developedin-house,abusinessprocessmonitoringtool
shouldalsobe provided,whichissupportedbyparticularapplications. If the ownerdecidesnotto
implementsuchfunctionalityinthe developedapplication,database-baseddeductionmaybe helpful,
whichmay be providedbythe Flopsarsystem.
Has capacity demand forecast accuracy improved? Has this lead to optimizinginfrastructure usage?
In termsof infrastructure optimizationforapplicationperformance Generalireliesonthree base
techniques:monitoringtechnical parametersof infrastructure components(usingSNMP,WMI,etc.),
optimizingloadbalancing,andapplicationperformance monitoringusingthe FlopsarSuite.
The firstand secondtechnique are knownandusedbymanyorganizations,butonlyananalysisof
correlationsbetween all of the above providesacomplete imageforcapacityforecasting. Thismaybe
done bytranslatingtechnical parametersof infrastructurecomponentstothe executiontime of an
operationina monitoredapplication.
The character of recentGenerali marketingactivitiesrequiredatemporarymulti-foldcapacityincrease
inMerkury 2.0 – the primarysalessystemutilizedbyGenerali. Atfirst,we consideredlinearserver
infrastructure componentscaling.Whentestingthe solutionwithFlopsar,itturnedout,thatthere are
multiple factors,whichmaygreatlyinfluence performance,andmaybe modifiedinordertoincrease
systemcapacity. We noticedthatstandard loadbalancingtechniquesmayhave anadverse effectonthe
time requiredtoperformoperationsbyasingle user. Loadbalancingconditioningbasedon
infrastructure andsystemparametersenabledustoprovide asolution,whichfeaturedthe same
7. efficiencyforeveryuser. Curiously,the testshave shown,thatFlopsarSuite impactonenvironmentload
fallsbelow1–2%.Finally,aftercompletingseveraloptimizations,we have reachedastate,where the
systemloadincrease couldbe handledwithoutmodifyingthe serverinfrastructureatall. After
completingthismarketingactivitywe wereable toreduce thatinfrastructure.
How did the transitionto the new methodof observingsalesefficiencygo,especiallyincase of
interpretingeventdistributionvisualizations?Didthe users easilyreach a new deductionprocess?
FlopsarSuite isan intuitivepackage.The systemiscurrentlyusedbythe IT department,butwe are
seriouslyconsideringsharingitsdatawithbusinessusers,whomightthenuse ittooptimize business
processes.
However,youhave toconsiderthe fact,that businessusersoftenrequire numericaldata,notgraphical
presentations,inordertoperformdataanalysis.If Flopsarwasto be usedfor salesefficiencyanalysis,it
wouldbe good,if ithad an optionto provide resultsinanumerical format.Forexample:Departments
responsible forsalescare notonlyabouthow the systemperformance influencesproductsales,butalso
whatthe productsearch operationdistributionisduringparticularhours,withingivenmonthsorwithin
the year.
The fact, that Generali reachedsuchanadvancedlevel of tool use proves,thatthe systemiseasyto
handle. We alsonoticed,thatthe tool may be usedinan evenmore optimizedfashion,if additional
expertiseisgainedpertainingtoitsoperation:analysis,resultinterpretation,aswell asbuildingreport
extensions.Itisworthmentioning,thatall the datacollectedinthe Flopsardatabase are available toour
developersthroughadedicatedAPI.
Are processand factor complexityconsideredlimitationsforthe applicationperformance
visualizationmethodproposedby Flopsar? If so, how can this be circumvented?
Most probablyeveryone,whowaseverresponsible forITsystemperformance optimization,faced
uncertainty,whetherthe systemoperatesthe same waybetweenmeasurements,asduring
measurements. Thisistypical forsystems,whereperformance ismeasuredatestablishedtimeperiods.
Flopsaranalyzeseveryoperationwithinthe system.If we donotfilterparticularcallsina so-called-
galaxy,everypointrepresentsone systemcall.If the processesperformedare of highcomplexity,we
are forcedto operate ona large numberof geometricallycorrelatedpoints. Insuchcase data analysis
requiresverifyingparticularcallsamongstalargernumberof those measuredandpresented. Thismight
become a limitationdue tothe speedof dataanalysisbyan expert. Itmayalso adverselyimpactthe
applicationserverloaddue toFlopsarcollectingdata. Thiscan be circumvented,if we utilizetechniques
to exclude particularcalls, whichare outside ourinterest. Itispossible toachieve atthe system
administrationlevel,whichenablesmonitoringtobe developedindividuallyforeveryapplication. -
Anothermethodtoreduce the data,whichdo notrequire analysis,isanoptionto filteroutminimum
and maximumoperationtimeinthe analyzedsystem. Finally,incase of systemsworkingonseveral
applicationservers,we are able tochange the pointcolorsdependingonthe server. Ibelieve,thatit
wouldbe useful,if there wasan optiontodefine itemcolorsinacustomfashion,e.g.basedonthe type
of systemoperationoronthe executiontime.