AsiaPac is the best Azure Cloud platform in Singapore. Azure Cloud provides efficient, stable, and extensible cloud services like computing, analytics, storage and networking.
https://bit.ly/2PerTDf
Windows management for a modern workplace
As companies embrace the modern workplace, they’re also evolving their approach to managing and deploying Windows 10 and Office 365 ProPlus. Flexibility, security and ease are at the core of providing a better user experience, and a lower TCO.
Identity and Data protection with Enterprise Mobility Security in ottica GDPRJürgen Ambrosi
Introduzione agli scenari di autenticazione per i servizi informativi nei contesti lavorativi moderni. Panoramica delle soluzioni offerte dalla soluzione Enterprise Mobility and Security per la messa in sicurezza delle identità e delle informazioni nel loro completo ciclo di vita. Prevenzione, rilevamento, contenimento e risposta a minacce di tipo avanzato con riferimenti alla cyber kill chain (focus su Endpoint, Identità, servizi di produttività e cloud app).
AsiaPac is the best Azure Cloud platform in Singapore. Azure Cloud provides efficient, stable, and extensible cloud services like computing, analytics, storage and networking.
https://bit.ly/2PerTDf
Windows management for a modern workplace
As companies embrace the modern workplace, they’re also evolving their approach to managing and deploying Windows 10 and Office 365 ProPlus. Flexibility, security and ease are at the core of providing a better user experience, and a lower TCO.
Identity and Data protection with Enterprise Mobility Security in ottica GDPRJürgen Ambrosi
Introduzione agli scenari di autenticazione per i servizi informativi nei contesti lavorativi moderni. Panoramica delle soluzioni offerte dalla soluzione Enterprise Mobility and Security per la messa in sicurezza delle identità e delle informazioni nel loro completo ciclo di vita. Prevenzione, rilevamento, contenimento e risposta a minacce di tipo avanzato con riferimenti alla cyber kill chain (focus su Endpoint, Identità, servizi di produttività e cloud app).
Cyberspace is the new battlefield:
We’re seeing attacks on civilians and organizations from nation states. Attacks are no longer just against governments or enterprise systems directly. We’re seeing attacks against private property—the mobile devices we carry around everyday, the laptop on our desks—and public infrastructure. What started a decade-and-a-half ago as a sense that there were some teenagers in the basement hacking their way has moved far beyond that. It has morphed into sophisticated international organized crime and, worse, sophisticated nation state attacks.
Personnel and resources are limited:
According to an annual survey of 620 IT professional across North America and Western Europe from ESG, 51% respondents claim their organization had a problem of shortage of cybersecurity skills—up from 23% in 2014.1 The security landscape is getting more complicated and the stakes are rising, but many enterprises don’t have the resources they need to meet their security needs.
Virtually anything can be corrupted:
The number of connected devices in 2018 is predict to top 11 billion – not including computers and phones. As we connect virtually everything, anything can be disrupted. Everything from the cloud to the edge needs to be considered and protected.2
Microsoft Security - New Capabilities In Microsoft 365 E5 PlansDavid J Rosenthal
Cyberspace is the new battlefield:
We’re seeing attacks on civilians and organizations from nation states. Attacks are no longer just against governments or enterprise systems directly. We’re seeing attacks against private property—the mobile devices we carry around everyday, the laptop on our desks—and public infrastructure. What started a decade-and-a-half ago as a sense that there were some teenagers in the basement hacking their way has moved far beyond that. It has morphed into sophisticated international organized crime and, worse, sophisticated nation state attacks.
Personnel and resources are limited:
According to an annual survey of 620 IT professional across North America and Western Europe from ESG, 51% respondents claim their organization had a problem of shortage of cybersecurity skills—up from 23% in 2014.1 The security landscape is getting more complicated and the stakes are rising, but many enterprises don’t have the resources they need to meet their security needs.
Virtually anything can be corrupted:
The number of connected devices in 2018 is predict to top 11 billion – not including computers and phones. As we connect virtually everything, anything can be disrupted. Everything from the cloud to the edge needs to be considered and protected
Windows Server 2022 is now in preview, the next release in our Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC), which will be generally available later this calendar year. It builds on Windows Server 2019, our fastest adopted Windows Server ever. This release includes advanced multi-layer security, hybrid capabilities with Azure, and a flexible platform to modernize applications with containers.
Identity Management for Office 365 and Microsoft AzureSparkhound Inc.
