This document discusses cloud computing concepts including an introduction to cloud computing, deployment models, service models, benefits and limitations of cloud computing, security and compliance considerations, and evaluating cloud service providers. It provides definitions of cloud computing and describes common deployment models like private, public, hybrid and community clouds. It outlines key service models including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS and examples of cloud vendors. The document discusses why customers adopt cloud computing for benefits like variable expenses, economies of scale, elastic capacity, speed and agility. It also covers security risks and mitigations in cloud architecture. Finally, it suggests factors to consider when evaluating cloud providers and includes a business case study on Amazon's use of cloud for elasticity
It’s not about “picking the right cloud” but choosing the right strategy that matches workloads to the most appropriate delivery model. Logicalis provides an overview of some of the challenges of moving to “the Cloud” and how we help customer determine the most effective cloud model.
A discussion of the risks of cloud computing. While the cloud has compelling benefits, we need to evaluate and mitigate the risks - this presentation identifies some risk categories to consider in using the cloud.
Infrastructure as a Service ( IaaS) is one of the three fundamental services in cloud computing. IaaS provides access to basic computing resources such as hardware- processor, storage , network cards and more
Getting ahead of the trend towards SSL and HTTPS Array Networks
Getting ahead of the trend towards SSL and HTTPS. Recent vulnerabilities in SSL are related to the use of OpenSSL by many server and dedicated SSL vendors. Array Networks Dedicated SSL solutions that use a proprietary SSL implementation were immune to the recent Heartbleed and MITM vulnerabilities.
It’s not about “picking the right cloud” but choosing the right strategy that matches workloads to the most appropriate delivery model. Logicalis provides an overview of some of the challenges of moving to “the Cloud” and how we help customer determine the most effective cloud model.
A discussion of the risks of cloud computing. While the cloud has compelling benefits, we need to evaluate and mitigate the risks - this presentation identifies some risk categories to consider in using the cloud.
Infrastructure as a Service ( IaaS) is one of the three fundamental services in cloud computing. IaaS provides access to basic computing resources such as hardware- processor, storage , network cards and more
Getting ahead of the trend towards SSL and HTTPS Array Networks
Getting ahead of the trend towards SSL and HTTPS. Recent vulnerabilities in SSL are related to the use of OpenSSL by many server and dedicated SSL vendors. Array Networks Dedicated SSL solutions that use a proprietary SSL implementation were immune to the recent Heartbleed and MITM vulnerabilities.
Traditionally, an organization’s IT infrastructure is housed in a data center. However, buying servers, storage, and networking devices can incur large initial hardware costs, not to mention ongoing IT staffing, rent, and power bill costs. In addition, outdated hardware and the resulting inability to take advantage of the latest technology can cause you to fall behind your competitors. Consider virtualizing these computing resources over the internet with SwiftTech’s Infrastructure as a Service.
Software Defined anything (SDx) is a movement toward promoting a greater role for software systems in controlling different kinds of hardware - more specifically, making software more "in command" of multi-piece hardware systems and allowing for software control of a greater range of devices.
Software Defined Everything (SDx) includes
Software Defined Networks (SDN)
Software Defined Computing (SDC)
Software Defined Storage (SDS)
Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC)
Katpro Technology, a IT solutions company, announced it has been selected by Microsoft Co-corporations as a windows Azure Circle Partner.The Partnership will provide katpro with the ability to service customers needs in the area of cloud, training and support material provided by Microsoft.
Disaster Recovery is an expensive proposition. But since the consequences of not being prepared for a disaster are so severe, it is an expense that organizations make. But that’s not to say organizations are not always looking for way to do DR better, faster and for less money. In this live webinar join Storage Switzerland and ClearSky to learn how organizations can lower the cost of DR preparation and execution.
An overview of cloud storage providersRonit Sharma
Cloud storage space usually takes away this problem. NAS storage providers in Delhi, Mumbai and Noida are typically adopt virtualization, and permit the subscribers to obtain as much storage as needed with additional provisioning done impromptu. Consequently, users are able to use as much as safe-keeping as they need but with no requirement for over-provisioning. Nas Storage Provider in Delhi, Mumbai And Noida - http://www.smartstream.co.in/nas-storage/
Extensibility: The Key To Managing Your Entire Cloud PortfolioDell World
As cloud adoption increases, cloud management becomes more and more of a challenge. No longer can you look at managing your clouds with a one-off management strategy. In this session, you will learn how forward-thinking organizations around the world are bringing cloud into their IT operations and integrating it with their existing tools, systems, and processes to simplify management for administrators and streamline provisioning for developers. We will discuss governance tools, like security systems and chargeback models, as well as policy tools, monitoring solutions, ITSM systems and more. Discover how applying an extensible management approach across all of your clouds, including SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, can increase scale, availability and performance.
