The document discusses the financial impacts of cloud computing. It defines various cloud service models like SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and provides examples. Moving workloads to the cloud can significantly reduce IT costs by eliminating upfront hardware/software costs and allowing companies to pay based on usage and scale resources up or down as needed. This flexible "opex model" of the cloud can save companies 30-40% of annual IT costs on average compared to maintaining infrastructure on-premises. The cloud also enables faster innovation by making it easier to deploy applications and experiments without large capital investments.
What Every Project Manager Should Know About ItilDaniel Cayouette
This presentation will provide a high-level view of ITIL and will identify where the ITIL Service Lifecycle Framework and the PMBOK Guide complement each other.
Understanding of ITIL will help the IT project manager over the lifecycle of their projects, from defining a better project charter focused on IT services to a smoother transition to operations and an increased satisfaction of all stakeholders.
The role of an IT PMO as the Voice of IT and its role with Service Level Management will also be discussed as a key enabler to align IT to the business.
Gartner analysts will further discuss how to prioritise IT initiatives, while balancing the use of resources at Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit 2011, 14-15 June in London. For more information please visit europe.gartner.com/ppm
What Every Project Manager Should Know About ItilDaniel Cayouette
This presentation will provide a high-level view of ITIL and will identify where the ITIL Service Lifecycle Framework and the PMBOK Guide complement each other.
Understanding of ITIL will help the IT project manager over the lifecycle of their projects, from defining a better project charter focused on IT services to a smoother transition to operations and an increased satisfaction of all stakeholders.
The role of an IT PMO as the Voice of IT and its role with Service Level Management will also be discussed as a key enabler to align IT to the business.
Gartner analysts will further discuss how to prioritise IT initiatives, while balancing the use of resources at Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit 2011, 14-15 June in London. For more information please visit europe.gartner.com/ppm
ServiceNow Customer Service Management Jade Global
ServiceNow® Customer Service Management (CSM) goes beyond traditional customer service solutions to serve your customers—consumers or businesses—faster and more effectively.
Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) Implementation Methodology B...Waqas Tariq
This paper is intended to cover the concept of IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v3 and how to implement it in order to increase the efficiency of any Egyptian IT corporate and to help the corporate employees to do their work easily and its clients to feel the quality of services provided to them. ITIL is considered now as the de facto standard for IT Service Management (ITSM) in organizations which operate their business based on IT infrastructure and services. ITIL v3 was implemented in western organizations but still it is a new framework for the Egyptian and Arabian environment. The best proof of the lack of ITSM in the Arab region and not Egypt alone is that the percentage of the companies which have ISO/IEC 20000 are less than 2% of the total certified companies in the whole world and in Egypt no company has it until now as stated on APMG ISO/IEC 20000 website[1]. Accordingly this paper investigates an implementation methodology of ITIL in an Egyptian organization taking into consideration the cultural factors and how it will affect the success of this implementation. We have already implemented this methodology in three Egyptian companies and it succeeded to increase the level of process maturity from level one to level four according the PMF
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural pattern in computer software design in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol, typically over a network. The principles of service-orientation are independent of any vendor, product or technology.
ITIL, formally an acronym for Information Technology Infrastructure Library, is a set of practices for IT service management (ITSM) that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of business. In its current form (known as ITIL V3),
Personally designed (content + graphics design), officially accredited ITIL® Foundation courseware.
ITIL® is part of the AXELOS Global Best Practice Guidance.
Trademarks are properties of the holders, who are not affiliated with courseware author.
Agile Pricing Models (webinar by Luxoft Agile Practice)Sergey Prokhorenko
Though being used extensively since early 2000s, Agile contracts still raise a lot of questions from sourcing vendor management and custom software development providers. In this webinar I share Luxoft experience of using different pricing models in distributed Agile development engagements.
