NetScaler 10 provides advanced load balancing, security, and application delivery capabilities across physical, virtual, and cloud-based infrastructure. It offers high availability, performance and scalability through features such as SSL offloading, compression, caching, global server load balancing, and more. NetScaler supports a variety of platforms including physical appliances, virtual appliances for VMware and Hyper-V, and the SDX multi-tenant appliance.
The document discusses Nimsoft's monitoring solution for Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments. It provides an overview of Nimsoft's monitoring capabilities, architecture, and probes relevant for XenDesktop. Examples are given of Nimsoft dashboards that provide unified views of performance and status for XenDesktop hosts, machines, NetApp storage, and FlexPod environments. The solution aims to provide flexible, scalable, end-to-end monitoring of all physical, virtual, and cloud components involved in XenDesktop VDI deployments.
WSO2 Carbon and WSO2 Stratos Summer Release Roundup WSO2
- The webinar covered the upcoming releases of WSO2 Carbon and Stratos in summer 2012, including new products, features, and capabilities.
- Carbon 4.0 includes improvements to deployment synchronization, performance, and multi-tenancy, as well as new products like API Manager and Storage Server.
- Stratos 2.0 features a new cartridge model for multiple languages/frameworks, support for additional IaaS providers, and an enhanced management console.
- Both releases focus on improved scalability, manageability, and a modular approach to building and deploying middleware components.
The paper presents a new scheduler for Xen that better supports soft real-time tasks in a mixed workload environment. The scheduler uses laxity values to prioritize real-time tasks, boosts tasks on I/O events, and employs load balancing techniques between CPUs. Evaluation shows the scheduler improves performance for an IP telephony media server workload by meeting real-time task deadlines and fully utilizing CPU resources, while not starving other tasks.
Systems Integration in the Cloud Era, Kai Wähner MaibornWolffCloudOps Summit
CloudOps Summit 2012, Frankfurt, 20.9.2012
Lightning Talk by Kai Wähner, IT Consultant at MaibornWolff et al.
http://cloudops.de/sprecher/#kaiwaehner
Find the video of this talk at http://youtu.be/-8K6yfbzBIk
The document discusses Citrix Cloud solutions including hybrid cloud which combines the benefits of an organization's own datacenter with public cloud resources using Citrix CloudGateway to connect different cloud environments. It describes how CloudGateway provides a unified interface and security to deliver applications and data from an organization's private cloud, public cloud, or both to any device through a single access point. CloudGateway Express provides a free solution for connecting XenApp and XenDesktop deployments to public clouds.
Cloud Computing for Developers and Architects - QCon 2008 TutorialStuart Charlton
The document provides an overview of a tutorial on cloud computing for developers and architects. It discusses defining cloud computing, qualities of clouds, examples of Amazon Web Services including Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and how to provision and operate cloud environments. The agenda covers cloud industry trends, a cloud reference model, managing cloud systems, cloud architectures, and questions.
LaSalle Solutions implemented Cisco Unified Computing System C-Series servers to host its mission-critical LAMP asset management tool and applications. This provided a stable, high-performance platform for LaSalle's cloud-based service and enabled the company to quickly provision new environments for customers. The Cisco UCS platform also provided LaSalle with flexibility and a path towards full virtualization, allowing the company to defer capital expenses and scale efficiently to support its growing customer base.
Cloud Foundry is an open Platform as a Service (PaaS) project that can support multiple frameworks, cloud providers, and application services at cloud scale. The presentation demonstrates how Smalltalk can be deployed on Cloud Foundry, including pushing a Smalltalk application, staging to load code into an image, and starting the saved image. Support would need to be added to the VMC client and Cloud Foundry server to automatically detect and run Smalltalk applications. Similarly, GemStone applications could be deployed to Cloud Foundry by supporting Topaz as a runtime and GemStone as a service.
The document discusses Nimsoft's monitoring solution for Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments. It provides an overview of Nimsoft's monitoring capabilities, architecture, and probes relevant for XenDesktop. Examples are given of Nimsoft dashboards that provide unified views of performance and status for XenDesktop hosts, machines, NetApp storage, and FlexPod environments. The solution aims to provide flexible, scalable, end-to-end monitoring of all physical, virtual, and cloud components involved in XenDesktop VDI deployments.
WSO2 Carbon and WSO2 Stratos Summer Release Roundup WSO2
- The webinar covered the upcoming releases of WSO2 Carbon and Stratos in summer 2012, including new products, features, and capabilities.
- Carbon 4.0 includes improvements to deployment synchronization, performance, and multi-tenancy, as well as new products like API Manager and Storage Server.
- Stratos 2.0 features a new cartridge model for multiple languages/frameworks, support for additional IaaS providers, and an enhanced management console.
- Both releases focus on improved scalability, manageability, and a modular approach to building and deploying middleware components.
The paper presents a new scheduler for Xen that better supports soft real-time tasks in a mixed workload environment. The scheduler uses laxity values to prioritize real-time tasks, boosts tasks on I/O events, and employs load balancing techniques between CPUs. Evaluation shows the scheduler improves performance for an IP telephony media server workload by meeting real-time task deadlines and fully utilizing CPU resources, while not starving other tasks.
Systems Integration in the Cloud Era, Kai Wähner MaibornWolffCloudOps Summit
CloudOps Summit 2012, Frankfurt, 20.9.2012
Lightning Talk by Kai Wähner, IT Consultant at MaibornWolff et al.
http://cloudops.de/sprecher/#kaiwaehner
Find the video of this talk at http://youtu.be/-8K6yfbzBIk
The document discusses Citrix Cloud solutions including hybrid cloud which combines the benefits of an organization's own datacenter with public cloud resources using Citrix CloudGateway to connect different cloud environments. It describes how CloudGateway provides a unified interface and security to deliver applications and data from an organization's private cloud, public cloud, or both to any device through a single access point. CloudGateway Express provides a free solution for connecting XenApp and XenDesktop deployments to public clouds.
Cloud Computing for Developers and Architects - QCon 2008 TutorialStuart Charlton
The document provides an overview of a tutorial on cloud computing for developers and architects. It discusses defining cloud computing, qualities of clouds, examples of Amazon Web Services including Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and how to provision and operate cloud environments. The agenda covers cloud industry trends, a cloud reference model, managing cloud systems, cloud architectures, and questions.
LaSalle Solutions implemented Cisco Unified Computing System C-Series servers to host its mission-critical LAMP asset management tool and applications. This provided a stable, high-performance platform for LaSalle's cloud-based service and enabled the company to quickly provision new environments for customers. The Cisco UCS platform also provided LaSalle with flexibility and a path towards full virtualization, allowing the company to defer capital expenses and scale efficiently to support its growing customer base.
