This document contains presentations from the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium held in Washington, DC on June 25-26, 2015. The presentations discuss enterprise cloud adoption strategies in higher education, using Redshift and big data for predictive modeling at Ivy Tech Community College, and Cornell University's journey to adopting cloud computing across its organization. Cornell's presentation outlines its strategy and challenges in moving workloads and applications to the cloud.
This document summarizes a presentation given at the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington, DC. The presentation was given by Adobe about their managed services offering, including:
- An overview of Adobe's Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Marketing Cloud products and the transition to cloud-based services.
- Details on Adobe's managed service for Experience Manager, including continuous monitoring, maintenance, and 24/7 support through a designated Customer Success Engineer.
- How the managed service deploys preconfigured applications on Amazon Web Services infrastructure to provide scalability, security, and high availability.
The document summarizes presentations from the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium held in Washington, DC on June 25-26, 2015. It discusses how AWS is being used by over 1,700 government agencies, 17,000 nonprofits and 4,500 educational institutions. Specific presentations highlighted how Instructure is using AWS to transform education delivery and how Civitas Learning is using AWS to bring together educational data and provide insights to help students learn and complete their programs.
The document discusses hybrid IT integration strategies using AWS technologies. It covers integrated infrastructure using VPN and Direct Connect, integrated services like Active Directory and monitoring tools, an integrated platform for deployment and management, and integrated solutions for storage expansion and backup/archiving. The overall goal is to aggregate on-premises and cloud resources and services to provide cost efficiencies, scalability, flexibility and security.
This document summarizes a presentation given at the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington DC. The presentation was given by Brian Kinlaw of CSC on architecting a big data platform. It covered CSC's big data platform as a service offering, including the architecture, security, and benefits it provides to customers in implementing big data solutions more quickly and managing the associated risks. Case studies were presented on how CSC has helped customers in various industries like manufacturing, transportation, and retail leverage big data to improve operations, customer support and gain new insights.
This document summarizes presentations from the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium held on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington, DC. It includes an agenda for a talk on remote sensing support for homeland security given by Michael Donnelly from the DHS Geospatial Management Office. It also provides summaries of presentations on citizen services given by John Landwehr from Adobe and on managing police body camera video given by Mike Wagers, Chief Operating Officer of the Seattle Police Department.
The document discusses modern IT governance using AWS tools and services. It describes how AWS provides capabilities to help answer key governance questions like what resources are in use, how they are performing, who controls them, and if they are secure and compliant. AWS services like Config, CloudWatch, and IAM can provide transparency into infrastructure and help ensure the right access and change management processes are followed. The document advocates automating governance using tools like CloudFormation to bake security and compliance into DevOps pipelines.
Defending your workloads against the next zero-day vulnerability Amazon Web Services
This document summarizes a presentation about defending workloads from zero-day vulnerabilities. It discusses the traditional responsibility model where the customer is responsible for security up to the operating system layer. It then introduces AWS' shared responsibility model where AWS is responsible for security of the cloud infrastructure and the customer is responsible for security in the operating system and above. The presentation covers responding to the Shellshock bash vulnerability by reviewing network and security configurations, applying intrusion prevention, creating a new AMI with the patch, and implementing integrity monitoring. It emphasizes automating response workflows and instantiating from hardened AMIs to rapidly repair systems upon discovery of new vulnerabilities.
Acquisition Strategies and Contract Vehicles in the Public SectorAmazon Web Services
The document summarizes key topics from the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium held on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington, DC. It discusses the differences between traditional IT and cloud computing models, the steps to successful public sector adoption of cloud services, different cloud service models, procurement best practices for cloud services, and NASA's approach to acquiring cloud services from AWS through a reseller.
This document summarizes a presentation given at the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington, DC. The presentation was given by Adobe about their managed services offering, including:
- An overview of Adobe's Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Marketing Cloud products and the transition to cloud-based services.
- Details on Adobe's managed service for Experience Manager, including continuous monitoring, maintenance, and 24/7 support through a designated Customer Success Engineer.
- How the managed service deploys preconfigured applications on Amazon Web Services infrastructure to provide scalability, security, and high availability.
The document summarizes presentations from the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium held in Washington, DC on June 25-26, 2015. It discusses how AWS is being used by over 1,700 government agencies, 17,000 nonprofits and 4,500 educational institutions. Specific presentations highlighted how Instructure is using AWS to transform education delivery and how Civitas Learning is using AWS to bring together educational data and provide insights to help students learn and complete their programs.
The document discusses hybrid IT integration strategies using AWS technologies. It covers integrated infrastructure using VPN and Direct Connect, integrated services like Active Directory and monitoring tools, an integrated platform for deployment and management, and integrated solutions for storage expansion and backup/archiving. The overall goal is to aggregate on-premises and cloud resources and services to provide cost efficiencies, scalability, flexibility and security.
This document summarizes a presentation given at the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington DC. The presentation was given by Brian Kinlaw of CSC on architecting a big data platform. It covered CSC's big data platform as a service offering, including the architecture, security, and benefits it provides to customers in implementing big data solutions more quickly and managing the associated risks. Case studies were presented on how CSC has helped customers in various industries like manufacturing, transportation, and retail leverage big data to improve operations, customer support and gain new insights.
This document summarizes presentations from the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium held on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington, DC. It includes an agenda for a talk on remote sensing support for homeland security given by Michael Donnelly from the DHS Geospatial Management Office. It also provides summaries of presentations on citizen services given by John Landwehr from Adobe and on managing police body camera video given by Mike Wagers, Chief Operating Officer of the Seattle Police Department.
The document discusses modern IT governance using AWS tools and services. It describes how AWS provides capabilities to help answer key governance questions like what resources are in use, how they are performing, who controls them, and if they are secure and compliant. AWS services like Config, CloudWatch, and IAM can provide transparency into infrastructure and help ensure the right access and change management processes are followed. The document advocates automating governance using tools like CloudFormation to bake security and compliance into DevOps pipelines.
Defending your workloads against the next zero-day vulnerability Amazon Web Services
This document summarizes a presentation about defending workloads from zero-day vulnerabilities. It discusses the traditional responsibility model where the customer is responsible for security up to the operating system layer. It then introduces AWS' shared responsibility model where AWS is responsible for security of the cloud infrastructure and the customer is responsible for security in the operating system and above. The presentation covers responding to the Shellshock bash vulnerability by reviewing network and security configurations, applying intrusion prevention, creating a new AMI with the patch, and implementing integrity monitoring. It emphasizes automating response workflows and instantiating from hardened AMIs to rapidly repair systems upon discovery of new vulnerabilities.
Acquisition Strategies and Contract Vehicles in the Public SectorAmazon Web Services
The document summarizes key topics from the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium held on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington, DC. It discusses the differences between traditional IT and cloud computing models, the steps to successful public sector adoption of cloud services, different cloud service models, procurement best practices for cloud services, and NASA's approach to acquiring cloud services from AWS through a reseller.
This document summarizes an AWS symposium held in Washington DC on June 25-26, 2015. It discusses how AWS started by providing internal infrastructure for Amazon and has grown to serve over 1 million active customers globally across 11 regions and 29 availability zones. The document outlines AWS's broad range of services including compute, storage, databases, analytics and more and how its experience, service breadth, pace of innovation and global footprint set it apart in the cloud market.
This document summarizes a project by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to estimate biomass in the arid and semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa using high-resolution satellite imagery from AWS. The project aims to process over 3,000 scenes of imagery over Niger to generate vegetation indices and estimate carbon storage. It requires over 100 virtual machines running for a month on AWS to process the data. Cycle Computing software will be used to automate resource provisioning and data management on AWS. The goals are to develop methods to scale the analysis to the entire arid and semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa using AWS's flexible computing capacity.