Traditionally, an organization’s IT infrastructure is housed in a data center. However, buying servers, storage, and networking devices can incur large initial hardware costs, not to mention ongoing IT staffing, rent, and power bill costs. In addition, outdated hardware and the resulting inability to take advantage of the latest technology can cause you to fall behind your competitors. Consider virtualizing these computing resources over the internet with SwiftTech’s Infrastructure as a Service.
Software Defined anything (SDx) is a movement toward promoting a greater role for software systems in controlling different kinds of hardware - more specifically, making software more "in command" of multi-piece hardware systems and allowing for software control of a greater range of devices.
Software Defined Everything (SDx) includes
Software Defined Networks (SDN)
Software Defined Computing (SDC)
Software Defined Storage (SDS)
Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC)
Katpro Technology, a IT solutions company, announced it has been selected by Microsoft Co-corporations as a windows Azure Circle Partner.The Partnership will provide katpro with the ability to service customers needs in the area of cloud, training and support material provided by Microsoft.
Disaster Recovery is an expensive proposition. But since the consequences of not being prepared for a disaster are so severe, it is an expense that organizations make. But that’s not to say organizations are not always looking for way to do DR better, faster and for less money. In this live webinar join Storage Switzerland and ClearSky to learn how organizations can lower the cost of DR preparation and execution.
An overview of cloud storage providersRonit Sharma
Cloud storage space usually takes away this problem. NAS storage providers in Delhi, Mumbai and Noida are typically adopt virtualization, and permit the subscribers to obtain as much storage as needed with additional provisioning done impromptu. Consequently, users are able to use as much as safe-keeping as they need but with no requirement for over-provisioning. Nas Storage Provider in Delhi, Mumbai And Noida - http://www.smartstream.co.in/nas-storage/
Extensibility: The Key To Managing Your Entire Cloud PortfolioDell World
As cloud adoption increases, cloud management becomes more and more of a challenge. No longer can you look at managing your clouds with a one-off management strategy. In this session, you will learn how forward-thinking organizations around the world are bringing cloud into their IT operations and integrating it with their existing tools, systems, and processes to simplify management for administrators and streamline provisioning for developers. We will discuss governance tools, like security systems and chargeback models, as well as policy tools, monitoring solutions, ITSM systems and more. Discover how applying an extensible management approach across all of your clouds, including SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, can increase scale, availability and performance.
Confused by cloud? Logicalis at how and why to move to an enterprise cloud platform:
What type of Cloud do I need?
Cloud value elements
What does Cloud mean to you?
Jumpstart: Launch your SaaS Journey; Architect Next Generation SaaS Solutions; This session will help you deconstructing SaaS, a Deep Dive into Building Multi Tenant Solutions.and the Foundation of SaaS Agility; It will also help you to optimize your SaaS Architecture.
The cloud is driving significant change in how companies deploy and manage resources for their existing business applications. This session explains in non-technical terms how to evaluate if a move to the cloud is in your midst without being a technical expert. We'll explain the many different deployment options as well as business opportunities, pros and cons that companies should consider when addressing the cloud. This session will also provide an executive viewpoint on Azure and it's future potential for businesses.
This is a 2 hour strategy workshop developed by Predrag Mitrovic (http://mynethouse.se and http://cloudadvisor.se).
The workshop is intended for CIOs and roles close to business strategy formulation around technology. Feel free to use the material and develop it further, as long as you give me access to the updated materials.
Any questions can be directed to my e-mail: predrag[at]mynethouse.se
I hope that you enjoy this material and find it useful.
/Predrag a.k.a Cloud Advisor
Cloud Computing for Small & Medium BusinessesAl Sabawi
I presented this topic at the Greater Binghamton Business Expo in Upstate New York. It is meant to shed light on utilizing Cloud Computing for Small and Medium size businesses. It should help decision makers consider Software-as-a-Service offerings for their business as a way to save on IT cost and to deliver on better efficiency for their organizations.
