AWS offers a variety of data migration services and tools to help you easily and rapidly move everything from gigabytes to petabytes of data. We can provide guidance and methodologies to help you find the right service or tool to fit your requirements, and we share examples of customers who have used these options in their cloud journey.
Cloud migrations are hardly one size fits all. It can be challenging to migrate from a large-scale data center to an optimized AWS environment without draining IT resources. By leveraging CSC, organizations are able to determine exactly what they need from their IT infrastructure and efficiently migrate to a customized cloud environment on AWS that meets those needs. With 400+ AWS certified architects and 30+ experts with AWS professional-level certification, CSC helps organizations experience seamless, results-oriented migrations. Register for the upcoming webinar to hear speakers from CSC and AWS discuss the ins and outs of a successful large-scale migration to AWS.
Join us to learn:
How CSC helped a large federal systems integration company migrate their workloads to the AWS Cloud in less than three months
How CSC has facilitated customers split from their shared IT environment in less than 3 months
The step-by-step process of an efficient data center migration
Who Should Attend:
IT Manager, IT Security Manager, Solution Architect, Cloud App Architect, System Administrator, IT Project Manager, Product Manager, Business Development
Perform a Cloud Readiness Assessment for Your Own CompanyAmazon Web Services
In this session you will get an understanding how to evaluate your company's or applications' cloud readiness. We will cover aspects such as workload and data categorisation, automation levels, design for failure and cost-optimised architectures. We will be looking at typical application evolution paths from tightly coupled physical systems, in some cases through virtualisation, to cloud-native, or cloud-ready, loosely coupled, distributed and automated solutions.
AWS offers a variety of data migration services and tools to help you easily and rapidly move everything from gigabytes to petabytes of data. We can provide guidance and methodologies to help you find the right service or tool to fit your requirements, and we share examples of customers who have used these options in their cloud journey.
Cloud migrations are hardly one size fits all. It can be challenging to migrate from a large-scale data center to an optimized AWS environment without draining IT resources. By leveraging CSC, organizations are able to determine exactly what they need from their IT infrastructure and efficiently migrate to a customized cloud environment on AWS that meets those needs. With 400+ AWS certified architects and 30+ experts with AWS professional-level certification, CSC helps organizations experience seamless, results-oriented migrations. Register for the upcoming webinar to hear speakers from CSC and AWS discuss the ins and outs of a successful large-scale migration to AWS.
Join us to learn:
How CSC helped a large federal systems integration company migrate their workloads to the AWS Cloud in less than three months
How CSC has facilitated customers split from their shared IT environment in less than 3 months
The step-by-step process of an efficient data center migration
Who Should Attend:
IT Manager, IT Security Manager, Solution Architect, Cloud App Architect, System Administrator, IT Project Manager, Product Manager, Business Development
Perform a Cloud Readiness Assessment for Your Own CompanyAmazon Web Services
In this session you will get an understanding how to evaluate your company's or applications' cloud readiness. We will cover aspects such as workload and data categorisation, automation levels, design for failure and cost-optimised architectures. We will be looking at typical application evolution paths from tightly coupled physical systems, in some cases through virtualisation, to cloud-native, or cloud-ready, loosely coupled, distributed and automated solutions.
Cloud adoption requires that fundamental changes are considered across the entire organization, and that stakeholders across all organizational units are engaged in these changes. This session will introduce participants to the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) to help organizations take an accelerated path to successful cloud adoption. Participants will be exposed to consideration, guidance, and best practices that can be used to help their organizations develop an efficient and effective plan to realize measurable business benefits from cloud adoption faster and with less risk.
An Introduction to the AWS Well Architected Framework - WebinarAmazon Web Services
The AWS Well-Architected Framework enables customers to understand best practices around security, reliability, performance, cost optimization and operational excellence when building systems on AWS. This approach helps customers make informed decisions and weigh the pros and cons of application design patterns for the cloud.
In this one hour webinar, you'll learn how to use the AWS Well-Architected Framework to follow guidelines and best practices for your architecture on AWS.
Learn about what a serverless architecture is, why they are growing in popularity, and who the key players are in a serverless API build on the AWS platform. Then get started building your own servless API!
Cloud Migration, Application Modernization, and Security Tom Laszewski
As AWS continues to expand, enterprise customers are looking to our partner ecosystem to assist in migrating their workloads to the cloud. This session describes the challenges, lessons learned and best practices for large scale application migrations. We will use real examples from our consulting partners and AWS Professional Services to illustrate how to move workloads to the cloud while modernizing the associated applications to take advantage of AWS’ unique benefits. We will also dive into how to use an array of AWS services and features to improve a customer’s security posture as they are migrating and once they are up and running in the cloud
Cloud Migration, Application Modernization and Security for PartnersAmazon Web Services
As AWS continues to expand, enterprise customers are increasingly looking to our partner ecosystem to assist in migrating their workloads to the cloud. This session describes the challenges, lessons learned and best practices for large scale application migrations. We will use real examples from our consulting partners and AWS Professional Services to illustrate how to move workloads to the cloud while modernizing the associated applications to take advantage of AWS’ unique benefits. We will also dive into how to use an array of AWS services and features to improve a customer’s security posture as they are migrating and once they are up and running in the cloud.