This document summarizes presentations from the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium held on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington, DC. The agenda included discussions on open data on AWS, Snapsat's work making Landsat imagery accessible, and OpenAddresses' efforts to collect open address data worldwide. Snapsat has built a web application that allows non-experts to easily access and use Landsat satellite imagery on AWS, lowering the learning curve compared to command line tools. OpenAddresses maintains a crowd-sourced list of over 1,000 open data sources and has compiled 127 million address points from 64 contributors to make geocoding easier.
The document summarizes a presentation given at the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington DC. The presentation discusses AWS as a data platform, highlighting the growing size and complexity of data as well as the various AWS services that can be used to store, process, analyze and gain insights from data at different scales. These services include S3, Glacier, DynamoDB, Redshift, EMR, Kinesis and Machine Learning among others. The presentation emphasizes that AWS provides a flexible suite of tools that can be used together to effectively manage the full data lifecycle and derive value from data.
Accelerating Time to Science:Transforming Research in the CloudAmazon Web Services
The document summarizes an AWS symposium presentation about using AWS for scientific computing. It discusses how researchers are using AWS for high-performance and high-throughput computing through projects like particle physics experiments and radio telescope projects. It also provides a case study of how Brookhaven National Laboratory and the ATLAS experiment are using AWS for tasks like simulations and data analysis to accelerate discovery.
This document discusses how Instructure has moved to an "all-in" approach on AWS. It begins with Instructure hosting its entire application on a single EC2 instance, which does not provide redundancy or scalability. The document then outlines how Instructure improved its architecture by leveraging various AWS services: using Amazon VPC for networking; splitting the application across multiple EC2 instances and an Amazon RDS database for separation of concerns; adding an Elastic Load Balancer and additional Availability Zones for failover and redundancy; and offloading static content to Amazon S3 and CloudFront to improve performance. This "all-in" approach allows Instructure to build a scalable and resilient architecture utilizing AWS' full range of services.
DevOps in the Public Sector: How the Democratic Party Implemented DevOps to M...Amazon Web Services
The document discusses a symposium held by AWS on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington DC. It covered topics around DevOps in the public sector and how the Democratic Party implemented DevOps practices to migrate their democrats.org website to AWS. Specific DevOps topics discussed include continuous integration, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code using CloudFormation templates, automation, and continuous deployment to enable rapid iteration and innovation. Case studies were presented on how organizations like Etsy and Obama for America leveraged metrics and data to improve their systems.
This document summarizes a presentation about building a culture of cloud cost management. It discusses how cloud costs are no longer managed by one person but by many teams through their decisions. It promotes putting cost data in the hands of people, enacting policies, and incentivizing good behavior to build such a culture. When successful, there are no budget surprises, everyone is aligned, and better decisions are made throughout the organization, saving money.
This document summarizes an AWS/FedRAMP symposium that took place in Washington DC on June 25-26, 2015. It discusses the AWS/FedRAMP TIC Overlay Pilot project which aims to assess how AWS infrastructure can support Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) capabilities for US government agencies. The pilot involves reviewing AWS controls, third-party assessor testing, and producing a report on integrating TIC capabilities using AWS tools like Amazon VPC, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail logs.
Moving Workloads into AWS GovCloud (US) - AWS Symposium 2014 - Washington D.C. Amazon Web Services
In a 2012 IDC study, researchers found that customers who migrated to AWS broke even in just seven months and experienced a 626% five-year return on investment. Furthermore, public sector customers’ typical migration needs make this even easier, faster, and more cost effective. Learn how to identify the best workloads to move, the logistics of this transition (“lift-and-shift” or a phased approach), and the benefits your organization will experience from day one.
This document summarizes a presentation on rapidly prototyping a data processing pipeline on AWS. It describes ingesting news articles from S3, processing the data by generating word clouds with EC2 instances managed by Auto Scaling groups, and storing results in DynamoDB. It discusses the services, workflow, scaling, security, demo, metrics, and cost optimization of the prototype designed to be easily built and modified using native AWS features.
This document summarizes a presentation given at the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington, DC. The presentation provided a deep dive into AWS GovCloud's compliance with regulations such as ITAR, FedRAMP, DoD SRG, CJIS, and HIPAA. It covered the scope of AWS services covered under each regulation and the requirements and documentation needed for compliance certifications. Resources for additional compliance information were also provided.
The document summarizes an AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium that took place in Washington, DC on June 25-26, 2015. It includes the names and titles of several speakers at the event, such as Max Peterson of AWS, Robert Groat of Smartronix, Anthony Algmin of the Chicago Transit Authority, and Beth Ann Bergsmark of Georgetown University. It also lists four common questions around cloud transformation strategies that were likely addressed by the speakers.
(ISM206) Modern IT Governance Through Transparency and AutomationAmazon Web Services
As information technology increasingly becomes strategic to more enterprises and government agencies, and as the threat landscape evolves and becomes more challenging, governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) increasingly become c-suite issues. In this session, we examine how the AWS cloud platform, through APIs and automation, enables advances and the implementation of best practices in governance and compliance. Learn how AWS can help senior leadership confidently answer key governance questions, such as: What do I have? How it is performing? Who controls it? Is it secure and compliant? Are we using the right processes and protections when we make changes? What is it costing me?
AWS Deployment Best Practices - AWS Symposium 2014 - Washington D.C. Amazon Web Services
Description: This session will feature best practices in the real world for deploying AWS cloud services. You will hear about cloud use cases, governance, security, cloud architecture, optimizing costs, and leveraging appropriate support offerings. The session will provide insight into experience from hundreds of government customers’ AWS adoption and highlight lessons learned along the way.
This document summarizes a presentation about AWS GovCloud given at a symposium in Washington DC. It discusses how AWS GovCloud is an isolated AWS region for handling controlled unclassified data, with separate identity and access management. Examples of workloads and customers using AWS GovCloud include the Mars Science Laboratory using Elastic Search and HDFS for data analytics in compliance with ITAR. The adoption of AWS GovCloud has grown significantly year-over-year since its launch in 2011.
Federal Compliance Deep Dive: FISMA, FedRAMP, and Beyond - AWS Symposium 2014...Amazon Web Services
Security is your number one priority and it is ours too. With customers around the world across all industries, it is our top priority to ensure the underlying cloud infrastructure is secure and compliant. This presentation will address our shared security/responsibility model, specific compliance requirements such as FedRAMP, DISA/DoD Cloud Security Models, and detail the specific AWS compliance programs that supports our customers in these compliance environments.
The document summarizes an AWS presentation about the AWS Cloud Center for Service (C2S) region. It discusses how C2S is different by providing business-level support for every account and restricting access to only virtual private clouds. It also outlines the services available in the standard AWS regions and C2S region, showing that C2S has fewer services initially but more will be added over time. The presentation demonstrates AWS' rapid pace of innovation in cloud services and features since 2006.
Congress 2012: Enterprise Cloud Adoption – an Evolution from Infrastructure ...eurocloud
The document discusses enterprise cloud adoption trends. It notes that 57% of enterprises use SaaS and 38% have adopted PaaS. Common applications migrated to the cloud include test/development, disaster recovery, email/collaboration, and analytics. Enterprises seek the cloud's flexible infrastructure and ability to bring products to market quicker. While cloud adoption is increasing, IT departments struggle with legacy systems and a lack of resources and agility. The cloud offers opportunities to focus more on information and using data for innovation.
AWS Enterprise Summit London 2015 | Creating a Cloud First StandardAmazon Web Services
This document discusses creating a "cloud-first" standard for an organization's IT strategy. It outlines how traditional IT maps can be transformed by adopting AWS services for different functions. The key steps in a cloud adoption journey include getting executive sponsorship, experimenting with AWS services, educating staff, creating a cloud center of excellence, adopting hybrid cloud models, and establishing a cloud-first standard to guide technology decisions.
