This document discusses Orange's journey towards building an open grid computing infrastructure. It provides details on Orange, a large telecommunications company with over 200 million customers worldwide. Orange Silicon Valley participates in disruptive innovations through partnerships. The document outlines Orange's move from traditional symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) architectures to grid computing with InfiniBand, which resulted in significant cost reductions. It describes benchmark tests integrating Fibre Channel storage area networks with InfiniBand clusters that achieved near-linear scalability.
Different media platforms – same consumers? (Maša Muster - Mediana)SEMPL
To satisfy the needs of their users, it is imperative the media know them well. Research already shows that the total is more than the sum of individual parts – users are moving from traditional to modern forms of media usage and also transfer among the latter, which consequently means, that they often use our medium from several different platforms.
The potential for reaching new and new users is expending and we can take advantage of that. At Mediana, they already know the answers to several questions regarding the new habits of media users – who are the exclusive users, viewers or listeners over the traditional platforms, how many of them combine different methods of following the media and who are those who no longer care about traditional platforms. By enabling insight into this topic, media planners will gain a better understanding of new media landscape in the region and their decision making about future investments will be made easier.
Different media platforms – same consumers? (Maša Muster - Mediana)SEMPL
To satisfy the needs of their users, it is imperative the media know them well. Research already shows that the total is more than the sum of individual parts – users are moving from traditional to modern forms of media usage and also transfer among the latter, which consequently means, that they often use our medium from several different platforms.
The potential for reaching new and new users is expending and we can take advantage of that. At Mediana, they already know the answers to several questions regarding the new habits of media users – who are the exclusive users, viewers or listeners over the traditional platforms, how many of them combine different methods of following the media and who are those who no longer care about traditional platforms. By enabling insight into this topic, media planners will gain a better understanding of new media landscape in the region and their decision making about future investments will be made easier.
[Fr] mythes & réalité des médias sociaux - DiiOrange
Voici le support de ma présentation à la conférence annuelle DII du directeur de la stratégie digitale qui aura lieu le 14 décembre à l'hôtel California à Paris
[En] Telecom experience conference - Zagreb - Nov 12, 2012Orange
This is the latest version of my "what tool for what message" presentation, revised and updated on Nov 9 with a new business case about the Sosh low cost offer from Orange
[En] What Social Media Platform For What Message & ROI?Orange
[DRAFT: NOT THE FINAL VERSION] This is the latest version of my "what platform for what message" presentation originally delivered in London in June 2012. Now complete with 2 new examples, one of which is under development
Round-up of the Orange Blogger Bus Tour in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Stats, names, numbers and keywords, find out all there is to know about this unique adventure in the capital of innovation.
I have put this presentation together for the "conference on Cyberspace" event in Budapest in which I will represent Orange tomorrow.
http://www.cyberbudapest2012.hu/
[EN] scenarios for the future of social mediaOrange
this presentation describes my thoughts as to the paths that social media innovation could take in the next few months/years in the ares of 1) Marketing 2) CRM and 3) Enterprise Social Networks
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.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
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.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
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!
Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZGlobus
ESnet has led the way in helping national facilities—and many other institutions in the research community—configure Science DMZs and troubleshoot network issues to maximize data transfer performance. In this talk we will present a summary of approaches and tips for getting the most out of your network infrastructure using Globus Connect Server.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdf
[En] Orange Open Grid presentation
1. Journey to the Open Grid
Soumik Sinharoy – Orange Silicon Valley
October 25, 2011, IBM Information on Demand – Las Vegas
2. Orange is ...
world-leading communications
brand owned by France Telecom
181 000 employees and 50.9 bn €
revenues in 2010
serving over 216 million
customers in 32 countries over 5
continents - addl100m customers
from Asia and Africa by 2015
plus ...