Security & Compliance in the Cloud [2019]Tudor Damian
Almost every business decision requires executives and managers to balance risk and reward, and efficiency in that process is essential to an enterprise’s success. Too often though, IT risk (business risk related to the use of IT) is overlooked. While other business risks such as market, credit and operational risks have long been incorporated into the decision-making processes, IT risk has usually been relegated to technical specialists outside the boardroom, despite falling under the same risk category as other business risks: failure to achieve strategic objectives.
With the emergence of the Cloud, IT risk has suffered yet another radical transformation. The past couple of years have also brought along new vulnerabilities, exploits, and attack methods, as well as new data privacy requirements such as the GDPR. While all of these things require significant changes to any existing processes and tools, they mostly require a different approach when catering to people's IT security awareness, especially when moving to the Cloud.
AWS April Webianr Series - How Willbros Builds Securely in AWS with Trend MicroAmazon Web Services
Willbros, a leading infrastructure contractor serving the oil and gas industry, leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Trend Micro Deep Security to quickly design and deploy agile, secure cloud solutions to protect their vital data. Moving to AWS allows organizations to leave their infrastructure behind and start fresh – architecting for flexibility and scalability. However, bottlenecks are created when traditional on-premises security approaches and tools are used. Learn how Willbros unleashed innovation in the energy industry by taking a greenfield approach to security in AWS. Attend this practical webinar by AWS, Trend Micro and Willbros to learn how you can design a flexible, agile architecture that meets compliance requirements and protects your most valuable asset – your data. Jason Cradit from Willbros will share their experience on how they achieved building robust and secure pipeline management systems in the cloud.
Topics will include:
• Identify and select the AWS services and configurations required to build secure applications in the AWS Cloud
• Identify and select the Trend Micro services that complement AWS' broad set of security features
• Architect a secure application using a combination of AWS services, Trend Micro services, and configurations
• How to protect workloads from attacks, without hampering performance
Who Should Attend:
• Solutions Architects, IT Operations Professionals, Dev-Ops Engineers, and System Integrators
"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.
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
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.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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.
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.
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.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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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
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
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.
2. What are we discussing today?
◊ Introduction to Cloud Computing
◊ Security and Compliance
◊ Evaluating Cloud computing
◊ Business Cases
◊ Amazon Web Service (AWS) Lab
4. What’s this Cloud computing?
“Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous,
convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of
configurable computing resources (networks, servers, storage,
applications, services…) that can be rapidly provisioned
and released with minimal management effort or service
provider interaction.”
- NIST Special Publication
7. Service Models & Cloud Vendors
Software as a Service
(SaaS)
Infrastructure as a
Service (IaaS)
Platform as a Service
(PaaS)
8. Why are customers adopting cloud computing?
Variable expense Replace capital expenditure with variable expense
Economies of scale Lower variable expense than companies can achieve
themselves
Elastic capacity No need to guess capacity requirements and over-
provision
Speed and agility Infrastructure in minutes, not weeks and months!
Focus on business Not undifferentiated heavy IT lifting
Global Reach Go global in minutes and reach global audience
9. Benefits & Limitations
* Cost (pay per use, reduced hosting cost…)
* Automated (updates, backups…)
* Flexibility (On demand, scalable…)
* Multi tenant (shared resources, green comp)
* Mobility (Access from any Web device)
* Security
* Location of data
* Compliance and Privacy (regulations…)
* Internet Dependency / Speed
* Service Levels
* Migration / Vendor Lock-in
12. What should be secured in Cloud?
• All the components in
the Cloud – Network,
Storage, Database,
Operating System,
virtualization, load
balancing –
everything should be
secured.
• Cloud computing
security is no
different than regular
security.
13. Security Risks and Mitigations
Risk
• Data loss / leakage
• Shared technology /
vulnerabilities
• Insecure application
interfaces
• Malicious insiders
• Unknown risk profile /
accounts
• Account, service and
traffic hijacking
Mitigation
• Strong Authentication,
auditing etc.
• Operations procedure,
security practices etc.
• Secured design
(Firewalls…)
• Staff vetting
• Validation of
credentials, active
monitoring of traffic
14. Compliance
• Numerous regulations pertain to storage and use of
data - PCI DSS, HIPAA and Sarbanes–Oxley (SOX) Act
• Business continuity and data recovery
• Logs and audit trails
• Data or Datacenter location jurisdiction
• Legal and contractual issues
16. Evaluating Cloud Computing Implementation
Cost
Benefits
Business
SLA
Business Cases
Service
Supplier
Evaluation
17. Things to check/ask before implementing
• How good is the security of Cloud DC?
