EMC IT is transitioning to offer IT services through a private cloud model. It aims to provide Infrastructure as a Service, Platforms as a Service, and Software as a Service. For Platforms as a Service, it is offering database platforms including Oracle Database as a Service, SQL Server as a Service, and Greenplum as a Service. It is also offering application development platforms and tools. This is helping EMC IT improve agility, reduce costs, and architect to meet future needs through a cloud-based IT service delivery model.
EMC IT's Journey to Cloud : BUSINESS PRODUCTION BACKUP & RECOVERY SYSTEMSEMC
EMC IT's Journey to Cloud
PHASE 2: BUSINESS PRODUCTION
BACKUP & RECOVERY SYSTEMS
Discover how EMC uses its next generation deduplication, backup, and archiving.
Cloud Infrastructure and Services (CIS) - WebinarEMC
Between 2012 and 2020, the patch of the digital universe that CIOs and their IT staffs need to manage will become not just bigger but also more complex. The skills, experience, and resources to manage all these bits of data will become scarcer and more specialized, requiring a new, flexible, and scalable IT infrastructure that extends beyond the enterprise: cloud computing. By 2020, nearly 40% of the information in the digital universe will be "touched" by cloud computing providers - meaning that a byte. The Cloud Infrastructure and Services (CIS) session educates participants about cloud deployment and service models, cloud infrastructure, and the key considerations in migrating to cloud computing.
Visibility & Security for the Virtualized EnterpriseEMC
Identifying and understanding high-value digital assets in the context of the business is critical in assessing what work-loads to move to the cloud. But doing so is difficult without an effective model to help define and classify these assets. This session presents a down-to-earth methodology for identifying assets and understanding their value that you can apply in critical business decisions.
Objective 1: Understand what to look for when identifying valuable information assets.
After this session you will be able to:
Objective 2: Identify critical steps in the process of identifying and understanding digital assets.
Objective 3: Apply asset value when deciding what digital assets to entrust to the cloud.
Full recording via http://www.brainshark.com/emcworld/vu?pi=zHJzQJGhyzB8sLz0
White Paper: EMC Accelerates Journey to Big Data with Business Analytics as a...EMC
This white paper examines how EMC is exploiting the Big Data opportunity with a new agile model for analytics and reporting. Business-Analytics-as-a-Service (BAaaS) significantly reduces total cost of ownership and provides predictive analytics proficiency and increased business agility. The paper details BAaaS architecture, deployment, results, best practices, and early adopter use cases.
This white paper provides a high level architecture of the EMC Atmos cloud storage platform to efficiently manage, protect, and store distributed unstructured content at scale.
EMC IT's Journey to Cloud : BUSINESS PRODUCTION BACKUP & RECOVERY SYSTEMSEMC
EMC IT's Journey to Cloud
PHASE 2: BUSINESS PRODUCTION
BACKUP & RECOVERY SYSTEMS
Discover how EMC uses its next generation deduplication, backup, and archiving.
Cloud Infrastructure and Services (CIS) - WebinarEMC
Between 2012 and 2020, the patch of the digital universe that CIOs and their IT staffs need to manage will become not just bigger but also more complex. The skills, experience, and resources to manage all these bits of data will become scarcer and more specialized, requiring a new, flexible, and scalable IT infrastructure that extends beyond the enterprise: cloud computing. By 2020, nearly 40% of the information in the digital universe will be "touched" by cloud computing providers - meaning that a byte. The Cloud Infrastructure and Services (CIS) session educates participants about cloud deployment and service models, cloud infrastructure, and the key considerations in migrating to cloud computing.
Visibility & Security for the Virtualized EnterpriseEMC
Identifying and understanding high-value digital assets in the context of the business is critical in assessing what work-loads to move to the cloud. But doing so is difficult without an effective model to help define and classify these assets. This session presents a down-to-earth methodology for identifying assets and understanding their value that you can apply in critical business decisions.
Objective 1: Understand what to look for when identifying valuable information assets.
After this session you will be able to:
Objective 2: Identify critical steps in the process of identifying and understanding digital assets.
Objective 3: Apply asset value when deciding what digital assets to entrust to the cloud.
Full recording via http://www.brainshark.com/emcworld/vu?pi=zHJzQJGhyzB8sLz0
White Paper: EMC Accelerates Journey to Big Data with Business Analytics as a...EMC
This white paper examines how EMC is exploiting the Big Data opportunity with a new agile model for analytics and reporting. Business-Analytics-as-a-Service (BAaaS) significantly reduces total cost of ownership and provides predictive analytics proficiency and increased business agility. The paper details BAaaS architecture, deployment, results, best practices, and early adopter use cases.
This white paper provides a high level architecture of the EMC Atmos cloud storage platform to efficiently manage, protect, and store distributed unstructured content at scale.
This white paper documents the results of EMC IT's transformational journey and describes EMC IT's current overall organizational structure and strategic objectives.