Sparkhound Senior Infrastructure Consultant David Pechon discusses Identity Management for O365 and Azure at the 2015 SharePoint TechFest Dallas event held at the Irving Convention Center. Learn how Active Directory Federation Services and DirSync allow you to synchronize your organization’s Active Directory and use it to authenticate users to Office 365 applications, such as Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online.
NIC 2017 Azure AD Identity Protection and Conditional Access: Using the Micro...Morgan Simonsen
A common trend in today’s cloud based world is identity driven security. As the name implies this makes user identity really important; user identity is now the key to unlock everything. Building the infrastructure to support this trend is very hard; you bear all the responsibilities and can rely on only your own signal data and threat detection. With Azure AD there is a better way! Come join this session to see how Azure AD Identity Protection is using signals from the global Microsoft cloud, Big Data and Machine Learning to protect your users’ accounts, and also how Azure AD Conditional Access makes it easy to enforce application access policies based on things like location and device. We will show you how to set it all up, what works and what doesn’t and how it integrates with other Microsoft protection services in the cloud, and your existing systems. Come and be safe!
A Zero Trust approach should extend throughout the entire digital estate and serve as an integrated security philosophy and end to end strategy.
Identities. Identities whether they represent people, services, or IOT devices define the Zero Trust control plane. When an identity attempts to access a resource, we need to verify that identity with strong authentication, ensure access is compliant and typical for that identity, and follows least privilege access principles.
Devices. Once an identity has been granted access to a resource, data can flow to a variety of different devices From IoT devices to smartphones, BYOD to partner managed devices, and on premises workloads to cloud hosted servers. This diversity creates a massive attack surface area, requiring we monitor and enforce device health and compliance for secure access.
Applications. Applications and APIs provide the interface by which data is consumed. They may be legacy on premises, lift and shifted to cloud workloads, or modern SaaS applications. Controls and technologies should be applied to discover Shadow IT, ensure appropriate in-app permissions, gate access based on real-time analytics, monitor for abnormal behavior, control of user actions, and validate secure configuration options.
Data. Ultimately, security teams are focused on protecting data. Where possible, data should remain safe even if it leaves the devices, apps, infrastructure, and networks the organization controls. Data should be classified, labeled, and encrypted, and access restricted based on those attributes.
Infrastructure. Infrastructure (whether on premises servers, cloud based VMs, containers, or micro services) represents a critical threat vector. Assess for version, configuration, and JIT access to harden defense, use telemetry to detect attacks and anomalies, and automatically block and flag risky behavior and take protective actions.
Networks. All data is ultimately accessed over network infrastructure. Networking controls can provide critical “in pipe” controls to enhance visibility and help prevent attackers from moving laterally across the network. Networks should be segmented (including deeper in network micro segmentation) and real time threat protection, end to end encryption, monitoring, and analytics should be employed.
Each of these six foundational elements serves as a source of the signal, a control plane for enforcement, and a critical resource to defend. You should appropriately spread your investments across each of these elements for maximum protection.
Community IT monthly webinar explores Single Sign On as a solution that can provide security and management for nonprofits with cloud-based IT solutions.
Differences between Enterprise contract levels. Articulation of benefits for moving to an E5.
(Note: This document is visible only for those with the link.)
Identity— Help protect against identity compromise and identify potential breaches before they cause damage
Devices—Enhance device security while enabling mobile work and BYOD
Apps and Data—Boost productivity with cloud access while keeping information protected
Infrastructure—Take a new approach to security across your hybrid environment
Secure Modern Workplace With Microsoft 365 Threat ProtectionAmmar Hasayen
Join me as I walk you through alll what Microsoft 365 has to offer to protect your business and organization. I am going to cover every security feature and how it fits in the big picture. Whether you are on-premises organization or migrating to the cloud, there is something for you to look at.
Follow me on twitter @ammarhasayen and connect on Linkedined https://www.linkedin.com/in/ammarhasayen
Here is the full blog post: https://blog.ahasayen.com/secure-modern-workplace-with-microsoft-365-advanced-threat-protection/
Secure Productive Enterprise from Microsoft and AtidanDavid J Rosenthal
Secure Productive Enterprise
The most trusted, secure, and productive way to work that brings together the best of Office 365, Enterprise Mobility + Security, and Windows 10 Enterprise.
ESSENTIALS TOWARDS A SECURE AND RESILIENT CLOUD FOR THE DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET
Reducing frictions between cloud buyers and sellers, and building trust in the Digital Single Market. We set the scene for a resilient cloud market, and discuss the value of services that lead to greater trust and uptake of cloud services.