An Agile Approach to Accelerate Mass Migration | AWS Public Sector Summit 2016Amazon Web Services
The complexities of a cloud transformation program that involves the migration of hundreds or thousands of servers can present a significant challenge to program management and the coordination of IT teams tasked with the success and support of migration. This session outlines a highly collaborative agile approach to accelerate migration activities through automation of the iterative capture, sharing, and documentation of decisions and information, incorporated into a common DevOps solution.
When migrating applications to the AWS Cloud, it’s important to architect cloud environments that are efficient, secure, and compliant. Companies depend on critical enterprise applications to run their business. In this session, learn about the compute, storage, and networking services that AWS offers to help you build, run, and scale your business-critical applications more quickly, securely, and cost-efficiently. We also cover the AWS services and partners that are available to help you modernize and migrate your business-critical applications to the cloud.
There are options beyond a straight forward lift and shift into Azure IaaS. What are your options? Learn how Azure helps modernize applications faster with containers and how you can use serverless to add additional functionality while keeping your production codebase 'clean'. We'll also learn how to incorporate DevOps throughout your apps lifecycle and take advantage of data-driven intelligence. Demo intensive session integrating the likes of Service Fabric, AKS VSTS and more.
Cloud Migration, Application Modernization and Security for PartnersAmazon Web Services
As AWS continues to expand, enterprise customers are increasingly looking to our partner ecosystem to assist in migrating their workloads to the cloud. This session describes the challenges, lessons learned, and best practices for large-scale application migrations. We will use real examples from our consulting partners and AWS Professional Services to illustrate how to move workloads to the cloud while modernizing the associated applications to take advantage of the unique benefits of AWS. We will also dive into how to use an array of AWS services and features to improve customers' security posture as they migrate and once they are up and running in the cloud.
There are options beyond a straight forward lift and shift into Infrastructure as a Service. This session is about learning about how Azure helps modernize applications faster utilising modern technologies like PaaS, containers and serverless
In this webinar, you'll learn about the foundational security blocks and how to start using them effectively to create robust and secure architectures. Discover how Identity and Access management is done and how it integrates with other AWS services. In addition, learn how to improve governance by using AWS Security Hub, AWS Config and CloudTrail to gain unprecedented visibility of activity in the account. Subsequently use AWS Config rules to rectify configuration issues quickly and effectively.
Migrate an Existing Application to Microsoft AzureChris Dufour
First we will talk about what Microsoft Azure is and why you would want to use Microsoft’s cloud services.
Then we will take an existing on premise line of business (LOB) application with a SQL Server backend and walk through the process of moving the site to Microsoft Azure.
Software release cycles are now measured in days instead of months. Cutting edge companies are continuously delivering high-quality software at a fast pace. In this session, we will cover how you can begin your DevOps journey by sharing best practices and tools used by the engineering teams at Amazon. We will showcase how you can accelerate developer productivity by implementing continuous Integration and delivery workflows. We will also cover an introduction to AWS CodeStar, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Cloud9, and AWS X-Ray the services inspired by Amazon's internal developer tools and DevOps practice.
Level: 200
Speaker: Nick Brandaleone - Solutions Architect, AWS
In this session we will explain how to create a compelling business case for migration to AWS. We present a framework and tools for creating your business case, and guidelines for using AWS services to maximise value and optimise cost for migrations to the AWS Cloud. Gain a new perspective for business cases that includes factors such as automation, new technologies and organisational change.
Speaker: Andrew Boyd, Enterprise Account Manager, Amazon Web Services
Cloud Migration Cookbook: A Guide To Moving Your Apps To The CloudNew Relic
The process of building new apps or migrating existing apps to a cloud-based platform is complex. There are hundreds of paths you can take and only a few will make sense for you and your business. Get a step-by-step guide on how to plan for a successful app migration.
Imaginea's take on how an organization can seamlessly migrate to Cloud. Aligning your IT strategy accordingly and move to cloud step by step is explained here.
Cloud adoption requires that fundamental changes are considered across the entire organization, and that stakeholders across all organizational units are engaged in these changes. This session will introduce participants to the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) to help organizations take an accelerated path to successful cloud adoption. Participants will be exposed to consideration, guidance, and best practices that can be used to help their organizations develop an efficient and effective plan to realize measurable business benefits from cloud adoption faster and with less risk.
An Introduction to the AWS Well Architected Framework - WebinarAmazon Web Services
The AWS Well-Architected Framework enables customers to understand best practices around security, reliability, performance, cost optimization and operational excellence when building systems on AWS. This approach helps customers make informed decisions and weigh the pros and cons of application design patterns for the cloud.