EMC collaborates with colleges and universities worldwide to help prepare students for successful careers in a transforming IT industry. The Academic Alliance program offers unique ‘open’ curriculum-based education on technology topics such as cloud computing, big data analytics, and information storage and management. All courseware and faculty training are offered at no cost to qualifying higher education institutions.
The courses focus on technology concepts and principles applicable to any vendor environment, enabling students to develop highly marketable knowledge and skills required in today’s evolving IT industry.
The session gives an introduction to Big Data.
Starts by giving a generally accepted definition of the term Big Data. Then explores why Big Data is important in the current business scenario . The topic ends with enumeration of the technologies used to analyze Big Data like Map Reduce, NoSql etc
5-7 key questions (non-generic) which would be covered in the webinar
(i) What is Big Data
(ii) Why is Big Data important in the current business scenario
(iii) How can an organization effectively use Big Data
(iv) What are the important technologies used to analyze Big Data?
(v) What are MapReduce/Hadoop/HDFS/NoSQL technologies?
Don't Risk Your Reputation or Your Mainframe: Best Practices for Demonstratin...IBM Security
Mainframes host mission critical corporate information and production applications for many financial, healthcare, government and retail companies requiring highly secure systems and regulatory compliance. Demonstrating compliance for your industry can be complex and failure to comply can result in vulnerabilities, audit failures, loss of reputation, security breaches, and even system shut down. How can you simplify enforcement of security policy and best practices? How can you automate security monitoring, threat detection, remediation and compliance reporting? How can you demonstrate governance, risk and compliance on your mainframe? Learn how your modern mainframe can help you to comply with industry regulations, reduce costs and protect your enterprise while supporting cloud, mobile, social and big data environments.
View the full on-demand webcast: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/en_US/island/webinar/registration.tmpl?Action=rgoto&_sf=14
Cloud computing, its types, its services, advantages and disadvantages.
Touch screen technology.
Database system, advantages and disadvantages.
Cores and their differences.
This white paper documents the results of EMC IT's transformational journey and describes EMC IT's current overall organizational structure and strategic objectives.
EMC collaborates with colleges and universities worldwide to help prepare students for successful careers in a transforming IT industry. The Academic Alliance program offers unique ‘open’ curriculum-based education on technology topics such as cloud computing, big data analytics, and information storage and management. All courseware and faculty training are offered at no cost to qualifying higher education institutions.
The courses focus on technology concepts and principles applicable to any vendor environment, enabling students to develop highly marketable knowledge and skills required in today’s evolving IT industry.
The session gives an introduction to Big Data.
Starts by giving a generally accepted definition of the term Big Data. Then explores why Big Data is important in the current business scenario . The topic ends with enumeration of the technologies used to analyze Big Data like Map Reduce, NoSql etc
5-7 key questions (non-generic) which would be covered in the webinar
(i) What is Big Data
(ii) Why is Big Data important in the current business scenario
(iii) How can an organization effectively use Big Data
(iv) What are the important technologies used to analyze Big Data?
(v) What are MapReduce/Hadoop/HDFS/NoSQL technologies?
Don't Risk Your Reputation or Your Mainframe: Best Practices for Demonstratin...IBM Security
Mainframes host mission critical corporate information and production applications for many financial, healthcare, government and retail companies requiring highly secure systems and regulatory compliance. Demonstrating compliance for your industry can be complex and failure to comply can result in vulnerabilities, audit failures, loss of reputation, security breaches, and even system shut down. How can you simplify enforcement of security policy and best practices? How can you automate security monitoring, threat detection, remediation and compliance reporting? How can you demonstrate governance, risk and compliance on your mainframe? Learn how your modern mainframe can help you to comply with industry regulations, reduce costs and protect your enterprise while supporting cloud, mobile, social and big data environments.
View the full on-demand webcast: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/en_US/island/webinar/registration.tmpl?Action=rgoto&_sf=14
Cloud computing, its types, its services, advantages and disadvantages.
Touch screen technology.
Database system, advantages and disadvantages.
Cores and their differences.
VSAN is a new storage solution from VMware that is fully integrated with vSphere. It automatically aggregates server disks in a cluster to create shared storage that can be rapidly provisioned from VMware vCenter during VM creation.
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Relazione di presentazione del progetto svolto durante il corso di Comunicazione Visiva e Design delle Interfacce. InBicocca si propone come un aggregatore di informazioni (knowledge-based) sul quartiere Bicocca di Milano, che vuole rispondere alle esigenze eterogenee di tutti gli utenti che usufruiscono di questo spazio urbano.
Due sono gli obiettivi principali: il primo è quello di favorire la conoscenza del quartiere in un'ottica geolocalizzata, il secondo è quello di fornire informazioni aggiornate su novità ed eventi, stimolando la partecipazione attiva dei cittadini anche attraverso l'utilizzo di piattaforme social. A questo scopo abbiamo realizzato un sistema informativo ibrido, ovvero accessibile anche in mobilità, attraverso tablet.