Cloud Foundry is an open Platform as a Service (PaaS) project that can support multiple frameworks, cloud providers, and application services at cloud scale. The presentation demonstrates how Smalltalk can be deployed on Cloud Foundry, including pushing a Smalltalk application, staging to load code into an image, and starting the saved image. Support would need to be added to the VMC client and Cloud Foundry server to automatically detect and run Smalltalk applications. Similarly, GemStone applications could be deployed to Cloud Foundry by supporting Topaz as a runtime and GemStone as a service.
Stott & May is a specialist recruitment firm focusing on high-frequency resourcing for key accounts. They have a dedicated team of delivery consultants and account managers to service client accounts. Some key aspects that make them different include their speed of response, dedicated account managers, discretion, talent retention expertise, and experienced recruitment specialists. The document provides overviews of their IT infrastructure, software development, risk management, finance technology and other specialty practices. It also includes testimonials praising the skills of some of their consultants.
KVH Customer Case Study - Aplix CorporatinKVH Co. Ltd.
Since the founding of Aplix Corporation, a competitive edge in software development technology has been the core of their business. Pursuing business innovation based on high technological capabilities, software development, server expansion, capacity expansion resulted in increased stress on their developers.
In addition, during office relocation due to business expansion, it was essential to have flexibility and short lead time for network construction in order to reduce the down time of critical systems. KVH was selected as a valued network service provider with dedicated pre-sales engineers and specially assigned field engineers consistently offering extensive support from the start of the project, through network design, construction, and all the way through project delivery. KVH offered a dedicated leased line connection to AWS through which it was possible to shorten the down time of critical internal systems.
- CloudStack is an open source cloud computing platform that was donated to the Apache Software Foundation in 2012. It provides infrastructure as a service and supports various hypervisors and physical hardware.
- CloudStack has a scalable architecture designed to support thousands of hosts and VMs across multiple availability zones. It provides rich networking and storage capabilities.
- CloudStack can support both traditional server virtualization workloads as well as "Amazon-style" workloads with software defined networks and object storage.
- The CloudStack community is growing rapidly and encourages participation through mailing lists, IRC, forums and meetup groups.
Netflix uses cloud computing to address challenges in scaling its infrastructure to support unpredictable growth. It has transitioned its website to be nearly 100% cloud-based using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to gain the scale, availability and agility needed. AWS provides tools and features like auto-scaling that allow Netflix to easily expand capacity as its subscriber base grows by over 50% per year. By leveraging AWS' mature cloud platform, Netflix can focus on its core video business rather than managing data centers.
The document discusses CompatibleOne, an open source "cloudware" that allows creation, deployment, and management of private, public, and hybrid cloud platforms. It promotes open standards like OVF, CDMI, and OCCI to achieve interoperability between clouds and freedom for users. CompatibleOne uses ACCORDS and CORDS to provide a common description schema and enable provisioning of resources across different cloud carriers through standards-based interfaces.
1) CompatibleOne is an open source "cloudware" that allows creation, deployment, and management of private, public, and hybrid cloud platforms using open standards and open source components.
2) It aims to provide interoperability between cloud platforms and freedom for users to choose providers and move applications between clouds.
3) Key components include ACCORDS for resource distribution, CORDS for resource descriptions, and EZVM for virtual machine interoperability.
2011 oct ctxs at boston stack customer conference final pdfSameer Dholakia
This document discusses Citrix's alignment with open source cloud technologies like OpenStack and Open vSwitch. It notes that Citrix is committed to OpenStack and is leading the commercialization of open source cloud technologies. It introduces Citrix CloudStack, a new cloud infrastructure product based on OpenStack and XenServer that will make it easy to build public and private clouds. CloudStack will deliver the functionality of clouds like AWS at 1/5th the cost and time to deploy.
Crowbar is an open source operations framework for deploying and managing cloud infrastructure at scale. It uses a modular "barclamp" approach and state machine workflow to automate the deployment and lifecycle management of cloud resources. Crowbar embraces open standards like OpenStack and aims to productize best practices learned from hyper-scale cloud operators.
OpenStack provides an automation framework for deploying virtual network functions (VNFs) through its pluggable API architecture. However, some extensions are needed to fully support network functions virtualization (NFV) requirements like carrier-grade services. The document discusses how OpenStack currently supports provisioning of VNFs and the benefits this provides. It also outlines key areas still needing development, such as configuration options and reliability, before NFV services can be fully deployed using OpenStack.
The document discusses migrating applications to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. It provides guidance on identifying candidate applications for migration based on varying resource needs. It also covers choosing an appropriate IaaS provider based on features, developing a migration strategy including rearchitecting applications for scalability, and presents a case study of migrating a social commerce platform to the cloud.
Netflix has over 20 million subscribers in the US and Canada and is expanding internationally. It is moving its operations entirely to the cloud to gain the scalability and flexibility needed to support unpredictable growth. Netflix uses Amazon Web Services extensively to handle its increasing capacity needs, leveraging AWS's large scale and feature set. The cloud allows Netflix to focus on its core business instead of managing infrastructure.
The document discusses how cloud service providers (CSPs) can help software developers by hosting their applications and services. It recommends partnering with a CSP to gain access to infrastructure, platforms, and services without having to build and maintain them. Developers should choose a CSP based on their technical capabilities, geographic coverage, security, scalability, and customer service/support. The case study profiles a payroll company that chose RackForce as their CSP due to its Canadian data centers, strong service level agreements, ease of use and support, security, and ability to scale on demand.
VMware's strategic focus areas include re-thinking end-user computing, modernizing application development, and evolving infrastructure. The document discusses trends in applications moving to cloud-ready frameworks and data fabrics. It introduces Cloud Foundry as an open platform as a service that allows deploying and scaling applications across clouds simply and without vendor lock-in. Key benefits of Cloud Foundry include being open source, simple to use, and providing choice of frameworks, services, and cloud infrastructures.
CloudFest Denver Windows Azure Design PatternsDavid Pallmann
This document outlines various design patterns for building applications on the Windows Azure platform, including patterns for compute, storage, databases, communication, security, and networking, providing examples of how to implement roles, virtual networks, content delivery networks, and other patterns within the Windows Azure environment.
The document provides an overview of the Arista Cognitive Campus CCS-720 series switches. The CCS-720 series offers a variety of switch models with different port configurations and speeds ranging from 10Mbps to 100Gbps. The switches run the Arista EOS operating system and support features like PoE, segmentation, overlay networking, traffic monitoring and resilience capabilities. The switches are targeted towards campus network deployments to provide connectivity, power, management and monitoring for user workloads.
OpenStack Quantum - Past, Present & FutureSomik Behera
This document provides an overview of OpenStack Quantum, the networking component of OpenStack. It discusses the history and motivation for Quantum, including limitations of the original networking model. The document describes the key aspects of the Quantum architecture, including the plugin framework and ability to support different networking technologies. It also provides an update on the project status as of the Essex release and previews upcoming capabilities for the Folsom release.