Although the Cloud is now mainstream for many large Enterprises, organisations who truly aim to maximise the value of their cloud platform also focus on refactoring the model by which they operate their IT. In this session you will learn about the latest developments in operations within the cloud, including operational processes, architecture, governance, organisation structure, and monitoring tools to maximise agility. This session will highlight the features of a Cloud-enabled IT operating model and how AWS customers benefit from delivering a new approach to IT.
Speaker: Andrew Mitchell, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Featured Customer - NAB
Cloud Computing System models for Distributed and cloud computing & Performan...hrmalik20
Advantage of Clouds over Traditional
Distributed Systems,Clouds,Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Layered Architecture,Performance Metrics and Scalability Analysis,System Efficiency,Performance Challenges in Cloud Computing,What is cloud computing and why is it distinctive?,CLOUD SERVICE DELIVERY MODELS AND THEIR
PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES,Cloud computing security,What does Cloud Computing Security mean,Cloud Security Landscape,Distinctions between Security and Privacy,Energy Efficiency of Cloud Computing,How energy-efficient is cloud computing?
Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid Cloud ComputingSkytap Cloud
Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid Cloud Computing, presented by Brett Goodwin, VP Marketing & Business Development at Skytap, Inc. at CAMP IT, 4.5.2013.
De nombreuses définitions existent au sujet du Cloud Computing et les fournisseurs les cadrent selon une perspective technique, faisant passer le concept à un mot à la mode (Buzz word) égarant ainsi les décideurs, hommes d'affaires et leur laissant une idée confuse de son importance concurrentielle pour l'entreprise.
Ce livre blanc interactif a pour intention d'expliquer le concept du "Cloud Computing", la définition du concept et les technologies principales sur lesquelles le Cloud Computing est fondé.
Il vous présentera les contraintes et les facteurs de l'environnement d'aujourd'hui qui peuvent motiver l'adoption réussie du Cloud Computing dans la stratégie d‘une entreprise.
ServiceNow Customer Service Management Jade Global
ServiceNow® Customer Service Management (CSM) goes beyond traditional customer service solutions to serve your customers—consumers or businesses—faster and more effectively.
Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) Implementation Methodology B...Waqas Tariq
This paper is intended to cover the concept of IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v3 and how to implement it in order to increase the efficiency of any Egyptian IT corporate and to help the corporate employees to do their work easily and its clients to feel the quality of services provided to them. ITIL is considered now as the de facto standard for IT Service Management (ITSM) in organizations which operate their business based on IT infrastructure and services. ITIL v3 was implemented in western organizations but still it is a new framework for the Egyptian and Arabian environment. The best proof of the lack of ITSM in the Arab region and not Egypt alone is that the percentage of the companies which have ISO/IEC 20000 are less than 2% of the total certified companies in the whole world and in Egypt no company has it until now as stated on APMG ISO/IEC 20000 website[1]. Accordingly this paper investigates an implementation methodology of ITIL in an Egyptian organization taking into consideration the cultural factors and how it will affect the success of this implementation. We have already implemented this methodology in three Egyptian companies and it succeeded to increase the level of process maturity from level one to level four according the PMF
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural pattern in computer software design in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol, typically over a network. The principles of service-orientation are independent of any vendor, product or technology.
ITIL, formally an acronym for Information Technology Infrastructure Library, is a set of practices for IT service management (ITSM) that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of business. In its current form (known as ITIL V3),
Personally designed (content + graphics design), officially accredited ITIL® Foundation courseware.
ITIL® is part of the AXELOS Global Best Practice Guidance.
Trademarks are properties of the holders, who are not affiliated with courseware author.
Agile Pricing Models (webinar by Luxoft Agile Practice)Sergey Prokhorenko
Though being used extensively since early 2000s, Agile contracts still raise a lot of questions from sourcing vendor management and custom software development providers. In this webinar I share Luxoft experience of using different pricing models in distributed Agile development engagements.
Although the Cloud is now mainstream for many large Enterprises, organisations who truly aim to maximise the value of their cloud platform also focus on refactoring the model by which they operate their IT. In this session you will learn about the latest developments in operations within the cloud, including operational processes, architecture, governance, organisation structure, and monitoring tools to maximise agility. This session will highlight the features of a Cloud-enabled IT operating model and how AWS customers benefit from delivering a new approach to IT.