EMC IT's Journey to Cloud :
PHASE 2: BUSINESS PRODUCTION
VIRTUAL DESKTOP
Follow EMC’s rollout of Virtual Desktop to empower users and automate desktop management.
EMC IT's Journey to the Private Cloud: A Practitioner's Guide EMC
This white paper is the first in a series of EMC IT Proven papers describing EMC ITs initiative to move toward a private cloud-based IT infrastructure. EMC IT defines the private cloud as the next-generation IT infrastructure comprising both internal and external clouds that enables efficiency, control, and choice for the internal IT organization.
White Paper: EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance Enhances EMC IT's Global ...EMC
This White Paper illustrates a synergistic model for deploying EMC's Greenplum Data Computing Appliance (DCA) with EMC IT's incumbent Global Data Warehouse infrastructure.
Breakout session tijdens Proact's SYNC 2013.
VSPEX en vBlock Converged Infrastructure bouwblokken van hypervisor server network en storage.pptx
John Lavallée
Practice Mgr – Cloud Services EMEA
EMC | Global Services Partners
EMC's IT Transformation Journey ( EMC Forum 2014 )EMC
The Cloud transforms IT from being reactive into a business enabler improving your organizations agility. But IT Transformation is not just about technology. It involves changing IT roles, skills, and processes to adapt to the new IT paradigm. Led by EMC IT, let's come together in this insightful session to explore how to transform your IT infrastructure, operating model, and applications.
Software Defined Data Center: The Intersection of Networking and StorageEMC
There has been quite a bit of marketing rhetoric around Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) since VMware’s acquisition of Nicira. In this session we explore the components of a SDDC. Our specific focus is on the composition of a SDDC’s resource model: Compute, Networking, and Storage. The emphasis is on the disaggregated I/O for Network and Storage resources.
Objective 1: Describe the disaggregated I/O resource model employed to facilitate the use of virtualized Ethernet and Block devices in a Software Defined Data Center.
After this session you will be able to:
Objective 2: Explain how end-user driven provisioning of virtual Ethernet devices and Block devices serve to decouple resource use from infrastructure management.
Objective 3: Describe some of the opportunities and challenges associated with employing disaggregate I/O.
Category:Applications & Databases, Storage Automation & Management, Virtualization & Cloud Computing
EMCWorld 2013 -ServiceMesh Agility Platform: Cloud-based DevOps with ViPRServiceMesh
Presented at EMCWorld -
The Agility Platform now supports policy-based, on-demand provisioning of storage leveraging EMC ViPR. The Agility Platform automatically selects the optimal storage resource using parameters such as performance, cost, and size for the cloud platform or application being deployed. By leveraging Agility Platform’s extensible policy engine for storage tiering and resource optimization, enterprise customers can better utilize their current storage investments and capitalize on a growing number of public cloud storage options.
The Future of Storage : EMC Software Defined Solution RSD
EMC provides intelligent software-defined storage solutions that help organizations drastically reduce management overhead through automation across traditional storage silos and pave the way for rapid deployment of fully integrated next generation scale-out storage architectures.
Presentation of Executive Briefing, April 2015
This session provides a brief overview of the various models available for adopting cloud and their strategic considerations, ranging from providing Enterprise class service to business alignment. This session also explores the infrastructure, management, and benefits of cloud computing and cloud storage.
Objective 1: Understand the various cloud models and their associated benefits and considerations.
After this session you will be able to:
Objective 2: Gain a high-level understanding of technologies that EMC can provide to accelerate adoption of the cloud models.
Objective 3: Understand the tactical approaches to cloud consumption available to their organization based on its needs and transformation phase.
Watch the recordings via http://www.brainshark.com/emcworld/vu?pi=zGfzHnlI1zB8sLz0
Emerging Technology in the Cloud! Real Life Examples. Pol Mac Aonghusacatherinewall
Set up in March 2008, the Dublin Cloud Center was created by IBM Software Group to provide a real-life laboratory for IBM Cloud Computing. Since then the Dublin Center has engaged around the world in delivery, development and research on the Cloud. A broad range of IBM, Client & Research projects provide a real-life insight into IBM 'Smart Infrastructure' in action.
Pol will provide a range of experiences and insights into Cloud Computing – from a practitioner's perspective. In this respect, Pol brings a unique, 'hands-on' perspective to IBM Cloud Computing capability and how it is being used in 'the wild'. This workshop is an opportunity for discussion and debate at a deep, paractical & technical level that will compliment the other workshops. The intention of the workshop is to illustrate IBM Cloud Computing in action!
In addition, Pol will also discuss emerging technologies using the Cloud platform and architecture in research and development projects in the Dublin Center. An interesting range of projects from High-performance, Pervasive & Mobile Computing coupled with research into topics such as active energy & green computing in the Cloud will provide insights into some of the next generation of solutions to use Cloud Computing.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the May Edition:
• Dell EMC takes open networking to the edge for next-generation access.
