The constantly shifting communications landscape makes it imperative for IT managers to build a network that's flexible and ready to integrate the next new technology or service. Yet, the network must be highly secure, reliable and cost-effective to operate, too. This presentation, delivered at Enterprise Connect 2016, describes a comprehensive approach to building a flexible, vendor-agnostic communications architecture. I describe how Oracle's SIP communications solution can improve performance and reliability, simplify operations and strengthen security.
SD-WAN is a new and exciting opportunity to transform enterprises costly and rigid MPLS-based wide area networks (WAN). It promises to make the WAN more affordable and agile, boost capacity, and improve resiliency. But, SD-WAN goes far beyond replacing MPLS. It can optimize global connectivity, streamline network security, and seamlessly integrate cloud resources and mobile users into simple coherent network.
Session freeze, poor quality voice services, random disconnects and long haul networks that slow user productivity. Chances are your branch users think your network sucks and sadly, more often than not, they are right.
SD-WAN is a super hot industry topic, promising to make all of these problems go away but be warned not all SD-WAN solutions are equal.
Join cloudDNA Co-founder Al Taylor for this fast paced, fact packed lunchtime session to learn what makes a good SD-WAN solution, what features should you look for, what improvements you should expect and who's doing it in the real world.
Exinda is a proven global supplier of Traffic Shaping & WAN Optimization products. Exinda provides users with the best application experience possible by maximizing the speed and efficiency of the wide area network.
SD-WAN is a new and exciting opportunity to transform enterprises costly and rigid MPLS-based wide area networks (WAN). It promises to make the WAN more affordable and agile, boost capacity, and improve resiliency. But, SD-WAN goes far beyond replacing MPLS. It can optimize global connectivity, streamline network security, and seamlessly integrate cloud resources and mobile users into simple coherent network.
Session freeze, poor quality voice services, random disconnects and long haul networks that slow user productivity. Chances are your branch users think your network sucks and sadly, more often than not, they are right.
SD-WAN is a super hot industry topic, promising to make all of these problems go away but be warned not all SD-WAN solutions are equal.
Join cloudDNA Co-founder Al Taylor for this fast paced, fact packed lunchtime session to learn what makes a good SD-WAN solution, what features should you look for, what improvements you should expect and who's doing it in the real world.
Exinda is a proven global supplier of Traffic Shaping & WAN Optimization products. Exinda provides users with the best application experience possible by maximizing the speed and efficiency of the wide area network.
Consider this ten-part “WAN Bill of Rights” a guide to evaluating your overall strategy and deciding which SD-WAN solutions will improve your digital business transformation and help you win against the competition.
Learn more by visiting http://www.cisco.com/go/sdwan
Oracle Public Cloud Operations from ThousandEyes ConnectThousandEyes
Alex Barerre presents at ThousandEyes Connect on monitoring Oracle’s diverse set of cloud services, from SaaS to PaaS to IaaS including a new project using clusters of ThousandEyes agents to simulate end user traffic.
Vous souhaitez faire le pas vers le cloud mais ne savez pas par ou commencer ? Pourquoi pas par votre infrastructure. Optimisez vos coûts, gagnez en flexibilité et en performance avec le cloud Oracle.
How API Enablement Drives Legacy ModernizationMuleSoft
For many organizations, legacy systems’ integration challenges have increased costs and slowed innovation. Learn how Infosys and MuleSoft partner to address these challenges through API enablement - accelerating project delivery speed while reducing costs through pre-fabricated frameworks and solutions.
Oracle's presentation on Bridging the Internet and IMS with WebRTC. Presented at the IMS WebRTC Workshop at IMS World Forum on April 2014 in Barcelona. Thanks for tTADHack
MySQL day Dublin - OCI & Application DevelopmentHenry J. Kröger
Slide deck from the MySQL day on the 23rd of October 2018 in the Oracle Dublin office. Presents Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure and Application Development Platform using Docker and Kubernetes.
Consider this ten-part “WAN Bill of Rights” a guide to evaluating your overall strategy and deciding which SD-WAN solutions will improve your digital business transformation and help you win against the competition.
