The document discusses how cloud computing is essential for next generation IT departments. It notes that users increasingly demand mobile access and self-service, resembling consumer expectations. This forces IT to think differently and adopt cloud solutions to provide fast, flexible, and nimble services. The cloud allows IT to transform from operators to innovators and better support trends like software as a service (SaaS), big data, and DevOps. A hybrid cloud approach using multiple providers is presented as the optimal strategy.
The Evolution of OpenStack – From Infancy to EnterpriseRackspace
As OpenStack turns 5 this year, we thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the evolution of OpenStack. We start with a quick overview of what OpenStack is, how OpenStack came to be and describe the OpenStack Foundation. Next we describe the problem that OpenStack helps to solve, the components of OpenStack and the timeline for when these components came to be. Last, we outline the current features and benefits that make OpenStack ready for the enterprise with supporting Enterprise use case examples. Blog can be found here (
https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/evolution-of-openstack-from-infancy-to-enterprise/) and webinar can be found here (https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11427/138613)
Tearing Down Silos and Building Your Enterprise Dev/Ops EngineRackspace
Miss the latest installment of the Enterprise Cloud Forum? Not to worry here is a copy of the slides from Rackspace Sr. IT Strategist Brian Jawalka and Rackspace VP of Software Application Development Krishna Prasad with guest host Mark Majewski – Cloud Solution Architect discussed how enterprises need to approach Dev/Ops to ensure cloud adoption success.
Managing Successful Data Projects: Technology Selection and Team BuildingCloudera, Inc.
Recent years have seen dramatic advancements in the technologies available for managing and processing data. While these technologies provide powerful tools to build data applications, they also require new skills. Ted Malaska and Jonathan Seidman explain how to evaluate these new technologies and build teams to effectively leverage these technologies and achieve ROI with your data initiatives.
The Evolution of OpenStack – From Infancy to EnterpriseRackspace
As OpenStack turns 5 this year, we thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the evolution of OpenStack. We start with a quick overview of what OpenStack is, how OpenStack came to be and describe the OpenStack Foundation. Next we describe the problem that OpenStack helps to solve, the components of OpenStack and the timeline for when these components came to be. Last, we outline the current features and benefits that make OpenStack ready for the enterprise with supporting Enterprise use case examples. Blog can be found here (
https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/evolution-of-openstack-from-infancy-to-enterprise/) and webinar can be found here (https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11427/138613)
Tearing Down Silos and Building Your Enterprise Dev/Ops EngineRackspace
Miss the latest installment of the Enterprise Cloud Forum? Not to worry here is a copy of the slides from Rackspace Sr. IT Strategist Brian Jawalka and Rackspace VP of Software Application Development Krishna Prasad with guest host Mark Majewski – Cloud Solution Architect discussed how enterprises need to approach Dev/Ops to ensure cloud adoption success.
Managing Successful Data Projects: Technology Selection and Team BuildingCloudera, Inc.
Recent years have seen dramatic advancements in the technologies available for managing and processing data. While these technologies provide powerful tools to build data applications, they also require new skills. Ted Malaska and Jonathan Seidman explain how to evaluate these new technologies and build teams to effectively leverage these technologies and achieve ROI with your data initiatives.
Breakout session at Enterprise Connect; Lync In A Managed Cloud: A Good Alternative To An On-premise And Self-managed Lync Deployment?
As organizations continue to march towards adoption of UC solutions and Lync deployments, they are facing the question of whether to deploy Lync in their own datacenters and self-manage the solution or host it with a Cloud Provider.
Traditionally the Cloud's strongest benefits are on the IAAS side, but with the evolution of Managed Cloud, there is optimism that complex Unified Communications (UC) solutions can be deployed in Managed Cloud while preserving manageability, agility, and security of the Lync solution.
In this session we explored the major challenges facing deployment of Lync in a private cloud and how Rackspace's Managed Cloud can be a strong economically and technically viable alternative to an on-premise and self-managed Lync deployment.
The 6th Wave of Automation: Automation of Decisions | Cloudera Analytics & Ma...Cloudera, Inc.
This presentation provides detail on how we are now in the 6th wave of automation, that is based on Machine Learning. In this 6th wave, Cloudera plays a critical role in providing the data platform for Machine Learning and Analytics built for the Cloud.
Standing Up an Effective Enterprise Data Hub -- Technology and BeyondCloudera, Inc.
