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Chapter 13 – Migrating to the Cloud
Learning Objectives
• Define requirements for migrating an application to the cloud.
• Describe the importance of backing up data before and after moving an application to the
cloud.
• Appreciate the benefit of using experienced consultants to assist with a cloud migration.
• Describe an application in terms of its resource use.
• Define and describe vendor lock-in and discuss ways to avoid it.
• Describe the importance of training employees before, during, and after a cloud migration.
• Describe the importance of establishing a realistic cloud-deployment schedule.
• Discuss key budget factors impacted by the cloud.
• Discuss potential IT governance issues related to the cloud.
• Define and describe cloud bursting.
Migration to the Cloud
• An application can be moved to the cloud quickly.
• There are a myriad of cloud-solution providers who will
eagerly assist by giving you instant access to cloud-
based servers, data storage, and support.
• Like all IT projects, the process of moving an application
to the cloud, or the process of creating and deploying a
new cloud application, should be well planned.
System Requirements
• All IT projects should begin with specific
requirements. The process of taking an
application to the cloud, known as cloud
migration, is no exception. The cloud-
migration process should start with defined
requirements.
Common Cloud System Requirements
• Data security and privacy requirements
• Site capacity plan—the resources that the application initially
needs to operate
• Scalability requirements—the measurable factors that should drive
scaling events
• System uptime requirements
• Business continuity and disaster requirements
• Budget requirements
• Operating system and programming language requirements
Common Cloud System Requirements
Continued
• Type of cloud: public, private, or hybrid
• Single- or multitenant solution requirements
• Data backup requirements
• Client device requirements, such as computer, tablet, or smartphone
support
• Training requirements
• Help desk and support requirements
• Governance and auditing requirements
• Open source software requirements
Common Cloud System Requirements Cont.
• Programming API requirements
• Dashboard and reporting requirements
• Client access requirements
• Data export requirements
Real World: CloudSwitch Cloud Migration
• Many companies have enterprise-based applications
that are widely used by their employees.
• These applications, therefore, are mission critical.
• CloudSwitch provides a downloadable application that
companies can install within their data center and that
securely maps the company’s on-site applications to a
cloud-based solution in a matter of minutes.
Protect Your Existing Data
• Before you begin your application migration to a cloud provider,
make sure that you back up your data so ...
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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/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
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.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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
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
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3
How to ensure Business Continuity in the Cloud
1. How to Ensure Business Continuity in the Cloud
and change the way we use and manage IT
Giorgos Gerogiannis, Datacenter & Cloud Solutions Manager
2. IT needs to become smarter … get new choices
• Some use the word “Cloud” to describe new
consumption and delivery models.
• Regardless of terminology, it is clear that these new
models are emerging for the enterprise – even if they
were first inspired by consumer Internet services.
• Self-service, economies-of-scale, and flexible
sourcing options – new choices of deployment –
define these new models.
3. Uni Systems Secure Cloud Services…
Built with Reliability in mind
ISO 27001:2005
•Hosting Services for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) equipment and high-availability office facilities in the
Company’s Data Centre
•Cloud Services including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS)
•Professional Services including the design, installation, administration and technical support of ICT
6. Reliability of Operations
Processes
Security Aware
Professional Services
NDA Agreement
People
Background checked
Business Continuity
Mgmt
Operational & Change
Control
Availability Management
Managed Backup
Access Control Mgmt
Monitoring
SLA Mgmt
Secure Information
exchange
Audit Logging
Data Deletion Mgmt
Quality Assurance
7. Uni|Cloud Portfolio
Uni|Apps
Cloud on demand Apps
Uni|Desktop
Desktop as a Service
Uni|On-Board
Cloud on Boarding
Uni|Root
Monitoring as a Service
Uni|Vault
Backup & Business
Continuity as a Service
Uni|Workplace
Test & Development environment
as a Service
Uni Systems Next Generation
Hybrid Enterprise Cloud
Storage –TBA
Uni|Cloud- IaaS
Uni|Cloud- SaaS
Uni|E-Invoicing
Uni|PAYaaS
Uni|HCMaaS
Human Capital Mangmt as a Service Payroll as a Service
Uni|Cloud- PaaS
Uni|DBaaS
RDBMS as a Service
Uni|MaaS
Middleware as a Service
8. Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Your Clients, Employees, Bank, Insurance Company, Accountant, and Family
are depending on you to back up and run quickly after a disaster
EARTHQUAKE
• EARTHQUAKE
FLOODS
WILDFIRES
Electrical Storm
9. Traditional Approaches to DR
Backup Your Data
•
Focus is on protecting data:
o
o
•
Tape backup
Imaging
Poor performance:
o
•
Slow RTO, RPO (days)
Hidden costs:
o
o
How do we get the data back
in to a useable state?