Learn more by visiting http://www.cisco.com/go/sdwan
Oracle Public Cloud Operations from ThousandEyes ConnectThousandEyes
Alex Barerre presents at ThousandEyes Connect on monitoring Oracle’s diverse set of cloud services, from SaaS to PaaS to IaaS including a new project using clusters of ThousandEyes agents to simulate end user traffic.
Vous souhaitez faire le pas vers le cloud mais ne savez pas par ou commencer ? Pourquoi pas par votre infrastructure. Optimisez vos coûts, gagnez en flexibilité et en performance avec le cloud Oracle.
How API Enablement Drives Legacy ModernizationMuleSoft
For many organizations, legacy systems’ integration challenges have increased costs and slowed innovation. Learn how Infosys and MuleSoft partner to address these challenges through API enablement - accelerating project delivery speed while reducing costs through pre-fabricated frameworks and solutions.
Oracle's presentation on Bridging the Internet and IMS with WebRTC. Presented at the IMS WebRTC Workshop at IMS World Forum on April 2014 in Barcelona. Thanks for tTADHack
MySQL day Dublin - OCI & Application DevelopmentHenry J. Kröger
Slide deck from the MySQL day on the 23rd of October 2018 in the Oracle Dublin office. Presents Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure and Application Development Platform using Docker and Kubernetes.
Cisco Intelligent Branch - Enabling the Next Generation BranchCisco Canada
This session introduces the Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN) solution for providing highly available Enterprise WAN connectivity using less expensive Internet circuits. As the volume of content and applications traveling across networks grows exponentially, organizations must optimize their WAN investments. Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN) helps you do just that. IT can use investments in Cisco ISR 4000 Series and ASR 1000 Series Routers to scale to the growing demands of branch-office users by providing an optimal experience over any connection at lower cost. And you can do this without compromising performance, reliability, or security.</p>
During this session, we will explain how IWAN, will allow customers to quickly roll out bandwidth-intensive applications, such as video, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and guest Wi-Fi services. And it doesn’t matter which transport model you prefer, whether MPLS, the Internet, cellular, or a hybrid WAN access model. The savings from IWAN often pay for the branch infrastructure investments, and may also free up resources for new, innovative business services.
Approaches for WebLogic Server in the Cloud (OpenWorld, September 2014)jeckels
With Oracle WebLogic Server now available "as a service" both on premise working in conjunction with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Pack and also in several Public Clouds beyond Oracle Public Cloud, customers have a clear set of architectural alternatives when looking at building out an enterprise cloud strategy for WebLogic Server. Cloud with WebLogic Server is not just core server but the layered and related products needed in a cloud infrastructure -Web Tier, WebLogic Server, Database and Fusion Middleware - as well as the full lifecycle capabilities needed: development, administration and operations. Navigate a pragmatic cloud approach for your organization and WebLogic Server.
SoftLayer, an IBM Company, utilizes infrastructure which is fully customizable, with a single point of control, for flexible and powerful cloud options. It is one of the only providers who offer Bar Metal dedicated Cloud, and completely configurable Virtual Cloud (Public and Private) without any t-shirt sizing.
Why Cloud? First of all, we need to ask ourselves..... Are we looking for an innovative way of doing business? Is an existing system/ apps supporting with BOTH lower cost AND faster time to the market? If your answers are yes and no (subsequently), then maybe its time for cloud!
Comprehensive Access Management for Applications, Data, and Web Services
Delivers risk-aware end-to-end user authentication, single sign-on, and authorization protection, enabling enterprises to secure access from mobile devices and seamlessly integrate social identities with applications.
Cisco Meraki's powerful cloud platform provides simple management for their wireless, routing, security and switching platforms. This presentation provides an overview of the Meraki platform.
Voyager Networks is a managed services and solutions provider based in the UK. For more information on how Voyager Networks can help with your Meraki project, please visit:
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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.
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
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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.
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.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
This presentation is informed by the interactions between Oracle Communications and its customers around the world. We engage with some very forward-thinking communications architects and engineers responsible for planning and building the networks of Fortune-ranked enterprises.