This document summarizes an AWS symposium held in Washington DC on June 25-26, 2015. It discusses how AWS started by providing internal infrastructure for Amazon and has grown to serve over 1 million active customers globally across 11 regions and 29 availability zones. The document outlines AWS's broad range of services including compute, storage, databases, analytics and more and how its experience, service breadth, pace of innovation and global footprint set it apart in the cloud market.
This document summarizes a project by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to estimate biomass in the arid and semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa using high-resolution satellite imagery from AWS. The project aims to process over 3,000 scenes of imagery over Niger to generate vegetation indices and estimate carbon storage. It requires over 100 virtual machines running for a month on AWS to process the data. Cycle Computing software will be used to automate resource provisioning and data management on AWS. The goals are to develop methods to scale the analysis to the entire arid and semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa using AWS's flexible computing capacity.
This document summarizes presentations from the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium held on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington, DC. The agenda included discussions on open data on AWS, Snapsat's work making Landsat imagery accessible, and OpenAddresses' efforts to collect open address data worldwide. Snapsat has built a web application that allows non-experts to easily access and use Landsat satellite imagery on AWS, lowering the learning curve compared to command line tools. OpenAddresses maintains a crowd-sourced list of over 1,000 open data sources and has compiled 127 million address points from 64 contributors to make geocoding easier.
The document summarizes a presentation given at the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington DC. The presentation discusses AWS as a data platform, highlighting the growing size and complexity of data as well as the various AWS services that can be used to store, process, analyze and gain insights from data at different scales. These services include S3, Glacier, DynamoDB, Redshift, EMR, Kinesis and Machine Learning among others. The presentation emphasizes that AWS provides a flexible suite of tools that can be used together to effectively manage the full data lifecycle and derive value from data.
Accelerating Time to Science:Transforming Research in the CloudAmazon Web Services
The document summarizes an AWS symposium presentation about using AWS for scientific computing. It discusses how researchers are using AWS for high-performance and high-throughput computing through projects like particle physics experiments and radio telescope projects. It also provides a case study of how Brookhaven National Laboratory and the ATLAS experiment are using AWS for tasks like simulations and data analysis to accelerate discovery.
This document discusses how Instructure has moved to an "all-in" approach on AWS. It begins with Instructure hosting its entire application on a single EC2 instance, which does not provide redundancy or scalability. The document then outlines how Instructure improved its architecture by leveraging various AWS services: using Amazon VPC for networking; splitting the application across multiple EC2 instances and an Amazon RDS database for separation of concerns; adding an Elastic Load Balancer and additional Availability Zones for failover and redundancy; and offloading static content to Amazon S3 and CloudFront to improve performance. This "all-in" approach allows Instructure to build a scalable and resilient architecture utilizing AWS' full range of services.
DevOps in the Public Sector: How the Democratic Party Implemented DevOps to M...Amazon Web Services
The document discusses a symposium held by AWS on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington DC. It covered topics around DevOps in the public sector and how the Democratic Party implemented DevOps practices to migrate their democrats.org website to AWS. Specific DevOps topics discussed include continuous integration, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code using CloudFormation templates, automation, and continuous deployment to enable rapid iteration and innovation. Case studies were presented on how organizations like Etsy and Obama for America leveraged metrics and data to improve their systems.
This document summarizes a presentation about building a culture of cloud cost management. It discusses how cloud costs are no longer managed by one person but by many teams through their decisions. It promotes putting cost data in the hands of people, enacting policies, and incentivizing good behavior to build such a culture. When successful, there are no budget surprises, everyone is aligned, and better decisions are made throughout the organization, saving money.
This document summarizes an AWS/FedRAMP symposium that took place in Washington DC on June 25-26, 2015. It discusses the AWS/FedRAMP TIC Overlay Pilot project which aims to assess how AWS infrastructure can support Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) capabilities for US government agencies. The pilot involves reviewing AWS controls, third-party assessor testing, and producing a report on integrating TIC capabilities using AWS tools like Amazon VPC, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail logs.
Moving Workloads into AWS GovCloud (US) - AWS Symposium 2014 - Washington D.C. Amazon Web Services
In a 2012 IDC study, researchers found that customers who migrated to AWS broke even in just seven months and experienced a 626% five-year return on investment. Furthermore, public sector customers’ typical migration needs make this even easier, faster, and more cost effective. Learn how to identify the best workloads to move, the logistics of this transition (“lift-and-shift” or a phased approach), and the benefits your organization will experience from day one.
This document summarizes a presentation on rapidly prototyping a data processing pipeline on AWS. It describes ingesting news articles from S3, processing the data by generating word clouds with EC2 instances managed by Auto Scaling groups, and storing results in DynamoDB. It discusses the services, workflow, scaling, security, demo, metrics, and cost optimization of the prototype designed to be easily built and modified using native AWS features.
This document summarizes a presentation given at the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington, DC. The presentation provided a deep dive into AWS GovCloud's compliance with regulations such as ITAR, FedRAMP, DoD SRG, CJIS, and HIPAA. It covered the scope of AWS services covered under each regulation and the requirements and documentation needed for compliance certifications. Resources for additional compliance information were also provided.
The document summarizes an AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium that took place in Washington, DC on June 25-26, 2015. It includes the names and titles of several speakers at the event, such as Max Peterson of AWS, Robert Groat of Smartronix, Anthony Algmin of the Chicago Transit Authority, and Beth Ann Bergsmark of Georgetown University. It also lists four common questions around cloud transformation strategies that were likely addressed by the speakers.
(ISM206) Modern IT Governance Through Transparency and AutomationAmazon Web Services
As information technology increasingly becomes strategic to more enterprises and government agencies, and as the threat landscape evolves and becomes more challenging, governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) increasingly become c-suite issues. In this session, we examine how the AWS cloud platform, through APIs and automation, enables advances and the implementation of best practices in governance and compliance. Learn how AWS can help senior leadership confidently answer key governance questions, such as: What do I have? How it is performing? Who controls it? Is it secure and compliant? Are we using the right processes and protections when we make changes? What is it costing me?
AWS Deployment Best Practices - AWS Symposium 2014 - Washington D.C. Amazon Web Services
Description: This session will feature best practices in the real world for deploying AWS cloud services. You will hear about cloud use cases, governance, security, cloud architecture, optimizing costs, and leveraging appropriate support offerings. The session will provide insight into experience from hundreds of government customers’ AWS adoption and highlight lessons learned along the way.
This document summarizes a presentation about AWS GovCloud given at a symposium in Washington DC. It discusses how AWS GovCloud is an isolated AWS region for handling controlled unclassified data, with separate identity and access management. Examples of workloads and customers using AWS GovCloud include the Mars Science Laboratory using Elastic Search and HDFS for data analytics in compliance with ITAR. The adoption of AWS GovCloud has grown significantly year-over-year since its launch in 2011.
Federal Compliance Deep Dive: FISMA, FedRAMP, and Beyond - AWS Symposium 2014...Amazon Web Services
Security is your number one priority and it is ours too. With customers around the world across all industries, it is our top priority to ensure the underlying cloud infrastructure is secure and compliant. This presentation will address our shared security/responsibility model, specific compliance requirements such as FedRAMP, DISA/DoD Cloud Security Models, and detail the specific AWS compliance programs that supports our customers in these compliance environments.
The document summarizes an AWS presentation about the AWS Cloud Center for Service (C2S) region. It discusses how C2S is different by providing business-level support for every account and restricting access to only virtual private clouds. It also outlines the services available in the standard AWS regions and C2S region, showing that C2S has fewer services initially but more will be added over time. The presentation demonstrates AWS' rapid pace of innovation in cloud services and features since 2006.