Federal organizations increasingly are focused on creating environments that enable more data-driven decisions. Yet ensuring that all data is considered and is current, complete, and accurate is a tall order for most. To make data analytics meaningful to support real-world transformation, agency staff need business tools that provide user-friendly dashboards, on-demand reporting, and methods to manage efficiently the rise of voluminous and varied data sets and types commonly associated with big data. In most cases, existing systems are insufficient to support these requirements. Enter the enterprise data hub (EDH), a software architecture specifically designed to be a unified platform that can economically store unlimited data and enable diverse access to it at scale. Plan to attend this discussion to understand the key considerations to making an EDH the architectural center of your agency’s modern data strategy.
Webinar: Don't believe the hype, you don't need dedicated storage for VDI NetApp
This webinar covers how the combination of SolidFire and Citrix XenDesktop enables customers to confidently support the storage demands of a virtual desktop environment in a multi-tenant or multi-application environment.
Webinar | From Zero to 1 Million with Google Cloud Platform and DataStaxDataStax
Google Cloud Platform delivers the industry’s leading cloud-based services to create anything from simple websites to complex applications. DataStax delivers Apache Cassandra™, the leading distributed database technology, to the enterprise. Together, DataStax Enterprise on Google Cloud Platform delivers the performance, agility, infinite elasticity and innovation organizations need to build high-performance, highly-available online applications.
Join Allan Naim, Global Product Lead at Google Cloud Platform and Darshan Rawal, Sr. Director of Product Management at DataStax as they share their expertise on why DataStax and Google Cloud Platform deliver the industry’s most robust Infrastructure-as-a Service (IaaS) platform and how your organization find success with NoSQL and Cloud services.
View to learn how to:
- Handle more than 1 Million requests per second for data-intensive online applications with Apache Cassandra on Google Cloud Platform
- Leverage the technology infrastructure and global network powering Google’s search engine with DataStax to deploy blazing-fast and always-on applications
- Transform your business into a data-driven company, a change that is critical as future success and discoveries hinge on the ability to quickly take action on data
SolidFire's presentations at CoudStack Collab 2013
This presentation reviews different cloud storage options in the market today, including current storage-related features and functionality available within a CloudStack infrastructure. We will then dive into key enhancements needed to bring CloudStack’s storage integration and functionality to the next level.
Big data journey to the cloud maz chaudhri 5.30.18Cloudera, Inc.
We hope this session was valuable in teaching you more about Cloudera Enterprise on AWS, and how fast and easy it is to deploy a modern data management platform—in your cloud and on your terms.
Maybe your business has outgrown its file server and you’re thinking of replacing it. Or perhaps your server is dated and not supporting your business like it should, so you’re considering moving to the cloud. It might be that you’re starting a new business and wondering if an in-house server is adequate or if you should adopt cloud technology from the start.
Regardless of why you’re debating an in-house server versus a cloud-based server, it’s a tough decision that will impact your business on a daily basis. We know there’s a lot to think about, and we’re here to help show why you should consolidate your file servers and move your data to the cloud.
In this webinar with Talon Storage Solutions, we covered:
-Challenges of using a physical file server
-Benefits of using a cloud file server
-Current State of the File Server market
-Reference Architecture examples for cloud file servers
-Demo: how to architect a cloud file server with highly-available storage
Learn more at https://www.softnas.com
Learn how Cloudera is using our own platform to build the applications our support teams use every day to solve complex problems in Hadoop.
Recorded Webinar: http://www.cloudera.com/content/www/en-us/resources/recordedwebinar/data-driven-customer-support.html
The evolution of cloud requires not only virtualised server resources but also on demand, utility consumption of physical hardware resources delivered in real time.
We're constantly reminded about how fleeting time is—but what if you had more time? What would you do? We decided to illustrate some of the answers we found on Twitter.
If you're looking to get some time back in your day, consider letting Rackspace manage your servers. We can focus on the tech so that you can focus on innovation.
Learn more about Rackspace: http://rackspace.com
Learn more about this project: https://blog.rackspace.com/moretime-question-ages
Learn how to overcome security challenges, such as: identity theft, spoofed transactions, DDoS business disruption, criminal extortion and more. You'll learn how a security strategy promotes confidence in the cloud.
Breakout session at Enterprise Connect; Lync In A Managed Cloud: A Good Alternative To An On-premise And Self-managed Lync Deployment?
As organizations continue to march towards adoption of UC solutions and Lync deployments, they are facing the question of whether to deploy Lync in their own datacenters and self-manage the solution or host it with a Cloud Provider.