In this one hour webinar, you'll learn how to use the AWS Well-Architected Framework to follow guidelines and best practices for your architecture on AWS.
Learn about what a serverless architecture is, why they are growing in popularity, and who the key players are in a serverless API build on the AWS platform. Then get started building your own servless API!
Cloud Migration, Application Modernization, and Security Tom Laszewski
As AWS continues to expand, enterprise customers are looking to our partner ecosystem to assist in migrating their workloads to the cloud. This session describes the challenges, lessons learned and best practices for large scale application migrations. We will use real examples from our consulting partners and AWS Professional Services to illustrate how to move workloads to the cloud while modernizing the associated applications to take advantage of AWS’ unique benefits. We will also dive into how to use an array of AWS services and features to improve a customer’s security posture as they are migrating and once they are up and running in the cloud
Cloud Migration, Application Modernization and Security for PartnersAmazon Web Services
As AWS continues to expand, enterprise customers are increasingly looking to our partner ecosystem to assist in migrating their workloads to the cloud. This session describes the challenges, lessons learned and best practices for large scale application migrations. We will use real examples from our consulting partners and AWS Professional Services to illustrate how to move workloads to the cloud while modernizing the associated applications to take advantage of AWS’ unique benefits. We will also dive into how to use an array of AWS services and features to improve a customer’s security posture as they are migrating and once they are up and running in the cloud.
An Agile Approach to Accelerate Mass Migration | AWS Public Sector Summit 2016Amazon Web Services
The complexities of a cloud transformation program that involves the migration of hundreds or thousands of servers can present a significant challenge to program management and the coordination of IT teams tasked with the success and support of migration. This session outlines a highly collaborative agile approach to accelerate migration activities through automation of the iterative capture, sharing, and documentation of decisions and information, incorporated into a common DevOps solution.
When migrating applications to the AWS Cloud, it’s important to architect cloud environments that are efficient, secure, and compliant. Companies depend on critical enterprise applications to run their business. In this session, learn about the compute, storage, and networking services that AWS offers to help you build, run, and scale your business-critical applications more quickly, securely, and cost-efficiently. We also cover the AWS services and partners that are available to help you modernize and migrate your business-critical applications to the cloud.
There are options beyond a straight forward lift and shift into Azure IaaS. What are your options? Learn how Azure helps modernize applications faster with containers and how you can use serverless to add additional functionality while keeping your production codebase 'clean'. We'll also learn how to incorporate DevOps throughout your apps lifecycle and take advantage of data-driven intelligence. Demo intensive session integrating the likes of Service Fabric, AKS VSTS and more.
Cloud Migration, Application Modernization and Security for PartnersAmazon Web Services
As AWS continues to expand, enterprise customers are increasingly looking to our partner ecosystem to assist in migrating their workloads to the cloud. This session describes the challenges, lessons learned, and best practices for large-scale application migrations. We will use real examples from our consulting partners and AWS Professional Services to illustrate how to move workloads to the cloud while modernizing the associated applications to take advantage of the unique benefits of AWS. We will also dive into how to use an array of AWS services and features to improve customers' security posture as they migrate and once they are up and running in the cloud.
There are options beyond a straight forward lift and shift into Infrastructure as a Service. This session is about learning about how Azure helps modernize applications faster utilising modern technologies like PaaS, containers and serverless
In this webinar, you'll learn about the foundational security blocks and how to start using them effectively to create robust and secure architectures. Discover how Identity and Access management is done and how it integrates with other AWS services. In addition, learn how to improve governance by using AWS Security Hub, AWS Config and CloudTrail to gain unprecedented visibility of activity in the account. Subsequently use AWS Config rules to rectify configuration issues quickly and effectively.
Migrate an Existing Application to Microsoft AzureChris Dufour
First we will talk about what Microsoft Azure is and why you would want to use Microsoft’s cloud services.
Then we will take an existing on premise line of business (LOB) application with a SQL Server backend and walk through the process of moving the site to Microsoft Azure.
Software release cycles are now measured in days instead of months. Cutting edge companies are continuously delivering high-quality software at a fast pace. In this session, we will cover how you can begin your DevOps journey by sharing best practices and tools used by the engineering teams at Amazon. We will showcase how you can accelerate developer productivity by implementing continuous Integration and delivery workflows. We will also cover an introduction to AWS CodeStar, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Cloud9, and AWS X-Ray the services inspired by Amazon's internal developer tools and DevOps practice.
Level: 200
Speaker: Nick Brandaleone - Solutions Architect, AWS
In this session we will explain how to create a compelling business case for migration to AWS. We present a framework and tools for creating your business case, and guidelines for using AWS services to maximise value and optimise cost for migrations to the AWS Cloud. Gain a new perspective for business cases that includes factors such as automation, new technologies and organisational change.
Speaker: Andrew Boyd, Enterprise Account Manager, Amazon Web Services
Cloud Migration Cookbook: A Guide To Moving Your Apps To The CloudNew Relic
The process of building new apps or migrating existing apps to a cloud-based platform is complex. There are hundreds of paths you can take and only a few will make sense for you and your business. Get a step-by-step guide on how to plan for a successful app migration.