Congress 2012: Enterprise Cloud Adoption – an Evolution from Infrastructure ...eurocloud
The document discusses enterprise cloud adoption trends. It notes that 57% of enterprises use SaaS and 38% have adopted PaaS. Common applications migrated to the cloud include test/development, disaster recovery, email/collaboration, and analytics. Enterprises seek the cloud's flexible infrastructure and ability to bring products to market quicker. While cloud adoption is increasing, IT departments struggle with legacy systems and a lack of resources and agility. The cloud offers opportunities to focus more on information and using data for innovation.
AWS Enterprise Summit London 2015 | Creating a Cloud First StandardAmazon Web Services
This document discusses creating a "cloud-first" standard for an organization's IT strategy. It outlines how traditional IT maps can be transformed by adopting AWS services for different functions. The key steps in a cloud adoption journey include getting executive sponsorship, experimenting with AWS services, educating staff, creating a cloud center of excellence, adopting hybrid cloud models, and establishing a cloud-first standard to guide technology decisions.
In this presentation from the AWS Lab at Cloud Expo Europe 2014 you will find details of the six patterns that Enterprise organisations typically to follow when adopting Amazon Web Services as well as a summary of the licensing options available for running enterprise applications on Amazon Web Services.
Governance Strategies for Cloud Transformation | AWS Public Sector Summit 2016Amazon Web Services
Developing a best-practices cloud governance model is a foundational and critical activity to facilitate the systemic, supportable, and sustainable execution of a successful cloud transformation strategy. This best-practices model includes a standards policies, automation that consistently applies and enforces policies and controls, self-service capabilities that that enable development agility and speed, and automated monitoring and cost management that ensure operational integrity. A well-developed cloud governance model enables customers to effectively develop, leverage, and optimize the AWS cloud operating model to improve operational integrity, reliability, performance, and transparency. This session highlights the necessary and recommended elements of a best-practice governance model including policy considerations and recommendations, self-service automation methods towards IT-as-a-Service, and use-case examples.
The People Model and Cloud Transformation | AWS Public Sector Summit 2016Amazon Web Services
The document discusses the importance of people in cloud transformations. It notes that initiatives often fail due to people-related issues rather than strategic or execution flaws. The University of Maryland case study highlights how establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence and focusing on skills, roles, and organizational change enabled their successful cloud adoption. DevSecOps is discussed as an approach that leverages people, process, and technology to speed up the software development lifecycle through practices like continuous integration, delivery, and deployment as well as automated testing and monitoring.
(ENT305) Develop an Enterprise-wide Cloud Adoption Strategy | AWS re:Invent 2014Amazon Web Services
Taking a "cloud first" approach requires a different approach than you probably had to consider for your initial few workloads in the cloud. You'll be diving into the deep end of hybrid environments, and that means taking a broad view of your IT strategy, architecture, and organizational design.
Through our experience in helping enterprises navigate this change, AWS has developed the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) to assist with planning, creating, managing, and supporting the shift. In this session, we cover how the CAF offers practical guidance and comprehensive guidelines to enterprise organizations, particularly around roles, governance, and efficiency.
CPN210 Defining an Enterprise Cloud Strategy - AWS re: Invent 2012Amazon Web Services
Few terms are more confusing than the term "cloud." While we've moved beyond the age of "defining the cloud," there's still a significant amount of confusion in understanding the role of the public cloud in an enterprise IT infrastructure. This presentation defines the elements of a mature enterprise cloud computing strategy that includes all components of a hybrid cloud, how to build out an integrated public/private infrastructure, and strategies for when and where to deploy new systems, and when it makes sense to migrate existing systems.
The document discusses the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) which provides guidance for organizations to develop a cloud adoption strategy and roadmap. The CAF includes 7 perspectives - People, Process, Security, Maturity, Platform, Operations, Business. It describes typical first steps such as skills assessment, foundational services setup, and application portfolio assessment. Key elements for a successful cloud adoption journey are also outlined such as executive sponsorship, experimentation principles, a cloud center of excellence, and an adoption roadmap aligned to business needs.
This project has been submitted to the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008 competition and was awarded the 2nd place. This presentation was the first round concept proposal.
I did this deck as a quick overview on how to create a Pecha Kucha deck for an upcoming event the Art+Copy Club of Kansas City is holding on April 23rd.
While a couple of slides are specific to the event, I thought these pointers might be helpful to anyone who is thinking about attempting Pecha Kucha themselves.
Este documento habla sobre el software educativo y sus aplicaciones en la enseñanza. Explica que el software educativo se refiere a programas diseñados para facilitar el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje, como juegos educativos de internet. También describe algunos tipos de aplicaciones de la informática en la educación, como usar programas para que los estudiantes aprendan en contextos reales y actúen de forma autónoma. Finalmente, sugiere que debemos complementar la educación en el aula con herramientas de software educativo.
The document discusses using Web 2.0 tools for management communication in libraries. It introduces common Web 2.0 tools like blogs, wikis, Google Apps that allow easy information sharing and collaboration. These tools can help streamline communication, keep all staff informed and avoid fragmented communication compared to traditional methods. Specific tools demonstrated include Google Docs, Calendar, Blogger, PBWiki and del.icio.us for organizing and sharing links and documents.
This document outlines the agenda for the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium held in Washington, DC on June 25-26, 2015. The symposium focused on driving innovation with open data and how open data can be used as a platform when hosted on AWS. Speakers included government officials and representatives from AWS customers discussing their use of open data and AWS services. Specific examples highlighted how open data is powering projects around sustainability, international trade, and screening lists when hosted on AWS using services like S3, EC2, and DynamoDB.
This document summarizes an AWS symposium on open data. It discusses how AWS is making large datasets like Landsat imagery freely available and how this enables more innovation. It also describes two projects presented at the symposium: Snapsat is making Landsat data more accessible by simplifying the process, and OpenAddresses is crowdsourcing open address data from around the world to improve geocoding.
This document contains slides from a presentation given at the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington, DC. The presentation discusses how to architect applications on AWS for high availability using services like Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, Route 53, and multiple Availability Zones. It also provides an overview of AWS global infrastructure and security features.
This document contains slides from a presentation given at the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington, DC. The presentation discusses how to architect applications on AWS for high availability using services like Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, Route 53, and multiple Availability Zones. It also provides an overview of AWS global infrastructure and security features.
This document summarizes an AWS symposium for partners focused on government, education, and non-profit organizations. It outlines the agenda which includes best practices for partners in the AWS ecosystem, an overview of AWS partner programs including new resources for 2015, and opportunities for partners in the public sector. Specific programs discussed include the AWS Partner Network, Marketplace, Quick Start deployments, and specialized partner programs for government.
This document summarizes a presentation given at the 2015 AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium in Washington D.C. on June 25-26. The presentation discusses how Georgetown University modernized their IT infrastructure using AWS cloud services to simplify maintenance, reduce capital expenditures, improve fault tolerance, enable scaling, adopt a pay-per-use model, utilize tiered storage, enable burst computing, support infrastructure-less development, and drive business and IT transformation. Moving to AWS allowed Georgetown to transition from managing their own data centers to a cloud-first strategy and harness cloud technologies to achieve modernization goals.
This document summarizes a presentation on hybrid cloud solutions given at the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington DC. The presentation discusses how cloud computing represents a paradigm shift in IT, the growth of cloud adoption and trends like hybrid models. It outlines different hybrid architectures including performance optimization, control, and backup/disaster recovery. Common cloud use cases for government and enterprises like analytics, backup/archive and consolidation are also presented. Two hybrid cloud solutions are described, one for enabling enterprise file systems on AWS and another for seamless backup and archive to Amazon S3 and Glacier.
The document summarizes a presentation from the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington, DC. It discusses enhanced security and compliance capabilities available on AWS, including AWS' responsibility for physical and network security controls versus the customer's responsibility for logical controls. It also provides examples of using AWS security services like AWS Key Management Service, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon S3 for encryption and auditing.