• Microsoft announces new intelligent security innovations
• Powering partners’ transformation - Pradeep Kumar, Principal Consultant, Security, Redington Value.
• Redington Value signs new vendor partnerships.
• Fortinet delivers integrated NOC-SOC solution.
• HPE to acquire Cape Networks.
• Malwarebytes introduces endpoint protection and response solution.
• Mimecast offers cyber resilience for email with new capabilities.
• SonicWall announces Capture Cloud Platform.
• Veritas revamps channel program to drive partner growth.
• Red Hat announces availability of Red Hat Storage One.
• AWS announces Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access(Z-IA).
Configuration Compliance For Storage, Network & Server EMC
This white paper shows the benefits of integrating IT infrastructure management technologies such as Network Configuration Manager, Storage Configuration Advisor and vCenter Configuration Manager into the RSA Archer platform for Configuration Compliance.
Software Defined Data Center: The Intersection of Networking and StorageEMC
There has been quite a bit of marketing rhetoric around Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) since VMware’s acquisition of Nicira. In this session we explore the components of a SDDC. Our specific focus is on the composition of a SDDC’s resource model: Compute, Networking, and Storage. The emphasis is on the disaggregated I/O for Network and Storage resources.
Objective 1: Describe the disaggregated I/O resource model employed to facilitate the use of virtualized Ethernet and Block devices in a Software Defined Data Center.
After this session you will be able to:
Objective 2: Explain how end-user driven provisioning of virtual Ethernet devices and Block devices serve to decouple resource use from infrastructure management.
Objective 3: Describe some of the opportunities and challenges associated with employing disaggregate I/O.
White Paper: Rethink Storage: Transform the Data Center with EMC ViPR Softwar...EMC
This white paper discusses the software-defined data center (SDCC) and challenges of heterogeneous storage silos in making SDDC a reality. It introduces EMC ViPR software-defined storage, which enables enterprise IT departments and service providers to transform physical storage arrays into simple, extensible, open virtual storage platform.
Similar to EMC IT's Journey to Cloud : IT-AS-A-SERVICE APPLICATIONS & CLOUD EXPERIENCE (20)
INDUSTRY-LEADING TECHNOLOGY FOR LONG TERM RETENTION OF BACKUPS IN THE CLOUDEMC
CloudBoost is a cloud-enabling solution from EMC
Facilitates secure, automatic, efficient data transfer to private and public clouds for Long-Term Retention (LTR) of backups. Seamlessly extends existing data protection solutions to elastic, resilient, scale-out cloud storage
Transforming Desktop Virtualization with Citrix XenDesktop and EMC XtremIOEMC
With EMC XtremIO all-flash array, improve
1) your competitive agility with real-time analytics & development
2) your infrastructure agility with elastic provisioning for performance & capacity
3) your TCO with 50% lower capex and opex and double the storage lifecycle.
• Citrix & EMC XtremIO: Better Together
• XtremIO Design Fundamentals for VDI
• Citrix XenDesktop & XtremIO
-- Image Management & Storage
-- Demonstrations
-- XtremIO XenDesktop Integration
EMC FORUM RESEARCH GLOBAL RESULTS - 10,451 RESPONSES ACROSS 33 COUNTRIES EMC
Explore findings from the EMC Forum IT Study and learn how cloud computing, social, mobile, and big data megatrends are shaping IT as a business driver globally.
Reference architecture with MIRANTIS OPENSTACK PLATFORM.The changes that are going on in IT with disruptions from technology, business and culture and so IT to solve the issues has to change from moving from traditional models to broker provider model.
Force Cyber Criminals to Shop Elsewhere
Learn the value of having an Identity Management and Governance solution and how retailers today are benefiting by strengthening their defenses and bolstering their Identity Management capabilities.
Container-based technology has experienced a recent revival and is becoming adopted at an explosive rate. For those that are new to the conversation, containers offer a way to virtualize an operating system. This virtualization isolates processes, providing limited visibility and resource utilization to each, such that the processes appear to be running on separate machines. In short, allowing more applications to run on a single machine. Here is a brief timeline of key moments in container history.
This white paper provides an overview of EMC's data protection solutions for the data lake - an active repository to manage varied and complex Big Data workloads
This infographic highlights key stats and messages from the analyst report from J.Gold Associates that addresses the growing economic impact of mobile cybercrime and fraud.
This white paper describes how an intelligence-driven governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) model can create an efficient, collaborative enterprise GRC strategy across IT, Finance, Operations, and Legal areas.
The Trust Paradox: Access Management and Trust in an Insecure AgeEMC
This white paper discusses the results of a CIO UK survey on a“Trust Paradox,” defined as employees and business partners being both the weakest link in an organization’s security as well as trusted agents in achieving the company’s goals.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
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.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/
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
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.
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.
