Citrix XenServer is a free enterprise-class server virtualization platform that provides advanced virtualization management and automation capabilities through Citrix Essentials for XenServer. It allows for centralized management of virtual infrastructure and workloads across physical servers. Key benefits include consolidation of servers for improved efficiency, flexibility to dynamically respond to business needs, and business continuity through high availability and disaster recovery.
It's an A.R.M.'s Race (Acquisition, Retention and Monetization in Mobile Gaming)Betable
Tapjoy's Brian Sapp gave this presentation at the SF Game Monetization meetup. If you're in San Francisco, join the meetup to see more presentations like this:
http://www.meetup.com/SFGameMonetization/
Be sure to thank Brian for letting us publish this by tweeting him at @sappalicious (http://twitter.com/sappalicious)
It's an A.R.M.'s Race (Acquisition, Retention and Monetization in Mobile Gaming)Betable
Tapjoy's Brian Sapp gave this presentation at the SF Game Monetization meetup. If you're in San Francisco, join the meetup to see more presentations like this:
http://www.meetup.com/SFGameMonetization/
Be sure to thank Brian for letting us publish this by tweeting him at @sappalicious (http://twitter.com/sappalicious)
The Open Access movement gains momentum – should young scientists care?Martin Ballaschk
This presentation acommodated a talk I held at the 14th PhD retreat of the two Berlin life science institutes MDC and FMP. Other participants included Zena Werb (UCSF), Helmut Kettenmann (MDC), Paul Schultze-Motel (Helmholtz OA Office) and Angelika Lex (Elsevier).
The main introductory points have bee adressed by a moderator before, so I don't introduce definitions of green and gold open access. The talk is focused on open access journals (what is commonly perceived as "the" open access) and the PhD's students view on it, but also mentions the possibility of deposition of "unfree" publications in publicly accessable repositories ("green OA") as an alternative.
The goal of the discussion and the presentation was to raise awareness for the journal crisis, the possibility of funding and fee waivers in OA journals, and scientist's vs. publisher's interests.
Global Growth: Regus Annual Report and Accounts 2010Regus
Our unrivalled footprint and unique customer propositionis driving growth worldwide...
Regus is the world’s only global provider of flexible workspace.
We are 6,000 people running 1,100 business centres in 500 cities across 87 countries. We help our customers work more effectively, to work their way, every day.
To more than 800,000 people we are the mission critical platform upon which they run some or all of their business every day.
Our products and services allow our customers to concentrate on their core business, and use their talents to best effect. We help them be more flexible, more cost-effective and more agile – and better able to
face the unexpected challenges of business in the 21st century.
Regus annual report website: http://regusara2010.blacksunplc.com
Regus website: http://www.regus.com/?utm_campaign=slideshare
Wellness & Consumer Driven Health Careguest00dbec2
Learn from what over 12,000 other businesses are doing across the U.S. with Wellness and Consumer Driven Health Plans as a business strategy. How does your plan compare?
This is a partial preview of the document found here:
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/paycheck-stub-template-36
Description:
This is a paycheck stub template.
Wilson Family Wealth Goal Achiever - InKnowVision Advanced Estate PlanningInKnowVision
Each month we looked at a specific situation taken from the InKnowVision case files. We review the facts and circumstances, the Family Wealth Goal Achiever Process, and the solutions used in the case.
Learn more at www.inknowvision.com
The Open Access movement gains momentum – should young scientists care?Martin Ballaschk
This presentation acommodated a talk I held at the 14th PhD retreat of the two Berlin life science institutes MDC and FMP. Other participants included Zena Werb (UCSF), Helmut Kettenmann (MDC), Paul Schultze-Motel (Helmholtz OA Office) and Angelika Lex (Elsevier).
The main introductory points have bee adressed by a moderator before, so I don't introduce definitions of green and gold open access. The talk is focused on open access journals (what is commonly perceived as "the" open access) and the PhD's students view on it, but also mentions the possibility of deposition of "unfree" publications in publicly accessable repositories ("green OA") as an alternative.
The goal of the discussion and the presentation was to raise awareness for the journal crisis, the possibility of funding and fee waivers in OA journals, and scientist's vs. publisher's interests.
Global Growth: Regus Annual Report and Accounts 2010Regus
Our unrivalled footprint and unique customer propositionis driving growth worldwide...
Regus is the world’s only global provider of flexible workspace.
We are 6,000 people running 1,100 business centres in 500 cities across 87 countries. We help our customers work more effectively, to work their way, every day.