Over 2000 distribution outlets in
Europe
a leading retailer of premium content
& games with ~ 20 million downloads
per year in Europe
50 Orange application ~ 9 million
downloads from apps stores
3. 216 million customers worldwide…
United Kingdom
Poland
Belgium
LuxembourgSlovakia
Austria Moldova
France Romania
Switzerland
Spain
Armenia
Tunisia
Morocco
Jordan
Western Sahara Egypt
Mali
Niger
Senegal
Dominican Republic
Guinea Central African Republic
Guadeloupe Ivory Coast
Martinique Cameroon
Uganda Kenya
Guyana
Madagascar
Vanuatu
Botswana Mauritius
Countries where we provide services for Reunion Island
residential customers
Countries where we provide services for
business customers
our Group provides services for residential customers in 35 countries and for
businesses
4. 3,500 employees working on innovation
United Kingdom Poland
London Warsaw
8 cities in
France
Spain Japan
Madrid/Barcelona Tokyo
USA China
San Francisco Beijing
Jordan
Amman
Ivory Coast
Orange Innovation centers Abidjan
Egypt
Cairo
5. Orange Silicon Valley: disruptive
innovations for the future
Participate in the disruptive innovations
Partnership and business development with
companies, startups, and universities
Introduce our business leaders to the latest
solutions from Silicon Valley
Co-development with the ecosystem
benchmarking and diligence on new
technologies in order to frame
recommendations on technology and
business strategy for France Telecom
Group
Executive Briefing -global customer
management teams, and policy-makers
about trends in the IT and communications
business
6. The Journey
Open standards
Open architecture
Vendor neutral – level the playing field
for competition
Carbon footprint- Reduce power
usage
Improve end user experience
Compact infrastructure footprint
Dense Computing
– Compute density
– IO density
– Storage density
6
7. Infrastructure snapshot
More than 30,000 of servers (EMEA)
More than 50% deployments are 4-way
to 64-way
Enterprise storage
– NAS (file sharing)
– FC SAN (for most purposes)
Challenges
– Business growth demands for
bigger platform sizing
– Scalability barrier
– Compute density
– footprint
– Application performance
limitations
– Architecture limitations
– Interconnect technology
7
8. SMP => Grid
InfiniBand
App Servers
Database as Service Cluster
Migration large databases from
SMP to GRID (IBM SystemX
Blades)
90% reduction in server TCO
InfiniBand QDR for server
interconnect
8G/4G FC SAN for Storage
8
9. 2008 research study at IBM Montpellier: SystemX
blades with Intel Xeon processors
ib0 Sql*net ( IPoIB) + IO (SRP) IBM HS21 XM
IO (SRP)
Oracle RAC Cluster Apps Servers
Oracle RAC interconnect + IO (SRP)
ib1
IO (SRP)
Inter Switch Link
ISR9024M_DDR
ISR9024M_DDR
IB Storage
Achieved
# of nodes TPM Average ms Max IOPs
IBM LSI DS5000
4 763,038 44 27,880
6 1,162,022 22 36,870
8 1,665,183 33 46,067
9
10. Open Grid
Application / Database Server - INFINBAND 28 blades in IB QDR cluster
FCoIB -> FC : Low Latency bridging
FC SAN : capacity
IP to Fiber Channel - Gateway
Fiber Channel Storage - FIBER CHANNEL
10
11. 2010 study with IBM Sillicon Valley Labs : Integrate FC SAN with InfiniBand Cluster using DB2
PureScale
11
12. 2010 study: DB2 pureScale benchmark results
Scaling Results
60,000
50,000
– 10,000 TPS per
member (>3x 2008
40,000
study)
TPS
30,000 Average TPS
– 99% linear scalability
20,000
– data dips : transaction
10,000
anomaly
0
1 MBR 2 MBR 3 MBR 4 MBR 5 MBR
Members
Experiments 1-5 members
12,000
10,000
8,000 – Standard table contained 2,500,000 rows
1 MBR
2 MBR – Transaction mix 80% read, 20% write
TPS
6,000 3 MBR
– 40+ connections to each member with zero
4 MBR
5 MBR
think time
4,000
– Read transaction consists of 10 random
2,000
select statements
– Write transaction consists of 3 random
0 update statements
1 35 69 103 137 171 205 239 273 307 341 375 409 443 477 511
Seconds
12
13. Storage server equation
Need too many
servers for a
single disk
HDD: too many
spinning for few
servers!