Traditionally the Cloud's strongest benefits are on the IAAS side, but with the evolution of Managed Cloud, there is optimism that complex Unified Communications (UC) solutions can be deployed in Managed Cloud while preserving manageability, agility, and security of the Lync solution.
In this session we explored the major challenges facing deployment of Lync in a private cloud and how Rackspace's Managed Cloud can be a strong economically and technically viable alternative to an on-premise and self-managed Lync deployment.
The 6th Wave of Automation: Automation of Decisions | Cloudera Analytics & Ma...Cloudera, Inc.
This presentation provides detail on how we are now in the 6th wave of automation, that is based on Machine Learning. In this 6th wave, Cloudera plays a critical role in providing the data platform for Machine Learning and Analytics built for the Cloud.
Standing Up an Effective Enterprise Data Hub -- Technology and BeyondCloudera, Inc.
Federal organizations increasingly are focused on creating environments that enable more data-driven decisions. Yet ensuring that all data is considered and is current, complete, and accurate is a tall order for most. To make data analytics meaningful to support real-world transformation, agency staff need business tools that provide user-friendly dashboards, on-demand reporting, and methods to manage efficiently the rise of voluminous and varied data sets and types commonly associated with big data. In most cases, existing systems are insufficient to support these requirements. Enter the enterprise data hub (EDH), a software architecture specifically designed to be a unified platform that can economically store unlimited data and enable diverse access to it at scale. Plan to attend this discussion to understand the key considerations to making an EDH the architectural center of your agency’s modern data strategy.
Webinar: Don't believe the hype, you don't need dedicated storage for VDI NetApp
This webinar covers how the combination of SolidFire and Citrix XenDesktop enables customers to confidently support the storage demands of a virtual desktop environment in a multi-tenant or multi-application environment.
Webinar | From Zero to 1 Million with Google Cloud Platform and DataStaxDataStax
Google Cloud Platform delivers the industry’s leading cloud-based services to create anything from simple websites to complex applications. DataStax delivers Apache Cassandra™, the leading distributed database technology, to the enterprise. Together, DataStax Enterprise on Google Cloud Platform delivers the performance, agility, infinite elasticity and innovation organizations need to build high-performance, highly-available online applications.
Join Allan Naim, Global Product Lead at Google Cloud Platform and Darshan Rawal, Sr. Director of Product Management at DataStax as they share their expertise on why DataStax and Google Cloud Platform deliver the industry’s most robust Infrastructure-as-a Service (IaaS) platform and how your organization find success with NoSQL and Cloud services.
View to learn how to:
- Handle more than 1 Million requests per second for data-intensive online applications with Apache Cassandra on Google Cloud Platform
- Leverage the technology infrastructure and global network powering Google’s search engine with DataStax to deploy blazing-fast and always-on applications
- Transform your business into a data-driven company, a change that is critical as future success and discoveries hinge on the ability to quickly take action on data
SolidFire's presentations at CoudStack Collab 2013
This presentation reviews different cloud storage options in the market today, including current storage-related features and functionality available within a CloudStack infrastructure. We will then dive into key enhancements needed to bring CloudStack’s storage integration and functionality to the next level.
Big data journey to the cloud maz chaudhri 5.30.18Cloudera, Inc.
We hope this session was valuable in teaching you more about Cloudera Enterprise on AWS, and how fast and easy it is to deploy a modern data management platform—in your cloud and on your terms.
Maybe your business has outgrown its file server and you’re thinking of replacing it. Or perhaps your server is dated and not supporting your business like it should, so you’re considering moving to the cloud. It might be that you’re starting a new business and wondering if an in-house server is adequate or if you should adopt cloud technology from the start.
Regardless of why you’re debating an in-house server versus a cloud-based server, it’s a tough decision that will impact your business on a daily basis. We know there’s a lot to think about, and we’re here to help show why you should consolidate your file servers and move your data to the cloud.
In this webinar with Talon Storage Solutions, we covered:
-Challenges of using a physical file server
-Benefits of using a cloud file server
-Current State of the File Server market
-Reference Architecture examples for cloud file servers
-Demo: how to architect a cloud file server with highly-available storage
Learn more at https://www.softnas.com
Learn how Cloudera is using our own platform to build the applications our support teams use every day to solve complex problems in Hadoop.
Recorded Webinar: http://www.cloudera.com/content/www/en-us/resources/recordedwebinar/data-driven-customer-support.html
The evolution of cloud requires not only virtualised server resources but also on demand, utility consumption of physical hardware resources delivered in real time.