SV Forum Platform Architecture SIG - Netflix Open Source PlatformAdrian Cockcroft
Architecture overview of Netflix Cloud Architecture with a focus on the Open Source components that Netflix has put and is planning to release on http://netflix.github.com
Session presented at the 2nd IndicThreads.com Conference on Cloud Computing held in Pune, India on 3-4 June 2011.
http://CloudComputing.IndicThreads.com
Abstract:“With increasing demand, ever-growing datasets, unpredictable traffic patterns and need for faster response times, “scalable architecture” has become a necessity. Here, we will see how the traditional concepts and best practices for scalability have to be adopted for the cloud. Further, we will go through the unique advantages that Amazon AWS cloud offers for architecting scalable applications. As an architect, you need to identify the components and bottlenecks in your architecture and modify your application to leverage the underlying scalability.
We will cover the following topics:
Scalability principles for the cloud
Leveraging AWS services for application components
Shared nothing architecture
Asynchronous work queues for loosely coupled applications
Database scalability
Tools, connectors and enablers to help build, deploy and monitor your cloud environment
Scalability using Platform-as-a-Service offerings on top of AWS
An example of a horizontally scalable architecture for an enterprise application on Amazon AWS
This talk will act as a primer for a cloud architect to achieve an auto-scalable, highly available, fully-monitored edge-cached application.”
Speaker:
Kalpak Shah is the Founder & CEO of Clogeny Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and guides the overall strategic direction of the company. Clogeny is focused on niche software and product development in cloud computing and scalable applications domains. He is passionate about the ground-breaking economics and technology afforded by the cloud computing platforms. He has been leading and architecting cutting-edge product development across the cloud stack including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS vendors.
He has previously worked at organizations like Sun Microsystems and Symantec in the storage domain primarily distributed and disk filesystems. Kalpak has a Bachelors’ of Engineering degree in computer engineering from PICT, University of Pune.
This presentation will help you better understand:
- The Oracle Embedded Value Proposition
- The Oracle Service Bus (OSB) Value Proposition
- The Challenge Of The Extended Enterprise
- Introducing the OSB Appliance (OSBA)
Connecting Docker for Cloud IaaS (Speech at CSDN-Oct18DaoliCloud Ltd
SDN and network virtualization connecting Docker containers to provide truly large scale and elastic cloud IaaS services. By eliminating network boundaries among Docker hosts, worldwide distributed containers over Docker orchestrators can be connected in Tenant SDN Controller (TSC). Docker platform's network thus become virtualized so that this great platform now no longer has to be limited to PaaS use (unlike IaaS use, PaaS uses are user specific and hence do not demand scalability.)
This reference design helps organizations design and configure a small to midsize data center (be¬tween 2 and 60 server racks) at headquarters or a server room at a remote site. You will learn how to configure the data center core, aggregation and access switches for connectivity to the servers and the campus network.
The Avaya Fabric Connect data center design supports high-speed 10 Gbps Ethernet connect-ed servers. The design can easily scale server bandwidth with link aggregation and servers can be connected to one or more switches in order to provide the level of availability required for the services delivered by the host. The design also supports legacy and low traffic servers that need 1 Gbps Ethernet connectivity,
The reference design presented in this guide is based on common network requirements and pro¬vides a tested starting point for network engineers to design and deploy an Avaya data center net¬work. This guide does not document every possible option and feature used to design and deploy networks but instead presents the tested and recommended options that will meet the majority of customer needs.
This design uses Avaya Fabric Connect in order to provide benefits over traditional data center design.
IT departments face several challenges in today’s data center:
· Data center traffic flow is not the same as campus traffic flow. Over 80% of the traffic is east-west, server-to-server, vs. north-south, client-to-server, like in a campus.
· Server virtualization allows a virtual machine or workload to be located anywhere in the physi¬cal data center. Data center networks can make it difficult to extend virtual local area networks (VLANs) and subnets anywhere in the data center.
· Server virtualization means that new services can be brought online in minutes or migrated in real time. Reconfiguring the network to support this is difficult because it can interrupt other services.
· Server virtualization means that the load on a physical box is much higher. Physical servers regularly host 10-50 workloads, driving network utilization well past 1 Gbps.
NtegratedSolutions requests $10,244.88 to purchase Kemp LoadMaster hardware load balancers to improve the stability and performance of their MyntCloud platform for Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013. The current load balancing solution is unreliable and the new Kemp load balancers would provide high availability and ensure optimal distribution of user requests across applications. Two Kemp LM-2400 or LM-3000 devices would be implemented in an active-standby configuration for external and internal load balancing needs. The proposal aims to deliver a better experience for MyntCloud customers through a load balancing infrastructure certified for Microsoft products.
Stott & May is a specialist recruitment firm focusing on high-frequency resourcing for key accounts. They have a dedicated team of delivery consultants and account managers to service client accounts. Some key aspects that make them different include their speed of response, dedicated account managers, discretion, talent retention expertise, and experienced recruitment specialists. The document provides overviews of their IT infrastructure, software development, risk management, finance technology and other specialty practices. It also includes testimonials praising the skills of some of their consultants.
KVH Customer Case Study - Aplix CorporatinKVH Co. Ltd.
Since the founding of Aplix Corporation, a competitive edge in software development technology has been the core of their business. Pursuing business innovation based on high technological capabilities, software development, server expansion, capacity expansion resulted in increased stress on their developers.
In addition, during office relocation due to business expansion, it was essential to have flexibility and short lead time for network construction in order to reduce the down time of critical systems. KVH was selected as a valued network service provider with dedicated pre-sales engineers and specially assigned field engineers consistently offering extensive support from the start of the project, through network design, construction, and all the way through project delivery. KVH offered a dedicated leased line connection to AWS through which it was possible to shorten the down time of critical internal systems.
- CloudStack is an open source cloud computing platform that was donated to the Apache Software Foundation in 2012. It provides infrastructure as a service and supports various hypervisors and physical hardware.
- CloudStack has a scalable architecture designed to support thousands of hosts and VMs across multiple availability zones. It provides rich networking and storage capabilities.
- CloudStack can support both traditional server virtualization workloads as well as "Amazon-style" workloads with software defined networks and object storage.
- The CloudStack community is growing rapidly and encourages participation through mailing lists, IRC, forums and meetup groups.
Netflix uses cloud computing to address challenges in scaling its infrastructure to support unpredictable growth. It has transitioned its website to be nearly 100% cloud-based using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to gain the scale, availability and agility needed. AWS provides tools and features like auto-scaling that allow Netflix to easily expand capacity as its subscriber base grows by over 50% per year. By leveraging AWS' mature cloud platform, Netflix can focus on its core video business rather than managing data centers.
The document discusses CompatibleOne, an open source "cloudware" that allows creation, deployment, and management of private, public, and hybrid cloud platforms. It promotes open standards like OVF, CDMI, and OCCI to achieve interoperability between clouds and freedom for users. CompatibleOne uses ACCORDS and CORDS to provide a common description schema and enable provisioning of resources across different cloud carriers through standards-based interfaces.