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1. White Paper
EMC IT’S JOURNEY TO THE PRIVATE CLOUD:
APPLICATIONS AND CLOUD EXPERIENCE
A series exploring how EMC IT is architecting for the future and our
progress toward offering IT as a Service to the business
Abstract
This white paper focuses on EMC IT’s applications and cloud
experience to enable a seamless transition to the private cloud.
EMC IT’s vision is to provide IT as a Service in a self-service
mode to EMC business units. It also examines EMC IT’s
approach in offering Platform as a Service and Software as a
Service.
December 2010
3. Table of Contents
Executive summary.................................................................................................. 4
Introduction ............................................................................................................ 4
Audience ............................................................................................................................ 5
Terminology ....................................................................................................................... 5
Background............................................................................................................. 5
EMC IT’s strategy of applications and cloud experience ............................................ 6
Platforms as a Service ............................................................................................. 7
Database Platforms as a Service......................................................................................... 8
Application Platforms as a Service.................................................................................... 10
Software as a Service ............................................................................................ 13
Conclusion ............................................................................................................ 14
References ............................................................................................................ 14
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4. Executive summary
As a large, globally dispersed business, EMC relies on fast turnaround, consistent
high performance, and rapid scalability for its IT requirements—regardless of work
location or complexity of the IT infrastructure. While point and custom solutions can
address business needs, they typically result in higher license costs, inefficient
utilization, and increased total cost of ownership (TCO). Tasked with delivering
enhanced efficiency and cost savings to the company, EMC® IT has embraced
virtualization and cloud computing.
By virtualizing its environment, EMC IT is facilitating an on-demand platform where IT
resources can be made available from a virtual pool either within EMC or from any
globally located partner data center.
By leveraging cloud computing’s multi-tenancy and elasticity, EMC IT has begun to
offer constructed IT solutions as on-demand, scalable services that provide high
availability, self-service provisioning, metered usage, and chargeback.
Through these technologies, EMC IT envisions a cloud-based architecture that will
reduce TCO through consolidation, while offering a higher ROI, improved
effectiveness, and better service. It will also increase EMC’s agility.
This white paper is one in a series describing EMC IT’s initiative toward a private,
cloud-based IT infrastructure. To learn more on the background of this initiative, read
the white paper EMC IT’s Journey to the Private Cloud: A Practitioner’s Guide.
Introduction
This white paper details EMC IT’s applications and cloud experiences, and focuses on
the company’s investment in providing IT as a Service (ITaaS) through the private
cloud. It covers the following sections:
Background—Explains why EMC IT embarked on ITaaS.
EMC IT’s strategy of applications and cloud experience—Describes the three types
of IaaS services that EMC IT provides to business units.
Platforms as a Service—Encompasses the objectives and principles of offering
Database Platforms as a Service, focusing on Oracle as a Service, Microsoft SQL
Server as a Service, and Greenplum® as a Service. Application Platforms as a
Service offers brief insight into providing applications tailored to a cloud-based
operating environment, along with the platforms needed to support them.
Software as a Service—Describes the objectives and advantages of offering
Software as a Service, including a glimpse of business intelligence (BI), enterprise
resource planning (ERP), and customer relationship management (CRM) as a
service.
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5. Audience
This white paper is intended for IT program managers, IT architects, and IT
management.
Terminology
Force.com: This is a leading cloud platform for business applications that offers
developers a platform to create rich, collaborative, custom cloud applications.
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC): Oracle Corporation provides software for
clustering and high availability in Oracle database environments.
SecurID: RSA® SecurID® performs two-factor authentication for a user accessing a
network resource.
SpringSource: VMware® SpringSource® offers a comprehensive suite of products
for powering the entire build, run, manage enterprise Java application lifecycle
and breaking down the barriers between application development and
operations.
VMware ESX: VMware ESX® is an enterprise-level virtualization product.
Background
As a leading global enterprise, EMC requires the infrastructure agility and dynamic
scalability to meet changing application and business needs. Like many companies,
EMC is faced with increasing application complexity, which increases the time and
cost to provision infrastructure, platforms, and applications.
Although a large number of point solutions exist, and custom solutions can be
developed, EMC wanted to reduce complexity and optimize its IT infrastructure
wherever possible.
In addition to building and deploying applications in the cloud, EMC IT’s developers
needed to adapt applications to run in a cloud-based operating environment, while
providing the security necessary to protect information, rapidly recover from security
events, and address compliance and regulatory requirements.
Hence, EMC IT chose cloud computing as the ideal solution to address its challenges
and drive business transformation. The goal is to transition the company away from
the traditional silo-based environment to a cloud that offers efficiency, flexibility, and
scalability.
Offering IT as a Service (ITaaS) encourages cost savings, reduces energy consumption
through shared resourcing, and enables a rapid and agile deployment of customer
environments or applications. Additionally, ITaaS offers many other benefits
including:
Agility—Masking underlying infrastructure complexities, ITaaS enables business
users to browse and select relevant services and IT personnel to quickly and easily
provision, configure, and monitor virtual applications, databases, and platforms.