We're constantly reminded about how fleeting time is—but what if you had more time? What would you do? We decided to illustrate some of the answers we found on Twitter.
If you're looking to get some time back in your day, consider letting Rackspace manage your servers. We can focus on the tech so that you can focus on innovation.
Learn more about Rackspace: http://rackspace.com
Learn more about this project: https://blog.rackspace.com/moretime-question-ages
Learn how to overcome security challenges, such as: identity theft, spoofed transactions, DDoS business disruption, criminal extortion and more. You'll learn how a security strategy promotes confidence in the cloud.
Scaling Xen Within Rackspace Cloud ServersRackspace
Rackspace has years of experience with running Xen at scale, starting with Xen and migrating to XenServer. We will share why we use Xen/XenServer along with some of the issues that we've experienced. We will touch on our experience with migrating from Xen to XenServer and the challenges there. We will share information about Rackspace Cloud Servers architecture, and touch briefly on OpenStack when doing so. We will explain how we use Xen to quickly deploy new Openstack services with what we call Nova on Nova. And finally, we will discuss what additional features and improvements are needed and why.
6 Commonly Asked Questions from Customers Building on AWSRackspace
This session is ideal for IT/Infrastructure Manager, Application Developers, System Architects/Administrators and anyone who is growing their AWS footprint. We will uncover recent customer experiences at every stage while you can network with peers that face similar challenges.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - Solving for Rapid Customer Growth and Scale Through De...Rackspace
At Rackspace Solve New York, Jon Hyman, CIO of AppBoy, shared how AppBoy uses Rackspace’s DevOps Automation Services to increase app engagement for their clients, including Urban Outfitters and Shape Magazine. With Rackspace’s managed cloud providing support, Appboy was able to excel rapid customer growth and scale through DevOps.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - The Future of Applications with Ken Cochrane, Engineer...Rackspace
What does intermodal shipping have to do with managing your app’s components in different environments? Ken Cochrane, Engineering Manager at Docker, explains in this presentation from Rackspace::Solve NYC. For more information about Rackspace::Solve, visit http://www.rackspacesolve.com.
Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) is the #1 managed cloud company. Our technical expertise and Fanatical Support® allow companies to tap the power of the cloud without the pain of hiring experts in dozens of complex technologies. Rackspace is also the leader in hybrid cloud, giving each customer the best fit for its unique needs — whether on single- or multi-tenant servers, or a combination of those platforms. Rackspace is the founder of OpenStack®, the open-source operating system for the cloud. Headquartered in San Antonio, we serve more than 200,000 business customers from data centers on four continents. We rank 29th on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Rackspace’s Enterprise Business Intelligence group (EBI) was looking for a cost-effective way to support the reporting and information needs of its internal users, which include business and operations personnel. It was also looking to scale out new infrastructure in order to meet their increasing business demands, house increasing amounts of data, and customize the collection of data, while seeking a way to move away from their legacy Data Warehouse solution. To do this, Rackspace built the Analytical Compute Grid (ACG) by using Hadoop, Cassandra and PostgreSQL with an OpenStack cloud. Read more about it in this presentation.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - Solving for Rapid Customer Growth and Scale Through De...Rackspace
At Rackspace::Solve NYC, Jon Hyman, CIO of Appboy and Prashanth Chandrasekar, GM of DevOps at Rackspace, discuss the role of DevOps in helping to solve the technical challenges that come with rapid growth.
Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) is the #1 managed cloud company. Our technical expertise and Fanatical Support® allow companies to tap the power of the cloud without the pain of hiring experts in dozens of complex technologies. Rackspace is also the leader in hybrid cloud, giving each customer the best fit for its unique needs — whether on single- or multi-tenant servers, or a combination of those platforms. Rackspace is the founder of OpenStack®, the open-source operating system for the cloud. Headquartered in San Antonio, we serve more than 200,000 business customers from data centers on four continents. We rank 29th on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Gerhard Pretorius, Cloud Architect, Rackspace Asia presented at the Accion Cloud in Practice event in Singapore, where he described how enterprises can benefit from adopting the cloud, and what they need to consider while doing so
Partner Solutions: Rackspace - Rethinking Your Migration Strategy to Maximize...Amazon Web Services
You want to move your organization and applications into cloud and take the advantages that cloud can offer, but you also notice the complexity and challenges of migrating to cloud at the same time. Do you just forklift your application or do you re-architect it? In this session, we will discuss Rackspace’s opinionated view on migration to the cloud and introduce an Act-Optimize-Pioneer approach to make the migration process more straightforward and also how different tools in the Amazon Web Services toolkit and the partners in the Amazon Web Services can further ease your migration.
