There is no doubt that Cloud Computing will change the face of corporate IT. Gartner puts Cloud Computing at Peak of Inflated Expectations in their Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies and all the IT-vendors are re-branding their products to fit the cloud. The talk will focus on seeing beyond the hype and will illustrate how Cloud Computing can contribute to reduce both your capital and operational cost, by showing real life examples provided by our Cloud Computing partner, Amazon Web Services
From the Gaming Scalability event, June 2009 in London (http://gamingscalability.org).
What's the state of play with Cloud Services in 2009? Which businesses are on the cloud and why? When should you look at cloud services and what's the payoff?
Alexis Richardson is CEO and co-founder of Rabbit Technologies Ltd., the commercial support company behind RabbitMQ, a leading implementation of the AMQP open business messaging standard. Alexis is also co-chair of OCCI, the new initiative from OGF to develop an Open Cloud Computing Interface. Alexis Richardson is also a co-founder of CohesiveFT. Recently CohesiveFT spun off its investment in Rabbit Technologies Limited which is now operating as a separate company. Previously Alexis was CEO and co-founder of MetaLogic, a middleware company specializing in high throughput caching and transaction management products. As a past consultant for Fortune 1000 corporations, he has worked on various high performance front-office trading solutions. Before that he worked in proprietary trading of fixed-income derivatives at Goldman Sachs, after researching and teaching mathematical logic and computer science at Oxford University.
Cloud Computing - Does Every Cloud Have a Silver Lining?Steve Cast
Is Cloud Computing an evolution or revolution? What does it mean for Not For Profit organisations? What are the advantages and disadvantages of moving to the cloud? What are the pitfalls to be avoided. Will Cloud Computing suit every NFP organisation? … Just what is Cloud Computing and what is all the fuss about anyway?
From a fundamental overview to developing a strategy, for either adopting the cloud or not, your presenter, Steve Cast, Founder and MD of AdvantageNFP will answer these questions, offering valuable insights, using “real life” client case studies from the NFP sector.
Is There Such a Thing as a Private Cloud? Citrix Synergy 2011Randy Bias
Is there such a thing as a private cloud?
Cloudscaling's Troy Angrignon participated in a panel on private cloud at Citrix Synergy 2011 in San Francisco on May 26, 2011. The conclusions:
- All three of the panelists agreed that there is such a thing as private cloud.
- Carpathia specializes in building high complexity custom private clouds.
- There are two types of clouds: legacy clouds for highly regulated, complex client/server type IT stacks and webscale clouds for less regulated, web/mobile, greenfield and simpler stacks that need to scale.
- Panel discussed how those two models (legacy cloud and webscale cloud) could be found inside (private) or outside (public).
- Key is to realize that applications should always be moved to the platform that is appropriate for the application, use case, regulatory requirement, elasticity requirement.
From the Gaming Scalability event, June 2009 in London (http://gamingscalability.org).
What's the state of play with Cloud Services in 2009? Which businesses are on the cloud and why? When should you look at cloud services and what's the payoff?
Alexis Richardson is CEO and co-founder of Rabbit Technologies Ltd., the commercial support company behind RabbitMQ, a leading implementation of the AMQP open business messaging standard. Alexis is also co-chair of OCCI, the new initiative from OGF to develop an Open Cloud Computing Interface. Alexis Richardson is also a co-founder of CohesiveFT. Recently CohesiveFT spun off its investment in Rabbit Technologies Limited which is now operating as a separate company. Previously Alexis was CEO and co-founder of MetaLogic, a middleware company specializing in high throughput caching and transaction management products. As a past consultant for Fortune 1000 corporations, he has worked on various high performance front-office trading solutions. Before that he worked in proprietary trading of fixed-income derivatives at Goldman Sachs, after researching and teaching mathematical logic and computer science at Oxford University.
Cloud Computing - Does Every Cloud Have a Silver Lining?Steve Cast
Is Cloud Computing an evolution or revolution? What does it mean for Not For Profit organisations? What are the advantages and disadvantages of moving to the cloud? What are the pitfalls to be avoided. Will Cloud Computing suit every NFP organisation? … Just what is Cloud Computing and what is all the fuss about anyway?
From a fundamental overview to developing a strategy, for either adopting the cloud or not, your presenter, Steve Cast, Founder and MD of AdvantageNFP will answer these questions, offering valuable insights, using “real life” client case studies from the NFP sector.
Is There Such a Thing as a Private Cloud? Citrix Synergy 2011Randy Bias
Is there such a thing as a private cloud?
Cloudscaling's Troy Angrignon participated in a panel on private cloud at Citrix Synergy 2011 in San Francisco on May 26, 2011. The conclusions:
- All three of the panelists agreed that there is such a thing as private cloud.