1) CompatibleOne is an open source "cloudware" that allows creation, deployment, and management of private, public, and hybrid cloud platforms using open standards and open source components.
2) It aims to provide interoperability between cloud platforms and freedom for users to choose providers and move applications between clouds.
3) Key components include ACCORDS for resource distribution, CORDS for resource descriptions, and EZVM for virtual machine interoperability.
2011 oct ctxs at boston stack customer conference final pdfSameer Dholakia
This document discusses Citrix's alignment with open source cloud technologies like OpenStack and Open vSwitch. It notes that Citrix is committed to OpenStack and is leading the commercialization of open source cloud technologies. It introduces Citrix CloudStack, a new cloud infrastructure product based on OpenStack and XenServer that will make it easy to build public and private clouds. CloudStack will deliver the functionality of clouds like AWS at 1/5th the cost and time to deploy.
Crowbar is an open source operations framework for deploying and managing cloud infrastructure at scale. It uses a modular "barclamp" approach and state machine workflow to automate the deployment and lifecycle management of cloud resources. Crowbar embraces open standards like OpenStack and aims to productize best practices learned from hyper-scale cloud operators.
OpenStack provides an automation framework for deploying virtual network functions (VNFs) through its pluggable API architecture. However, some extensions are needed to fully support network functions virtualization (NFV) requirements like carrier-grade services. The document discusses how OpenStack currently supports provisioning of VNFs and the benefits this provides. It also outlines key areas still needing development, such as configuration options and reliability, before NFV services can be fully deployed using OpenStack.
The document discusses migrating applications to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. It provides guidance on identifying candidate applications for migration based on varying resource needs. It also covers choosing an appropriate IaaS provider based on features, developing a migration strategy including rearchitecting applications for scalability, and presents a case study of migrating a social commerce platform to the cloud.
Netflix has over 20 million subscribers in the US and Canada and is expanding internationally. It is moving its operations entirely to the cloud to gain the scalability and flexibility needed to support unpredictable growth. Netflix uses Amazon Web Services extensively to handle its increasing capacity needs, leveraging AWS's large scale and feature set. The cloud allows Netflix to focus on its core business instead of managing infrastructure.
The document discusses how cloud service providers (CSPs) can help software developers by hosting their applications and services. It recommends partnering with a CSP to gain access to infrastructure, platforms, and services without having to build and maintain them. Developers should choose a CSP based on their technical capabilities, geographic coverage, security, scalability, and customer service/support. The case study profiles a payroll company that chose RackForce as their CSP due to its Canadian data centers, strong service level agreements, ease of use and support, security, and ability to scale on demand.
VMware's strategic focus areas include re-thinking end-user computing, modernizing application development, and evolving infrastructure. The document discusses trends in applications moving to cloud-ready frameworks and data fabrics. It introduces Cloud Foundry as an open platform as a service that allows deploying and scaling applications across clouds simply and without vendor lock-in. Key benefits of Cloud Foundry include being open source, simple to use, and providing choice of frameworks, services, and cloud infrastructures.
CloudFest Denver Windows Azure Design PatternsDavid Pallmann
This document outlines various design patterns for building applications on the Windows Azure platform, including patterns for compute, storage, databases, communication, security, and networking, providing examples of how to implement roles, virtual networks, content delivery networks, and other patterns within the Windows Azure environment.
The document provides an overview of the Arista Cognitive Campus CCS-720 series switches. The CCS-720 series offers a variety of switch models with different port configurations and speeds ranging from 10Mbps to 100Gbps. The switches run the Arista EOS operating system and support features like PoE, segmentation, overlay networking, traffic monitoring and resilience capabilities. The switches are targeted towards campus network deployments to provide connectivity, power, management and monitoring for user workloads.
OpenStack Quantum - Past, Present & FutureSomik Behera
This document provides an overview of OpenStack Quantum, the networking component of OpenStack. It discusses the history and motivation for Quantum, including limitations of the original networking model. The document describes the key aspects of the Quantum architecture, including the plugin framework and ability to support different networking technologies. It also provides an update on the project status as of the Essex release and previews upcoming capabilities for the Folsom release.
SV Forum Platform Architecture SIG - Netflix Open Source PlatformAdrian Cockcroft
Architecture overview of Netflix Cloud Architecture with a focus on the Open Source components that Netflix has put and is planning to release on http://netflix.github.com
Session presented at the 2nd IndicThreads.com Conference on Cloud Computing held in Pune, India on 3-4 June 2011.
http://CloudComputing.IndicThreads.com
Abstract:“With increasing demand, ever-growing datasets, unpredictable traffic patterns and need for faster response times, “scalable architecture” has become a necessity. Here, we will see how the traditional concepts and best practices for scalability have to be adopted for the cloud. Further, we will go through the unique advantages that Amazon AWS cloud offers for architecting scalable applications. As an architect, you need to identify the components and bottlenecks in your architecture and modify your application to leverage the underlying scalability.
We will cover the following topics:
Scalability principles for the cloud
Leveraging AWS services for application components
Shared nothing architecture
Asynchronous work queues for loosely coupled applications
Database scalability
Tools, connectors and enablers to help build, deploy and monitor your cloud environment
Scalability using Platform-as-a-Service offerings on top of AWS
An example of a horizontally scalable architecture for an enterprise application on Amazon AWS
This talk will act as a primer for a cloud architect to achieve an auto-scalable, highly available, fully-monitored edge-cached application.”
Speaker:
Kalpak Shah is the Founder & CEO of Clogeny Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and guides the overall strategic direction of the company. Clogeny is focused on niche software and product development in cloud computing and scalable applications domains. He is passionate about the ground-breaking economics and technology afforded by the cloud computing platforms. He has been leading and architecting cutting-edge product development across the cloud stack including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS vendors.
He has previously worked at organizations like Sun Microsystems and Symantec in the storage domain primarily distributed and disk filesystems. Kalpak has a Bachelors’ of Engineering degree in computer engineering from PICT, University of Pune.
This presentation will help you better understand:
- The Oracle Embedded Value Proposition
- The Oracle Service Bus (OSB) Value Proposition
- The Challenge Of The Extended Enterprise
- Introducing the OSB Appliance (OSBA)
Connecting Docker for Cloud IaaS (Speech at CSDN-Oct18DaoliCloud Ltd
SDN and network virtualization connecting Docker containers to provide truly large scale and elastic cloud IaaS services. By eliminating network boundaries among Docker hosts, worldwide distributed containers over Docker orchestrators can be connected in Tenant SDN Controller (TSC). Docker platform's network thus become virtualized so that this great platform now no longer has to be limited to PaaS use (unlike IaaS use, PaaS uses are user specific and hence do not demand scalability.)
This reference design helps organizations design and configure a small to midsize data center (be¬tween 2 and 60 server racks) at headquarters or a server room at a remote site. You will learn how to configure the data center core, aggregation and access switches for connectivity to the servers and the campus network.