Imaginea's take on how an organization can seamlessly migrate to Cloud. Aligning your IT strategy accordingly and move to cloud step by step is explained here.
The pathway to the cloud has many different options and levers that customers can pull. This webinar walks customers through actual steps from creating a cloud adoption vision to actually building a migration roadmap with actionable guidance. We’ll go through proven migration patterns, methods and tooling that AWS has leveraged successfully with hundreds of Enterprise customers around the globe. Learn what challenges customers face when planning the migrations to cloud, and how they overcome them to minimize risk and accelerate the adoption.
What's a good API business model? If you have an API, or you plan to have an open API, or just want to use APIs in your web or mobile app, what models make sense? See 20 different API business models. This comprehensive survey of the gamut of today's options covering anything from paid to getting paid to indirect.
Data continues to grow exponentially – especially with the advent of social content. Approximately 70% of data is unstructured. This impacts on storage costs and management, Data Protection, and SLAs.
New deployment options such as cloud provide alternatives but how do you know what you should move to the cloud?
Presenter: Pawel Chadzynski, Aras
To deal with growing product complexity and tie requirements through functional, logical and physical product structure (RFLP), organizations are moving to implement Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). Learn how to take the "BS" out of MBSE and provide a foundation for tomorrow's product development processes.
10 Key Steps for Moving from Legacy Infrastructure to the CloudNGINX, Inc.
On-demand recording: https://nginx.webex.com/nginx/lsr.php?RCID=af9c355d1f42420b17e048e82ac6762b
Moving your applications from traditional IT stacks to the cloud is not an easy task. Migration to the cloud can cause security nightmares, performance degradation, and sudden cost spikes, to name just a few possible problems. For a successful cloud migration, you need to evolve both technology and business processes.
Nonetheless, moving from legacy infrastructure to public, private, or hybrid cloud can bring massive benefits, including increased flexibility, the ability to scale up or down as needed, and dramatic cost savings. When done well, transforming your business to adopt cloud services can be both painless and profitable.
Please join us for this webinar by James Bond, CTO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and an expert in cloud computing. He will cover best practices for making your cloud migration successful, including:
* Why your organization should consider a cloud migration
* How to properly plan for cloud deployment
* What approach you should take to ensure security
* How orchestration tools can help achieve efficiency
* How to build cloud native applications to best take advantage of the cloud
Speaker: James Bond, facebook.com/enterprisecloud
James Bond is an expert in cloud computing with over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. He is a true cloud industry pioneer, having created several successful companies, founded business practices, and hosted infrastructure and software services long before the term "cloud computing" was first used. James is a Chief Technologist for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) providing cloud strategy, guidance, and implementation planning to Fortune 100 organizations that are planning a transition from legacy IT to cloud. He is a featured speaker at industry conferences and executive briefings throughout North America.
Real World API Business Models That Worked
Mark Boyd, Writer, ProgrammableWeb
What business revenue models are most successful for API providers seeking to build active third-party developer communities? How much can an API act to leverage revenue growth and market share, and what timeline for success is realistic? This presentation goes beyond the theory to share some initial data on what businesses are experiencing when implementing an API strategy.
This presentation summarizes the critical success factors from 15 API business case studies including:
- Type of business model used and revenue-share data against cost estimations
- What developer engagement strategies grew API usage the fastest
- What factors reduced churn rate amongst third-party developers
- Developer onboarding timeframe
- What factors influenced internal support for an API strategy
Sachin Agarwal, SOA Software VP of Product Marketing, explains the frenzy around the mass development and adoption of APIs. In this presentation, he describes the business and technology implications of developing an API stratgy.
Capgemini Cloud Assessment - A Pathway to Enterprise Cloud MigrationFloyd DCosta
Capgemini Cloud Assessment offers a methodology and a roadmap for Cloud migration to reduce decision risks, promote rapid user adoption and lower TCO of IT investments. It leverages pre-built accelerators such as ROI calculators, risk models and portfolio analyzers and provides three powerful deliverables in just six to eight weeks:
Your brain is capable of incredible healing and constant reshaping. Through a new relationship with your brain you can transform your life. With increased self-awareness and conscious intention, the brain can be taught to reach far beyond its present limitations.
This is a visual excerpt from my book "Super Brain," which I co-authored with Rudolph Tanzi, PhD. To read more, go to: http://www.chopra.com/
Understanding the cloud computing stackSatish Chavan
Understanding the cloud computing stack
Introduction
Key characteristics
At Glance
Standardization, Migration &Adaptation
Service models
Deployment models
Network as a Service
Software as a Service (SaaS).
Platform as a Service (PaaS).