We’ve noted common challenges faced by these organizations and have been fortunate to be able to offer some very effective solutions. I’d like to share these challenges and solutions with you.
First, you’ll notice my topic focuses on making UC networks secure, reliable and flexible. These are challenges we hear frequently from customers and are born out by market data.
A 2015 Infonetics survey indicates the top two barriers to UC adoption are cost and security at 38% each. This shouldn’t be surprising, because a 2015 Communications Fraud Control Association (CFCA) survey estimates about $3.5 Billion in global losses to corporate IP-PBX and unified communications system service theft.
The need for flexibility is born out by the fact our enterprise communications environments are becoming only more diverse as they evolve. Enterprises are embracing public and private cloud deployment models at 21 and 26%, respectively, according to Infonetics. And the environments are increasingly multivendor, with the ascendancy of Microsoft as a UC vendor providing evidence of this trend. In 5 short years since introducing Lync, Microsoft has taken 34% of the UC market in 3Q15 (Infonetics) and has number one license share for on-prem UC deployments.
Reliability has always been a cornerstone requirement for communications networks. We don’t see this changing.
Flexibility, reliability and security are the three key attributes customers seek as they evolve their communications networks. Now, I’ll spend the rest of the presentation talking about how to attain these attributes as communications networks and services evolve toward the future.
To project future requirements, we must start by assessing our contemporary networks because most enterprises only expand their communications capabilities, they rarely retire them.
The diagram illustrates a typical enterprise network with contact center systems, video conferencing equipment, PBX and UC systems. These disparate systems are interconnected with each other and with a session border controller for access to the PSTN and service provider networks. Obviously, this is a very complex network with many trunk connections to manage. It gets even more complex when we account for the number of vendors involved. It’s not uncommon for enterprises to have a half dozen or more different suppliers.
Common challenges customers encounter are managing the dial plans across these systems, normalizing the SIP protocols used by each vendor’s gear and optimizing routing across the network.
As I mentioned, most enterprises will add more capabilities to the network they have today. The cloud is a big area of growth. Infonetics projects the UCaaS market will exceed $12B by 2018. Enterprises may also begin using communications functions that are embedded in SaaS applications, for example in contact center and sales force automation applications. Mobile UC has been slow to adopt but may gain traction. WebRTC may find its way into consumer applications that are accessed by employees at work, or business applications. Finally, enterprises are improving customer experience by adding more channels to their contact centers.
So, we have more services delivered by more providers through more technologies and deployment models. How do we enable this kind of evolution while maintaining security and reliability?
The first key objective is to establish a flexible and agile network architecture. We need to accommodate multiple dial plans, normalize the protocols used by different vendors and easily control the routing on these complex networks.
But flexibility and agility are the enemies of security and reliability. The more vendors we use to build our network, the more services we subscribe to, the more elements we deploy, typically makes it harder to enforce consistent security policies and ensure reliable operations. Because there are more vulnerabilities and more complexity. In addition, when things break, troubleshooting becomes more difficult.
So, we need an architecture that enables us to achieve all these things at once.
What do we have to work with? Well, the architectures offered by the incumbent UC vendors don’t provide a lot of help. Their architectures operate as silos. They operate very well when expanding within their product line. But, they don’t typically cooperate when it comes to bridging these silos and interoperating with each other.
Our solution is to build a layered architecture that enables enterprises to easily scale and add capabilities without fear of obsolescence. At the same time, this architecture dramatically simplifies the network, strengthens security and enables rapid troubleshooting.
The real time communications edge layer controls network access and security. It provides interoperability between the enterprise and third party cloud services.
The session control layer centrally controls the flow of sessions between edge and application as well as between different applications. It enforces enterprise policies as sessions traverse the network, and provides interoperability across diverse multivendor UC systems and applications.
The application layer is where the UC systems, contact center applications and CEBP services live. It’s important to note, applications don’t interact directly with each other. Instead they communicate through the session control layer, which normalizes and provides interoperability services for the applications.