The Inversion Phenomenon
13
14. SSD based Video Storage at a 4KM distance
16 diskless 8-12 core servers
4 KM InfiniBand WAN
2780 DVD quality videos streamed
Only 13Gbps bandwidth used
This is only 60% of pipe capacity
only 2 SSD – ioDrive Duo
Demo
QSFP
SSD transceiver
4km
SSD optical
InfiniBand Edge QSFP InfiniBand Edge InfiniBand Core
Switch
link
transceiver Switch Switch
15. Flash Memory Adoption Trends, forecasts
Source IDC
Source :Flash Memory Summit „11
Worldwide Enterprise SSD Share by Interface, 2010–2015
IDC
View
IDC: 2011
Note:
+PCIe 2.5” will vie for SATA and SAS
Source Gartner share Source IDC
15
16. OPEN GRID: Scale out with Flash
Performance
Flash
T0
SAN
T1
Source : nutanix
Capacity
Server side scale out flash – Tier 0
Low cost capacity of existing SAN with HDD
16
19. IBM SVL OSV : Experiment Results
Stream Computing: OLTP Cluster
– Processing transactions “In- – Rates measured using SAN
and IBM HighIOPS for logs
Motion”
– DB2 pureScale avg tps
– Fundamental Validations – using 2 x Data Members
Account, Merchant, Limit, Ra and SAN: 47K TPS
ting(AMT) – DB2 pureScale avg tps
using 2 x Data Members
– Able to handle “Burst” traffic and FLASH: 84K TPS
and cache database
– 2X Improvement using
operations FLASH storage for database
logs!
– performance threshold – not
reached yet : need to add
more stream servers
scalability effort continues : results to be published
19
20. LD JCTD Operational Utility Assessment
CREATE LOCALLY
Large
Data LD
LD
LD
LD
LD
“While the first of about 10 files was
still being transferred to the legacy
work station, Large Data had all ten SHARE GLOBALLY
files.”
LD JCTD IOUA Report, Nov 09, JHU/APL
Globally Synchronized, Shared Data and High Resolution Collaboration
21. Operational Demonstration Results
Operational Impact
• GEOINT access & web services for warfighters
• UNCLAS US Gov’t and NGO support
• Remote access to large, distributed ISR files
• Data virtualization & near real-time failover
“Simply put, the system NRL has in place for delivering
large, AOI detailed imagery is outstanding and truly a model for
the DoD/IC.”
– Sean Wohltman, Google Inc.
Performance Results Summary as a
Fraction of Theoretical Maximum Data Transfer Rate
RDMA/IB TCP/IP/Ethernet
NETWORK
Single Multiple Single Multiple
(Bandwidth
Efficiency) Stream Streams Stream Streams
Transition Metric
75% / 90% 80% / 90% 75% / 90% 80% / 90%
Threshold/Objective
Wide Area Network
Suitability 94% ++ 98% ++ 86% + 17%
(2,000 fiber miles)
• Demonstrated TRL-7/8/9 Long-Haul WAN
89% + 83% + 42% 22%
• Cost effective, open source (13,000 fiber miles)
• Commodity components FILE SYSTEM Multiple Multiple
Single File Single File
• Stability/availability on par with (Read/Write) Files Files
operational systems Transition Metric
60% / 80% 60% / 80% 60% / 80% 60% / 80%
Threshold/Objective
“A quick overview of the system was all that Long-Haul WAN
72% ++ 94% ++ 34% 6%
was required for ease of use” (13,000 fiber miles)
-- LD User Meets Threshold + / Meets Objective ++
Effectiveness: LD met or exceeded Transition Thresholds
23. developing the networks of the future
the challenges ahead
respond to the massive increase in traffic: by 2015, we expect the standard level of
mobile data traffic to have risen by 26 times
expand coverage and increase our speed to keep pace with the digital revolution
constantly improve the quality of our services
renew our infrastructures while respecting the environment
24. 40G InfiniBand over 370 KM : ESNet ANI Tested
Orange Silicon Valley qualify
world’s first long haul 40G
InfiniBand solution
Collaboration with US
Department of Energy
Field trial on DoE 370KM
circuit
90%+ transport efficiency
under concurrent streaming
Maximum bandwidth
Unidirectional 3.8 GB/s,
Bidirectional 7.6 GB/s
25. Open Grid:
Cross boundaries : global scale
Dissemination of
information throughout
Grid Grid Grid
the enterprise
WAN Synchronize distributed
enterprise data centers
Storage Storage Storage
Server Server Server
Data
Ultra Low Latency
Data Data
Center Center Center Fabric across long haul
Storage Network Backbone :
CONVERGENCE PHENOMENON
25
26. Seattle Nov - 2011
OC 768
Streaming (?)
SSD
Video streams
SEA
CHI NYC
MANLAN at AoA
6,000 miles !
SLC
BNL
continental US
World’s first 40Gbps Long Haul InfiniBand !!
> key reason of doing this study is FT has a large footprint of FClowering the TCO of DCcombinint FC and Ethernet into IB and gaining b/w performance – IO virtualization reduce interconnect cost improve the network at the same time