This document summarizes an enterprise cloud forum presented by Rackspace Advisory Services on building an enterprise DevOps engine by tearing down silos. The presentation covers what DevOps is and why it is important, the evolution of DevOps, how Rackspace is approaching DevOps, and the five keys to DevOps success: long-term strategy, organization alignment, project definition, DevOps expertise, and continuous feedback loops. The goal of DevOps is to achieve continuous delivery through breaking down barriers between development and operations teams.
A brief overview of Scalar Decisions. Scalar is Canada’s leading IT solutions provider, focused on security, infrastructure, and cloud. Founded in 2004, Scalar is headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Montreal, Ottawa, London, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver. Scalar was recently named to the CRN Fast Growth Top 150 List and listed on the PROFIT 500 for the seventh year running. In addition, Scalar was deemed a major player in the IDC MarketScape for Canadian managed security service providers and ranked the #1 ICT security company on the 2014 -2016 editions of the Branham 300. For further details, visit www.scalar.ca or follow Scalar on Twitter, @scalardecisions.
Our Cloud Consulting and Advisory Practice works with organizations to assess, plan, design, and execute successful digital transformation, while addressing a range of considerations, from technical effort and cost to governance and regulatory requirements.
A brief overview of Scalar Decisions. Scalar is Canada’s leading IT solutions provider, focused on security, infrastructure, and cloud. Founded in 2004, Scalar is headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Montreal, Ottawa, London, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver. Scalar was recently named to the CRN Fast Growth Top 150 List and listed on the PROFIT 500 for the seventh year running. In addition, Scalar was deemed a major player in the IDC MarketScape for Canadian managed security service providers and ranked the #1 ICT security company on the 2014 -2016 editions of the Branham 300. For further details, visit www.scalar.ca or follow Scalar on Twitter, @scalardecisions.
Our Cloud Consulting and Advisory Practice works with organizations to assess, plan, design, and execute successful digital transformation, while addressing a range of considerations, from technical effort and cost to governance and regulatory requirements.
Breakout session at Enterprise Connect; Lync In A Managed Cloud: A Good Alternative To An On-premise And Self-managed Lync Deployment?
As organizations continue to march towards adoption of UC solutions and Lync deployments, they are facing the question of whether to deploy Lync in their own datacenters and self-manage the solution or host it with a Cloud Provider.
Traditionally the Cloud's strongest benefits are on the IAAS side, but with the evolution of Managed Cloud, there is optimism that complex Unified Communications (UC) solutions can be deployed in Managed Cloud while preserving manageability, agility, and security of the Lync solution.
In this session we explored the major challenges facing deployment of Lync in a private cloud and how Rackspace's Managed Cloud can be a strong economically and technically viable alternative to an on-premise and self-managed Lync deployment.
Richardson Eyres provide datacentre technology infrastructure solutions and services that solve complex business challenges for corporate clients in the UK and Europe.
It works with its customers to provide a combination of customised solutions and services which free up time, resources and ultimately save its customers’ money.
Richardson Eyres develops long-term and mutually beneficial relationships working with its customers to ensure that it provides bespoke solutions and services to help their business run efficiently, effectively and above all, profitably.
It has partnerships with HP and VMware, and is one of a small number of ServiceONE Expert partners in the UK. It also provides solutions for companies globally, from their offices in the UK.
With over 27 years IT consultancy experience and some of the most qualified technical consultants in the UK Richardson Eyres has extensive technical knowledge and the know-how to apply this knowledge to help organisations get the most from their IT. Established in 1986, the company is privately owned and its headquarters is in Chesham, Buckinghamshire.
The simple goal of this presentation is to help IT staff make more informed decisions about the how and why of modernizing ITs ability to deliver services.