Cyberspace is the new battlefield:
We’re seeing attacks on civilians and organizations from nation states. Attacks are no longer just against governments or enterprise systems directly. We’re seeing attacks against private property—the mobile devices we carry around everyday, the laptop on our desks—and public infrastructure. What started a decade-and-a-half ago as a sense that there were some teenagers in the basement hacking their way has moved far beyond that. It has morphed into sophisticated international organized crime and, worse, sophisticated nation state attacks.
Personnel and resources are limited:
According to an annual survey of 620 IT professional across North America and Western Europe from ESG, 51% respondents claim their organization had a problem of shortage of cybersecurity skills—up from 23% in 2014.1 The security landscape is getting more complicated and the stakes are rising, but many enterprises don’t have the resources they need to meet their security needs.
Virtually anything can be corrupted:
The number of connected devices in 2018 is predict to top 11 billion – not including computers and phones. As we connect virtually everything, anything can be disrupted. Everything from the cloud to the edge needs to be considered and protected.2
Microsoft Security - New Capabilities In Microsoft 365 E5 PlansDavid J Rosenthal
Cyberspace is the new battlefield:
We’re seeing attacks on civilians and organizations from nation states. Attacks are no longer just against governments or enterprise systems directly. We’re seeing attacks against private property—the mobile devices we carry around everyday, the laptop on our desks—and public infrastructure. What started a decade-and-a-half ago as a sense that there were some teenagers in the basement hacking their way has moved far beyond that. It has morphed into sophisticated international organized crime and, worse, sophisticated nation state attacks.
Personnel and resources are limited:
According to an annual survey of 620 IT professional across North America and Western Europe from ESG, 51% respondents claim their organization had a problem of shortage of cybersecurity skills—up from 23% in 2014.1 The security landscape is getting more complicated and the stakes are rising, but many enterprises don’t have the resources they need to meet their security needs.
Virtually anything can be corrupted:
The number of connected devices in 2018 is predict to top 11 billion – not including computers and phones. As we connect virtually everything, anything can be disrupted. Everything from the cloud to the edge needs to be considered and protected
Windows Server 2022 is now in preview, the next release in our Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC), which will be generally available later this calendar year. It builds on Windows Server 2019, our fastest adopted Windows Server ever. This release includes advanced multi-layer security, hybrid capabilities with Azure, and a flexible platform to modernize applications with containers.
Identity Management for Office 365 and Microsoft AzureSparkhound Inc.
Sparkhound Senior Infrastructure Consultant David Pechon discusses Identity Management for O365 and Azure at the 2015 SharePoint TechFest Dallas event held at the Irving Convention Center. Learn how Active Directory Federation Services and DirSync allow you to synchronize your organization’s Active Directory and use it to authenticate users to Office 365 applications, such as Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online.
NIC 2017 Azure AD Identity Protection and Conditional Access: Using the Micro...Morgan Simonsen
A common trend in today’s cloud based world is identity driven security. As the name implies this makes user identity really important; user identity is now the key to unlock everything. Building the infrastructure to support this trend is very hard; you bear all the responsibilities and can rely on only your own signal data and threat detection. With Azure AD there is a better way! Come join this session to see how Azure AD Identity Protection is using signals from the global Microsoft cloud, Big Data and Machine Learning to protect your users’ accounts, and also how Azure AD Conditional Access makes it easy to enforce application access policies based on things like location and device. We will show you how to set it all up, what works and what doesn’t and how it integrates with other Microsoft protection services in the cloud, and your existing systems. Come and be safe!
A Zero Trust approach should extend throughout the entire digital estate and serve as an integrated security philosophy and end to end strategy.
Identities. Identities whether they represent people, services, or IOT devices define the Zero Trust control plane. When an identity attempts to access a resource, we need to verify that identity with strong authentication, ensure access is compliant and typical for that identity, and follows least privilege access principles.
Devices. Once an identity has been granted access to a resource, data can flow to a variety of different devices From IoT devices to smartphones, BYOD to partner managed devices, and on premises workloads to cloud hosted servers. This diversity creates a massive attack surface area, requiring we monitor and enforce device health and compliance for secure access.
Applications. Applications and APIs provide the interface by which data is consumed. They may be legacy on premises, lift and shifted to cloud workloads, or modern SaaS applications. Controls and technologies should be applied to discover Shadow IT, ensure appropriate in-app permissions, gate access based on real-time analytics, monitor for abnormal behavior, control of user actions, and validate secure configuration options.