This document summarizes an AWS symposium held in Washington DC on June 25-26, 2015. It discusses how AWS started by providing internal infrastructure for Amazon and has grown to serve over 1 million active customers globally across 11 regions and 29 availability zones. The document outlines AWS's broad range of services including compute, storage, databases, analytics and more and how its experience, service breadth, pace of innovation and global footprint set it apart in the cloud market.
The NOAA Big Data Project: Public-Private Partnerships at ScaleAmazon Web Services
The document summarizes a presentation given at the AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium on June 25-26, 2015 about the NOAA Big Data Project. The presentation included an overview of the project and AWS Data Alliance, a fireside chat with NOAA representatives, and an audience Q&A. The goal of the project is to increase access to NOAA data through public-private partnerships by making more data available on AWS at no cost to the government. This will help drive innovation and new economic activity using NOAA data.
The document is about an AWS symposium for government, education, and non-profit partners that took place on June 25-26, 2015 in Washington DC. The symposium covered topics to help partners build their business on AWS like developing business plans, offerings, and customer engagement strategies. It provided case studies and tips on how partners can leverage AWS services to both reduce costs and create new revenue streams for their own organization and customers. The document emphasized that cloud computing represents a major market opportunity for partners and that AWS and the APN program can help partners engage customers and develop cloud solutions.
This document discusses a presentation about big data and analytics on AWS. It describes what big data is, provides examples of AWS services for ingesting, storing, processing, analyzing and visualizing big data. It also provides examples of industries using AWS for data analysis and discusses Amazon Kinesis for real-time processing of streaming data. Finally, it discusses putting the various AWS services together in an end-to-end big data workflow.
This document summarizes a presentation about big data and analytics on AWS. It discusses what big data is, the different AWS services available for ingesting, storing, processing, analyzing and visualizing big data. It provides examples of how companies in various industries are using AWS for data analysis. It also includes a short demo of ICAO's use of Hadoop on AWS for integrated analysis.
AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline, and AWS CodeCommit: Transforming Software D...Amazon Web Services
This document summarizes a presentation about AWS CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, and CodeCommit. The presentation introduces these services for automating software deployments and releases. CodeDeploy allows automating application deployments across different environments without downtime. CodePipeline provides customizable workflows for continuous delivery. CodeCommit provides a fully managed Git source control service. The presentation demonstrates how these services help transform software development processes.
This document outlines the steps for getting started with AWS GovCloud, which is a physically and logically isolated region for handling export-controlled and classified data. To access AWS GovCloud, a user must have a US entity, be a US person, and complete an onboarding process including signing an amendment, receiving credentials, and setting up an IAM user and VPC. Once set up, a user can launch instances and services in AWS GovCloud and will see it as a separate region on their invoice.
Outcome Broker: Data Driven Innovation - AWS Washington D.C. Symposium 2014Amazon Web Services
This document outlines an AWS symposium on government, education, and nonprofits held from June 24-26, 2014 in Washington, DC. It discusses how AWS can help organizations innovate through agile infrastructure, data-driven insights, and experimentation. Case studies are presented on New York City projects like digital wayfinding and a hurricane restoration portal that were supported by AWS cloud computing. The symposium promoted how AWS enables faster response, more efficient use of resources, and a culture of innovation for government agencies.
This document contains a presentation about DevOps and its importance and benefits. It discusses how DevOps breaks down silos between development and operations teams to inject more agility. It provides examples of how some government customers have implemented DevOps on AWS to reduce outages, speed up deployments, and improve availability. The presentation emphasizes that embracing AWS and DevOps approaches can help organizations drive more value through collaboration, agility, and continuous delivery processes.
02 amazon workspaces aws wwps dc symposium - halachmi - version 1 5Amazon Web Services
The document summarizes a presentation about Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager (Amazon WAM). The presentation reviewed the fundamentals of Amazon WorkSpaces, described Amazon WAM for deploying and managing applications, and provided a sample reference architecture for a public sector WorkSpaces deployment using Amazon WAM and other AWS services.
Welcome to the AWS Cloud - AWS Symposium 2014 - Washington D.C. Amazon Web Services
Steven Halliwell, General Manager, Amazon Web Services, will provide an Introduction to AWS, Why Organizations are choosing AWS, What Workloads are appropriate on AWS, and How Organizations are getting started with AWS. Steven will discuss what many AWS public sector customers and partners are doing with and saying about AWS. Lastly, Steven will talk about various strategies for how customers and partners can get started with AWS.
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Come costruire servizi di Forecasting sfruttando algoritmi di ML e deep learn...Amazon Web Services
Il Forecasting è un processo importante per tantissime aziende e viene utilizzato in vari ambiti per cercare di prevedere in modo accurato la crescita e distribuzione di un prodotto, l’utilizzo delle risorse necessarie nelle linee produttive, presentazioni finanziarie e tanto altro. Amazon utilizza delle tecniche avanzate di forecasting, in parte questi servizi sono stati messi a disposizione di tutti i clienti AWS.
In questa sessione illustreremo come pre-processare i dati che contengono una componente temporale e successivamente utilizzare un algoritmo che a partire dal tipo di dato analizzato produce un forecasting accurato.
Big Data per le Startup: come creare applicazioni Big Data in modalità Server...Amazon Web Services
La varietà e la quantità di dati che si crea ogni giorno accelera sempre più velocemente e rappresenta una opportunità irripetibile per innovare e creare nuove startup.
Tuttavia gestire grandi quantità di dati può apparire complesso: creare cluster Big Data su larga scala sembra essere un investimento accessibile solo ad aziende consolidate. Ma l’elasticità del Cloud e, in particolare, i servizi Serverless ci permettono di rompere questi limiti.
Vediamo quindi come è possibile sviluppare applicazioni Big Data rapidamente, senza preoccuparci dell’infrastruttura, ma dedicando tutte le risorse allo sviluppo delle nostre le nostre idee per creare prodotti innovativi.
Ora puoi utilizzare Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) per eseguire pod Kubernetes su AWS Fargate, il motore di elaborazione serverless creato per container su AWS. Questo rende più semplice che mai costruire ed eseguire le tue applicazioni Kubernetes nel cloud AWS.In questa sessione presenteremo le caratteristiche principali del servizio e come distribuire la tua applicazione in pochi passaggi
Vent'anni fa Amazon ha attraversato una trasformazione radicale con l'obiettivo di aumentare il ritmo dell'innovazione. In questo periodo abbiamo imparato come cambiare il nostro approccio allo sviluppo delle applicazioni ci ha permesso di aumentare notevolmente l'agilità, la velocità di rilascio e, in definitiva, ci ha consentito di creare applicazioni più affidabili e scalabili. In questa sessione illustreremo come definiamo le applicazioni moderne e come la creazione di app moderne influisce non solo sull'architettura dell'applicazione, ma sulla struttura organizzativa, sulle pipeline di rilascio dello sviluppo e persino sul modello operativo. Descriveremo anche approcci comuni alla modernizzazione, compreso l'approccio utilizzato dalla stessa Amazon.com.
Come spendere fino al 90% in meno con i container e le istanze spot Amazon Web Services
L’utilizzo dei container è in continua crescita.
Se correttamente disegnate, le applicazioni basate su Container sono molto spesso stateless e flessibili.
I servizi AWS ECS, EKS e Kubernetes su EC2 possono sfruttare le istanze Spot, portando ad un risparmio medio del 70% rispetto alle istanze On Demand. In questa sessione scopriremo insieme quali sono le caratteristiche delle istanze Spot e come possono essere utilizzate facilmente su AWS. Impareremo inoltre come Spreaker sfrutta le istanze spot per eseguire applicazioni di diverso tipo, in produzione, ad una frazione del costo on-demand!
In recent months, many customers have been asking us the question – how to monetise Open APIs, simplify Fintech integrations and accelerate adoption of various Open Banking business models. Therefore, AWS and FinConecta would like to invite you to Open Finance marketplace presentation on October 20th.