Presentation by Mark Thiele, Chief Strategy Officer, Apcera
https://www.apcera.com/
The Evolution of OpenStack – From Infancy to EnterpriseRackspace
As OpenStack turns 5 this year, we thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the evolution of OpenStack. We start with a quick overview of what OpenStack is, how OpenStack came to be and describe the OpenStack Foundation. Next we describe the problem that OpenStack helps to solve, the components of OpenStack and the timeline for when these components came to be. Last, we outline the current features and benefits that make OpenStack ready for the enterprise with supporting Enterprise use case examples. Blog can be found here (
https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/evolution-of-openstack-from-infancy-to-enterprise/) and webinar can be found here (https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11427/138613)
IT Modernization Doesn’t Mean You Leave Your Legacy Apps BehindApcera
As enterprises adopt cloud infrastructure and modern architectures, they can’t turn their back on existing applications. The challenge is that legacy applications are expensive-to-maintain and inflexible due to infrastructure requirements and dependencies.
Explore new approaches to application modernization with Mark Thiele, Chief Strategy Officer at Apcera, and Ralph Loura, CTO and Rodan + Fields, to learn how to protect current IT investments and establish a secure path to the cloud.
Businesses are embracing the Cloud because it promises increased agility and scalability. But it can also introduce complexity, interoperability, and security concerns.
Hybrid Cloud is emerging as a way to mitigate those concerns by providing the right combination of internal controls with the ability to securely scale to meet business demand for IT resources.
In this presentation you will learn:
- The benefits and advantages of a Hybrid Cloud solution
- Key considerations when moving to a Hybrid Cloud architecture
- How VMware and Macquarie Telecom are teaming up to make Hybrid Cloud a reality for your organization
451 Research: Data Is the Key to Friction in DevOpsDelphix
You’ve moved to agile. You’re “all in” on the cloud. And yet, you know there’s a ton of velocity in your DevOps projects left on the table.
Jay Lyman, Principal Analyst with 451 Research, hosts a webinar with DevOps pioneers Patrick Lightbody, SVP of Product at Delphix and Nick Suwyn, Principal Systems Engineer at Choice Hotels, to explore how DevOps teams in the global enterprise have successfully check marked code management, configuration management and build management with various industry standard tools to combat the challenges brought upon by “data friction.” Jay will unveil his latest research on the state of DevOps and share thoughts on why there’s still tremendous inertia for companies in this space.
With the boom in cloud services that many companies are currently leveraging, integration between them is becoming more and more important. It is not unusual for an organization to have a combination of on-premise and cloud applications, all talking to each other. For SOA-based integrations, security becomes more critical than ever. This presentation is a technical deep-dive on how to secure your integrations via WS-Security and Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) for both inbound and outbound integrations. We discuss authentication, message encryption, two-way SSL certificates, and more. A brief mention on Oracle API Manager is provided as well.
Storage has held back the next generation data center as it has been slow, unpredictable, inflexible, and requires far too much operational overhead to maintain — but it doesn’t have to be this way!
SolidFire’s all-flash storage is designed to solve the challenges of today’s workloads for a true cloud architecture featuring predictable, flexible, and easy-to-manage performance and capacity.
In this webinar, we examine why the future is all-flash storage and how consolidating workloads onto a single platform can be the crucial step to realizing your cloud environment.
Rackspace’s Enterprise Business Intelligence group (EBI) was looking for a cost-effective way to support the reporting and information needs of its internal users, which include business and operations personnel. It was also looking to scale out new infrastructure in order to meet their increasing business demands, house increasing amounts of data, and customize the collection of data, while seeking a way to move away from their legacy Data Warehouse solution. To do this, Rackspace built the Analytical Compute Grid (ACG) by using Hadoop, Cassandra and PostgreSQL with an OpenStack cloud. Read more about it in this presentation.
Breakout session at Enterprise Connect; Lync In A Managed Cloud: A Good Alternative To An On-premise And Self-managed Lync Deployment?
As organizations continue to march towards adoption of UC solutions and Lync deployments, they are facing the question of whether to deploy Lync in their own datacenters and self-manage the solution or host it with a Cloud Provider.
Traditionally the Cloud's strongest benefits are on the IAAS side, but with the evolution of Managed Cloud, there is optimism that complex Unified Communications (UC) solutions can be deployed in Managed Cloud while preserving manageability, agility, and security of the Lync solution.