The Avaya Fabric Connect data center design supports high-speed 10 Gbps Ethernet connect-ed servers. The design can easily scale server bandwidth with link aggregation and servers can be connected to one or more switches in order to provide the level of availability required for the services delivered by the host. The design also supports legacy and low traffic servers that need 1 Gbps Ethernet connectivity,
The reference design presented in this guide is based on common network requirements and pro¬vides a tested starting point for network engineers to design and deploy an Avaya data center net¬work. This guide does not document every possible option and feature used to design and deploy networks but instead presents the tested and recommended options that will meet the majority of customer needs.
This design uses Avaya Fabric Connect in order to provide benefits over traditional data center design.
IT departments face several challenges in today’s data center:
· Data center traffic flow is not the same as campus traffic flow. Over 80% of the traffic is east-west, server-to-server, vs. north-south, client-to-server, like in a campus.
· Server virtualization allows a virtual machine or workload to be located anywhere in the physi¬cal data center. Data center networks can make it difficult to extend virtual local area networks (VLANs) and subnets anywhere in the data center.
· Server virtualization means that new services can be brought online in minutes or migrated in real time. Reconfiguring the network to support this is difficult because it can interrupt other services.
· Server virtualization means that the load on a physical box is much higher. Physical servers regularly host 10-50 workloads, driving network utilization well past 1 Gbps.
NtegratedSolutions requests $10,244.88 to purchase Kemp LoadMaster hardware load balancers to improve the stability and performance of their MyntCloud platform for Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013. The current load balancing solution is unreliable and the new Kemp load balancers would provide high availability and ensure optimal distribution of user requests across applications. Two Kemp LM-2400 or LM-3000 devices would be implemented in an active-standby configuration for external and internal load balancing needs. The proposal aims to deliver a better experience for MyntCloud customers through a load balancing infrastructure certified for Microsoft products.
Acme Packet Presentation Materials for VUC June 18th 2010Michael Graves
1) The document discusses Acme Packet's enterprise session border controller (SBC) solutions which control four IP network borders, including SIP trunking, private networks, public internet, and hosted services.
2) It provides an overview of Acme Packet's SBC product portfolio including the Net-Net product family and their session capacity, throughput, and features for securing SIP trunking and enabling interoperability.
3) The SBC helps secure SIP trunking by acting as an application layer gateway, providing dynamic port control, full SIP firewalling, and DDOS protection to establish a "defense in depth" security model for SIP trunk traffic.
Gaweł mikołajczyk. holistic identity based networking approach – an irreducib...Yury Chemerkin
Holistic identity-based networking security approach aims to provide a whole and interdependent approach. The document discusses providing authentication of users and devices on a network while allowing flexible deployment options. It addresses providing context awareness at network ingress by classifying devices and users. Context information such as security group tags can then be propagated through the network and used to enforce access policies on switches, firewalls, and other devices to provide a holistic and system-level security approach.
The ubiquitous heavy-tailed distributions in the Internet im-plies an interesting feature of the Internet traffic: most (e.g. 80%) of the traffic is actually carried by only a small number of connections (elephants), while the remaining large amount of connections are very small in size or lifetime (mice). In a fair network environment, short connections expect rela-tively fast service than long connections. For these reasons, short TCP flows are generally more con-servative than long flows and thus tend to get less than their fair share when they compete for the bottleneck bandwidth. In this paper, we propose to give preferential treatment to short flows2 with help from an Active Queue Management (AQM) policy inside the network. We also rely on the pro-posed Differentiated Services (Diffserv) architecture [3] to classify flows into short and long at the edge of the network. More specifically, we maintain the length of each active flow (in packets3) at the edge routers and use it to classify incoming packets.
Unified wired/wireless IP data networking solution designed to increase efficiency by reducing data contention. Combined with an advanced Layer 3 architecture and an IEEE802.11 enterprise wireless LAN management system, icXchange helps ensure content delivery as well as solid connectivity for the user.
Faced with the dual threats of rising operating costs and declining revenues, network service providers are increasingly turning to network functions virtualization (NFV) to help them keep up with constantly changing market conditions.
In a virtualized Telco environment, service providers can deploy and deliver new network functions, services and capacity on demand—reducing normal rollout time from months and weeks to just hours.
Leveraging the principles of cloud computing, network service providers can deliver a level of responsiveness never before available, easily scaling capacity up or down to meet the evolving needs of their subscribers.
The result is a highly agile system that allows new revenue-generating services to be quickly developed, exhaustively tested and selectively rolled out to targeted groups in a fraction of the time and at a much lower cost than previously thought possible.
In this session, the speaker will present how the solution from Juniper networks look like and how it can be deployed by service provider to improve their agility in delivering services to their customers.
Blue Coat PacketShaper provides visibility and optimization of network applications through application classification, monitoring, quality of service controls, and compression. It automatically classifies network applications, monitors performance in real time, controls bandwidth with quality of service policies, and increases WAN capacity with compression. PacketShaper supports application delivery networks with deep application visibility and controls to optimize WAN performance.
Blue Coat PacketShaper provides visibility and optimization of network applications through application monitoring, traffic shaping, and compression. It automatically classifies network applications, provides quality-of-service controls, and increases WAN capacity. PacketShaper supports application delivery networks through deep application visibility and controls to optimize WAN performance.
Anuta ATOM is a network automation platform that provides closed-loop automation, assurance, telemetry, and orchestration for multi-vendor, multi-domain networks. It offers model-driven automation, analytics, and assurance through microservices that scale to support millions of devices from over 45 vendors. Anuta ATOM allows for network automation, telemetry collection, analytics and reporting, and can be deployed in public, private, or hybrid clouds.
This document summarizes Dragonflow, an OpenStack Neutron plugin that implements a distributed SDN controller. Some key points:
- Dragonflow provides a full implementation of the Neutron API and acts as a lightweight distributed SDN controller using a pluggable database.
- It aims to provide advanced networking services like security groups, load balancing, and DHCP in an efficient, scalable way.
- As an integral part of OpenStack, it is fully open source and designed for performance, scalability, and low latency. Its distributed control plane can sync policies across compute nodes.
Radware bringing mission and performance critical applications to cloud sta...ShapeBlue
The document discusses load balancing models in the cloud and Radware's load balancing as a service (LBaaS) solution. It describes Radware's LBaaS architecture, which provides on-demand load balancer provisioning, overlay network interoperability, efficiency through overlay network gateway bypass, high availability, and tenant isolation/SLA guarantees. It also compares Radware's LBaaS solution to competing external load balancing solutions, noting Radware's advantages in elasticity, interoperability, efficiency, availability, and tenant isolation.