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6. It is also helps deliver a 50 percent reduction in software platform provisioning
time.
Architect for the future—With an ITaaS foundation in place, EMC IT can seamlessly
provision for the future with infrastructure, platforms, and applications that scale
up and out to meet fluctuating demands.
Cost savings—ITaaS will also help EMC IT reduce real estate, energy, and
maintenance costs. By deploying a shared database infrastructure, EMC projected
it could save as much as $7 million over five years. By deploying information
lifecycle management (ILM) it could save another $3 million over three years.
EMC IT’s strategy of applications and cloud experience
By virtualizing its entire infrastructure, EMC IT will be able to allocate IT resources
(infrastructure, platforms, and applications) on-demand from a virtual pool of
components that can be dispersed from within EMC or from partner data centers
located anywhere in the world. This enables EMC IT to allocate or move in response to
changing business requirements, as well as to increase efficiency and utilization.
EMC IT is working to provide its business units with three types of ITaaS services,
including:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): EMC IT will offer compute, storage, backup and
recovery, and networks, individually or as an integrated service.
Platforms as a Service (PaaS): The PaaS initiative includes providing databases
and application platforms such as development tools, runtime environments,
application frameworks, ILM, and enterprise content management (ECM) as
services. These offerings will be tailored to a cloud-based operating environment,
founded on the principles of simplicity and elasticity, to ensure self-service and
efficient use of IT resources. They will be offered on a number of platforms
including SpringSource, and Force.com for application development.
Software as a Service (SaaS): EMC IT will offer widely used applications to
business units including BI, ERP, CRM, and master data management. By
consolidating and standardizing its infrastructure, streamlining services to
internal departments, and providing a more efficient working model, EMC IT will
deliver enterprise applications to business units with a high degree of agility.
Additionally, decreased provisioning time will give EMC IT a way to reduce costs.
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7. Figure 1. EMC IT’s vision of ITaaS is to deliver all IT components, from infrastructure to
enterprise applications, as a service to EMC business units.
Platforms as a Service
EMC IT has begun to provide two principal categories of platforms as a service:
Database platforms, including:
Oracle Database as a Service
SQL Server as a Service
Greenplum as a Service
Application platforms, including:
Application Development as a Service
Enterprise Content Management as a Service
Information Lifecycle Management as a Service
Security Platform as a Service
Integration as a Service
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8. Database Platforms as a Service
Database as a Service offers business units several benefits including reduced TCO,
improved service levels, more efficient management, easier administration, and
much stronger compliance. EMC IT’s design principles in setting up its Database as a
Service include:
Database consolidation—Disparate databases were consolidated into tiered
clusters based on business criticality, required availability, and I/O profile.
Information optimization—Using effective information monitoring tools, EMC
reduced duplicate data to optimize the databases.
Standardization—By standardizing hardware and database footprints, EMC
achieved consistency, easier management, lower costs, and better performance.
Compliance—EMC embraces common management, administration, and
compliance-related policies and procedures.
To provide Database as a Service, EMC IT adopted both the grid-based and the
virtualization-based approach toward database virtualization and consolidation. EMC
has two principal database platforms, Oracle Database and SQL Server, along with an
emerging database platform in Greenplum.
Oracle Database as a Service—EMC IT created a foundation that offers Oracle
Databases as a Service by tiering databases on a consolidated and optimized
infrastructure based on the criticality and importance of applications to the EMC
enterprise. All mission-critical applications have been consolidated on an eight-node
RAC architecture by leveraging Oracle 11g.
EMC IT also virtualized a number of production and non-production databases. The
Oracle consolidation and virtualization efforts have helped EMC IT reduce database
servers from 55 to four, and databases from 51 to six. This has enabled EMC IT to
ensure enough system capacity to run 55 applications within the consolidated
Oracle-based grid environment.
Figure 2 illustrates EMC IT’s tiered and consolidated Oracle Database architecture.
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9. Before
MS Windows
Linux
Solaris
Development Testing Production
After
Business Critical Database Architecture Mission Critical Database Architecture
Production
11g RAC Grid DB 11g RAC Data Guard SRDF
DR/reporting/performance
sox sox sox
dev/test/staging
Dev Test Prod
Figure 2. EMC IT’s Oracle consolidation reference architecture
EMC IT realized several benefits from implementing Oracle Database as a Service,
including more than $2.5 million in overall cost avoidance and labor cost reduction.
The company also achieved an additional savings of over $1.4 million in cost
avoidance related to server replacement costs and decreased need for new capacity
additions.
EMC IT has also realized a number of operational and service advantages. For
example, implementing Oracle Database as a Service has significantly increased the
speed at which EMC IT can provision services to internal departments and business
units. Additionally, EMC IT increased its transparency by providing scalable database
services against standardized, published service levels. Database as a Service also
reduces internal project lifecycles and gives businesses the advantage of a faster
turnaround. Another benefit is that it helped EMC IT ensure high availability while
reducing data discrepancies, support, and run costs.