In this session we explored the major challenges facing deployment of Lync in a private cloud and how Rackspace's Managed Cloud can be a strong economically and technically viable alternative to an on-premise and self-managed Lync deployment.
Richardson Eyres provide datacentre technology infrastructure solutions and services that solve complex business challenges for corporate clients in the UK and Europe.
It works with its customers to provide a combination of customised solutions and services which free up time, resources and ultimately save its customers’ money.
Richardson Eyres develops long-term and mutually beneficial relationships working with its customers to ensure that it provides bespoke solutions and services to help their business run efficiently, effectively and above all, profitably.
It has partnerships with HP and VMware, and is one of a small number of ServiceONE Expert partners in the UK. It also provides solutions for companies globally, from their offices in the UK.
With over 27 years IT consultancy experience and some of the most qualified technical consultants in the UK Richardson Eyres has extensive technical knowledge and the know-how to apply this knowledge to help organisations get the most from their IT. Established in 1986, the company is privately owned and its headquarters is in Chesham, Buckinghamshire.
The simple goal of this presentation is to help IT staff make more informed decisions about the how and why of modernizing ITs ability to deliver services.
Presentation by Mark Thiele, Chief Strategy Officer, Apcera
https://www.apcera.com/
The Evolution of OpenStack – From Infancy to EnterpriseRackspace
As OpenStack turns 5 this year, we thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the evolution of OpenStack. We start with a quick overview of what OpenStack is, how OpenStack came to be and describe the OpenStack Foundation. Next we describe the problem that OpenStack helps to solve, the components of OpenStack and the timeline for when these components came to be. Last, we outline the current features and benefits that make OpenStack ready for the enterprise with supporting Enterprise use case examples. Blog can be found here (
https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/evolution-of-openstack-from-infancy-to-enterprise/) and webinar can be found here (https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11427/138613)
IT Modernization Doesn’t Mean You Leave Your Legacy Apps BehindApcera
As enterprises adopt cloud infrastructure and modern architectures, they can’t turn their back on existing applications. The challenge is that legacy applications are expensive-to-maintain and inflexible due to infrastructure requirements and dependencies.
Explore new approaches to application modernization with Mark Thiele, Chief Strategy Officer at Apcera, and Ralph Loura, CTO and Rodan + Fields, to learn how to protect current IT investments and establish a secure path to the cloud.
Businesses are embracing the Cloud because it promises increased agility and scalability. But it can also introduce complexity, interoperability, and security concerns.
Hybrid Cloud is emerging as a way to mitigate those concerns by providing the right combination of internal controls with the ability to securely scale to meet business demand for IT resources.
In this presentation you will learn:
- The benefits and advantages of a Hybrid Cloud solution
- Key considerations when moving to a Hybrid Cloud architecture
- How VMware and Macquarie Telecom are teaming up to make Hybrid Cloud a reality for your organization
451 Research: Data Is the Key to Friction in DevOpsDelphix
You’ve moved to agile. You’re “all in” on the cloud. And yet, you know there’s a ton of velocity in your DevOps projects left on the table.
Jay Lyman, Principal Analyst with 451 Research, hosts a webinar with DevOps pioneers Patrick Lightbody, SVP of Product at Delphix and Nick Suwyn, Principal Systems Engineer at Choice Hotels, to explore how DevOps teams in the global enterprise have successfully check marked code management, configuration management and build management with various industry standard tools to combat the challenges brought upon by “data friction.” Jay will unveil his latest research on the state of DevOps and share thoughts on why there’s still tremendous inertia for companies in this space.
With the boom in cloud services that many companies are currently leveraging, integration between them is becoming more and more important. It is not unusual for an organization to have a combination of on-premise and cloud applications, all talking to each other. For SOA-based integrations, security becomes more critical than ever. This presentation is a technical deep-dive on how to secure your integrations via WS-Security and Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) for both inbound and outbound integrations. We discuss authentication, message encryption, two-way SSL certificates, and more. A brief mention on Oracle API Manager is provided as well.
Storage has held back the next generation data center as it has been slow, unpredictable, inflexible, and requires far too much operational overhead to maintain — but it doesn’t have to be this way!