Data. Ultimately, security teams are focused on protecting data. Where possible, data should remain safe even if it leaves the devices, apps, infrastructure, and networks the organization controls. Data should be classified, labeled, and encrypted, and access restricted based on those attributes.
Infrastructure. Infrastructure (whether on premises servers, cloud based VMs, containers, or micro services) represents a critical threat vector. Assess for version, configuration, and JIT access to harden defense, use telemetry to detect attacks and anomalies, and automatically block and flag risky behavior and take protective actions.
Networks. All data is ultimately accessed over network infrastructure. Networking controls can provide critical “in pipe” controls to enhance visibility and help prevent attackers from moving laterally across the network. Networks should be segmented (including deeper in network micro segmentation) and real time threat protection, end to end encryption, monitoring, and analytics should be employed.
Each of these six foundational elements serves as a source of the signal, a control plane for enforcement, and a critical resource to defend. You should appropriately spread your investments across each of these elements for maximum protection.
Community IT monthly webinar explores Single Sign On as a solution that can provide security and management for nonprofits with cloud-based IT solutions.
Differences between Enterprise contract levels. Articulation of benefits for moving to an E5.
(Note: This document is visible only for those with the link.)
Identity— Help protect against identity compromise and identify potential breaches before they cause damage
Devices—Enhance device security while enabling mobile work and BYOD
Apps and Data—Boost productivity with cloud access while keeping information protected
Infrastructure—Take a new approach to security across your hybrid environment
Secure Modern Workplace With Microsoft 365 Threat ProtectionAmmar Hasayen
Join me as I walk you through alll what Microsoft 365 has to offer to protect your business and organization. I am going to cover every security feature and how it fits in the big picture. Whether you are on-premises organization or migrating to the cloud, there is something for you to look at.
Follow me on twitter @ammarhasayen and connect on Linkedined https://www.linkedin.com/in/ammarhasayen
Here is the full blog post: https://blog.ahasayen.com/secure-modern-workplace-with-microsoft-365-advanced-threat-protection/
Secure Productive Enterprise from Microsoft and AtidanDavid J Rosenthal
Secure Productive Enterprise
The most trusted, secure, and productive way to work that brings together the best of Office 365, Enterprise Mobility + Security, and Windows 10 Enterprise.
ESSENTIALS TOWARDS A SECURE AND RESILIENT CLOUD FOR THE DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET
Reducing frictions between cloud buyers and sellers, and building trust in the Digital Single Market. We set the scene for a resilient cloud market, and discuss the value of services that lead to greater trust and uptake of cloud services.
Cloud Ops: Life after an AWS Migration
A presentation delivered by Paul Dunlop (Principal Cloud Architect, API Talent) at the AWS Summit in Auckland, 2017
Topics:
Cloud computing fundamentals SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and managed services
State of cloud infrastructure in 2017
Current Market
Key differentiators of market leaders
Emerging trends
Cloud Instances Price Comparison: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBMRightScale
The cloud price wars are heating up with Azure’s announcement of reserved instances, the introduction of per-second billing by AWS and Google, and other recent changes from the leading cloud providers. To get the most out of your cloud spend, you need to stay on top of the latest information on price cuts and changes to pricing models. And if your organization is multi-cloud, you may even want to adjust your investment across your cloud providers based on who has the lowest prices.
Bessemer Venture Partners' is proud to share The State of the Cloud for 2017.
As the definitive guide to the biggest trends in the cloud industry, this year’s “State of the Cloud Report” includes:
1. A Look Back at 2016
- 2016 was a marquee year for a number of reasons. First, we all remember the rocky start in February where the Cloud Market dropped 35%
- Subsequently, rebounded back to normal levels and ended the year up +15%.
- The dip in the market had two main outcomes: First, it led to unprecedented amounts of M&A (4x more than any other year and 40% of the total cloud market cap of $300B) – and second, it led to the fewest number of cloud tech IPOs since the financial crisis.
- A combination of these factors has led to the highest quality backlog of private cloud companies in history. The top 100 private Cloud companies alone represent over $100B of private enterprise value.
2. We provide a deeper look into the three top questions every private cloud CEO should be discussing with his/her executive team
- How fast should I be growing?
- How much should I burn?
- How do I scale?