Kubo (Cloud Foundry Container Platform): Your Gateway Drug to Cloud-nativecornelia davis
You’re at the Cloud Foundry Summit, which means you are by definition a cloud-native enthusiast. There’s no question that building apps in this architectural style will produce resilient, scalable software in an agile manner, and allow you to operate it far more efficiently than you’ve been able to in the past. But you’ve also got a whole lot of software in your company’s portfolio that isn’t there yet. Do you have to resign yourself to the pains of managing those applications the old way until you can finally refactor them to be cloud-native? Kubo to the rescue.
You can run legacy applications on Kubo without significant refactoring – pure and simple. As an added bonus, it allows you to satisfy the CIO mandate of running containers (check). But it’s far more than that – running those workloads on Kubo offers advantages over running them on traditional virtualized infrastructure. This session covers those advantages –resource consolidation, health management, multi-cloud and more. It will also present the abstractions in Kubernetes, things like pods and stateful sets, that support running legacy workloads in the cloud environments that are far more distributed and changing than they have been in the past. It’s a first step to cloud-native.
Kubo (Cloud Foundry Container Platform): Your Gateway Drug to Cloud-nativeVMware Tanzu
You’re at the Cloud Foundry Summit, which means you are by definition a cloud-native enthusiast. There’s no question that building apps in this architectural style will produce resilient, scalable software in an agile manner, and allow you to operate it far more efficiently than you’ve been able to in the past. But you’ve also got a whole lot of software in your company’s portfolio that isn’t there yet. Do you have to resign yourself to the pains of managing those applications the old way until you can finally refactor them to be cloud-native? Kubo to the rescue.
You can run legacy applications on Kubo without significant refactoring – pure and simple. As an added bonus, it allows you to satisfy the CIO mandate of running containers (check). But it’s far more than that – running those workloads on Kubo offers advantages over running them on traditional virtualized infrastructure. This session covers those advantages –resource consolidation, health management, multi-cloud and more. It will also present the abstractions in Kubernetes, things like pods and stateful sets, that support running legacy workloads in the cloud environments that are far more distributed and changing than they have been in the past. It’s a first step to cloud-native.
What is the Oracle PaaS Cloud for Developers (Oracle Cloud Day, The Netherlan...Lucas Jellema
The promise of the cloud is substantial. Oracle's public cloud promise goes beyond the generic promise. This presentation describes the promise of the Oracle Public Cloud specifically for developers. It describes the current state of the PaaS Platform, the actual and coming services and what they could mean to a developer. From same platform, different location (DBaaS, JCS) to cloud native stack (ICS, MCS) and services for Citizen Developers, the presentation touches upon virtually all services relevant to developers. The presentation concludes with first the steps enterprises can start taking to move to the cloud and second the steps individual developers could and perhaps should take in order to conquer the clouds.
Stay productive while slicing up the monolithMarkus Eisele
Microservices-based architectures are in vogue. Over the last couple of years, we have learned how thought leaders implement them, and it seems like every other week we hear about how containers and platform-as-a-service offerings make them ultimately happen.
Tech Talent Night Copenhagen 11/22/17
https://greenticket.dk/techtalentnightcph
Rethinking Your Migration Strategy to Your Competitive AdvantageAmazon Web Services
You want to move your organization and applications into cloud and take the advantages that cloud can offer, but you also notice the complexity and challenges of migrating to cloud at the same time. Do you just forklift your application or do you re-architect it? In this session, we will discuss Rackspace’s opinionated view on migration to the cloud and introduce an Act-Optimize-Pioneer approach to make the migration process more straightforward and also how different tools in the Amazon Web Services toolkit and the partners in the Amazon Web Services can further ease your migration.
Vijay Rangarajan, Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services, APAC
Gene Tang, Solution Architect, Rackspace
Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL http://bit.ly/2M35wCo.
Jamund Ferguson talks about some of the challenges PayPal faced with their Node.js application servers and why they think the JAMStack approach improves performance for both their apps and their developers. He includes discussions around performance, security, development experience and deploy speed. Filmed at qconlondon.com.
Jamund Ferguson is a JavaScript architect at PayPal. He loves to look at how following patterns consistently can prevent bugs in applications. He’s previously contributed to the ESLint and StandardJS open-source projects and has as of late become a fan of FlowType and TypeScript.