SolidFire’s all-flash storage is designed to solve the challenges of today’s workloads for a true cloud architecture featuring predictable, flexible, and easy-to-manage performance and capacity.
In this webinar, we examine why the future is all-flash storage and how consolidating workloads onto a single platform can be the crucial step to realizing your cloud environment.
Rackspace’s Enterprise Business Intelligence group (EBI) was looking for a cost-effective way to support the reporting and information needs of its internal users, which include business and operations personnel. It was also looking to scale out new infrastructure in order to meet their increasing business demands, house increasing amounts of data, and customize the collection of data, while seeking a way to move away from their legacy Data Warehouse solution. To do this, Rackspace built the Analytical Compute Grid (ACG) by using Hadoop, Cassandra and PostgreSQL with an OpenStack cloud. Read more about it in this presentation.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - The Future of Applications with Ken Cochrane, Engineer...Rackspace
What does intermodal shipping have to do with managing your app’s components in different environments? Ken Cochrane, Engineering Manager at Docker, explains in this presentation from Rackspace::Solve NYC. For more information about Rackspace::Solve, visit http://www.rackspacesolve.com.
Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) is the #1 managed cloud company. Our technical expertise and Fanatical Support® allow companies to tap the power of the cloud without the pain of hiring experts in dozens of complex technologies. Rackspace is also the leader in hybrid cloud, giving each customer the best fit for its unique needs — whether on single- or multi-tenant servers, or a combination of those platforms. Rackspace is the founder of OpenStack®, the open-source operating system for the cloud. Headquartered in San Antonio, we serve more than 200,000 business customers from data centers on four continents. We rank 29th on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Enterprise Open Cloud Forum: The Cloud is Making it RainRackspace
In this webinar our experts will discussed how enterprises are leveraging a cloud business model to maximize ROI and why traditional models that only focus on simple cost benefits overlook the real value.
Don’t miss your opportunity to learn:
· How to think of ROI differently in the Cloud
· The Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure your Return on Cloud
· How to utilize project based accounting for real-time ROI
· How the Cloud enables first-mover advantage to improve profit margins
· How flexibility in delivery models can maximize your cloud ROI
Discover how to make your investment yield greater benefits for your business and learn how to make it rain in the cloud through maximized ROI.
6 Commonly Asked Questions from Customers Building on AWSRackspace
This session is ideal for IT/Infrastructure Manager, Application Developers, System Architects/Administrators and anyone who is growing their AWS footprint. We will uncover recent customer experiences at every stage while you can network with peers that face similar challenges.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - Solving for Rapid Customer Growth and Scale Through De...Rackspace
At Rackspace Solve New York, Jon Hyman, CIO of AppBoy, shared how AppBoy uses Rackspace’s DevOps Automation Services to increase app engagement for their clients, including Urban Outfitters and Shape Magazine. With Rackspace’s managed cloud providing support, Appboy was able to excel rapid customer growth and scale through DevOps.
As the world of system and application deployment continues to change, the sys admin and security community needs to change with it. With agile development, continuous deployment, the pace of change in IT has only increased. Add in Dev/Ops and the traditional sys admin and security processes just don’t work. How can you rapidly deliver servers and applications while making sure they are built reliably and securely. Rackspace has been developing a tool to help them design, deploy and security assess complex configurations for customers called Checkmate. This talk will cover the concepts behind and the architecture of Checkmate and how it helps minimize the time to deploy systems and verify they have been created to spec and in a secure state. A discussion of how Checkmate has inspired the concept of Test Driven Security based on the Test Driven Development model familiar to the development world.
Build Your Custom Performance Testing FrameworkTechWell
Performance testing requires knowledge of systems architecture, techniques to simulate the load equivalent of sometimes millions of transactions per day, and tools to monitor/report runtime statistics. With the evolution from desktop to web and now the cloud, performance testing involves an unparalleled combination of different workloads and technologies. There is no one tool available—either commercial or open source—that meets all performance testing needs. Some tools act as load generators; others only monitor system resources; and many only operate for specific applications or environments. Prashant Suri shares the essential components you need for a comprehensive performance test framework and explores why each component is required for a holistic test. Learn how to develop your custom framework―starting with parsing test scripts in a predefined format, iterating over test data, employing distributed load generators, and integrating test monitors into the framework. Discover how building your own framework gives you flexibility to challenge multiple performance problems—and save thousands of dollars along the way.