Event Agenda :
Open banking so far (short recap)
• PSD2, OB UK, OB Australia, OB LATAM, OB Israel
Intro to Open Finance marketplace
• Scope
• Features
• Tech overview and Demo
The role of the Cloud
The Future of APIs
• Complying with regulation
• Monetizing data / APIs
• Business models
• Time to market
One platform for all: a Strategic approach
Q&A
Rendi unica l’offerta della tua startup sul mercato con i servizi Machine Lea...Amazon Web Services
Per creare valore e costruire una propria offerta differenziante e riconoscibile, le startup di successo sanno come combinare tecnologie consolidate con componenti innovativi creati ad hoc.
AWS fornisce servizi pronti all'utilizzo e, allo stesso tempo, permette di personalizzare e creare gli elementi differenzianti della propria offerta.
Concentrandoci sulle tecnologie di Machine Learning, vedremo come selezionare i servizi di intelligenza artificiale offerti da AWS e, anche attraverso una demo, come costruire modelli di Machine Learning personalizzati utilizzando SageMaker Studio.
OpsWorks Configuration Management: automatizza la gestione e i deployment del...Amazon Web Services
Con l'approccio tradizionale al mondo IT per molti anni è stato difficile implementare tecniche di DevOps, che finora spesso hanno previsto attività manuali portando di tanto in tanto a dei downtime degli applicativi interrompendo l'operatività dell'utente. Con l'avvento del cloud, le tecniche di DevOps sono ormai a portata di tutti a basso costo per qualsiasi genere di workload, garantendo maggiore affidabilità del sistema e risultando in dei significativi miglioramenti della business continuity.
AWS mette a disposizione AWS OpsWork come strumento di Configuration Management che mira ad automatizzare e semplificare la gestione e i deployment delle istanze EC2 per mezzo di workload Chef e Puppet.
Scopri come sfruttare AWS OpsWork a garanzia e affidabilità del tuo applicativo installato su Instanze EC2.
Microsoft Active Directory su AWS per supportare i tuoi Windows WorkloadsAmazon Web Services
Vuoi conoscere le opzioni per eseguire Microsoft Active Directory su AWS? Quando si spostano carichi di lavoro Microsoft in AWS, è importante considerare come distribuire Microsoft Active Directory per supportare la gestione, l'autenticazione e l'autorizzazione dei criteri di gruppo. In questa sessione, discuteremo le opzioni per la distribuzione di Microsoft Active Directory su AWS, incluso AWS Directory Service per Microsoft Active Directory e la distribuzione di Active Directory su Windows su Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Trattiamo argomenti quali l'integrazione del tuo ambiente Microsoft Active Directory locale nel cloud e l'utilizzo di applicazioni SaaS, come Office 365, con AWS Single Sign-On.
Dal riconoscimento facciale al riconoscimento di frodi o difetti di fabbricazione, l'analisi di immagini e video che sfruttano tecniche di intelligenza artificiale, si stanno evolvendo e raffinando a ritmi elevati. In questo webinar esploreremo le possibilità messe a disposizione dai servizi AWS per applicare lo stato dell'arte delle tecniche di computer vision a scenari reali.
Amazon Web Services e VMware organizzano un evento virtuale gratuito il prossimo mercoledì 14 Ottobre dalle 12:00 alle 13:00 dedicato a VMware Cloud ™ on AWS, il servizio on demand che consente di eseguire applicazioni in ambienti cloud basati su VMware vSphere® e di accedere ad una vasta gamma di servizi AWS, sfruttando a pieno le potenzialità del cloud AWS e tutelando gli investimenti VMware esistenti.
Molte organizzazioni sfruttano i vantaggi del cloud migrando i propri carichi di lavoro Oracle e assicurandosi notevoli vantaggi in termini di agilità ed efficienza dei costi.
La migrazione di questi carichi di lavoro, può creare complessità durante la modernizzazione e il refactoring delle applicazioni e a questo si possono aggiungere rischi di prestazione che possono essere introdotti quando si spostano le applicazioni dai data center locali.
Crea la tua prima serverless ledger-based app con QLDB e NodeJSAmazon Web Services
Molte aziende oggi, costruiscono applicazioni con funzionalità di tipo ledger ad esempio per verificare lo storico di accrediti o addebiti nelle transazioni bancarie o ancora per tenere traccia del flusso supply chain dei propri prodotti.
Alla base di queste soluzioni ci sono i database ledger che permettono di avere un log delle transazioni trasparente, immutabile e crittograficamente verificabile, ma sono strumenti complessi e onerosi da gestire.
Amazon QLDB elimina la necessità di costruire sistemi personalizzati e complessi fornendo un database ledger serverless completamente gestito.
In questa sessione scopriremo come realizzare un'applicazione serverless completa che utilizzi le funzionalità di QLDB.
Con l’ascesa delle architetture di microservizi e delle ricche applicazioni mobili e Web, le API sono più importanti che mai per offrire agli utenti finali una user experience eccezionale. In questa sessione impareremo come affrontare le moderne sfide di progettazione delle API con GraphQL, un linguaggio di query API open source utilizzato da Facebook, Amazon e altro e come utilizzare AWS AppSync, un servizio GraphQL serverless gestito su AWS. Approfondiremo diversi scenari, comprendendo come AppSync può aiutare a risolvere questi casi d’uso creando API moderne con funzionalità di aggiornamento dati in tempo reale e offline.
Inoltre, impareremo come Sky Italia utilizza AWS AppSync per fornire aggiornamenti sportivi in tempo reale agli utenti del proprio portale web.
Database Oracle e VMware Cloud™ on AWS: i miti da sfatareAmazon Web Services
Molte organizzazioni sfruttano i vantaggi del cloud migrando i propri carichi di lavoro Oracle e assicurandosi notevoli vantaggi in termini di agilità ed efficienza dei costi.
La migrazione di questi carichi di lavoro, può creare complessità durante la modernizzazione e il refactoring delle applicazioni e a questo si possono aggiungere rischi di prestazione che possono essere introdotti quando si spostano le applicazioni dai data center locali.
In queste slide, gli esperti AWS e VMware presentano semplici e pratici accorgimenti per facilitare e semplificare la migrazione dei carichi di lavoro Oracle accelerando la trasformazione verso il cloud, approfondiranno l’architettura e dimostreranno come sfruttare a pieno le potenzialità di VMware Cloud ™ on AWS.
1) The document discusses building a minimum viable product (MVP) using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
2) It provides an example of an MVP for an omni-channel messenger platform that was built from 2017 to connect ecommerce stores to customers via web chat, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and other channels.
3) The founder discusses how they started with an MVP in 2017 with 200 ecommerce stores in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and have since expanded to over 5000 clients across Southeast Asia using AWS for scaling.
This document discusses pitch decks and fundraising materials. It explains that venture capitalists will typically spend only 3 minutes and 44 seconds reviewing a pitch deck. Therefore, the deck needs to tell a compelling story to grab their attention. It also provides tips on tailoring different types of decks for different purposes, such as creating a concise 1-2 page teaser, a presentation deck for pitching in-person, and a more detailed read-only or fundraising deck. The document stresses the importance of including key information like the problem, solution, product, traction, market size, plans, team, and ask.
This document discusses building serverless web applications using AWS services like API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 and Amplify. It provides an overview of each service and how they can work together to create a scalable, secure and cost-effective serverless application stack without having to manage servers or infrastructure. Key services covered include API Gateway for hosting APIs, Lambda for backend logic, DynamoDB for database needs, S3 for static content, and Amplify for frontend hosting and continuous deployment.