SQL Server as a Service—To offer SQL Server as a Service on demand, EMC IT has
adopted the dual approaches of grid-based consolidation and database
virtualization.
The consolidation of the SQL databases enabled EMC IT to offer a more efficient
service, including the ability to support mission-critical applications for the business
and rapid application development with the integrated Microsoft platform.
EMC IT is pursuing a SQL Server consolidation and virtualization initiative based on
the principles of tiered storage, where the clustering of databases is performed in
relation to the importance of the information to the business.
In the first phase of this initiative, EMC IT migrated all mission-critical and business-
critical applications to a consolidated cluster-based platform, guaranteeing high
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10. availability and reducing downtime. Starting with medium-critical business-
supporting applications, EMC IT is currently moving more SQL applications to a
virtualized platform. The end goal is to have all SQL databases on a consolidated and
virtualized platform, providing EMC IT with the ability to offer SQL Server as a Service
to business units.
EMC IT has experienced a number of benefits by consolidating its SQL Server
infrastructure. While SQL databases grew more than 30 percent in the past three
years, EMC did not have to increase support staff. EMC IT was also able to reduce its
software licensing costs to Enterprise Editions, and significantly lower its database
storage requirements. Through the use of compression, the SQL Server 2008
environment could potentially yield 50 percent (approximately $1 million) in savings
in overall labor and infrastructure costs.
Greenplum Database as a Service—EMC IT is starting to use Greenplum, a parallel
database explicitly meant for large-scale analytical processing, as its next-generation
analytical database, with the ability to partition and provide sandbox instances for
use by business units.
Application Platforms as a Service
EMC IT is also providing its IT workforce with tools to design and build applications
tailored to a cloud-based operating environment. This is being achieved by using EMC
and partner technologies to provide a platform for developing secure next-generation
applications. Applications built on this platform are optimized for virtual, self-
managed operating environments. EMC IT’s objectives for this initiative include:
Leveraging the power of the next-generation cloud platform for application
development
Reducing the footprint of physical machines and simplifying system architectures
needed to run and manage business-critical next-generation applications
Reducing development time and time-to-market for applications by enabling
development teams to use rapid and flexible development methodologies
EMC IT’s cloud-based application platforms are being designed for simplicity and
flexibility to ensure self-service and efficient use of IT resources. The guiding tenets in
building this platform are:
Lightweight framework—The platform must have interfaces and frameworks that
have lightweight, reusable, agile, and aspect-oriented programming.
Agile development—The application development must be optimized with testing
and production platforms that scale up or down and shift loads physically and
geographically.
Service-based—Most applications need to be redesigned as a service using multi-
tenant and usage-based costing methods that can be self-managed and provided
on-demand.
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11. Efficiency—The platforms that host the applications must increase the
efficiencies of system management by using efficient programming
methodologies.
EMC IT is working toward offering a number of Platforms as a Service including
VMforce.com, SpringSource, and Microsoft .NET for application development, to make
runtime environments more lightweight and simplify application programming. Other
platforms provided to users as a service include application development, ECM, ILM,
information security, and IT integration.
Application Development as a Service—To effectively leverage the advantages of the
private cloud, applications need to be built and deployed into the cloud. EMC IT is
working on various methods in which application developers leverage application
development platforms to easily build and deploy applications into the cloud. EMC IT
is also building these platforms to help business units benefit from private and public
cloud services.
Enterprise Content Management as a Service—EMC maintains and manages large
amounts of unstructured data in various formats including images, documents,
audio, and video that must be classified and stored, and that also allows for easy and
rapid access by business units. Traditionally, this has been satisfied by siloed
content management platforms that were provisioned separately by business units.
However, this approach does not facilitate optimal storage utilization or effective or
easy access and retrieval across business units.
To address this, EMC IT built a consolidated, scalable platform for hosting
unstructured content using tiered storage and centralized management, which
supports more efficient provisioning and reduces management costs. The company is
currently working on offering this platform with chargeback based on usage and
governance frameworks.
Information Lifecycle Management as a Service—EMC IT is focusing on providing an
efficient and cost-effective data storage platform by reducing infrastructure,
resources, and maintenance costs. EMC IT’s ILM as a platform enables end-to-end
information optimization throughout the lifecycle of the data. This ensures the right
level of performance for applications at the lowest cost. This also enables EMC IT to
retire read-only or unused applications’ mask and subset data in non-production
environments to further optimize and secure information.
To accomplish all of this, EMC IT has deployed the data ILM service.
Security Platform as a Service—Recognizing the importance of security on the journey
to the private cloud, EMC IT developed a number of solutions for implementing
information security. For example, EMC IT developed a Secure Managed Infrastructure
(SMI) to help administrators securely administer and monitor public networks while
keeping them separated from the corporate network; a Governance, Risk, and
Compliance framework (GRC) built using EMC’s proven Archer technology to drive
policy adherence and govern the network infrastructure; and the Critical Incident
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12. Response Center, a converged security operations platform that protects and
monitors EMC’s critical IT infrastructure.