Speaker: Andrew Mitchell, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Featured Customer - NAB
Cloud Computing System models for Distributed and cloud computing & Performan...hrmalik20
Advantage of Clouds over Traditional
Distributed Systems,Clouds,Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Layered Architecture,Performance Metrics and Scalability Analysis,System Efficiency,Performance Challenges in Cloud Computing,What is cloud computing and why is it distinctive?,CLOUD SERVICE DELIVERY MODELS AND THEIR
PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES,Cloud computing security,What does Cloud Computing Security mean,Cloud Security Landscape,Distinctions between Security and Privacy,Energy Efficiency of Cloud Computing,How energy-efficient is cloud computing?
Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid Cloud ComputingSkytap Cloud
Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid Cloud Computing, presented by Brett Goodwin, VP Marketing & Business Development at Skytap, Inc. at CAMP IT, 4.5.2013.
De nombreuses définitions existent au sujet du Cloud Computing et les fournisseurs les cadrent selon une perspective technique, faisant passer le concept à un mot à la mode (Buzz word) égarant ainsi les décideurs, hommes d'affaires et leur laissant une idée confuse de son importance concurrentielle pour l'entreprise.
Ce livre blanc interactif a pour intention d'expliquer le concept du "Cloud Computing", la définition du concept et les technologies principales sur lesquelles le Cloud Computing est fondé.
Il vous présentera les contraintes et les facteurs de l'environnement d'aujourd'hui qui peuvent motiver l'adoption réussie du Cloud Computing dans la stratégie d‘une entreprise.
The People Model and Cloud Transformation | AWS Public Sector Summit 2016Amazon Web Services
A successful cloud transformation journey incorporates the three pillars of transformation: people, process, and technology. While leveraging the technology, the people component drives transformations. But far too often, cloud transformation efforts concentrate on the process improvement strategies and technology implementation, while essentially ignoring the human aspect of the change initiative and the opportunity to develop a more agile, DevOps culture. Many leaders who look back on previous change initiatives reflect that process and technology were simple to change compared to the people part of the organization. A central perspective within the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, the "people perspective," guides organizations about aspects that affect people to reduce the risk and accelerate the value realization from cloud adoption. This session covers best-practice methods that enable customers to address challenges in setting up the right organizational structure to manage cloud operations, roles and job responsibilities during transition and post-cloud adoption, assessing gaps in skills and competencies required, building effective training models, and shaping a DevOps culture.
(ISM305) Framework: Create Cloud Strategy & Accelerate ResultsAmazon Web Services
Dive deep into specific, common use cases for enterprise customers while stepping through the process of building a cloud and IT transformation strategy leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework. We will build a prescriptive roadmap for a cloud journey leveraging best practices, common techniques, and real-world examples from other AWS successes.
Nuvem sem limites: IaaS, PaaS ou SaaS? Transforme seu negócio!, por Sergio GamaiMasters
Sergio Gama, Líder Técnico de Cloud e Gerente da IBM Innovation, falou sobre 'Nuvem sem limites: IaaS, PaaS ou SaaS? Transforme seu negócio!' no iMasters Developer Week - Vitória.
O iMasters Developer Week - Vitória aconteceu nos dias 3, 4 e 5 de Março no Teatro Rede Gazeta em Vitória-ES - http://developerweek.imasters.com.br/vitoria/
Ulrich Homann,Chief Architect, Microsoft Services in Redmond über den Einfluss von Cloud Computing.
Wie IT-Abteilungen heute mit Cloud Computing die Kosten senken, die Flexibilität erhöhen und so einen Mehrwert für das operative Geschäft erzielen können. Inspiration durch reale Beispiele.