The management layer includes a rich set of management tools, including monitoring and troubleshooting for the real-time session delivery network and systems for network element management.
As we’ve already discussed, the existing applications aren’t going to be retired tomorrow. They live on. So, then the rest of the architecture needs to be vendor neutral to provide the interoperability and flexibility we need to evolve the network for the future. Of course, this is where Oracle solutions enter the picture.
Oracle offers products for each layer in this architecture that are designed to complement and facilitate interoperability across existing applications. But they do much more than that. This architecture can dramatically simplify a multivendor network, improving reliability. It also strengthens network security.
At the edge layer, we offer our market leading SBCs. In the core or session control layer, we offer a session manager that we call the Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker. In the management layer, we offer a vendor-neutral monitoring and troubleshooting tool we call the Enterprise Operations Monitor. These three products are designed to enable interoperability across UC and contact center applications while making the entire network easier to manage and control. They strengthen security and improve network reliability.
This slide helps to illustrate the role each product plays in making an enterprise communications network more flexible, secure and reliable.
You may already be familiar with Oracle E-SBCs. They are well recognized for their ability to manipulate SIP messages to achieve interoperability between networks. They are also the strongest defense against communications threats and include features to recover from network and equipment failures without impacting services.
The Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker, or ECB, is our session manager. It normalizes SIP messages and dial plans implemented on disparate UC systems. It enforces policies, including policies to strengthen security, ensure compliance and reduce fraud. And because ECB is designed for the network core, it’s built to route sessions around failures and ensure high availability.
The Oracle Enterprise Operations Monitor is our network-wide monitoring and troubleshooting tool. It’s designed to monitor SIP and RTP traffic in real time, detect trouble before it starts to affect service and enable rapid troubleshooting. Because EOM monitors all the messages flowing through the network, it’s perfectly positioned for analyzing the traffic and detecting fraud.
This diagram illustrates how the architecture would be deployed in the same network that we looked at in the earlier slide. Notice the network topology is dramatically simpler because all traffic flows through the ECB, which interconnects the various network elements. This reduces the number of peer connections in an 7 node network from 21 to just 7.
ECB normalizes the SIP protocols and dial plans used by each element so that there are no interoperability issues. It is the central traffic cop in the network, enabling it to optimize network routing and improve overall network reliability. And it enforces policies for security and compliance.
The yellow dots on the E-SBC and ECB indicate probe functions that are embedded in each device. These probes monitor SIP and RTP packets and forward data about network operation to the Enterprise Operations Monitor. Probes can be deployed as standalone devices, too, which enables EOM to monitor an network segment. Using EOM, we get an end-to-end view of each session, something a management tool provided by a UC vendor can’t provide. This end-to-end view enables EOM to quickly analyze and isolate problems. Thus improving network reliability.
Finally, we have the E-SBC deployed at the network edge. It secures the border between the enterprise and outside networks and ensures reliable access to CSP services.
This case study illustrates how the Oracle SIP Enablement architecture helped a major pharmaceutical company transition from Cisco Unified Communication Manager to Microsoft Skype for Business and adopt SIP trunking services from its carrier. The firm is based in Europe but has major offices in the US and other countries. They needed to normalize the dial plans used in the different systems – SfB uses E.164 and the Cisco CM used a local dialing convention – and ensure reliable routing over their WAN.
They implemented the layered architecture to help simplify their network and make it more flexible. They used the ECB’s call forking capabilities to transition incoming calls from Cisco hardphone to the Skype for Business client at the pace of each user. The CDRs produced by ECB enabled the customer to implement a charge-back system. The customer realized a significant improvement in MTTR by using EOM. Of course, the E-SBC provides a secure connection to the carrier network.
Here are the key takeaways from this presentation: If there is change in your network’s future, get ready now, by 1) investing in a UC-vendor-neutral architecture that makes your network more flexible and agile and 2) building security, reliability and flexibility into each element in the architecture.
The solutions I’ve described are part of the Oracle Communications Infrastructure product family, which are being demonstrated in our booth. They are part of a four-pillar product portfolio deisgned to power business transformation. I urge you to stop by the booth and check them out.