Migrating Traditional Apps from On-Premises to the Hybrid CloudRackspace
Re-architecting legacy apps for the public cloud is very resource intensive. However, migrating apps to a hosted hybrid cloud that’s composed of bare-metal servers, VMware® virtualization, EMC® storage and public cloud offers cloud-bursting benefits, but with less risk and cost. Check out our presentation and learn the five-step path to hybrid cloud.
#Firmday 28 march 2014 Rackspace - how to onboard a fanaticEmma Mirrington
Eddie Gleeson, On-boarding & Business Skills Manager at Rackspace, will share with us how they prepare people for working in a high-growth, super high-change environment with a 'fanatical' commitment to delivering a great customer experience with a session called 'How to On-board a Fanatic'
Gerhard Pretorius, Cloud Architect, Rackspace Asia presented at the Accion Cloud in Practice event in Singapore, where he described how enterprises can benefit from adopting the cloud, and what they need to consider while doing so
Rackspace::Solve NYC - Solving for Rapid Customer Growth and Scale Through De...Rackspace
At Rackspace::Solve NYC, Jon Hyman, CIO of Appboy and Prashanth Chandrasekar, GM of DevOps at Rackspace, discuss the role of DevOps in helping to solve the technical challenges that come with rapid growth.
Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) is the #1 managed cloud company. Our technical expertise and Fanatical Support® allow companies to tap the power of the cloud without the pain of hiring experts in dozens of complex technologies. Rackspace is also the leader in hybrid cloud, giving each customer the best fit for its unique needs — whether on single- or multi-tenant servers, or a combination of those platforms. Rackspace is the founder of OpenStack®, the open-source operating system for the cloud. Headquartered in San Antonio, we serve more than 200,000 business customers from data centers on four continents. We rank 29th on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Best DevOps Team Structure - DevOps Conference - Chennai - 21st July 2017Balaji Kalyansundaram
My talk at http://www.agileglobalevent.com/conference/devops/devops-conference-chennai was on keeping Dev and Ops teams together, to bring in ownership & accountability.
I (we) Build. I (we) Support.
Innovate Faster in the Cloud with a Platform as a ServiceEngine Yard
Presentaion: "Innovate Faster in the Cloud with a PaaS" webinar
Presenter: Jacob Lehrbaum
Date: November 18, 2011
Recorded presentation:
http://pages.engineyard.com/InnovateFasterwithPaaS.html
If you are building a new application today you are likely considering a move to the cloud. If so, you should take a careful look at Platform as a Service (PaaS). Using a PaaS makes it fast and easy to deploy and run high-impact applications by relieving the developer from having to integrate, configure, test, and maintain the platform-level software necessary to run applications. It will also improve your uptime, help you scale with your business and can even save you money.
Rethinking Your Migration Strategy to Your Competitive AdvantageAmazon Web Services
You want to move your organization and applications into cloud and take the advantages that cloud can offer, but you also notice the complexity and challenges of migrating to cloud at the same time. Do you just forklift your application or do you re-architect it? In this session, we will discuss Rackspace’s opinionated view on migration to the cloud and introduce an Act-Optimize-Pioneer approach to make the migration process more straightforward and also how different tools in the Amazon Web Services toolkit and the partners in the Amazon Web Services can further ease your migration.
Vijay Rangarajan, Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services, APAC
Gene Tang, Solution Architect, Rackspace
What Does a Cloud Enabled Business Look Like?Chris Jackson
We recognise that the cloud is about business transformation, we talk a lot about how to undertake that transformation. But how do you know when you've started to make progress? What would a cloud enabled business do when presented with problems that would be problematic today? We'll run through three common business scenarios and show how making the business align around cloud yields outcomes which would otherwise be challenging to achieve. Whether you're already well under way on your cloud journey, or just beginning the switch, we aim to highlight some of the key differences in how cloud business operate and how this unlocks the efficiencies that are marketed.