Based on the success of these initiatives, EMC IT is now working on providing
Information Security as a Service to its business units utilizing leading RSA
technologies such as Data Loss Prevention (DLP), RSA Envision®, and SecurID.
Additionally, EMC IT is building comprehensive platforms that allow for common
identity management and audit transactions that occur in a private cloud-based
environment.
EMC IT will also integrate these platforms with governance, risk, and compliance
engines that proactively develop and manage information security policies and
ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. In the near future, EMC IT
plans to provide these integrated security and governance platforms as services to
EMC business units, which will be able to implement custom security policies.
Integration as a Service—EMC IT is working on methods of integrating multiple data
sources across business units to leverage this data seamlessly for business
purposes. This includes end-to-end solutions that can transform data between
several sources to meet the specific needs of business units. To provide these
integration services, EMC IT included service-oriented architecture/web services,
enterprise messaging, and extract, transform, and load (ETL). EMC IT is also
developing methodologies to construct information from dispersed sets of data and
formats, which are critical in the private cloud. EMC will leverage this expertise in
orchestrating end-to-end business processes across cloud service providers and EMC
IT’s internal infrastructure.
Benefits of providing Application Platforms as a Service
By offering Application Platforms as a Service, EMC IT has realized many benefits:
Improved efficiency—EMC IT delivers high-quality application infrastructure on
demand with minimum time and effort.
Agility—Applications are built on common platforms and databases are
consolidated, so EMC IT can quickly and efficiently adapt to new technologies and
best practices.
Simplicity—This helps reduce the complexity and redundancy of systems.
Availability—The robust Application Platforms as a Service solution is architected
to enable high performance and zero application downtime.
Scalability—The service provides a high degree of scalability and effective
dynamic application capacity management.
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13. Software as a Service
EMC IT is also providing commonly used Software as a Service to business units,
including services such as BI, ERP, CRM, and master data management. This will
enable EMC IT to:
Unify business definitions and provide a consistent online experience to
geographically dispersed users
Implement consistent application security policies by connecting business
applications through a single virtual directory service
Consolidate process and integration logic outside of individual applications and
interfaces
Software as a Service enables EMC IT to streamline their services to various internal
departments and provide more efficient services. Its standardized and consolidated
infrastructure also enables EMC IT to deliver enterprise applications to business units
with a high degree of agility, while reducing provisioning time and costs. EMC IT
began its journey toward Software as a Service by offering BI, ERP, and CRM
application services to business units.
Business Intelligence as a Service—To reduce the TCO of business intelligence, EMC
IT brought together the several existing business intelligence solutions under a
unified architecture for a Business Intelligence as a Service offering. This
consolidation has reduced the number of source feeds and has removed data and
hardware redundancies, thus eliminating the risk of data discrepancies from multiple
code bases.
Additionally, this unified architecture has also delivered significant performance
gains including a 180 percent improvement in batch job performance, and a three
times reduction in the storage footprint. EMC IT will continue to unify and expand the
architecture to enable self-service BI sandbox offerings to the business units. EMC’s
Greenplum massively scalable analytical database is a key design point in offering BI
as a service.
ERP and CRM as a Service—EMC IT is also exploring ERP as a Service to reduce the
overall investment and time required to provision new ERP modules, and increase the
return on ERP investments for customers. To accomplish this, EMC deployed global
instances of its ERP and CRM environments in a scalable, shared model leveraging
the work done in Platforms as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service.
The consolidated ERP infrastructure is an asset for new mergers and acquisitions
because it creates a smooth and problem-free integration of organizations that join
EMC. It will also help in working more effectively with suppliers, vendors, and
partners.
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14. Conclusion
By leveraging the strengths of cloud computing such as multi-tenancy for business
units and elasticity, EMC IT will offer its internal customers on-demand, scalable
service applications as a service, and achieve higher efficiency and availability, better
service, and self-service provisioning, chargeback, and metered usage.
Although significant progress has been achieved to date, EMC IT is still on the journey
and focused on addressing automation, policy, and governance. Additionally, EMC IT
continues to make progress in self-provisioning and metered usage to implement a
chargeback policy, along with efforts toward providing platforms-accelerated
development of applications that can run seamlessly anywhere in the private or
public cloud. EMC IT is also working on an architecture that will reduce TCO through
consolidation.
A cloud-based solution offers the best balance of all these end objectives: lower TCO,
higher ROI, enhanced efficiency, and better service—all while increasing the agility
and ability of the enterprise. As EMC IT continues its transition to the private cloud, it
is working to equip its IT employees with a number of skills across domains to
support the successful delivery of ITaaS.
References
The following resources provide additional, relevant information. You can access
these documents and sites at www.EMC.com or by contacting an EMC representative:
EMC IT's Journey to the Private Cloud: A Practitioner's Guide
EMC IT web page at www.EMC.com/EMCIT
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