What began as tiny baby steps to bridge gaps of human limitations like memory, cognitive fluctuations has today turned into a virtual revolution where an invisible world of 0’s and 1’s is home to the most important bytes and pieces of our lives. Replacing the need for local servers, cloud computing emerged as the matrix within which multiple remote servers coordinated together to store, manage and administer data. The two other baits in the cloud computing movement is the live/real-time information updating and light-speed transfer of data. Initially, it was the center for large-scale corporations. In the last few years, small-scale and medium-sized organizations have also joined the army of cloud computing era. The analytics of the cloud computing culture swing between the spectrums ranging from the sustainability of cloud computing to the increased carbon emissions due to servers.
Read the full blog here:
http://suyati.com/culture-of-cloud-computing-a-green-move-or-eco-death/
Or reach us at: jghosh@suyati.com
cloudSME The European hpc cloud platform for simulationAndreas Ocklenburg
cloudSME UG, StartUp company, CloudComputing, HPC, Workflow
cloudSME greatly simplifies the "access to" and "integration of" cloud computing resources for companies, institutions and research projects, especially in the area of simulation and business intelligence. cloudSME offers a real European solution for European companies.
Formed by partners out of the "cloudSME FP7 R&D project".
The Executive View on Cloud Service Brokers – Cloud Computing Association Con...Chad Lawler
"The Executive View on Cloud Service Brokers - Cloud Ecosystem Management",
Cloud Computing Association (CCA) Conference "Cloud Computing in the Public Sector", Miami, FL, April 16, 2012, Author Chad M. Lawler, Ph.D., Director, Consulting Services, Cloud Computing, U.S. Strategic Technology Solutions, Hitachi Consulting
"Services as an Infrastructure - Looking at Enterprise Clouds in a Different Way" Panel Discussion, http://www.cloudcomputingassn.org/events/T1202/agenda.html
Support de l'atelier animé par Loic Simon d'Aspaway sur le theme du Cloud Services Brokerage et des Brokers - Courtiers de Services Cloud lors de la journée IBM #CloudAccelerate du 13 juin 2014 à Paris
Public vs. Private Cloud Performance by FlexStackIQ
This is a presentation given by Hugh Ma and Michael O'Rourke from Flex at the Stacki San Jose Meetup on September 15, 2016. Learn about the differences between public and private cloud performance, their OpenStack-Ansible & FlexBench environment, and how they use Stacki.
Open Source and Cloud: Change Through CollaborationOPNFV
In recent years as virtualization and cloud became more and more mature an opportunity has been created for the industry to move towards an NFV networking methodology. In parallel with this phenomenon the role of open source has evolved to establish a fundamentally new paradigm for software development. The ICT industry has had to adapt to this change and move away from traditional ways of working.
During this presentation we will share some of our experience of the cloud market including SDN and NFV. We intend to shed light on some of the challenges faced and what lessons learnt on the path toward collaborative standardization and open source development. We will also highlight the importance of OPNFV and its role as an avenue to upstream communities for both investigation and cooperation
Security & Compliance in the Cloud - Proactively Managing Governance, Risk & ...Chad Lawler
Security & Compliance in the Cloud - Standards, Security & Proactively Managing Governance, Risk & Compliance
Key Note Address by Chad M. Lawler, Ph.D.
Cloud Security Alliance - North Texas Chapter
Friday, June 28, 2013
Cloud Computing for Small & Medium BusinessesAl Sabawi
I presented this topic at the Greater Binghamton Business Expo in Upstate New York. It is meant to shed light on utilizing Cloud Computing for Small and Medium size businesses. It should help decision makers consider Software-as-a-Service offerings for their business as a way to save on IT cost and to deliver on better efficiency for their organizations.
Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale, similar to a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network.[1] At the foundation of cloud computing is the broader concept of converged infrastructure and shared services.