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Communications as a Service (CaaS)
Data as a Service - DaaS
Benefits & Challenges
Security Risks & Challenges
Cloud Vendors
An study of security issues & challenges in cloud computingijsrd.com
"Cloud Computing" is a term, which involves virtualization, distributed computing, networking and web-services. It is a way of offering services to users by allowing them to tap into a massive pool of shared computing resources such as servers, storage and network. User can use services by simply plug into the cloud and pay only for what he uses. All these features made a cloud computing very advantageous and demanding. But the data privacy is a key security problem in cloud computing which comprises of data integrity, data confidentiality and user privacy specific concerns. Most of the persons do not prefer cloud to store their data as they are having a fear of losing the privacy of their confidential data. This paper introduces some cloud computing data security problem and its strategy to solve them which also satisfies the user regarding their data security.
ITU-T requirement for cloud and cloud deployment modelHitesh Mohapatra
List and explain the functional requirements for networking as per the ITU-T technical report. List and explain cloud deployment models and list relative strengths and weaknesses of the deployment models with neat diagram.
SURVEY ON KEY AGGREGATE CRYPTOSYSTEM FOR SCALABLE DATA SHARINGEditor IJMTER
Public-key cryptosystems produce constant-size cipher texts with efficient delegation
of decryption rights for any set of cipher texts. One can aggregate any set of secret keys and make
them as compact as a single key. The secret key holder can release a constant-size aggregate key for
flexible choices of cipher text set in cloud storage. In KAC, users encrypt a message not only under a
public-key, but also under an identifier of cipher text called class. That means the cipher texts are
further categorized into different classes. The key owner holds a master-secret called master-secret
key, which can be used to extract secret keys for different classes. More importantly, the extracted
key have can be an aggregate key which is as compact as a secret key for a single class, but
aggregates the power of many such keys, i.e., the decryption power for any subset of cipher text
classes. The key aggregate cryptosystem is enhanced with boundary less cipher text classes. The
system is improved with device independent key distribution mechanism. The key distribution
process is enhanced with security features to protect key leakage. The key parameter transmission
process is integrated with the cipher text download process.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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/
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
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
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.
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
2. Table of Contents
Overview & Key Definitions1
The Cloud Explained2
Primary Enablement Strategy3
Program & Project Control4
Summary5
3. Overview & Key Definitions
What is The Cloud?
– The Cloud is the use of both hardware and software computing resources that are
delivered as a service over a network (typically the internet).
What is Cloud Enablement?
– It is the process of converting and modernizing existing infrastructure and software
resources to conform to a Cloud deliverable set of services
– Enablement to conform to a cloud type delivery is a multi-facetted process that requires a
fundamental paradigm shift in the manner and way current services are maintained and
exposed to the end user
– Cloud enablement shifts internal IT infrastructure to a public, private or hybrid cloud
environment
4. Overview & Key Definitions
What are the advantages of The Cloud?
– Scalability – Infrastructure can be added easily and on the fly; additionally, load balancing
and DNS routing allow for a more seamless and speedy user experience
– Flexibility – Individuals or teams can decide which services are most conducive to their
specific business needs, allowing for a more ‘a la carte’ approach to user requirements
– Cost Effective – Infrastructure is more amorphous and seamless through virtualization;
additionally, smaller upstart organizations can chose to leverage hosted infrastructure as
opposed to incurring the costs for their own data centers
– Variable Clients – Through usage of web services, a robust platform can be created and
exposed to users to allow for more variance to clients, also allowing them to be ‘leaned
down’
– Unlimited Storage – Affording to the easily expandable nature of the infrastructure,
additional storage capacity can be added easily and existing storage usage can be
maximized
5. Overview & Key Definitions
What are some of the difficulties in moving to The Cloud?
– New Equipment
• If developing your own internal cloud infrastructure, existing ecosystem and its hardware may be obsolete and require
replacement
– Learning New Technologies
• New programming methodologies and languages will need to be learned and development resources will have to
come up to speed on the new concepts
– Resistance to New Trend
• Many individuals may be hesitant to adopt a new technology paradigm and may express distrust or outright hostility
towards the cloud strategy
6. The Cloud Explained
How is the Technology of The Cloud Defined?