How long to rebuild server?
10. Traditional Approaches to DR
Data Replication - Mirroring
•
Focus is on protecting application
o
o
•
Clustering
Like-for-like infrastructure
Performance, but at what price?
o
•
Near-zero RTO, RPO
High cost:
o
Duplicate infrastructure
o
Management complexity
11. Balancing Business Requirements and Cost
Cost
Cost of
Data
Availability
Cost of
System
Availability
Cost of
System
Downtime
Cost of
Data Loss
Ideal Solution Set
TIME
HOURS
RPO
Hours of Lost Transactions
0
RTO
HOURS
Hours Required to Resume Business
12. Bridging the Gap
Duplication
• Fast RTO and RPO
• Duplicate resources
• Costly and complex
Backup
• Slow RTO and RPO
• Over commitment of
recovery resources
13. Solution Design Challenges
Identify the ideal solution set
•
Evaluate per Application RPO – RTO
between Cost of Data Loss and
•
Evaluate DR resource needs
Cost of Data availability
•
•
Design DR users access providing physical
and virtual seats
•
Easy Access
•
Support Legacy, Physical and
•
Assess per application data change rate
Virtual servers
•
Design the right Replication techniques to
•
reduce replication data
Provide support for multiple
operating systems
•
Address limited bandwidth
•
Address Compliance issues
•
Address Country Risk
•
Use the right tools to optimize WAN usage
•
Use the right tools to support Physical –
Virtual and Legacy systems
•
Provide 3rd replication hop out of Country
15. Paying only for the Business Continuity you use
•
No Startup Investment
•
In the event of a disaster, Uni Systems will restore your chosen servers
into our cloud platform. Users are then able to remotely login to their
virtual desktops and access business critical applications and data from
any in-ternet connected PC or workstation
•
Access from Anywhere
•
Cloud DR pricing is simple, transparent and is based around a low fixed
monthly fee
16. References
Customer
Type of Services
Major Financial
Institution
Disaster Site Hosting, Operations room
Major Financial
Institution
Disaster site Hosting, Operations room
Major Telecom
Operator
Disaster site for specific business applications
Energy
Media
Governmental
Institution
Manufacturing
More than 6 Financial
Institutes
SAP aaS
Web aaS
Mail aaS
Hosting, Remote Desktop
PAYroll as a Service
Let’s talk about you and your business. First, Understand that business Continuity and Disaster Recovery are different. Business continuity is the ability to be up and running during or immediately following a disaster, while disaster recovery is really the long term restoration of your systems. I am sure as a business owner, that you feel the pressure of your clients, employees, bank insurance co, acct and family depending on you to keep the business successful and running even in the event that something bad happens like a fire… or even theft of servers…workstations
Our solution was founded on these objectives, address fast recovery time and easy access, a critical file that is lost can be a disaster, make it a simple to manage solution, include all pc’s, servers and laptops, have a system that can backup mutipleos so windows, novell, linux, unix, mac, be able to backup email and address the big 3 – lost files, lost servers and a lost business or major disaster…
Why switch from traditional IT to the cloud?There are many reasons why organisations of all sizes and types are adopting this model of IT. It provides a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Ultimately, it can save companies a considerable amount of money...Removal / reduction of capital expenditureCustomers can avoid spending large amounts of capital on purchasing and installing their IT infrastructure or applications by moving to the cloud model. Capital expenditure on IT reduces available working capital for other critical operations and business investments. Cloud computing offers a simple operational expense that is easier to budget for month-by-month, and prevents money being wasted on depreciating assets. Additionally, customers do not need to pay for excess resource capacity in-house to meet fluctuating demand.Reduced administration costsIT solutions can be deployed extremely quickly and managed, maintained, patched and upgraded remotely by your service provider. Technical support is provided round the clock by reputable providers like Unisystems for no extra charge, reducing the burden on IT staff. This means that they are free to focus on business-critical tasks, and businesses can avoid incurring additional manpower and training costs. IT giant IBM has pointed out that cloud computing allows organisations to streamline procurement processes, and eliminates the need to duplicate certain computer administrative skills related to setup, configuration, and support.Improved resource utilizationCombining resources into large clouds reduces costs and maximisesutilisation by delivering resources only when they are needed. Businesses needn’t worry