Cloud computing, or in simpler shorthand just "the cloud", also focuses on maximizing the effectiveness of the shared resources. Cloud resources are usually not only shared by multiple users but are also dynamically reallocated per demand. This can work for allocating resources to users. For example, a cloud computer facility that serves European users during European business hours with a specific application (e.g., email) may reallocate the same resources to serve North American users during North America's business hours with a different application (e.g., a web server). This approach should maximize the use of computing power thus reducing environmental damage as well since less power, air conditioning, rackspace, etc. are required for a variety of functions. With cloud computing, multiple users can access a single server to retrieve and update their data without purchasing licenses for different applications.
Cloud computing, or in simpler shorthand just "the cloud", also focuses on maximizing the effectiveness of the shared resources. Cloud resources are usually not only shared by multiple users but are also dynamically reallocated per demand. This can work for allocating resources to users. For example, a cloud computer facility that serves European users during European business hours with a specific application (e.g., email) may reallocate the same resources to serve North American users during North America's business hours with a different application (e.g., a web server). This approach should maximize the use of computing power thus reducing environmental damage as well since less power, air conditioning, rackspace, etc. are required for a variety of functions. With cloud computing, multiple users can access a single server to retrieve and update their data without purchasing licenses for different applications.
Cloud computing is a type of Internet-based computing that provides shared computer processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., computer networks, servers, storage, applications and services),
Companies in today\'s challenging economy need to do more with less...see how the combination of Cisco, NetApp and VMWare can help you in your data center.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...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 the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
4. • BPaaS = Business Process as a Service
• SaaS = Software as a Service
• PaaS = application Platform as a Service
• IaaS = Infrastructure as a Service
Cloud Service Definitions
9. What is Cloud Computing?
An analogy: think of electricity services…
Power is a utility service - available to
you on-demand and you pay only for
what you use.
You simply plug into a vast electrical grid managed
by experts to get a low cost. Reliable power supply
is available to you with much greater efficiency
than you could generate on your own.
10. What is Cloud Computing? (Continued)
Cloud computing is also a utility service, giving you access to technology resources
managed by experts and available on-demand.
You simply access these services
over the internet or via VPN, with no
up-front costs and you pay only for the
resources you use.
11. Drivers of Cloud Adoption
• Mobility
• Innovation
• Lower costs
• Need for agility
• Business continuity
• Core competencies
12. Attributes of Public Cloud IaaS
No capital expenditure
Pay as you go and pay only for what you use
True elastic capacity; scale up and down
Improves time to market
You get to focus your engineering resources on what
differentiates you vs. managing the undifferentiated
infrastructure resources
13. By the hour cost model changes
everything
Batch processing
Backup/recovery
Elastic capacity
“By the hour” + elasticity = unlimited
infrastructure (When I need it)
Its about Time!
14. Who is Responsible for What?
Cloud Provider
Facilities
Physical security
Physical infrastructure
Network infrastructure
Virtualization
infrastructure
2nd Watch or
Customer
Architecture build
Engineering build
Security groups
Firewalls
Network configuration
Monitoring and reporting
Customer
Operating system
Application
Application development
Application fixes/patches
Customer contact
Compliance
16. Public Cloud
• Accessible from
the Internet
• Shared by many
customers
• Vendor owned
platform
Private Cloud
• Accessible from
Internet and/or
Private Company
Network
• Dedicated
• Company Owned
Hybrid Cloud
• Combination of
Both Public and
Private Cloud
• Customer
controls access
(not necessarily
Public entry)
Public vs. Private Cloud
17. What’s missing from Private Cloud?
Pay as you Go Lower Overall
Costs
Stop
Guessing
Capacity
Agility / Speed /
Innovation
Avoid
Undifferentiated
Heavy Lifting
Go Global in
Minutes
Public Cloud ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
“Private”
Cloud X X X X X X
18. How are they different financially?
Private Cloud Public Cloud
Upfront Costs Significant – businesses have to buy
“capacity” before it is available to
use.
No upfront costs
Capital Expense Network, Servers, Storage, Backup
and associated facilities.