3. Bessemer’s 7 Predictions for 2017
- The year of human assisted AI
- APIs will serve as the backbone for a majority of software infrastructure
- Architect for infinite scale without infinite spend
- Mobile unlocks non-desk worker productivity
- NPS everything
- Diverse teams win
- The screenless software movement
UX, ethnography and possibilities: for Libraries, Museums and ArchivesNed Potter
These slides are adapted from a talk I gave at the Welsh Government's Marketing Awards for the LAM sector, in 2017.
It offers a primer on UX - User Experience - and how ethnography and design might be used in the library, archive and museum worlds to better understand our users. All good marketing starts with audience insight.
The presentation covers the following:
1) An introduction to UX
2) Ethnography, with definitions and examples of 7 ethnographic techniques
3) User-centred design and Design Thinking
4) Examples of UX-led changes made at institutions in the UK and Scandinavia
5) Next Steps - if you'd like to try out UX at your own organisation
Azure - a secure platform for source-to-payOpusCapita
If we know anything about IT, it’s that they don’t appreciate additional work, additional security risk or duplicate efforts. Trust us when we say, we are with you! That’s why we’ve partnered with Microsoft and built our solutions on the Azure platform.
In this webinar we want to introduce you to Azure’s security features, plus audit tools for data centers, specific security tools for customers and of course, the ease-of-use that Azure AD offers OpusCapita customers.
Our goal in this webinar is to give you an introduction to OpusCapita and Azure and reduce or eliminate any fear you might have when adopting SaaS solutions. Spoiler alert - with source-to-pay on Azure, you still have full control over your vpn connections and user management.
Pilveteenuste kasutamine võimaldab minutitega käivitada projekti, millele varem kulus nädalaid. Vajate müügikampaania toetamiseks lehte, mis suudab teenindada 100 tuhat kasutajat – käivita teenus kohe! Vajate terabaitide analüüsiks kiiret platvormi – käivita teenus kohe! Azure on töökindel ja kiire!
Microsoft is a leading global provider of cloud computing services for businesses of all sizes.
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services — including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence — over the Internet to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.
AWS Partner: Grindr: Aggregate, Analyze, and Act on 900M Daily API CallsAmazon Web Services
Monitoring and making sense of infrastructure data can be an arduous process. Managing a volume of API calls from more than one million active users every minute presents an even more complex and demanding challenge. Using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Datadog, Grindr overcame a series of infrastructure challenges by both implementing and managing highly scalable, high availability, and top performing infrastructure, as well as aggregating, analyzing, and acting on key infrastructure data KPIs.
Ultimately, our goal is to enable you to be more successful and your organizations - your Developers, your IT Admins, your customer to be more:
Productive – by integrating in all the capabilities that you need so that you don’t have to patchwork things together.
Hybrid – we know that not everything will live in the public cloud so we are working to ensure your apps and data can work in both cloud and on-premise environments
Open – we are all in on open source. We want you to be able to build your apps on your own terms on whatever platform, language and tools you want.
Trusted – And of course you need to be able to trust the cloud, trust that your apps, your data and your business are secure and available in the cloud
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
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.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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.
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.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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.
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
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.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures
Cloud computing with MS Azure
1. Syed Sabhi Haider (MCT)
Microsoft Consultant- Central Region@ Techaccess Pakistan
Technical Writer and Community Speaker @Microsoft
Certifications
MCSA Office 365, MCSA Windows Server 2012, MCSE SharePoint 2013, Microsoft
Specialist implementing Azure Infrastructure, Developing MS Azure Solution, MS
Server Virtualization with server Hyper-V, System Center and MS Pre-Sales Microsoft
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5. a. Rapidly setup environments to drive business priorities
b. Scale to meet peak demands
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19. Hyper scale Infrastructure is the enabler
28 Regions Worldwide, 22 ONLINE…huge capacity around the world…growing every year
100+ datacenters
Top 3 networks in the world
2x AWS, 7x Google DC Regions
G Series – Largest VM in World, 32 cores, 448GB Ram, SSD…
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Japan West
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India South
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East Asia
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Messages delivered every