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Data is being generated at a feverish pace and forward thinking companies are integrating big data and analytics as part of their core strategy from day one. However, it is often hard to sift through the hype around big data and many companies start with only a small subset of data. Can smaller companies benefit from big data efforts? We will discuss several use cases and examples of how startups are using data to optimize their operations, connect with their users, and expand their market.
Deploy Apache Spark™ on Rackspace OnMetal™ for Cloud Big Data PlatformRackspace
There's an elephant in the room when it comes to Big Data. Apache Hadoop and Spark offer the promise to transform how businesses leverage Big Data, finding the right mix of flexible deployments, elastic scalability, and performance can be daunting.
Introducing Rackspace OnMetal™ for Apache Spark™ an industry first that combines the performance and efficiency of bare metal with the ease and flexibility of cloud. With Rackspace OnMetal for Cloud Big Data Platform you can transform how you run Hadoop and Spark workloads:
•Deploy in minutes, not months
•Spin instances up or down on demand
•Process data in-memory for faster query times
•Get bare metal performance and say goodbye to virtualization taxes
Sign up and learn how Rackspace OnMetal for Cloud Big Data Platform can rapidly move your organization from planning to deploying.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - Welcome Keynote featuring Rackspace CTO John EngatesRackspace
Solving business challenges - that was the focus at Rackspace::Solve in New York City, the second of three one-day summits that showcase how companies are overcoming the toughest challenges in their businesses and for their customers. In this presentation, Rackspace CTO John Engates kicks off the day with an overview of some of those challenges, and the various ways some of our customers and partners help solve them by using Rackspace's Managed Cloud offerings.
Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) is the #1 managed cloud company. Our technical expertise and Fanatical Support® allow companies to tap the power of the cloud without the pain of hiring experts in dozens of complex technologies. Rackspace is also the leader in hybrid cloud, giving each customer the best fit for its unique needs — whether on single- or multi-tenant servers, or a combination of those platforms. Rackspace is the founder of OpenStack®, the open-source operating system for the cloud. Headquartered in San Antonio, we serve more than 200,000 business customers from data centers on four continents. We rank 29th on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - Second Stage CloudRackspace
James Staten, VP and top Analyst at Forrester Research discusses tech adoption of cloud computing at Rackspace::Solve New York. Staten explains the Second-Stage Cloud, which means that the optimization phase of client-server is ending while we enter the rationalizations phase of cloud computing. This makes the cloud-competition today based on “service-value”, causing a hyper-growth for cloud services.
vCenter Site Recovery Manager: Architecting a DR SolutionRackspace
VMware’s vCenter Site Recovery Manager is the market-leading disaster-recovery management product. It ensures the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. However, it is not a turn-key DR solution. Architecting your SRM solution requires deep thought and heavy planning. This presentation will help you with planning and architecting your SRM solution as well as addressing specific configuration and installation challenges. Our goal is to help you deploy and maintain a solid SRM solution to enable your DR Plan.
Outsourcing IT Projects to Managed Hosting of the CloudRackspace
Is your organization looking to cut costs, reduce deployment time, or gain new capabilities that you find challenging to implement with traditional on-premises infrastructure? Then outsourcing IT may be right for you.
Nearly every IT leader these days is wresting with Shadow IT – the dynamic in which end users obtain IT solutions from cloud service providers without informing corporate IT.
Some IT initiatives, such as disaster recovery, are natural fits for cloud computing. Yet it can be challenging to know exactly where to begin when it comes to configuring self-managed recovery plans and replicating virtual machines (VMs) from on-premises to a cloud service provider.
Migrating Traditional Apps from On-Premises to the Hybrid CloudRackspace
Re-architecting legacy apps for the public cloud is very resource intensive. However, migrating apps to a hosted hybrid cloud that’s composed of bare-metal servers, VMware® virtualization, EMC® storage and public cloud offers cloud-bursting benefits, but with less risk and cost. Check out our presentation and learn the five-step path to hybrid cloud.
How vSphere and OpenStack fit together to build a hybrid solution.
In this presentation you will learn more about:
- OpenStack
- Legacy vs. Cloud native architectures and application deployments
- OpenStack architecture compared to the vSphere architecture
- Building hybrid solutions with vSphere and OpenStack
Rackspace::Solve SFO - Solve(Scale) Featuring Docker CEO Ben GolubRackspace
NOTE: Accompanying video is available for viewing at http://bit.ly/1k56U46
What does intermodal shipping have to do with managing your app’s components in different environments? Speed and portability. Docker CEO Ben Golub spoke at Rackspace::Solve in San Francisco to discuss how the right infrastructure can mean success and peace of mind.