This document provides tips for fundraising from startup founders Roland Yau and Sze Lok Chan. It discusses generating competition to create urgency for investors, fundraising in parallel rather than sequentially, having a clear fundraising narrative focused on what you do and why it's compelling, and prioritizing relationships with people over firms. It also notes how the pandemic has changed fundraising, with examples of deals done virtually during this time. The tips emphasize being fully prepared before fundraising and cultivating connections with investors in advance.
AWS_HK_StartupDay_Building Interactive websites while automating for efficien...Amazon Web Services
This document discusses Amazon's machine learning services for building conversational interfaces and extracting insights from unstructured text and audio. It describes Amazon Lex for creating chatbots, Amazon Comprehend for natural language processing tasks like entity extraction and sentiment analysis, and how they can be used together for applications like intelligent call centers and content analysis. Pre-trained APIs simplify adding machine learning to apps without requiring ML expertise.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) è un servizio di gestione dei container altamente scalabile, che semplifica la gestione dei contenitori Docker attraverso un layer di orchestrazione per il controllo del deployment e del relativo lifecycle. In questa sessione presenteremo le principali caratteristiche del servizio, le architetture di riferimento per i differenti carichi di lavoro e i semplici passi necessari per poter velocemente migrare uno o più dei tuo container.
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Skybuffer AI: Advanced Conversational and Generative AI Solution on SAP Busin...Tatiana Kojar
Skybuffer AI, built on the robust SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), is the latest and most advanced version of our AI development, reaffirming our commitment to delivering top-tier AI solutions. Skybuffer AI harnesses all the innovative capabilities of the SAP BTP in the AI domain, from Conversational AI to cutting-edge Generative AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). It also helps SAP customers safeguard their investments into SAP Conversational AI and ensure a seamless, one-click transition to SAP Business AI.
With Skybuffer AI, various AI models can be integrated into a single communication channel such as Microsoft Teams. This integration empowers business users with insights drawn from SAP backend systems, enterprise documents, and the expansive knowledge of Generative AI. And the best part of it is that it is all managed through our intuitive no-code Action Server interface, requiring no extensive coding knowledge and making the advanced AI accessible to more users.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
A Comprehensive Guide to DeFi Development Services in 2024Intelisync
DeFi represents a paradigm shift in the financial industry. Instead of relying on traditional, centralized institutions like banks, DeFi leverages blockchain technology to create a decentralized network of financial services. This means that financial transactions can occur directly between parties, without intermediaries, using smart contracts on platforms like Ethereum.
In 2024, we are witnessing an explosion of new DeFi projects and protocols, each pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in finance.
In summary, DeFi in 2024 is not just a trend; it’s a revolution that democratizes finance, enhances security and transparency, and fosters continuous innovation. As we proceed through this presentation, we'll explore the various components and services of DeFi in detail, shedding light on how they are transforming the financial landscape.
At Intelisync, we specialize in providing comprehensive DeFi development services tailored to meet the unique needs of our clients. From smart contract development to dApp creation and security audits, we ensure that your DeFi project is built with innovation, security, and scalability in mind. Trust Intelisync to guide you through the intricate landscape of decentralized finance and unlock the full potential of blockchain technology.
Ready to take your DeFi project to the next level? Partner with Intelisync for expert DeFi development services today!
Best 20 SEO Techniques To Improve Website Visibility In SERPPixlogix Infotech
Boost your website's visibility with proven SEO techniques! Our latest blog dives into essential strategies to enhance your online presence, increase traffic, and rank higher on search engines. From keyword optimization to quality content creation, learn how to make your site stand out in the crowded digital landscape. Discover actionable tips and expert insights to elevate your SEO game.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
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.
Salesforce Integration for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions A...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on integration of Salesforce with Bonterra Impact Management.
Interested in deploying an integration with Salesforce for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
This presentation provides valuable insights into effective cost-saving techniques on AWS. Learn how to optimize your AWS resources by rightsizing, increasing elasticity, picking the right storage class, and choosing the best pricing model. Additionally, discover essential governance mechanisms to ensure continuous cost efficiency. Whether you are new to AWS or an experienced user, this presentation provides clear and practical tips to help you reduce your cloud costs and get the most out of your budget.
Trusted Execution Environment for Decentralized Process MiningLucaBarbaro3
Presentation of the paper "Trusted Execution Environment for Decentralized Process Mining" given during the CAiSE 2024 Conference in Cyprus on June 7, 2024.
Letter and Document Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Sol...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on automated letter generation for Bonterra Impact Management using Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
Interested in deploying letter generation automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
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.
2. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium
Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium
Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
Redshift, Big Data and Predictive
Modeling
Lige Hensley, CTO - Ivy Tech Community College
3. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium
Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
Who we are
• 866,000 active users
• Students around the globe
• 138 buildings
• 24,000 PCs
• 2,000 wireless access points
• Over 100,000 network nodes
• 3,000 tablet devices
• 2,600 routers & switches
• 60,000 course sections a year
• 23,000,000 emails daily
• 24/7/365 operations
• 10TB data downloaded from Internet
daily
• 10,000 smart phones supported
• 700 TB of server data
• 7,000 VOIP phones
• 1,100 servers
• 1,200 software applications
• Generate over 100,000,000 rows of
data per day
• IT staff of 165
4. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium
Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
Our challenge…
• Existing reporting environment inadequate
for our size
• Business need to better understand our
data
• Improve student success rates
• Very limited budget
5. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium
Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
What we wanted
• Flexibility to handle our myriad of data
sources and business needs
• Scalability to meet our growing demands
• Performance to match our need for quick
answers to data questions
6. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium
Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
What we found
• Worked with various “big data” vendors to
find an affordable solution
• All “solutions” started at 7-figures and went
up
• Nothing we found met our requirements
7. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium
Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
What we did
• Adopted Redshift & Pentaho as our solution
• Data feeds from numerous internal systems,
in near real-time in some cases
• Keep all transactions, not just snapshots
• Allow connections from other tools such as
Tableau, SPSS and Mathematica
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What we can do now
• Deliver data to users quickly, timely and on
any device
• Analyze data between transactions
• Run machine learning tools against our
data for predictive modeling and reporting
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How it helps
• Using historical data and pattern recognition
identify students who need assistance far
earlier than ever before
• Analysis can be run as early as 2 weeks into
term and maintain accuracy
• Accuracy of prediction models have ranged
from 62% two years ago to 81% currently
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Other benefits
• Allows for quicker identification of
fraudulent registrations
• Dramatically cheaper than the alternatives
• Pattern analysis identifies poorly designed
course materials
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Cornell University
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Our Journey To The Cloud
Bob Carozzoni
Enterprise Cloud Strategist
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Which of these are officially part of
Cornell’s mission statement?
❏Research
❏Education
❏Outreach
❏Information
Technology
X
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IT STRATEGY
Rebalance IT spend:
● less non-mission aligned
● more directly mission aligned
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Cloud as Opportunity!
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Cornell Cloud Advisory Service
A competency center for cloud adoption
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FOUR YEARS OF AGGRESSIVE CLOUD
ADOPTION
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Was it really that easy?
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Understanding the needs of key
stakeholders
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IT Leadership in the
“Post Enterprise World”?
Administrati
ve IT Staff
End-user
Business
leads
CLOUD
VENDOR
See: Educause Paper
Tracy Schroeder
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If no one follows,
are we leading?
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Slow central IT ...
… means no central IT
Be on the train, or under it.
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If you can’t take risks...
… end users will do it for you
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You need to be more flexible
than your SaaS
provider
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Don’t fight redundancy and
don’t fight redundancy.
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• Partnering
• Inspiring
• Coaching
• Brokering
• Enabling
Lead in a new way...
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Resistance from within
google: “smarter every day
backwards bike”
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PRINCIPLES FOR LEADING
IN THE CLOUD ERA
1. #1 Strategy - be tactical
2. See with your customer’s eyes
3. Build relationships
4. Influence trumps control
5. Small is the new big
6. Question everything
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Cloudification = Transformation
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What is cloudification?