Optimizations for ssl tls certificate caching on multicoreVipin Varghese
This document discusses optimizations for SSL-TLS certificate caching on multicore systems to improve performance for TCP-SSL proxy services handling high traffic volumes. It outlines issues with single-core certificate caching like duplicate generation and proposes a solution to have each core generate and cache its own certificates while a single thread manages the overall cache for validity. Benchmark results showed this approach helped accelerate caching and lookups to support over 30,000 connections per second.
The document discusses the CR25wiNG unified threat management appliance. It offers high performance security for small office networks through features like an integrated 3x3 MIMO wireless access point, next-generation firewall, web filtering, intrusion prevention, and VPN connectivity. The appliance provides security across all layers from 2 to 8 using identity-based policies. It also includes bandwidth management, antivirus, antispam, and reporting and monitoring tools to help improve network security, connectivity, and productivity for small businesses.
Development, test, and characterization of MEC platforms with Teranium and Dr...Michelle Holley
Mobile edge computing delivers cloud computing at the edge of the cellular network to drive services quality and innovation. The ability for CSPs and ISVs to effectively develop, deliver, and deploy MEC services on a given platform directly correlates with the availability and maturity of associated tools and test environment. Dronava is a hyper-connected, web-scale network reference design for the 5G mobile network, suitable for use as a test and development socket for cloud applications developed for MEC platforms with tools such as the Intel NEV SDK. With Dronava, developers can drive the application with real traffics from the network edge to the EPC core, and if need be, connect with services in the core network in order to fully characterize the functionalities, latency, and throughput of the platform and application.Teranium is an integrated development environment that simplifies the development, packaging, and deployment/management of cloud applications. Teranium can be utilized to develop and deploy MEC applications on a number of platforms. Together with Dronava, Teranium helps to reduce complexity and improve efficiency in the ability of CSPs and ISVs to adopt and deploy MEC-base services.
Advanced Networking: The Critical Path for HPC, Cloud, Machine Learning and moreinside-BigData.com
This document discusses how hardware acceleration can improve the performance of modern data centers and machine learning workloads. It covers several key points:
1) Software-defined networking allows for flexibility but suffers from performance issues without hardware offloading. Hardware acceleration is needed to gain efficiency.
2) Technologies like SR-IOV, overlay networking, and RDMA can provide direct access and high-speed networking to virtual machines and accelerate workloads. Hardware offloads from NICs improve performance.
3) Frameworks like DPDK and ASAP2 can further accelerate workloads by offloading processing to the NIC and bypassing the CPU. This improves performance without additional CPU resources.
Places in the network (featuring policy)Jeff Green
Networks of the Future will be about a great user experience, devices and things…
In an industry that’s already defined, Extreme Network’s recent announcement of The Automated Campus is a significant advance in networking. For the first time, all the essential technologies, products, procedures and support are gathered together and integrated. All too often, the piecemeal/piecewise growth strategy, typically applied in network evolutions, results in too many tools, procedures, and techniques. The patchwork quilt approach precludes fast responsiveness, optimal operations staff productivity, and sacrifices the accuracy and efficiency required to keep end-users productive as well.
The most important opportunity to improve efficiency for governments today is in boosting both the productivity of end-users and network operators. The automated campus must address the productivity of network planners and network operations managers and staff. The often-significant number of elements required in an installation can demand significant staff time and can, consequentially, have an adverse impact on operating expenses (OpEx). While It is possible to build traditional networks that, when running correctly and optimally get the job done, they often embody such high operating expenses that cost becomes the overriding factor controlling the evolution of the campus network. The Automated Campus will allow XYZ Account to address all these issues and concerns. A key goal must be for XYZ Account to reduce the number of “moving parts” required to build and operate any campus and introduce a level of simplicity and automation that will address your future.
Extreme’s strategy for Campus Automation begins with re-thinking the way networks are designed, deployed and managed. Extreme’s Fabric-based networks enable faster configuration and troubleshooting; As a result, there is less opportunity for misconfiguration. Several automation solutions designed to enhance security often force network managers to accept complexity and degraded resilience to secure the network to meet local policies. Should a breach occur, containment to that segment protects even more sensitive parts of the network, resulting in a true dead-end for the hacker. With Extreme’s Automated Campus services can easily be defined and provisioned on-the-fly without disruption. Network operators specify what services are allowed or prohibited across the network.
Becoming Agile von Christian Botta – Personal Swiss Vortrag 2019Digicomp Academy AG
Agil ist ein Buzzword, viele wissen aber nicht, was wirklich dahintersteckt. In diesem Vortrag erfahren Sie, warum es weder hilft, mal schnell Scrum einzuführen, die Inneneinrichtung eines Büros zu verändern oder einen Tischkicker aufzustellen. Sehen Sie, warum wir uns in der VUCA-Welt anders bewegen müssen und warum Themen wie Kreativität, Haltung und ein geänderter Mindset die Grundvoraussetzung für agiles Arbeiten sind.
Christian Botta war 15 Jahre als Projektmanager und Führungskraft in der IT beschäftigt. 2015 gründete er gemeinsam mit Daniel Reinold die Firma Visual Braindump, mit dem Ziel, die Themen Visualisierung und Management näher zusammenzubringen. Mit Visual Braindump verheiratete er seine beiden Leidenschaften: Zeichnen und Projektmanagement. Heute ist er als Trainer, Coach und Speaker für Projektmanagement, Design Thinking und visuelles Denken unterwegs – sowohl in Präsenztrainings für Digicomp als auch in Videotrainings bei LinkedIn. Ein weiteres Standbein ist die visuelle Begleitung von Veranstaltungen mit Hilfe von Graphic Facilitation bzw. Graphic Recording. Botta schreibt darüber hinaus regelmässig auf dem Visual Braindump Blog und für das Projektmagazin und Capterra.
Sein Buch: Business Visualisierung - ein Reiseführer für Neugierige und Visionäre
https://digicomp.ch/landingpages/personalswiss
Swiss IPv6 Council – Case Study - Deployment von IPv6 in einer Container Plat...Digicomp Academy AG
Die Implementierung mit IPv6 in Container Plattformen wie Docker, Kubernets oder OpenShift bietet einige Möglichkeiten, aber auch Herausforderungen. In seinem Vortrag erklärt Aarno Aukia den aktuellen Stand der IPv6-Implementierung dieser Technologien.
Roger basler meetup_digitale-geschaeftsmodelle-entwickeln_handoutDigicomp Academy AG
Die 7 Phasen des Digital Business Modelling
Wie schaffe ich den digitalen Wandel im Business-Modell? Im Referat zeigt Roger Basler anhand von 7 Phasen, wie der Wandel erfolgreich vollzogen werden kann.
Roger basler meetup_21082018_work-smarter-not-harder_handoutDigicomp Academy AG
Work Smarter Not Harder
Meetup: Work Smart – Digital Collaboration im Unternehmen
Lernen Sie das Potenzial mit der Verwendung von möglichen Smart-Work-Tools innerhalb Ihres Unternehmens kennen und seien Sie für die wichtigsten Anwendungsfälle gerüstet, um den Kulturwandel innerhalb Ihrer Organisation voranzutreiben.