To more than 800,000 people we are the mission critical platform upon which they run some or all of their business every day.
Our products and services allow our customers to concentrate on their core business, and use their talents to best effect. We help them be more flexible, more cost-effective and more agile – and better able to
face the unexpected challenges of business in the 21st century.
Regus annual report website: http://regusara2010.blacksunplc.com
Regus website: http://www.regus.com/?utm_campaign=slideshare
Wellness & Consumer Driven Health Careguest00dbec2
Learn from what over 12,000 other businesses are doing across the U.S. with Wellness and Consumer Driven Health Plans as a business strategy. How does your plan compare?
This is a partial preview of the document found here:
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/paycheck-stub-template-36
Description:
This is a paycheck stub template.
Wilson Family Wealth Goal Achiever - InKnowVision Advanced Estate PlanningInKnowVision
Each month we looked at a specific situation taken from the InKnowVision case files. We review the facts and circumstances, the Family Wealth Goal Achiever Process, and the solutions used in the case.
Learn more at www.inknowvision.com
Pascal Hartmann is a German sociologist and an experienced strategy executive and theory designer. He is also the Director of the R & D Department at Logon Architecture. With an eye to the future, his work embraces the architectural heritage of the city in a sustainable fashion.
Creating Great Charts, Graphs and Maps on a BudgetIdealware
Presented as a free seminar on 4/19/12 by Laura Quinn of Idealware.
You've got data. How do you transform it into charts, graphs, and maps that will help your audience understand the data and move them to take action? In this online seminars, we'll talk about the types of chart and map formats that might be useful to you, and then take a look at a number of the software packages that can help you create data graphics for both web and print publications.
Presentation by Jürgen Stark, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB at the Bank of Latvia conference "Global Challenges and Local Opportunities: Achievements and Prospects in the Baltic States"
Riga, 12 October 2011
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.
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.
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.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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.
5. Operating Expense Outstripping
New Investments
Most of housing serversspend $0.50 for
Cost organizations will is approximately:
$8 •spent per maintenance for $1 spent in
in sq. ft. or
$1,000
power and cooling for every $1 in servers
new$2,400 per server or
• infrastructure
•$29B to be spent on power and cooling
• $40,000 per rack
Source: John Humphries, IDC (2007)
6. Servers: Cost of Ownership
Spending Installed Base
(US$B) (M Units)
$300 50
45
$250 New Server Spending
40
Power and Cooling
35
$200 Cost of Management and Admin
30
$150 25
20
$100
15
10
$50
5
$0 0
08
09
10
97
98
99
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
96
Source: IDC
20
20
20
19
19
19
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
19
7. Why Virtualize?
Server or data center consolidation
Average physical servers utilized only <15%
More efficient use of physical assets
Promotes greater centralization and security
Reduced capital and operating costs
“Green Computing” – less power / cooling
Flexibility - Allow IT agility
Dynamically respond to business needs
Virtual workloads are mobile and easy to create and manage
Business Continuity
Improve application availability
Key part of disaster recovery strategy
8. Citrix XenServer…Now Free Similar
functionality
A free hypervisor alone is not a solution in other
products $5k+
Features include at no cost Citrix XenServer VMware ESXi per server
Bare Metal Hypervisor 64‐bit 32‐bit
Max virtual CPUs 8 4
Windows® and Linux guests
Unlimited servers, VMs, memory Bare Metal Hypervisor
P2V &V2V conversion
Shared SAN and NAS Storage
Centralized multi‐server management
Resilient distributed management
architecture
Live motion Multi‐Server Management
Shared VM template library
Centralized configuration management
Virtual infrastructure patch
XenMotion
management
Intelligent initial VM placement
Intelligent Server maintenance mode
And Much More….
Fine‐grained CPU resource controls
How‐swappable disks and NICs
9. Enterprise Reliability
• Live Migration / Motion
• Dynamic Resource
Pooling
• Automated Host Level HA
• Fault Tolerance
• Storage support for DR
• Distributed management
10. Dynamic Workload Streaming (Provisioning)
Silo One
A
Provisioning Server
(streaming service)
B
Silo Two
Network
storage C
Silo Three
11. Dynamic Workload Streaming (Provisioning)
Silo One
A
Provisioning Server
(streaming service)
B
Silo Two
Network
storage C
Silo Three
12
12. Dynamic Workload Streaming (Provisioning)
Virtual or Physical Servers
Silo One
A
Provisioning Server
(streaming service)
B
Silo Two
Network
storage C
Silo Three
13. Storage Comparison
Without XenServer Provisioning With XenServer Provisioning
• Single image for every machine • Single OS image to store & maintain
• Machines managed individually • Apps not installed; stored as single image,
• Same problems, in a new location delivered on demand and maintained centrally
• Managed profiles
1:1
Hypervisor Network Storage Xen, Hyper-V, VM Network Storage
14. XenConvert – P2V Conversions
What is it?