No capital expense
Operating Expense Repairs and Maintenance, Telecom Telecom+
Procurement Weeks or months for new capacity
or upgrades
Minutes
Contracts Support and Maintenance +
Facilities
Support extra
SLAs Typically strong SLAs ($$) Weak SLAs – Use at your
own risk.
20. Models for Consumption
•Simple bets on specific
workloads
•Focus is on achieving a
project outcome
•Parts of the datacenter
in scope
Calculated Approach
•Service Catalog driven
approach
•Focus is on building
internal migration
factory
•Entire datacenter in
scope
All In
•Customer or Market
driving need to
innovate
•Focus is on business
results – Cloud is
innovation enabler
•Business line initiating
move
Market Driven
21. Extend Your Data Center with the Cloud
Users or
Customers
Customer Data Center
VPN
EC2 Instances
EC2 Instances
Availability Zone 1
Add capacity!
Use the cloud as your backup data center
22. Front-end Your Large Application from the Cloud
Users or
Customers
Availability Zone 1
EC2 Instances
EC2 Instances
Availability Zone 2
VPN
Customer Data Center
23. Run Entire Datacenter in the Cloud
Highly Redundant
Infrastructure
Support for dynamic load
Support for high data security
requirements
Intrusion Detection
Auditing
Logging
24. Workloads
Web Applications
Disaster Recovery
Data Analytics
Marketing Campaign Management
Everything (Datacenter Migrations)
Drivers
Mobility
Innovation
Lower costs
Need for agility
Business continuity
Core competencies
What workloads are Enterprises moving to the Cloud?
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25. How are Enterprises using AWS?
Definitions:
• Compute – EC2, RDS & EBS (Servers)
• Storage – S3, RRS and Glacier (SAN/NAS)
• Network – Data transfer (Telecomm)
• Other Services – Application Services
(Caching, etc.)
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26. 1960’s and
70’s –
Mainframes
1980’s – PC
1990’s –
Client Server
2000’s – Web
2.0, SaaS
2010’s –
Infrastructure
as a Service
(IaaS)
Capital Investment
Human Investment
Investment Evolution of IT Infrastructure
32. TCO Examples
Use only what you need when you need it
Schedule your servers!
Hint: Our backup server costs < $1 per month
Hint: Our developers don’t work 24x7
Change your instance size
Installs, busy days, etc.
Make a Template for your Application(s)
Manage your Templates in a Source Code Repository
Track Changes!
Deploy/Destroy 100’s or 1000’s of servers and infrastructure with one click
Dev
Test
Staging
33. TCO Summary
• The cost of both success and failure has been reduced significantly.
• Moving to public cloud can save companies 30-40% on average of
their annual IT costs.
• Some of our customers have experienced larger savings (75-80%+)!
• A true apples to apples comparison includes the entire datacenter
and all relevant support staff and contracts.
• There is massive research and industry papers documenting Cloud
savings
34. IT Spend Now Shifting to Opex
Traditional Capital Expense
• Servers
• Storage
• Network Equipment
• Backup Equipment
• Datacenter Facility (Building and
Equipment)
Operating Expense
• Cloud Services
• SaaS
• IaaS/PaaS
• Connectivity
• Additional spend for cloud “link”
35. On-Premises
Experiment Infrequently
Failure is expensive
Less Innovation
Experiment Often
Fail quickly at a low cost
More Innovation
$ Millions Nearly $0
The path to innovation – Fail Fast
“I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
- Thomas Edison
36. Things to Watch
• Spending Controls
• Who is authorized to “buy”
• Monitoring and alerting for account thresholds (e.g. dev/test or
backup)
• Segregation of Duties
• Anyone can start using Cloud – and they do
• How do you ensure things are tested before release?
• Security and Compliance
• You can never outsource ownership
• Periodically check with vendors for ROC reports
37. 1) Enterprise Systems Integrator for AWS
2) Over 300 projects on AWS since 2011
3) Focus on Enterprise IT Operations
4) Enterprise Office 365 Partner
5) Azure for dev/test workloads
A Leader in Cloud Implementations