Professor Richard H. Thaler hat Ende 2017 den Wirtschaftsnobelpreis für seine Forschung unter dem Begriff «Nudge - die psychologischen Faktoren, die hinter wirtschaftlichen Entscheidungen stehen» erhalten.
Der Kommunikations- und Marketingexperte Maurice Codourey der Neurokommunikationsagentur UNIT X zeigt eigene Experimente im Spitalwesen und internationale Best Practices.
Responsive Organisation auf Basis der Holacracy – nur ein Hype oder die Zukunft?Digicomp Academy AG
Experte Artur Tomczak zeigte anhand von Praxisbeispielen der verschiedenen responsiven Frameworks auf, wie die nächsten Schritte Richtung Holacracy konkret aussehen könnten.
IPv6-Experte Joe Klein gab uns einen Überblick über den aktuellen Status der IPv6-Sicherheit, typische IPv6-Angriffspunkte, Auswirkungen von Technologien wie Cloud und Blockchain sowie Herausforderungen für effektive IoT-Sicherheitsmassnahmen (Internet of Things). Vor allem im Internet der Dinge, wenn es um Gesundheitsversorgung, selbstfahrende Autos, Flugzeugcockpits, Dämme, Kernkraftwerke und ähnliche kritische Infrastrukturen geht, ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, dass Sicherheit gewährleistet werden kann.
Ralph Jocham is an agile coach and trainer who has been involved in agile since 2000. He discovered early in his career as a programmer that process was often a problem. He helped develop the Unified Process and has been training people in effective agile practices like Scrum since 2001. Some key points he discusses include:
- The principles of agile management including energizing people, empowering teams, aligning constraints, and growing structure.
- Sociocratic practices like World Cafe and Lean Coffee that can be used for agile management.
- The Core Protocols which are a set of behaviors and commitments for rational decision making and moving groups forward effectively. Protocols include check-
Gewinnen Sie Menschen und Ziele - Referat von Andi OdermattDigicomp Academy AG
Sachliche Argumente funktionieren im Alltag oft nicht. Erst wer einmal erkannt hat, dass und wie er auf der irrationalen Ebene punkten muss, dem eröffnen sich neue Möglichkeiten bei seinen Mitmenschen
Querdenken mit Kreativitätsmethoden – XING ExpertendialogDigicomp Academy AG
Kreatives Chaos ist Quatsch. Kreativität kann hoch systematisch sein und dabei maximal originell. Querdenken macht gute Laune und holt selbst die Neue-Ideen-Belächler, Kreativitätsbekämpfer und Ideen-Kopierer bei ihrer produktiven Laune ab.
Am vergangenen XING Expertendialog zeigte Referent Jiri Scherer von Denkmotor, wie das Ausbrechen aus Denkmustern funktioniert und warum jede Kreativitätsmethode einen roten Punkt hat.
Die digitale Transformation wirkt sich nicht nur auf Prozesse, sondern insbesondere auch auf ganze Geschäftsmodelle von Unternehmen aus.
Roger Basler zeigt in seinem Referat auf, was ein digitales Geschäftsmodell ist und welche Schritte ein Unternehmen tätigen muss, um sich dorthin zu entwickeln. Zentral dabei ist, dass nicht einfach ein bestehendes Geschäftsmodell digitalisiert wird, sondern Unternehmen anfangen im neuen Kundennutzen und Kundenverhalten zu denken.
Gerne stellen wir Ihnen die Slides von Roger Basler zur Verfügung:
Swiss IPv6 Council: The Cisco-Journey to an IPv6-only BuildingDigicomp Academy AG
Die monatlichen Anlässe in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Swiss IPv6 Council behandeln verschiedene technische Themenbereiche von IPv6.
Ist Dual-Stack ein guter Weg? Was sind Erfahrungen mit reinen IPv6-Netzwerken? Viele Unternehmen kämpfen mit diesen Fragen. Genau aus diesem Grund hat Cisco in San Jose einen reinen IPv6-Campus eingerichtet und sucht Antworten auf solche Fragen.
In seinem Referat präsentierte Khalid Jawaid die Bemühungen zur Einführung von IPv6 in einem einzelnen Campusgebäude und die Hürden, die dies mit sich bringt. Im Weiteren sprach er über die Herausforderungen, die sich aus der Erstellung des Business Case im Jahr 2010 und der Bereitstellung von mehr als 400 Remote-Standorten und den daraus gezogenen Lehren ergaben.
Die Inputs von Khalid Jawaid haben bei vielen Teilnehmern neue Perspektiven und Ideen für die Einführung von IPv6 geweckt.
Gerne stellen wir Ihnen die Slides von Manuel Schweizer zur Verfügung:
Vielleicht haben Sie schon einmal ein Zugbillett mit der SBB-App gekauft, per Smartphone eine Doodle-Umfrage verschickt oder in Google Docs eine Textdatei erstellt. Haben Sie sich dabei jemals gefragt, was diese Apps so erfolgreich macht?
Simon Raess, Gründer & Design Strategist bei Ginetta, weiss es. Er war massgeblich an der Kreation genau dieser Produkte beteiligt. Mit seiner Digitalagentur hat er zahlreichen Firmen – darunter Swisscom, Twint und Helsana – zum Erfolg in der digitalen Geschäftswelt verholfen.
In seiner Präsentation am Xing LearningZ vom 4. Juli 2017 zeigte Simon Raess, wie gutes UX Design nicht nur dafür sorgt, dass Webistes und Apps schön aussehen, sondern wie es digitale Produkte auch nachhaltig erfolgreich macht. Sehr spannend war auch der Einblick in die systematische Arbeitsweise, welche zu benutzerfreundlichem Design führt.
Design Thinking ist in aller Munde. Aber was ist Design Thinking denn nun genau? Lernen Sie in dieser Session die agile Innovationsmethode der Stanford University anhand eines kleinen Praxisbeispiels kennen. Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt der Kunden, generieren Sie Lösungsansätze und Prototypen. Ein interaktiver Kurzworkshop mit vielen Erkenntnissen.
Dieser Event des Swiss IPv6 Council befasste sich mit dem spannenden Case der ETH Zürich. Dort sind die IPV4-Adressen schon seit Jahren knapp.
Derk Valenkamp, Gruppenleiter der ID-Datennetze der ETH Zürich, zeigte auf, was er und sein Team seit 2007 unternommen haben. So mussten und müssen daher immer mehr NAT/PAT-Lösungen implementiert werden, die aus betrieblicher und Sicherheitssicht grosse Anforderungen an das Logging stellen. Damit die Netzwerkanforderungen auch langfristig das Wachstum der ETH Zürich und deren IT erfüllen können, wird schon seit Jahren auf IPv6 gesetzt. Besonders spannend für die engagierten Teilnehmer waren auch die Stolpersteine und Hürden, welche Derk Valenkamp aufgezeigt hat.