Rackspace::Solve SFO - Welcome Keynote featuring Rackspace CTO John EngatesRackspace
Note: Accompanying video is available for viewing at http://bit.ly/1k54RwW
Solving business challenges - that was the focus at Rackspace::Solve in San Francisco, the first of three one-day summits that showcase how companies are overcoming the toughest challenges in their businesses and for their customers. In this presentation, Rackspace CTO John Engates kicked off the day with an overview of some of those challenges, and the various ways some of our customers and partners help solve them by using Rackspace's Managed Cloud offerings.
How vSphere and OpenStack fit together to build a hybrid solution.
In this presentation you will learn more about:
- OpenStack
- Legacy vs. Cloud native architectures and application deployments
- OpenStack architecture compared to the vSphere architecture
- Building hybrid solutions with vSphere and OpenStack
Pre-Aggregated Analytics And Social Feeds Using MongoDBRackspace
Jon Hyman, co-founder and CIO of Appboy, an engagement platform for mobile apps, highlights how it solved issues around pre-aggregated analytics and used statistical formulas on top of the aggregation framework to return results in real time as its data grew. And Greg Avola, co-founder and developer at Untappd, a social network for beer lovers, discussed how MongoDB and ObjectRocket helped Untappd address problems with serving its social feed and how it sustained high performance up to 5,000 to 6,000 queries per second, and used location indexes to enable geo-location search.
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.
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
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
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/
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About me
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Brian Jawalka
Manager of Architecture & Strategy
Enterprise Cloud Solutions
BJawalka@rackspace.com
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• BYOD
• Mobile
• Self Service
“I DON’T CARE HOW…
I WANT IT NOW!”
The CONSUMERIZATION of IT
Instant CPU… "
" " "Instant Storage… "
" " " " "Instant Provisioning…"
" " " " " " "Instant Gratification!
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Perception is…
IT should able
to satisfy ALL
requests
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Even your CMO is in on it
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“My strategy will
be built on real-
time data”
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Pressures are
forcing us to think
about IT services
differently
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Cloud adoption creates the
opportunity for IT to transform,
revise and renew
…IT becomes true advisors to
the business.
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A New Way of Thinking
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Virtualization is a TECHNOLOGY …"
Cloud Computing is a
BUSINESS MODEL
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Next Generation IT
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FAST
FLEXIBLE
NIMBLE
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Old World verses New World
Shift in the Role of IT…
OPERATORS INNOVATORS
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The growth of SaaS
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SaaS will become
the PRIMARY
method of
distributing & utilizing
software.
COMPONENTIZED &
MULTI-TENANT
SOFTWARE
$0
$10
$20
$30
$40
$50
$60
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
SaaS is growing
20.7% YOY
GlobalSaaSMarket(Billions)
Source: Gartner via Stat Spotting: http://statspotting.com/2011/09/saas-
statistics-saas-will-grow-20-to-12-billion-in-2011-gartner-report/
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And…the rise of Big Data
Term Size Example of Capacity
Gigabyte (GB)
1,000,000,000
one billion bytes
1 GB = 2 hours of CD-quality audio or 7
minutes of HDTV
Terabyte (TB)
1,000,000,000,000
one trillion bytes
1 TB = 2,000 hours of CD-quality audio, or
almost 5 days of HDTV
Petabyte (PB)
1,000,000,000,000,000
one quadrillion bytes
1 PB = 7 weeks of HDTV,
or 1.5 million 64 GD iPods full
Exabyte (EB)
1,000,000,000,000,000,000
one quintillion bytes
1 EB = 16 months of HDTV,
or 15 million 64 GB iPods full
Sources: Rackspace, SKATelescope.org, whatsabyte.com
Table 1: Terms Used for Big Data Storage Capacity
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And…the rise of Big Data
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0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
A Decade of Digital Universe Growth
2005 2010 2015
130
1227
7910
Source: IDC/EMC Digital Universe Infographic, 2011
EXABYTES
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Analytics at
Global Web
Scale
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Big Data is
growing 40-60%
per year!
Sources: The Economist : digital information increases 10x every five years, equal to 60% annual growth. IBM
says data is growing at 50% a year. IDC predicts digital universe will grow at more than 45% between 2010 and
2015, while sales of related technology will grow by 40% a year.