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We're constantly reminded about how fleeting time is—but what if you had more time? What would you do? We decided to illustrate some of the answers we found on Twitter.
If you're looking to get some time back in your day, consider letting Rackspace manage your servers. We can focus on the tech so that you can focus on innovation.
Learn more about Rackspace: http://rackspace.com
Learn more about this project: https://blog.rackspace.com/moretime-question-ages
Learn how to overcome security challenges, such as: identity theft, spoofed transactions, DDoS business disruption, criminal extortion and more. You'll learn how a security strategy promotes confidence in the cloud.
Data is being generated at a feverish pace and forward thinking companies are integrating big data and analytics as part of their core strategy from day one. However, it is often hard to sift through the hype around big data and many companies start with only a small subset of data. Can smaller companies benefit from big data efforts? We will discuss several use cases and examples of how startups are using data to optimize their operations, connect with their users, and expand their market.
Deploy Apache Spark™ on Rackspace OnMetal™ for Cloud Big Data PlatformRackspace
There's an elephant in the room when it comes to Big Data. Apache Hadoop and Spark offer the promise to transform how businesses leverage Big Data, finding the right mix of flexible deployments, elastic scalability, and performance can be daunting.
Introducing Rackspace OnMetal™ for Apache Spark™ an industry first that combines the performance and efficiency of bare metal with the ease and flexibility of cloud. With Rackspace OnMetal for Cloud Big Data Platform you can transform how you run Hadoop and Spark workloads:
•Deploy in minutes, not months
•Spin instances up or down on demand
•Process data in-memory for faster query times
•Get bare metal performance and say goodbye to virtualization taxes
Sign up and learn how Rackspace OnMetal for Cloud Big Data Platform can rapidly move your organization from planning to deploying.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - Welcome Keynote featuring Rackspace CTO John EngatesRackspace
Solving business challenges - that was the focus at Rackspace::Solve in New York City, the second of three one-day summits that showcase how companies are overcoming the toughest challenges in their businesses and for their customers. In this presentation, Rackspace CTO John Engates kicks off the day with an overview of some of those challenges, and the various ways some of our customers and partners help solve them by using Rackspace's Managed Cloud offerings.
Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) is the #1 managed cloud company. Our technical expertise and Fanatical Support® allow companies to tap the power of the cloud without the pain of hiring experts in dozens of complex technologies. Rackspace is also the leader in hybrid cloud, giving each customer the best fit for its unique needs — whether on single- or multi-tenant servers, or a combination of those platforms. Rackspace is the founder of OpenStack®, the open-source operating system for the cloud. Headquartered in San Antonio, we serve more than 200,000 business customers from data centers on four continents. We rank 29th on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Rackspace::Solve NYC - Second Stage CloudRackspace
James Staten, VP and top Analyst at Forrester Research discusses tech adoption of cloud computing at Rackspace::Solve New York. Staten explains the Second-Stage Cloud, which means that the optimization phase of client-server is ending while we enter the rationalizations phase of cloud computing. This makes the cloud-competition today based on “service-value”, causing a hyper-growth for cloud services.
vCenter Site Recovery Manager: Architecting a DR SolutionRackspace
VMware’s vCenter Site Recovery Manager is the market-leading disaster-recovery management product. It ensures the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. However, it is not a turn-key DR solution. Architecting your SRM solution requires deep thought and heavy planning. This presentation will help you with planning and architecting your SRM solution as well as addressing specific configuration and installation challenges. Our goal is to help you deploy and maintain a solid SRM solution to enable your DR Plan.
Outsourcing IT Projects to Managed Hosting of the CloudRackspace
Is your organization looking to cut costs, reduce deployment time, or gain new capabilities that you find challenging to implement with traditional on-premises infrastructure? Then outsourcing IT may be right for you.