about over-provisioning for a service whose use does not meet their predictions, or under-provisioning for one that becomes unexpectedly popular. Moving more and more applications, infrastructure, and even support into the cloud can free up precious time, effort and budgets to concentrate on the real job of exploiting technology to improve the mission of the company. It really comes down to making better use of your time – focusing on your business and allowing cloud providers to manage the resources to get you to where you need to go. Sharing computing power among multiple tenants can improve utilisation rates, as servers are not left idle, which can reduce costs significantly while increasing the speed of application development. A side effect of this approach is that computer capacity rises dramatically, as customers do not have to engineer for peak loads.Economies of scaleCloud computing customers can benefit from the economies of scale enjoyed by providers, who typically use very large-scale data centres operating at much higher efficiency levels, and multi-tenant architecture to share resources between many different customers. This model of IT provision allows them to pass on savings to their customers.Scalability on demandScalability and flexibility are highly valuable advantages offered by cloud computing, allowing customers to react quickly to changing IT needs, adding or subtracting capacity and users as and when required and responding to real rather than projected requirements. Even better, because cloud-computing follows a utility model in which service costs are based on actual consumption, you only pay for what you use. Customers benefit from greater elasticity of resources, without paying a premium for large scale.Quick and easy implementationWithout the need to purchase hardware, software licences or implementation services, a company can get its cloud-computing arrangement off the ground in minutes.Helps smaller businesses competeHistorically, there has been a huge disparity between the IT resources available to small businesses and to enterprises. Cloud computing has made it possible for smaller companies to compete on an even playing field with much bigger competitors. ‘Renting’ IT services instead of investing in hardware and software makes them much more affordable, and means that capital can instead be used for other vital projects. Providers like Unisystems take enterprise technology and offer SMBs services that would otherwise cost hundreds of thousands of pounds for a low monthly fee.Quality of serviceYour selected vendor should offer 24/7 customer support and an immediate response to emergency situations.Guaranteed uptime, SLAs.Always ask a prospective provider about reliability and guaranteed service levels – ensure your applications and/or services are always online and accessible.Anywhere AccessCloud-based IT services let you access your applications and data securely from any location via an internet connection. It’s easier to collaborate too; with both the application and the data stored in the cloud, multiple users can work together on the same project, share calendars and contacts etc. It has been pointed out that if your internet connection fails, you will not be able to access your data. However, due to the ‘anywhere access’ nature of the cloud, users can simply connect from a different location – so if your office connection fails and you have no redundancy, you can access your data from home or the nearest Wi-Fi enabled point. Because of this, flexible / remote working is easily enabled, allowing you to cut overheads, meet new working regulations and keep your staff happy!Technical SupportA good cloud computing provider will offer round the clock technical support. Unisystems customers, for instance, are assigned one of our support pods, and all subsequent contact is then handled by the same small group of skilled engineers, who are available 24/7. This type of support model allows a provider to build a better understanding of your business requirements, effectively becoming an extension of your team.Disaster recovery / backupRecent research has indicated that around 90% of businesses do not have adequate disaster recovery or business continuity plans, leaving them vulnerable to any disruptions that might occur. Providers like Unisystems can provide an array of disaster recovery services, from cloud backup (allowing you to store important files from your desktop or office network within their data centres) to having ready-to-go desktops and services in case your business is hit by problems. Hosted Desktops (or Hosted VDI) from Unisystems, for example, mean you don’t have to worry about worry about data backup or disaster recovery, as this is taken care of as part of the service. Files are stored twice at different remote locations to ensure that there's always a copy available 24 hours a day, 7 days per week.