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A chasm in IT is forming
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BROKERS STATE OF THE ART
TECHNOLOGISTS
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The new IT Broker role
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§ Vet new technology providers
§ Ensure services are
supportable & sustainable
§ Not recreate the wheel
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Continuous learning
STATE OF THE ART TECHNOLOGISTS
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Capacity planning is dead
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“You were never right
anyway”!
Rapidly changing business needs
Cloud-first mindset
– New ability to make little bets
– Fail fast/ fail often
– Strong POC environments
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The Evolution of DevOps
PHYSICAL WALL
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Developer " Operations "
“I am going to build to
whatever platform I want.”
“I’m not ops focused.
Scalability isn’t something
I think about.”
“How am I going to run
this thing?”
“How am I going to scale
this application?”
PHYSICAL
WALL
Step 1 Step 2
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The Evolution of DevOps
PROCESS WALL
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Developer! Operations "
PHYSICAL
WALL
Step 1 Step 2
PROCESS
WALL
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The Evolution of DevOps
REMOVE THE WALLS
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DEVOPS"
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We recognize one size does not fit all
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• Multi-Cloud Strategy
• Specialized Clouds
Based on Workloads
• Geographic
Optimization
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What goes where?
All comes
down to Data
Classification
Inside my DC Service Provider
• highly customized"
• specialized"
• demands physical
proximity"
• anything that will
introduce more risk"
• web enabled"
• industry standard"
• anything with
potential upside"
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Our Journey
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PRIVATE
CLOUD
PUBLIC
CLOUD
CUSTOMER
PREMISE
PARTNER
DATA CENTER
PRIVATE
CLOUD
PRIVATE
CLOUD
VIRTUALIZED
VMWARE
DEDICATED
BARE METAL
RACKSPACE DATA CENTER
Powered by Powered by Powered by Powered by Powered by
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DEDICATED
SERVERS
PUBLIC
CLOUD
PRIVATE
CLOUD
Harness the
Power of the
HYBRID
CLOUD
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Carve Up the Portfolio
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Service Providers
Application Portfolio
SaaS Providers
Legacy Apps (Mainframe)
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*All material and content provided is privileged and confidential
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Lowest Total Cost? Depends on your needs.
MUTLI-TENANT &
GENERALIZED
SINGLE TENANT
& SPECIALIZED
PUBLIC CLOUD PRIVATE CLOUD DEDICATED
+ Speed
+ Utility Billing
+ Per Unit Cost
- Reliability
- Performance
- Security
+
-
-
- Speed
- Utility Billing
- Per Unit Cost
+ Reliability
+ Performance
+ Security
HYBRID CLOUD:
THE RIGHT FIT FOR ENTERPRISE
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months
$$$ (capital)
On-Premise
Private Cloud
CONTROL FLEXIBILITY
HYBRID CLOUD: THE BEST FIT FOR
APPLICATIONS
*All material and content provided is privileged and confidential
On-Premise
Data Center
Public Cloud
IaaS
simpler
PROVISIONING
CONTROL
FLEXIBILITY
ELASTICITY
SECURITY
EXPENSE
PLANNING
GEOS
PERFORMANCE
months
$$$$$ (capital)
days
$ (operating)
minutes
$ (operating)
Dedicated
Hosting
days
$ (operating)
Hosted Private
Cloud
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Rackspace Cloud Maturity Model
A GUIDED PATH TO SUCCESS
Innovative!Pragmatic!
Test & Dev.
IT as a
Service
Web Enabled &
Greenfield
Apps.
DevOps
Industry
Standard
Applications
(SharePoint/
Exchange)
Retool IT Rethink ROI
Mission Critical & Legacy App
Migration & Transformation
C-Level
Transformation
Fine Tune ROI and
Optimization
Health Check
ITACTIVITY
CLOUD ADOPTION
1 5432
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IT Transformation Framework
IT
Evolution
Workshop
Application
Profiling
Workshop
Cloud
Readiness
Assessment
Design
Migration
Services
Solution
Online
Customer
Data Center
Strategize & Assess Design
Migrate
Implement
Support &
Optimize
Step by step, pragmatic approach to adopting
cloud as a business model
HOW WE GET YOU THERE…
POC
Pilot
Architecture
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“Our goal is to create the most
CLOUD SAVVY
customers in the industry”
OPENSTACK
TRAINING
Rackspace
Knowledge
Center
GET SMART ON CLOUD