- Carpathia specializes in building high complexity custom private clouds.
- There are two types of clouds: legacy clouds for highly regulated, complex client/server type IT stacks and webscale clouds for less regulated, web/mobile, greenfield and simpler stacks that need to scale.
- Panel discussed how those two models (legacy cloud and webscale cloud) could be found inside (private) or outside (public).
- Key is to realize that applications should always be moved to the platform that is appropriate for the application, use case, regulatory requirement, elasticity requirement.
The Cloud Computing China Congress (CCCC http://www.cloudcomputingchina.org ) is specially designed for senior IT and line of business executives evaluating and making purchasing decisions in the areas of on-demand infrastructure and software services.
Can we hack open source #cloud platforms to help reduce emissions?Tom Raftery
Cloud computing is changing our lives but this change comes with a cost - pollution.
Can we hack open source cloud platforms to make them report their energy and (more importantly) their emissions, so we can choose the cleanest cloud?
Video of this talk is now online at http://redmonk.com/tv/2012/10/24/can-we-hack-open-source-cloud-platforms-to-help-reduce-emissions/
Skycon 2012 - Public, private, and hybrid; software, platform, and infrastructure. This talk will discuss the current state of the Platform-as-a-Service space, and why the keys to success lie in enabling developer productivity, and providing openness and choice.
Thanks to Tony Whitmore for the audio and to Patrick Chanezon for some pieces of the content.
[OSDC.tw 2011] The Path to Pass into PaaS -- How We Build the SolutionJeff Hung
Elaster CAP is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution that enable any developer or service provider to host their own PaaS cloud. So they can focus on application logic and Elaster CAP will help to reduce operation cost. Elaster CAP supports Java Web Applications and Hadoop Map/Reduce Applications. It also provides many cloud-based infrastructures to support your Software-as-a-Service applications, such as Relational Database, Index/Search service, and Big-data Storage with S3 compatible adapter. Elaster CAP is designed to be elastic that, depends on the use cases, the cloud can be as small as one node, or as big as more than hundreds of nodes. The nodes in Elaster CAP can run on physical machines in your data center, or virtual machines hosted by Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers such as EC2 and TCloud Elaster.
In this talk, We'd like to describe the technology and strategy we took when building Elaster CAP. And share the pitfalls and gotchas that we experienced during the journey.
This is my presentation at the 2009 COSAC Security Conference on Cloud Computing. Here is the abstract:
One way or another, cloud computing seems determined to be on your radar. Whether it's your CXO, your customers or even your staff, someone is either going to be asking you about it, doing it, or trying to keep you from knowing they're doing it. You can't afford not to be prepared and understand not only the fundamentals and current definitions of cloud computing, but you also need to be able to get beyond the buzzwords, the hype and the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) presented everwhere from the Wall Street Journal to trade magazines to vendor brochures.
This session will provide a brief overview of the current cloud computing landscape, including:
* The different definitions and approaches
* The claimed business benefits and opportunities
* The most touted security issues and risks
Following this introduction, we will examine the potential business value, opportunities and risks in more detail to identify the ones that are likely to have a real impact on your organisation. After this session, you should be able to understand:
* The relationship between cloud computing, virtualisation, Software as a Service (SaaS), SOA and other types of outsourced services
* Whether cloud computing is a real option for your organisation
* The unique information assurance and security challenges posed by cloud computing
* What you can do to prepare yourself and your organisation for evaluating, deploying and leveraging cloud computing services
This introductory seminar explains Cloud Computing and Amazon Web Services (AWS) in great detail.
The presenter, Simone Brunozzi (@simon), is an AWS Technology Evangelist.
Recommended for business/technical audiences.
The Cloud Computing China Congress (CCCC http://www.cloudcomputingchina.org ) is specially designed for senior IT and line of business executives evaluating and making purchasing decisions in the areas of on-demand infrastructure and software services.
Can we hack open source #cloud platforms to help reduce emissions?Tom Raftery
Cloud computing is changing our lives but this change comes with a cost - pollution.
Can we hack open source cloud platforms to make them report their energy and (more importantly) their emissions, so we can choose the cleanest cloud?
Video of this talk is now online at http://redmonk.com/tv/2012/10/24/can-we-hack-open-source-cloud-platforms-to-help-reduce-emissions/
Skycon 2012 - Public, private, and hybrid; software, platform, and infrastructure. This talk will discuss the current state of the Platform-as-a-Service space, and why the keys to success lie in enabling developer productivity, and providing openness and choice.
Thanks to Tony Whitmore for the audio and to Patrick Chanezon for some pieces of the content.