– The Cloud is actually a composite of many different technologies, working in unison to
achieve the purposes of making several services available via the network to users
– At a fundamental level, The Cloud is broken down into three primary constituent layers,
demonstrating a ‘stack’ of services, shown below:
Cloud Clients
Web browser, mobile app, thin
client
SAAS
Email, CRM, Games, Social
Interfaces
PAAS
Web Services, Databases,
Primary dev tools
IAAS
Virtual machines, Servers, NAS,
Load Balancing & Failover
Application
Platform
Infrastructure
StackDependencies
7. The Cloud Explained
Cloud Stack Breakdowns
– Each ‘layer’ of the cloud stack is dependent upon the layers beneath it
– As a consequence, from a project perspective, the dependencies play a crucial role in the
overall cloud enablement strategy (**to be covered in more detail shortly)
– Each layer’s constituent functionality is defined as follows (from bottom-up):
IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service) Layer
– Consists of the primary hardware and network infrastructure
– The setup is not in the traditional static server and dedicated storage sense, but instead,
utilizes network attached storage, system virtualization and specific load-balancing and
failover technologies:
Virtualized ServersVirtualized Servers Attached StorageAttached Storage
IAAS
8. The Cloud Explained
PAAS (Platform As A Service) Layer
– Consists of the main APIs and primary platform exposure of the service offerings
– APIs will be in the form of web services (REST/SOAP) that are designed to leverage existing
internet protocols to transfer information between the client and the resident service
– The APIs form the crux of the primary ‘business logic’, allowing different clients across
multiple platform types to access the exposed services without inherent technology
dependencies
PAAS
SQL Services
Database AccessDatabase Access
Data SecurityData Security
Search/IndexingSearch/Indexing
.NET Services
BackofficeBackoffice
Sharepoint
Services
Sharepoint
Services
Outlook ServicesOutlook Services
Access Control
AuthenticationAuthentication
Single Sign OnSingle Sign On
User RolesUser Roles
Workflow
Business LogicBusiness Logic
Data Entry/EditData Entry/Edit
Error CheckingError Checking
***Note: The PAAS Layer is directly dependent on the architecture and functionality of the IAAS layer
Web Service
Interfaces
9. The Cloud Explained
SAAS (Software As A Service) Layer
– Consists of the primary applications accessed by the end user via different client types
– The SAAS layer will leverage the services of the cloud stack below; i.e. both the PAAS layer
and the IAAS
– Ideally, the applications of the SAAS layer are architected in such a way that make them
portable and scalable, allowing for different access types and client interfaces
SAAS
***Note: The SAAS Layer is directly dependent on both the PAAS Layer and IAAS Layer
Mobile Phone Smart Phone Laptop Tablet Desktop Cloudtop
Client Interface(s)
Application ExposureApplication Exposure Platform ExposurePlatform Exposure Infrastructure ExposureInfrastructure Exposure
10. The Cloud Explained
User Perspective
– From the standpoint of the user, they are oblivious as to the underlying design, architecture
or overall configuration of the cloud stack itself
– From their perspective, accessing the services of the cloud is equivalent to plugging your
toaster into the wall socket; you don’t care how the power is getting there, from which
substation or transformer, you merely use it as needed
– Equivalently, you don’t care how the mobile interface to Facebook is working, you just
know it does and syncs with the web version
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The Cloud becomes an amorphous
concept; the user is not interested in
the particulars of the interactions, they
merely wish to leverage the services
on an on-demand basis with the
provider making things functional,
scalable and user friendly
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11. The Cloud Explained
Cloud Types
– There are three specific cloud types to be mindful of:
1. Public Cloud – Primary services are exposed to the public domain and are accessible in the broader internet space
(eg. Gmail/Hotmail, Google Analytics, salesforce.com, etc)
2. Private Cloud – Primary services are exposed internally, usually behind some sort of firewall, preventing access to
users or systems outside of those that have proper access (eg. Internal cloud email, internal file storage)
3. Hybrid Cloud – Primary services can be exposed either internally or externally, with some sort of ‘bridge’ to
maintain communication and traffic between the clouds. This type of setup is common, especially for hosted
services organizations that may have customers who want more security for their data. (**Note: example below is
that of a Vmware hybrid cloud arrangement)
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The various cloud types can be
constructed in a manner such that
data access can be restricted in
part or in full, depending on
configuration
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12. The Cloud Explained
Summary
– The underlying premise behind The Cloud is to provide a flexible, scalable and modular
baseline framework for the end user
– The framework of The Cloud is meant to be as amorphous as possible; the user should not
be concerned with the underlying hardware configuration or technology choices
– The Cloud should be able to support multiple device types and access through a well
documented and exposed set of web services
13. Primary Enablement Strategy
Converting to The Cloud
– Moving to The Cloud requires a re-vamping of several key aspects of the overall
client/server model
– The actual execution cannot be a piecemeal approach; either a cloud adoption strategy is
endorsed or it is not; half a cloud is not a cloud
– Full cloud enablement will require resources from several realms of expertise as well as a
commitment from the stakeholders endorsing a long term strategy to move a cloud-based
infrastructure and deployment model
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Note: A proper cloud
enablement strategy
should be considered a
program, not a simple
project due to the phased
nature of the approach and
the multiple parallel tracks
that will be used
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14. Primary Enablement Strategy
What steps are involved?
– There are five key steps (and one steady state step) in the overall enablement strategy:
Cloud Strategy
& Roadmap
Cloud Assessment
& Readiness
Cloud Strategy
& Planning
Program Mobilization
&
Resource Allocation
**AgilePath Model
Step 1
• Inventory of existing infrastructure, applications and services
• Itemization of hardware and software resources
• Primary program strategy and timeline
• Cost & budget estimates
• Program go-ahead
• Resources assigned, teams formed and contractor requirement
determined
15. Primary Enablement Strategy
What steps are involved?