month with Event Hubs
100,000
New Azure customer
subscriptions/month
20Million
SQL database hours
used every day
>5Trillion
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every month
60Billion
Hits to Websites run on
Azure Web App Service
425Million
Azure Active
Directory Users
Azure Momentum
57%
Of Fortune 500 Companies
use Microsoft Azure
>50Trillion
Storage objects
in Azure
1.4 Million
SQL Databases Deployed
In Azure
“Microsoft is
growing its cloud
revenue faster than
Amazon” – Business
Insider 2016
AWS revenue grew about
69% but Microsoft Azure
revenue grew by 127%
21. Azure Compliance
The largest compliance portfolio in the industry
HIPAA /
HITECH
FedRAMP JAB
P-ATO
FIPS 140-2 FERPA DISA Level 2 ITAR-readyCJIS21 CFR
Part 11
IRS 1075 Section 508
VPAT
ISO 27001 PCI DSS Level 1SOC 1 Type 2 SOC 2 Type 2 ISO 27018Cloud Controls
Matrix
Content Delivery and
Security Association
Shared
Assessments
European Union
Model Clauses
United Kingdom
G-Cloud
Singapore
MTCS Level 3
Australian
Signals
Directorate
Japan
Financial Services
China Multi
Layer Protection
Scheme
China
CCCPPF
New
Zealand
GCIO
China
GB 18030
EU Safe
Harbor
ENISA
IAF
27. Web Sites
Build with ASP.NET, Node.js or PHP
Deploy in seconds with FTP, Git or TFS
Easily scale up as demand grows
28. Active Directory
Active Directory in the Cloud
Integrate with on-premises Active
Directory
Enable single sign-on within your apps
Supports SAML, WS-Fed, and OAuth
2.0
33. Security
Microsoft creates and
implements industry-leading
secure software development,
operational management, and
threat mitigation practices. This
includes Trustworthy computing
initiative, security center of
excellence, compliance
framework.
Microsoft is the only company
actively targeting cyber criminals
and working with law
enforcement to take down their
ability to infect devices and
systems with harmful, criminal
malware.
Azure Security center is truly a
differentiated offering
Compliance
Azure adhere to a broad set of
compliance requirements and
provide tools to help our
customers meet their cloud
security & compliance
requirements.
We commit to yearly audit and
provide full audit report
Azure offers Financial Services
Compliance Program built for
large financial institutes.
Privacy
Azure offers cloud specific
privacy policy.
Microsoft does not use
customer data for advertising
Microsoft makes contractual
commitment to safeguard
customer data and privacy.
Microsoft cannot change its
core privacy terms during the
course of a customer’s
subscription.
Azure complies with rigorous
EU privacy laws. Azure is the
first major cloud provider to
adopt ISO 27018 – world’s first
international standard for cloud
privacy.
Transparency
We publish details in the
Microsoft Law Enforcement
Requests Report about legal
demands for customer data.
Microsoft makes a contractual
commitment to ensure any
requests for data must follow
due legal process.
Customer owns their data, they
can delete and leave anytime.
Microsoft Customer Agreement
does not contain any IP
infringement protection
language
Trusted Cloud principles
Key Differences compared to AWS
Editor's Notes
Slide Objectives:
Explain how Microsoft thinks of the cloud
Speaking Points:
There are numerous terms and definitions floating around in the industry for “the cloud”, “cloud computing”, “cloud services”, etc.
Microsoft thinks of the cloud as simply an approach to computing that enables applications to be delivered at scale for a variety of workloads and client devices.
The cloud can help deliver IT as a standardized service…freeing you up to focus on your business
Slide Objectives:
Explain how Microsoft thinks of the cloud
Speaking Points:
There are numerous terms and definitions floating around in the industry for “the cloud”, “cloud computing”, “cloud services”, etc.
Microsoft thinks of the cloud as simply an approach to computing that enables applications to be delivered at scale for a variety of workloads and client devices.
The cloud can help deliver IT as a standardized service…freeing you up to focus on your business
Speaking Points:
There is a lot of talk in the industry about different terms like Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, and Software as a Service.
Since PDC08 when we first announced the Windows Azure our focus has been on delivering a platform as a service offering where you can build applications. Where the platform abstracts you from the complexities of building and running applications.
We fundamentally believe that the future path forward for development is by providing a platform. In fact, as you’ll see in a few minutes, we believe that there are a number of new capabilities that should be delivered as services to the platform.
Notes:
There is a lot of confusion in the industry when it comes to the cloud.
It’s important that you understand both what is happening in the industry and how we think about the cloud.
This is the most commonly used taxonomy for differentiating between types of cloud services.
The industry has defined three categories of services:
IaaS – a set of infrastructure level capabilities such as an operating system, network connectivity, etc. that are delivered as pay for use services and can be used to host applications.
PaaS – higher level sets of functionality that are delivered as consumable services for developers who are building applications. PaaS is about abstracting developers from the underlying infrastructure to enable applications to quickly be composed.