Gerne stellen wir Ihnen die Slides von Derk Valenkamp zur Verfügung.
Berät Sie bald ein Bot über die neusten Winterschuhe, weil Ihr Handy festgestellt hat, dass Sie zu kalte Zehen haben, wonach eine Drohne das Schuhwerk an Ihren über GPS georteten Standort fliegt?
Roger Basler ging in seinem Referat vom 2. Mai 2017 auf Trends und einige bereits existierende Pilot-Versuche ein. Seine Einschätzung der Wahrscheinlichkeit des Impacts dieser Trends auf unser Online-Shopping-Verhalten soll nicht in erster Linie die Wahrheit widerspiegeln, sondern die Basis für eine gute Diskussion und den Erfahrungsaustausch untereinander legen.
Zahlen Battle: klassische werbung vs.online-werbung-somexcloudDigicomp Academy AG
Zahlen & Fakten zur Entwicklung des Werbemarkts Schweiz: Michael Göldi (Digital Focus) & Michel Bächtiger (Media Focus) kreuzen die Klinge und klären die Frage aller Fragen: klassische Werbung oder Online-Werbung? Mögen die besseren Daten-Fakten gewinnen!
Zeit für ein Privacy-Programm. Datenschutz-Entwicklung in Europa (GDPR) und das neue Datenschutzgesetz in der Schweiz: Was bedeutet das für mein Unternehmen?
In diesem Referat zeigten wir Ihnen auf, was die Entwicklung des Datenschutzes in Europa für uns bedeutet und was auf die Schweiz zukommt.
Im Mai 2018 tritt die EU Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (GDPR – general data protection regulation) in Kraft. Über die enthaltenen Neuerungen wurden bereits in verschiedenen Veranstaltungen berichtet. An diesem Referat gaben wir Ihnen als Erstes eine kurze Zusammenfassung der Geschehnisse zur Orientierung.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Webinar: Designing a schema for a Data WarehouseFederico Razzoli
Are you new to data warehouses (DWH)? Do you need to check whether your data warehouse follows the best practices for a good design? In both cases, this webinar is for you.
A data warehouse is a central relational database that contains all measurements about a business or an organisation. This data comes from a variety of heterogeneous data sources, which includes databases of any type that back the applications used by the company, data files exported by some applications, or APIs provided by internal or external services.
But designing a data warehouse correctly is a hard task, which requires gathering information about the business processes that need to be analysed in the first place. These processes must be translated into so-called star schemas, which means, denormalised databases where each table represents a dimension or facts.
We will discuss these topics:
- How to gather information about a business;
- Understanding dictionaries and how to identify business entities;
- Dimensions and facts;
- Setting a table granularity;
- Types of facts;
- Types of dimensions;
- Snowflakes and how to avoid them;
- Expanding existing dimensions and facts.
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.
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
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
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5. NetScaler Pay-As-You-Grow MPX/SDX
17550-21550
20Gbps – 50Gbps
Up to 400K SSL TPS
MPX/SDX
All platforms can
11500-20500
Paygrow
be license 8Gbps – 42Gbps
upgraded across 45k – 220k SSL TPS
16 Gbps their supported NEBS
ranges. Available
NetScaler Performance
8 Gbps
4 Gbps MPX/SDX
ROME
MPX FIPS
8200-8600
MPX 9700-15500
2Gbps – 6Gbps
2Gbps MPX 7500-9500 1Gbps – 5Gbps License
THEBES 1Gbps-3Gbps Upgrade
5550-5650
500Mbps –
1Gbps 1Gbps
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VPX
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1 2 3 10s 100s No. of Web Applications
6. Citrix TriScale Technology
Scale up, Scale in and Scale out
Scale Up
Consolidation with
SDX
Elasticity with Scale In
Pay-As-You-Grow
Expandability
with Clustering
Scale Out
8. Applications Have Individual Lifecycles
Maintenance windows
Infrastructure change frequency
Application change frequency
Desire for new ADC functionality
21. Web/App Tier Data Tier
High Maximum Server Complete
Application Application Offload Application
Availability Performance Savings Security
Microsoft SQL Server
• Load balancing • Caching • Connection, SSL • SSL VPN
Offload
• Health • Compression • Web App
monitoring • Connection Firewall
pooling
22. NetScaler DataStreamTM in Database Tier
Web/App DB Tier
NetScaler DataStreamTM
Tier TDS Protocol aware
Connection Scale-Up
Custom
Optimal Scale-Out
Scripts
Internet
Improved Availability
HTTP
Native SQL TCP
High Availability No HA HA
Simple
Scalability No LB LB
Simple
Conn Multiplexing Custom
App Security
Content Switching Monitors
High Performance
High Availability Microsoft
SQL Server
TCP Load
HTTP ADC
NetScaler Balancer
ADC
23. NetScaler DataStreamTM Benefits
High-Availability/
Scale Up Scale Out
Visibility
• Native SQL LB • Intelligent Monitoring
• SQL Multiplexing
Scale TCP connections Request Switching and Failover
Host more DBs on Server Replication state aware
Fast App response
Reduce # of SQL Licenses Virtual IP based
More Efficient HA
• SQL Conn. Offload • SQL aware policies
Read/Write Split • Top Down Visibility
Spare memory/cpu Appflow based
Faster Query execution Partitioning/Sharding
Granular Control Actionable Reporting down
to query level
• SQL Caching
Free up Server Resources
Better End User Response Times NetScaler provides ScaleUp like performance for
ScaleOut like economics
24. TCP Load Balancer
DB Tier
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Microsoft
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Load Scale-Out
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25. SQL Connection Multiplexing/Content Switching
A,B,C….Y,Z -> SQL Queries
DB Tier
ABC
Z
DE F Microsoft
SQL Server
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Scale-Out
Read-Only DB
NetScaler
Scale-Up Master DB
Active/Passive
L7 Based load balancing mechanism
26. Visibility and Security for SQL – What’s
happening on the backend??
• Visibility at a L7 Query level
• Ability to identify potential ‘open’ back doors and other security threats
• Responder for taking action and providing additional security
• Identify applications that may not be ‘behaving’ as they should
• Actionable reports thru Auditlog and Appflow
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27. DB Read/Write Split + HA with NetScaler
Web Servers • Netscaler deployed in multi-tier fashion
• Web/App Tier contacts DB via CS Vserver
• Read/Write split with failover
• Intelligent monitors to detect Primary DB for MS SQL Mirror
• Disable Primary Vserver on Down to accommodate replication
• Increased scale and reliability
App Servers • Increased visibility at SQL query level
Master Read Only
Database
HA Setup
Slave
Databases
Active Passive
32. Integrating into the Cloud: NITRO API
• Framework based on Representational State Transfer (REST)
• Simple, lightweight API
• Handles bulk as well as single operations
• Secure encrypted communication
• Built in support for authentication
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