Cloud Modeling &
Architecture
Cloud Modeling
(Cloud Resource &
Technology Patterns)
Cloud Deployment
Model
(Public/Private)
Cloud Architecture
& Security
**AgilePath Model
Step 2
• Primary hardware choices
• Main selection of specific software (virtualization, firewalls, load-
balancing)
• Determination of main overall cloud model
• Parameterization of hybrid methodology (if required)
• Overall architectural diagram and data workflow
• Primary security concerns itemized (authentication, single sign-in, user
roles, data compartmentalization)
16. Primary Enablement Strategy
What steps are involved?
Cloud Implementation
& Planning
Cloud Provider Analysis
& Selection
Cloud Deployment &
Provision Plan
Cloud
Governance
**AgilePath Model
Step 3
• Analysis of 3rd
Party cloud provider solutions
• Geographic legal considerations noted and itemized
• Primary deployment summary drafted
• Timeline of phased rollout created
• Main SLAs drafted
• Overall governance model finalized and ratified by stakeholders
17. Primary Enablement Strategy
What steps are involved?
Cloud Pilot
Project
Cloud Pilot
Implementation
Cloud Learning &
Strategy Adjustment
Cloud Program
Go or No-go
**AgilePath Model
Step 4
• Initial Proof of Concept plan drafted
• First level cloud pilot project initiated
• Main learning and transfer of knowledge to cloud adopters
• Strategy adjustments and adoption strategy review
• Review and post-mortem of cloud pilot program
• Final go or no-go provided by stakeholders and sponsor
18. Primary Enablement Strategy
What steps are involved?
Cloud
Implementation
Cloud Production
Implementation
Cloud Governance
SLAs
Cloud Operations
Monitoring & Metrics
**AgilePath Model
Step 5
• Production rollout of cloud infrastructure
• Initial exposure of cloud platform
• Licensing agreements finalized and ratified
• Production level monitoring of main cloud infrastructure
• Primary implementation of load balancing and disaster recovery
technologies
19. Primary Enablement Strategy
What steps are involved?
**AgilePath Model
Steady State
• Integration &
migration
projects
initiated
Cloud
Execution
Cloud
Integration
Cloud
Collaboration
Cloud
Maturity
• Continuous
migration and
integration
• Exposure of
SAAS
applications
• Joint
development
activities
between team
• Uniform process
methodologies
adopted
• Mature cloud
now in place
• Continuous
improvement
process
adoption
21. Primary Enablement Strategy
Summary
– Full enablement requires a multi-faceted approach, with adequate time allotted in strategy
for review and rework as needed
– Strategy requires full commitment by stakeholders and sponsor; a half completed cloud
will not provide the benefits of a fully implemented solution and will likely decrease overall
productivity
– Approach must be phased to allow for a slow transition to new model and infrastructure;
ensure pilot project leverages a less critical application or platform for concept validation
– Transition applications and services to The Cloud gradually to allow for smoother
movement to new system and adequate time for knowledge transfer
22. Program & Project Control
Overview
– Overall cloud enablement program should be segmented into project sections and teams
based on the three tiered nature of the main cloud model
– Separate tracks for each project or project segment should be maintained to account for
parallel development and implementation efforts
– Dependencies between tracks must be properly itemized and monitored by the
project/program manager to ensure slippages or issues are accounted for and schedule
adjustments are made accordingly
23. Program & Project Control
Program Tracks - Main track breakdowns
• Primary Applications
Main software as a service offerings
• Web Services
SOAP and REST platform and API exposure
• Main Access Clients
Web, Mobile, Tablet, Thin Client user devices
Client Track
(Track 0)
• Primary Infrastructure
Hosted services, attached storage, web servers
SAAS Track
(Track 1)
PAAS Track
(Track 2)
IAAS Track
(Track 3)
Collaboration
Efforts
ParallelActivities
24. Program & Project Control
Tracks Strategy
– While the specific ‘tracks’ of the overall cloud strategy can function in parallel, it is
imperative that any dependencies between the tracks be itemized and followed
– From the standpoint of the of the tracks themselves, it probably makes the most sense to
make each track an individual project and monitor it accordingly
– As such, each track can have its own milestones, resource pool, allocated budget and
project manager (if necessary)
– All project ‘tracks’ will then become part of the over-arching program that denotes the
overall cloud strategy
Cloud Enablement
Main Program
Track 1
SAAS Project
Track 2
PAAS Project
Track 3
IAAS Project
Track 0
Client Project
***Note: Depending on consensus and general preferences, Track 0 and Track 1 could be merged into a
singular track; the separation is merely one of additional granularity to separate out different access types
(web interfaces versus mobile applications)
25. Program & Project Control
Track Dependencies
– As indicated earlier, it is extremely imperative that dependencies between key
projects/tracks are properly itemized
– Key milestones should be set up in the timeline to coincide with specific starts and finishes
of key tasks for which a dependency exists
– Ideally, the most effective means to properly catalogue dependencies is to leverage a PERT