Feature of XenServer 5
Stand-alone Wizard Interface
Enables the conversion of a physical server
or desktop workload into a virtual machine
(VM)
What formats does it support?
Conversion to a XenServer ready VM (XVA) XenServer
which can be imported into XenCenter
Conversion to a Microsoft Virtual Hard Drive
VM (VHD)
15. And many additional enterprise features…
Workflow Studio-enabled
Auto backup of VM metadata
Oracle DB certified hypervisor NetApp SR driver Workflow templates
Automated High Availability to protect against host failures
XenConvert P2V SLES 10 x64 support
Role-based admin for streaming
Increasednumberofsupportedhosts per pool Oracle Apps certified hypervisor
Latest Xen 3.x hypervisor
Host networking config via XenCenter
NIC bonding SLES 9 SP4 support
Windows Server 2008 support 32 & 64-bit (incl. streaming)
Bulletproof Reliability
New Guest /HV Support
Sorting, searching, grouping, tagging in XenCenter
Snapshots for advanced storage arrays
XenConvert P2V Intuitive XenCenter UI
Near bare-metal performance Search and Tag Virtual Machines
Persistent performance data / trending Increasednumberofsupportedhosts per pool
FT upgradable Alerting for key runtime events Business Continuity
Automated High Availability to protect against host failures Windows PV drivers for max performance
MSFT certified hypervisor I/O multi-path support IncreasednumberofsupportedhostphysicalNICs 10 to Xen installation
Dell EqualLogic SR driverFC + iSCSI SAN Support SR creation via XenCenter
FC
Multi-site Disaster Recovery enablement QLogic / Emulex 8Gb FC HBA support
Xen SDK Auto VM placement and load balancing XenAPI Full 32 and 64-bit RHEL support
17. Reducing XenApp Server Count
Solution: Virtualise the server with Citrix® XenServer™
3-4 times more users per (host) server
Before: 100 users After: 300+ users
16 GB RAM
Physical Server Two Quad-core processors
4 GB RAM 4 XenApp Virtual Machines
Two processors (4 GB RAM, 2 Virtual CPUs for each)
19. nominees are running on XenServer
Tesco, the world's third largest retailer, has embraced virtualization to enable the company to drive
growth and expansion in new geographies while increasing operational efficiency. By virtualizing
its servers to boost performance, Tesco nearly quadrupled the speed of store transactions while
cutting power consumption, overhead and carbon emissions and simplifying IT management.
Virtualizing 1,500 physical servers on XenServer, including 80 XenApp servers
Aiming for a conservative 10:1 consolidation
Hitting 70% CPU utilization (up from 6%)
Reducing carbon emissions by 20% (leveraging corporate "greening" budget)
20. Citrix Essentials for XenServer and Hyper-V
Advanced automation and management for the virtual datacenter
Citrix Essentials
• Simplifies lab and stage management
• Delivers server workloads on-demand
• Enables advanced storage features
• Automatically recovers from server and VM failures
XenServer Virtualization Infrastructure
• Centralized management
• Fast bare metal performance
• Windows and Linux support
• Broad open standards support
21
21. Citrix Essentials for XenServer
Server farm scaling Enterprise storage architectures
• Terminal services/XenApp • Native storage service enablement
• VDI/XenDesktop • FC SANs and iSCSI
• Web servers
Advanced storage
Dynamic provisioning integration (StorageLink)
services
Pre‐production Datacenter automation
environments • Automated disaster recovery
• Development and Test labs • Workload balancing
• Integration and UAT workflow
•Stage/Pre‐producstion Workflow orchestration
Automated lifecycle & management
management
22. Burton Group says XenServer is Enterprise-
Production Ready
• Citrix XenServer & VMware and are the only platforms to
achieve this distinction from Burton Group
• Meets 100% of Burton Groups required features
23. Citrix XenServer
XenServer – Enterprise Class, Cloud Proven, Free
The best platform for server, desktop and application virtualization
Enterprise ready Server Virtualisation
Citrix Essentials for XenServer
Advanced virtualization management and automation
Centralized management and process control of lab and staging environments
Integration with existing storage solutions and tools
Intelligent placement of new and existing workloads