• Partnership with campus IT units
• refactoring for most effective use of cloud technologies and
containerization vs lift and shift
• Central IT must be the expert that campus wants to come to
for help
• Enable not enforce
• Understanding that if IaaS isn’t better with us, campus will
make the move without us
• Allow campus technologists to focus on unit differentiators
central IT can help with the utilities
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Feature Delivery trend
feature delivery
datacenter features cloud features
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traditional infrastructure
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Immutable Infrastructure
Quote by Michael
Bryzek, the CTO and
co-founder of GILT
Group
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Build your system using building
blocks or containers
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When you find a flaw or need to
make a change
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Start over to completely build the
system you need
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Resistance to change
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http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/cloud-
strategy-higher-education-building-common-
solution
https://www.educause.edu/members/robert-
carozzoni
FURTHER READING
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Thank You.
This presentation will be loaded to SlideShare the week following the Symposium.
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Editor's Notes
The key point is that we are big. We have a lot of systems and even more data. Every ten days we generate another BILLION rows of data and almost all of that data is student related in some way.
Very slow, many reports taking over 40 minutes to run. 1M records in 8 hours and only worked with ERP. Someone only being able to ask 12 questions a day does not make for a very nimble organization.
Since our existing solution only worked with our ERP, we need something that works for the entire business.
As with every school out there, our goal has always been to improve the success of our students and our existing system was a liability in that effort.
And while we’re quite large, we’re also extremely cost conscience. We had to make this work on a sub 7-figure budget.
Ivy Tech is somewhat unique in the higher-ed space. We have the three V’s of data (velocity, volume and variety) in spades.
Our existing system had to be scaled vertically. If you wanted it to go faster, you had to buy a faster server. We needed something that went horizontal, meaning that if we wanted it to go faster or handle more data, we just add more servers.
And this is one point that cannot be overlooked. For an organization to get actual value from their data, you have to be able to get an answer quickly. If you have to wait 20 minutes for every query, you stop asking “what if” questions because it’s just too painful. Our goal was to go from our existing 40+ minute report runs to under 10 seconds for any of our “canned” reports. Custom queries, of course, can take longer depending on the question being asked.
There are several key players in this space that have some pretty impressive solutions.
Unfortunately, they all know how impressive their offerings are and they charge accordingly.
We also found some issues with what I’ll call “affordable scalability”. All the solutions had the ability to scale, but the price tag for this was, to be honest, just ridiculous. So needless to say, nothing met our needs.
There was a lot that went into this decision, but we selected Redshift and Pentaho. The “pay as you go” model is, for us, the best possible pricing model (next to free anyway). Pentaho performs well, is user friendly and works well across platforms.
We call our Redshift and Pentaho stack “NewT”. It stands for “new thing”. Obviously we’re very creative when it comes to naming our projects.
We have data flowing into NewT from 7 disparate systems with several more in the works. If the source system can support it, we can load that data in near-real-time. We can now query all of this holistically and the insights gained from that are eye-opening.
We keep all transactions, not just daily “loads” as in many environments.
We don’t limit access to just Pentaho, although that’s what most of our data consumers use. We also allow other tools for more specialized analysis.
We can now compare current data to last week, month or year in a few seconds…or run any report for that matter, on everything from a PC to an iPhone.
Looking at data on this level gives us new insights into our organization. While this adds a tremendous amount of data to the system, being able to process it quickly is teaching us lots of new things.
This is probably the most exciting aspect of our project. We can now churn through billions and billions of rows of data to predict what will happen next.
There are lots of paths to success and failure for our students. These paths have hundreds of variables. We can now identify the paths and the variables.
Every day we run a report that takes a students current activity and behavior through the prediction models and end up with a list of “students of concern”. These are the students that are very likely to fail their course given their current behavior..and we know this very early.
While we know that things happen and our model will never be 100%, we are getting better. One important note to all of this, we never look at a students grades in a course to make this predictions. Grades are not a feature we consider in our analysis.
One unintended benefit is the ability quickly identify patterns of fraud. We’ve found that the patterns of fraud can be subtle, but you can see them when you look just right.
Other solutions wanted 7-figures just to begin “playing” with their technology. We don’t have 7-figures into this project to date.
We’ve also used pattern analysis to find course content that may have been confusing to students based on their usage patterns. We literally have millions of assets in our learning management system. Looking at usage patterns of students with that content has led to finding and rebuilding some pieces in order to make it more understandable and easier to use.
How the Cloudification service came to be on Cornell campus.
Kuali development team supporting community source applications has worked with Kuali in our on prem implementation, with Kuali in AWS through the Kuali Foundation who does all new development in the cloud and also other schools. Being part of community source means that you contribute to the new and also help those implementing. Developers from Cornell have been part of troubleshooting problems on Kuali applications across many different schools and configs. This creates an environment for developers to have technical curiosity and the ability to learn new things quickly.
In the fall the Kuali team had a pilot project to move Kuali applications to the cloud. We sat down, scoped out the project and sent the developers off to figure it out. Two weeks later I had 3 developers who were so excited about cloud technologies, breadth of services, speed at which they could develop new things. The excitement was Awesome! Exactly what someone leading a group of technologists wants to see from team members. As we continued with the pilot others on campus started hearing about our pilot and campus units were contacting me asking if they could work with us. We found that because the technology was new to them, they were interested in a partnership with Central IT. This seemed like an opportunity too good to pass up so we created the Cloudification service.
There are two trends we point to when we are asked why we would move to the cloud. Technologist want to hear about the features, the services and how this can help them be better developers. The feature delivery trend is great to show these folks. There is no way we can keep up with the feature delivery rate in our on premise data centers. Every week there are new services available in the cloud. Every time we identify a gap, we report it and generally find it is on the roadmap already.
The other trend, which is more relevant to management and those who care about financials is the cost trend. We will continue to see costs of our local datacenters slowly rising as we have to replace hardware and keep many layers of infrastructure updated. The trend for cloud provides has been for costs to go down rather than up. There are people who will say that they have ‘done the math’ and they have proven that moving to the cloud will not save us money. This could be true if we chose to do no refactoring of our applications to take advantage of the automation that exists in the cloud but even if it is true today, the trend tells us that the move is still a good financial decision. The cost of the datacenter will continue to slowly go up while the cost of cloud computing will continue to go down at a fairly rapid pace.
We in higher ed are very comfortable with traditional infrastructure support processes. We create servers, we name them and we take care of them, we patch them, upgrade them and fix them when they are broken.
There is a new paradigm for infrastructure support called immutable infrastructure you may also hear it called infrastructure as code. This is a quote by Michael Bryzek, the CTO and co founder of GILT group, an on-line shopping service on steroids. If you google the term immutable infrastructure, you will find dozens of presentations by Michael Bryzek on this new paradigm, how he has gained huge efficiencies and how to make it work.
So what does immutable infrastructure really mean?
You don’t patch or fix your server. You throw it away. You have no server persistence, you are able to build a new environment from the OS all the way up the application stack in a matter of minutes. You design your entire development pipeline based on this immutable server concept.
Building what you need, when you need it and only the timeframe for which it is needed.
The biggest challenge to all of this change and opportunity to do things better, faster and smarter, is helping people see their path forward. We in Higher Ed have staff members who have worked for our institutions for many many years. In some cases doing exactly the same work. Change is hard for everyone but it is important. I use this analogy of the fogger game to show that the log you are on today is not necessarily the best, safest, most stable place for you to be forever. In order to stay relevant it is important to understand new technology direction. The good news is, I have watched people feel resistant and push back then just take the first step towards understanding the opportunities introduced by this new paradigm. I have watched people go from terrified and resistant to excited and innovative in their varying fields of expertise. Not everyone deals with change at the same speed or in the same way but I do think it is important to say that this is one of the major challenges, it’s important and critical to help our resources find their path forward.