Nearly every IT leader these days is wresting with Shadow IT – the dynamic in which end users obtain IT solutions from cloud service providers without informing corporate IT.
Some IT initiatives, such as disaster recovery, are natural fits for cloud computing. Yet it can be challenging to know exactly where to begin when it comes to configuring self-managed recovery plans and replicating virtual machines (VMs) from on-premises to a cloud service provider.
How vSphere and OpenStack fit together to build a hybrid solution.
In this presentation you will learn more about:
- OpenStack
- Legacy vs. Cloud native architectures and application deployments
- OpenStack architecture compared to the vSphere architecture
- Building hybrid solutions with vSphere and OpenStack
Rackspace::Solve SFO - Solve(Scale) Featuring Docker CEO Ben GolubRackspace
NOTE: Accompanying video is available for viewing at http://bit.ly/1k56U46
What does intermodal shipping have to do with managing your app’s components in different environments? Speed and portability. Docker CEO Ben Golub spoke at Rackspace::Solve in San Francisco to discuss how the right infrastructure can mean success and peace of mind.
Rackspace::Solve SFO - Welcome Keynote featuring Rackspace CTO John EngatesRackspace
Note: Accompanying video is available for viewing at http://bit.ly/1k54RwW
Solving business challenges - that was the focus at Rackspace::Solve in San Francisco, the first of three one-day summits that showcase how companies are overcoming the toughest challenges in their businesses and for their customers. In this presentation, Rackspace CTO John Engates kicked off the day with an overview of some of those challenges, and the various ways some of our customers and partners help solve them by using Rackspace's Managed Cloud offerings.
How vSphere and OpenStack fit together to build a hybrid solution.
In this presentation you will learn more about:
- OpenStack
- Legacy vs. Cloud native architectures and application deployments
- OpenStack architecture compared to the vSphere architecture
- Building hybrid solutions with vSphere and OpenStack
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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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).
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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.
Tearing Down Silos and Building Your Enterprise Dev/Ops Engine
1. Enterprise Cloud Forum:
“Tearing Down Silos and Building your
Enterprise Dev/Ops Engine”
Presented By:
Rackspace Advisory Services
2. Your Hosts
Brian Jawalka Krishna Prasad Mark Majewski
Sr. IT Strategist VP, Software Application Architect
Enterprise Cloud Solutions Development Enterprise Cloud Solutions
Rackspace Hosting Rackspace Hosting Rackspace Hosting
BJawalka@rackspace.com Krishna.Prasad@rackspace.com Mark.Majewski@rackspace.com
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3. What We Will Cover Today
What is Dev/Ops and Why is it SO Important?
The Evolution of Dev/Ops
How Rackspace is Approaching Dev/Ops
How to Build Your Engine: The 5 keys to
Dev/Ops Success
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4. A New Way of Thinking
Virtualization is a TECHNOLOGY …
Cloud Computing is a
BUSINESS MODEL
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5. Current State Drivers
What Do We Know…
Time to Market drives PROFITABILITY
50% Faster Time to Market = 31% more profit 31%
– First mover advantage
– Commands higher initial product price points for
early adopters
Continued Pressure to do MORE with Less
CIOs are challenged to do the SAME with Budgets
$
Budgets
from 2006
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Source: Douglas Toombs, Gartner Research Director, “Lead From the Front: Source: The Market Driven Organization, George S. Day
The Road to the Hybrid Cloud”, June 6, 2012 presentation Forrester Research, Inc. Forrsights Hardware Survey Q3 2011
7. Using Dev/Ops to Your Advantage
Dev/Ops Org Structure is Driven by Cloud Adoption
Communication… Collaboration … Integration
TWO IN A BOX
Operations: Developers:
Deeper Understands Code
Application Impacts
Knowledge Infrastructure
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8. The Evolution of DevOps
PHYSICAL WALL
Step 1 Step 2
Developer Operations
“I am going to build to PHYSICAL “How am I going to run
whatever platform I want.” this thing?”
WALL
“I’m not ops focused. “How am I going to scale
Scalability isn’t something this application?”
I think about.”