• How much will I save? (CapEx, Software licensing…)
• Time to build new system
• Maintenance strategies (outages, patches…)
• Latency comparison between Cloud and own DC
• Comparative study of various cloud providers
• Demand for trial period
• Compliance (ISO standards etc.)
• Service Levels (Uptime, time to resolution…)
18. Cloud Provider – Tenant Responsibility Matrix
SaaS PaaS IaaS Data Center
Data Provider Tenant Tenant Tenant
Application Provider Tenant Tenant Tenant
OS Provider Provider Tenant Tenant
Virtualization Provider Provider Provider Tenant / NA
Network Provider Provider Provider Tenant
Physical Provider Provider Provider Tenant
Broad network access: Cloud Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms such as mobile phones, laptops and PDAs.Measured service: Cloud computing resource usage can be measured, controlled, and reported providing transparency for both the provider and consumer of the utilised service. Cloud computing services use a metering capability which enables to control and optimise resource use. This implies that just like air time, electricity or municipality water IT services are charged per usage metrics – pay per use. The more you utilise the higher the bill. Just as utility companies sell power to subscribers, and telephone companies sell voice and data services, IT services such as network security management, data center hosting or even departmental billing can now be easily delivered as a contractual service.On demand self services: computer services such as email, applications, network or server service can be provided without requiring human interaction with each service provider. Cloud service providers providing on demand self services include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, IBM and Salesforce.com. New York Times and NASDAQ are examples of companies using AWS (NIST). Gartner describes this characteristic as service based Rapid elasticity: Cloud services can be rapidly and elastically provisioned, in some cases automatically, to quickly scale out and rapidly released to quickly scale in. To the consumer, the capabilities available for provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can be purchased in any quantity at any timeResource pooling: The provider’s computing resources are pooled together to serve multiple consumers using multiple-tenant model, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand. The resources include among others storage, processing, memory, network bandwidth, virtual machines and email services. The pooling together of the resource builds economies of scale (Gartner).
Salesforce.com has become the poster child of software as a service Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software solutions. Now the technology pioneer continues a push into the platform as a service (PaaS) market with its Force.com application platform.NetSuite delivers software as a service (SaaS) enterprise-wide business applications, including full-featured financials and accounting, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), inventory, and e-commerce software—all in a fully integration application.Oracle's on demand CRM software allows customers flexibility in how to deploy tehir CRM software based on their specific needs and budget requirements. Hosted and Managed Applications and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployment models are all available.Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) giant SAP is assertively pushing into the software as a service CRM and ERP markets with its Business ByDesign solution. The on-demand ERP system is showing strong global adoption from both customers and partners.=====================Google has made a name for itself with its Google Apps suite of business and consumer cloud applications and its Google App Engine, the developer platform that lets users build and host Web apps in the cloud in an effortless fashion.Microsoft's cloud platform, Windows Azure, is a little more than a year old and is still gathering momentum. Azure has blossomed into more than just a development play—it's a full-fledged cloud services operating system that also offers service hosting and service management.Flexiant's public cloud platform, FlexiScale, has made the company one of Europe's premier cloud players and an up-and-comer in the U.S. The platform is aimed at SMEs and startups looking to offer streaming video, social networking, IPTV, VoIP or SaaS.GridGain's open-source cloud application platform helps developers build scalable applications that can work natively on managed infrastructure, from a Google Android device to large grids and clouds. The software supports major OSes and provides native support for Java and Scala.=================Amazon Web Services has become the one to beat in the cloud game, and Amazon EC2, its compute capacity play, set the standard for spinning up and taking down cloud capacity quickly and affordably with a pay-as-you-go model.GoGrid prides itself on being the biggest pure-play Infrastructure-as- a-Service company in the world. Its infrastructure lets businesses deploy and manage apps in the cloud platform within minutes and with a flexibility that separates it from the Johnny-comelatelies.While formally known as Rackspace Hosting, Rackspace Cloud is taking over. And with Rackspace's Cloud Servers infrastructure play, the top cloud dog of Texas is rivaling the major players with its select-asize, customizable IaaS backed by Rackspace's own "fanatical support."Late last year, Savvis launched Savvis Symphony, its suite of enterprise-focused cloud solutions to let businesses break free from IT infrastructure. Savvis says its cloud infrastructure can reduce capital expense, improve service levels and keep enterprises at the forefront of cloud innovation.
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard - PCI DSSHealth Insurance Portability and accountability Act - HIPAA