SaaS – applications that are delivered using a service delivery model where organizations can simply consume and use the application. Typically an organization would pay for the use of the application or the application could be monetized through ad revenue.
It is important to note that these 3 types of services may exist independently of one another or combined with one another.
SaaS offerings needn’t be developed upon PaaS offerings although solutions built on PaaS offerings are often delivered as SaaS.
PaaS offerings also needn’t expose IaaS and there’s more to PaaS than just running platforms on IaaS.
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Slide Objectives:
Explain the three established terms in the industry for cloud services
Speaking Points:
With this in mind, it’s important to understand how to talk about our Cloud Services offerings.
There is a lot of confusion in the industry when it comes to the cloud.
It’s important that you understand both what is happening in the industry and how we think about the cloud.
This is the most commonly used taxonomy for differentiating between types of cloud services.
The industry has defined three categories of services:
IaaS – a set of infrastructure level capabilities such as an operating system, network connectivity, etc. that are delivered as pay for use services and can be used to host applications.
PaaS – higher level sets of functionality that are delivered as consumable services for developers who are building applications. PaaS is about abstracting developers from the underlying infrastructure to enable applications to quickly be composed.
SaaS – applications that are delivered using a service delivery model where organizations can simply consume and use the application. Typically an organization would pay for the use of the application or the application could be monetized through ad revenue.
It is important to note that these 3 types of services may exist independently of one another or combined with one another.
SaaS offerings needn’t be developed upon PaaS offerings although solutions built on PaaS offerings are often delivered as SaaS.
PaaS offerings also needn’t expose IaaS and there’s more to PaaS than just running platforms on IaaS.
Speaking Points:
There is a lot of talk in the industry about different terms like Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, and Software as a Service.
Since PDC08 when we first announced the Windows Azure our focus has been on delivering a platform as a service offering where you can build applications. Where the platform abstracts you from the complexities of building and running applications.
We fundamentally believe that the future path forward for development is by providing a platform. In fact, as you’ll see in a few minutes, we believe that there are a number of new capabilities that should be delivered as services to the platform.
Notes:
There is a lot of confusion in the industry when it comes to the cloud.
It’s important that you understand both what is happening in the industry and how we think about the cloud.
This is the most commonly used taxonomy for differentiating between types of cloud services.
The industry has defined three categories of services:
IaaS – a set of infrastructure level capabilities such as an operating system, network connectivity, etc. that are delivered as pay for use services and can be used to host applications.
PaaS – higher level sets of functionality that are delivered as consumable services for developers who are building applications. PaaS is about abstracting developers from the underlying infrastructure to enable applications to quickly be composed.
SaaS – applications that are delivered using a service delivery model where organizations can simply consume and use the application. Typically an organization would pay for the use of the application or the application could be monetized through ad revenue.
It is important to note that these 3 types of services may exist independently of one another or combined with one another.
SaaS offerings needn’t be developed upon PaaS offerings although solutions built on PaaS offerings are often delivered as SaaS.
PaaS offerings also needn’t expose IaaS and there’s more to PaaS than just running platforms on IaaS.
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Slide Objectives:
Explain the three established terms in the industry for cloud services
Speaking Points:
With this in mind, it’s important to understand how to talk about our Cloud Services offerings.
There is a lot of confusion in the industry when it comes to the cloud.
It’s important that you understand both what is happening in the industry and how we think about the cloud.
This is the most commonly used taxonomy for differentiating between types of cloud services.
The industry has defined three categories of services:
IaaS – a set of infrastructure level capabilities such as an operating system, network connectivity, etc. that are delivered as pay for use services and can be used to host applications.
PaaS – higher level sets of functionality that are delivered as consumable services for developers who are building applications. PaaS is about abstracting developers from the underlying infrastructure to enable applications to quickly be composed.
SaaS – applications that are delivered using a service delivery model where organizations can simply consume and use the application. Typically an organization would pay for the use of the application or the application could be monetized through ad revenue.
It is important to note that these 3 types of services may exist independently of one another or combined with one another.
SaaS offerings needn’t be developed upon PaaS offerings although solutions built on PaaS offerings are often delivered as SaaS.
PaaS offerings also needn’t expose IaaS and there’s more to PaaS than just running platforms on IaaS.
Slide Objectives:
Explain the differences and relationship between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS in more detail.
Speaking Points:
Here’s another way to look at the cloud services taxonomy and how this taxonomy maps to the components in an IT infrastructure.