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9. The Evolution of DevOps
PROCESS WALL
Step 1 Step 2
PHYSICAL
WALL PROCESS
WALL
Developer Operations
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10. The Evolution of DevOps
REMOVE THE WALLS
DEVOPS
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11. Why is a Mandate for Dev/Ops Important?
Dev + Ops
On the same train
Collaboration Incites
Innovation!
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12. Dev/Ops Creates a Continuous Delivery Model
Release once per month Release once per day
DevOps is about people, process, and technology
producing outcomes
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13. What Does this Mean for your IT shop?
Enhancing Development Skills: Standardized Platform:
– Platform-Based Development – Not infinitely
– Scalable Applications customizable
– Stateless Applications – Limitations
Enhancing Operations Skills:
– Scripting or coding
– Automation
– Infrastructure via APIs
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17. Organization Alignment
• Top Down MOST IMPORTANT!
Support
FRONT LINE BUY-IN
• Executive
Sponsorship “What’s in it for me?
• Identify your You’ll
Champions provide true
biz value!
• Organization
Realignment Developer Operations
• Bleeding edge • Influence on what is
technology excitement in pipeline
• Eliminates frustration
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18. Build your Dev/Ops CLOUD SQUAD
Cross-Functional Team:
– Developers
– Operations
– Finance/Business
Person
Forces us to
answer the
“SO WHAT” CLOUD
question SQUAD
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19. Project Definition
• Build Attack Plan
• Identify Quick Wins
• EXPERIMENT!
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20. We Now Need to Think About…
Building Cloud Aware Applications
• Built for Resilience & Error
Tolerance
• Loosely Coupled Components
• Preserved & Recoverable
Application State
CLOUD-AWARE
APPLICATION
DEVELOPMENT
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21. Expertise
Don’t Wing It…
CLOUD ARCHITECTS
You can NOT
leave this
transition to
chance.
• In-house Dev/Ops Expertise
• Bring in EXPERTS
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23. Life Before & After DevOps
What’s happening today? Where we need to be?
• Recreating the wheel • Perfecting the wheel
– Write once – Write once
– Never update – Deploy many
– Start fresh & write again – Deploy Often
• Provisioning delay • Instant Provisioning
– Long lead times – Instant deployment
– Heavy CAPEX expenditure – Utility pricing
– Longer time to market – Continuous deployment
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24. RACKSPACE ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTIONS
Cloud Application Transformation Framework
“Cloud HOW?” “Cloud NOW”
Customer
Data Center
IT Application Cloud
Solution Migrate/ Environment
Evolution Profiling Readiness
Design Implement Realization
Workshop Exercise Assessment
Strategize Assess Plan/Build/Deploy On-Going Optimization
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25. Rackspace Cloud Solution Architects
Dev/Ops EXPERTS…
Dedicated to teaching you…
How to build applications…
For the Cloud…
Phone: 1-800-440-1249
Email : advisory_services@rackspace.com
Website: rackspace.com/Advisory Services
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26. Get SMART on Cloud
Rackspace Advisory Services: Recommended Rackspace Resources:
Phone: 1-800-440-1249 • Cloud: Vision to Reality whitepaper (right side of page)
Email : advisory_services@rackspace.com • Cloud: Economics whitepaper (right side of page)
Website: rackspace.com/Advisory Services • Take the Cloud Readiness Self Assessment
• Use cases:
Recommended Industry Resources: – Hybrid Hosting: Dominos Pizza and watch the video
– RackConnect™: VEVO and watch the video
• The Big Switch, Nicholas Carr – Private Cloud: Lighthouse1
• Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud
Computing, Joe Weinman
• www.Cloudability.com Rackspace
Knowledge
• http://gigaom.com/ Center
• www.gartner.com
• www.forrester.com
“Our goal is to create the most
• www.idc.com
CLOUD SAVVY
customers in the industry”
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27. What We Covered Today
What is Dev/Ops and Why is it SO Important?
The Evolution of Dev/Ops
How Rackspace is Approaching Dev/Ops
How to Build Your Engine: The 5 keys to
Dev/Ops Success
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