[OSDC.tw 2011] The Path to Pass into PaaS -- How We Build the SolutionJeff Hung
Elaster CAP is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution that enable any developer or service provider to host their own PaaS cloud. So they can focus on application logic and Elaster CAP will help to reduce operation cost. Elaster CAP supports Java Web Applications and Hadoop Map/Reduce Applications. It also provides many cloud-based infrastructures to support your Software-as-a-Service applications, such as Relational Database, Index/Search service, and Big-data Storage with S3 compatible adapter. Elaster CAP is designed to be elastic that, depends on the use cases, the cloud can be as small as one node, or as big as more than hundreds of nodes. The nodes in Elaster CAP can run on physical machines in your data center, or virtual machines hosted by Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers such as EC2 and TCloud Elaster.
In this talk, We'd like to describe the technology and strategy we took when building Elaster CAP. And share the pitfalls and gotchas that we experienced during the journey.
This is my presentation at the 2009 COSAC Security Conference on Cloud Computing. Here is the abstract:
One way or another, cloud computing seems determined to be on your radar. Whether it's your CXO, your customers or even your staff, someone is either going to be asking you about it, doing it, or trying to keep you from knowing they're doing it. You can't afford not to be prepared and understand not only the fundamentals and current definitions of cloud computing, but you also need to be able to get beyond the buzzwords, the hype and the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) presented everwhere from the Wall Street Journal to trade magazines to vendor brochures.
This session will provide a brief overview of the current cloud computing landscape, including:
* The different definitions and approaches
* The claimed business benefits and opportunities
* The most touted security issues and risks
Following this introduction, we will examine the potential business value, opportunities and risks in more detail to identify the ones that are likely to have a real impact on your organisation. After this session, you should be able to understand:
* The relationship between cloud computing, virtualisation, Software as a Service (SaaS), SOA and other types of outsourced services
* Whether cloud computing is a real option for your organisation
* The unique information assurance and security challenges posed by cloud computing
* What you can do to prepare yourself and your organisation for evaluating, deploying and leveraging cloud computing services
This introductory seminar explains Cloud Computing and Amazon Web Services (AWS) in great detail.
The presenter, Simone Brunozzi (@simon), is an AWS Technology Evangelist.
Recommended for business/technical audiences.
The ultimate shopping experience in the CloudSteinar Ardal
Many have purchased books on Amazon. But Amazon also have web services that offer many exciting services that provide fertile ground for innovation and new business opportunities. Particularly exciting is the possibility to quickly build large transaction intensive applications. The presentation focus on how businesses strategically can exploit Cloud Computing to build profitable business models to contribute to future value creation.
Why buy a plane when you can just reserve a seat on a flight?rstacey51
Would you buy a plane to fly to a few places in the coming year? In the same way, why would you invest in a traditional IT model when you could be running a flexible, fully-integrated cloud infrastructure?
Your company’s computing capacity is only as valuable as it is efficient and cost effective. Its ultimate value is whether or not it enables your business to do more with less.
Download this white paper from IBM.
Confronting the Data Center Crisis: A Cost - Benefit Analysis of the IBM Computing on Demand (CoD) Cloud Offering
Reducing TCO and Enabling New Capability, Faster Time to Results,
and New Business Models
Brocade: Storage Networking For the Virtual Enterprise EMC
This Session will review the latest in storage networking protocols for EMC storage platforms. Topics include new architecture for scaling SAN fabrics, new features for enhancing SAN metro connectivity, and new capabilities for SAN Management. We will also review Ethernet Fabric deployments for FCOE, iSCSI and NAS.
Presentation of Michal Krzycki, Capgemini at the TMT.CloudComputing'11 Warsaw conference organized in Warsaw, Poland on February 10th, 2011 by New Europe Events
Smile!! You’re on Facebook. Tomorrow’s business value created through today's Social Networks. Presentation highlights Emerging Technology Trends with Social aspects and their impact on tomorrow's value creation in your organisation
Scrum in large projects is an experience report on how to adapt to agile thinking for large projects.
Main topics
- Scaling scrum to large projects
- Reporting with scrum
- Communicating with scrum
Agile Methods and especially Scrum has been gaining a lot of popularity over the last few years and is now considered to be a mainstream methodology, where many IT-projects look to use these methods to deliver faster, better and cheaper. Still Agile Methods are not fully accepted as a methodology in large projects, which tend to take favour of traditional methods as the Waterfall Model or Rational Unified Process (RUP).
This presentation focuses on how to scale Scrum to fit large projects and what Scrum principles you should keep holy and which you can sacrifice. http://javazone.no/incogito/session/Smidige+metoder+-+store+prosjekter.html
Presentation for NOKIOS (Norsk konferanse for IKT I offentlig sektor) about Social Networks as the portal for Public Sector: http://www.nokios.no/capgemini
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...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.
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.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.