or ‘Program Evaluation & Review Technique’ chart
– A PERT will allow the program manager to graphically display key dependencies, milestones
along with all relevant start and end times for those key tasks
– Additionally, PERT will allow for the ‘critical path’ of the overall program to be calculated,
thus making it easier to gauge the overall program timeline
26. Program & Project Control
Primary Schedule Diagram (PERT Chart)
Sample**
Task 1
Start Aug 2010
Finish Mar 2011
Task 3
Start May 2011
Finish June 2011
Task 4
Start Mar 2011
Finish Oct 2011
Task 8
Start Oct 2011
Finish Dec 2011
Task 9
Start Jan 2012
Finish June 2012
Task 5
Start June 2011
Finish Dec 2011
Task 2
Start Mar 2011
Finish Dec 2011
Task 6
Start Aug 2011
Finish Dec 2011
Task 7
Start Mar 2011
Finish Mar 2012
Prototype
REST/SOAP
Eval
Infrastructure Prep Infrastructure Implementation
Design
Review
Design Doc
Prototype
Present
App
Coding
WS
Architec
ture
Schema
Design
DB
Implementation
WS
Coding
Platform Endorsement
• PERT can function
across all tracks or
projects
• PERT can provide
critical path of overall
program
27. Program & Project Control
Program Phases
– As the entire cloud enablement program is progressing, it is important to set up some large
scale milestones or program ‘breaks’ that can be instituted across all major tracks
– These breaks will essentially segment the main program into distinct chunks or ‘phases’,
that can be used as a means to perform validation of key work and milestones during the
overall program
– The main reason to ensure phases are implemented is to help maintain parity between the
specific tracks and ensure that work is not occurring in a vacuum
– The phases (or iterations if you prefer an Agile mindset) provide near term milestones
during program progression and give adequate time for review and revisiting of key
attributes of the overall program and its constituent projects
28. Program Phases
Cloud Enablement Timeline
– Milestones exist in all major program tracks
Program Start
Near-term IAAS milestones tackled
first
Initial PAAS efforts started
Mid Program
Main IAAS systems in place
First gen platform now in place
Program Nearing Completion
PAAS now mature
SAAS and applications in place
29. CLOUD PROGRAM FUNCTIONAL TRACKS
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•Baseline Application
Coding
•Proof of Concept
Applications
•Cloud Architecture
Team Formed
•Best Practices
Documents
•Plan to Establish Global
Datacenters
•Draft of Virtualization
Architecture
•Mobile/tablet
Interfaces
•Rollout of SAAS
Applications
•First Generation APIs
•Full System Integration
•Uniform API
Methodology
•Full Virtualization of
Infrastructure
•Bring Online New Data
Centers
•Clustering Technology
In Place
•Fully Cloud Enabled
Interfaces
•Deprecation of older
client/server solutions
•Fully mature API
•Advanced System
Integration
(internal/external)
•DNS Load Balancing
•Global Redundancy for
Key Systems
•Full Disaster Recovery
and Fault Tolerance In
Place
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3
***Note: Above sample denotes some key cloud enablement milestones that denote a potential phased
approach to overall program.
30. Program & Project Control
Final Thoughts
– The overall cloud enablement program is a large scale undertaking that requires numerous
resources, committed stakeholders and a very diligent set of project professionals
– The Cloud is a paradigm shift in thinking as it pertains to how software is created and
distributed; as such, the complexity of a shift of this nature should not be taken likely,
especially by the project/program manager
– Monitoring the overall cloud enablement effort should be done at a program level, with
projects being created as needed for the various different tracks or tier levels of the
functional cloud stack
– Key phases should be instituted as ‘breaks’ within the overall program to set key milestones
and points of review that can be leveraged to deal with any issues in the program or to
address design items that were carried over
31. Summary
The Cloud
– Represents a shift in the traditional client-server model to a more layered and functional
web service driven mechanism
– Many large scale Fortune 500 companies are now adopting a much more aggressive cloud
strategy moving forward and this is likely to be one of the largest growth segments in the
coming years within the tech space
Cloud Enablement
– Is the process of moving from the more traditional client-server type to the more scalable
and functional modern cloud architecture, leveraging various technologies like
virtualization, web services and mobile interfaces
– Involves a solid commitment by the stakeholders, sponsors and of course, the project
manager
32. Summary
Further Reading
– The following sources can be leveraged to gain a little more insight into The Cloud, its
technology and its future:
1. Cloud Computing – Wikipedia article on cloud technology, history and architecture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
1. Gartner Technology Research – Overview and assessment by Gartner on the future of Cloud
Computing
http://www.gartner.com/technology/topics/cloud-computing.jsp
1. Forbes Cloud Review – Assessment by Forbes on how Cloud Computing will increase in the
coming years
http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2013/02/19/gartner-predicts-infrastructure-services-will-accelerate-cloud-computi