Packaged Software
With packaged software a customer would be responsible for managing the entire stack – ranging from the network connectivity to the applications.
IaaS
With Infrastructure as a Service, the lower levels of the stack are managed by a vendor. Some of these components can be provided by traditional hosters – in fact most of them have moved to having a virtualized offering.
Very few actually provide an OS
The customer is still responsible for managing the OS through the Applications.
For the developer, an obvious benefit with IaaS is that it frees the developer from many concerns when provisioning physical or virtual machines.
This was one of the earliest and primary use cases for Amazon Web Services Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2).
Developers were able to readily provision virtual machines (AMIs) on EC2, develop and test solutions and, often, run the results ‘in production’.
The only requirement was a credit card to pay for the services.
PaaS
With Platform as a Service, everything from the network connectivity through the runtime is provided and managed by the platform vendor.
The Windows Azure best fits in this category today.
In fact because we don’t provide access to the underlying virtualization or operating system today, we’re often referred to as not providing IaaS.
PaaS offerings further reduce the developer burden by additionally supporting the platform runtime and related application services.
With PaaS, the developer can, almost immediately, begin creating the business logic for an application.
Potentially, the increases in productivity are considerable and, because the hardware and operational aspects of the cloud platform are also managed by the cloud platform provider, applications can quickly be taken from an idea to reality very quickly.
SaaS
Finally, with SaaS, a vendor provides the application and abstracts you from all of the underlying components.
First introduced the platform 3 years ago at the 2008 Professional Developers Conference.
Three key principles…
Speaking Points:
3 core services: Compute, Storage, Database
Let’s take a look at the platform starting with the core services.
Compute:
Scalable environment for running code
Enables .NET, C++, PHP, Ruby, Python, …
Automated service management
Storage:
Scalable and highly available cloud storage
Blobs, Tables, Queues, Drives
REST APIs and several client libraries
Database:
SQL Relational Database
Familiar programming model & tools
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Speaking Points:
I suspect most if not all of you in this room are familiar with the Windows Azure today.
Today the platform consists of a set of foundational services
SQL Azure relational database
Windows Azure provides services that can be used by any apps – hosted in Windows Azure, on-premises, or hosted in another environment.
Questions:
How many of you are building applications for Windows Azure?
How many are using SQL Azure?
How many are using the Access Control service today? The Service Bus?
Notes:
Windows Azure Story
We are building an open platform to run your applications in the cloud. Your apps are .NET, Java, PHP, etc. We love everyone.
We are going to help you migrate your existing apps to the cloud.
The cloud platform is the future. Enables scale, self-service, lowers friction, etc. We provide the best cloud platform for building new apps. (aka n-tier, web services, etc.)
Why this Slide:
This is SUCH a big investment – it’s a game for only very few. It’s not new for us – we have been doing this for our own services and our consumer/web properties for 20+ years
Key Points:
Where are we – EVERYWHERE…!
How big is this - $15+ B and counting – this is serious, we continue to bet big and you can count on us
Talk about DC innovation – DC Efficiency and Gen 5 data centers.
Scale – at this scale you do get efficiencies – the main one being POWER
Remember our “strategy” – we will be in the major places, but not everywhere – we have Azure Stack/Hosters for that.
Transition to NEXT Slide: This is the physical infrastructure that Azure sits on, now lets talk about Azure the PLATFORM
Why this Slide:
It is important to give some sense of the scale of the cloud, the rapid pace of adoption and how MSFT is doing
Key Points:
The cloud is still quite new and already we are talking about billions and trillions of things –imagine what this will look like 5 years from now
Adoption of Azure is off the chart by any scale – 100,000+ new customers come to Azure every month and this pace is increasing
Transition to NEXT Slide: So we have lots of customers, growth is crazy – but isn’t Azure just for Microsoft shops – NO!!!.
Why this Slide:
Now you have finished the what is Azure section you want to do a few things – you want them to explain the trust model and give them some comfort they are not the first here – it’s a safe bet.
Key Points:
Azure Compliance makes it easier for first parties and end customers to fulfill their own compliance obligations across globally regulatory and industry standards.
Explain the FUNDAMENTAL TRUST model. These organizations (above) we let into our data centers and they attest that we do all the things on their list of controls. You (the customer) have to trust these organizations.
You still OWN much of the work to make your systems compliant – we have the platform and the capabilities – but you have to decide to use them (example you have to decide to encrypt virtual disks for your VM’s – or NOT).
Transition to NEXT Slide: Are you the first to do this… Of course not…