This document discusses SuperChoice's hybrid cloud orchestration approach. It summarizes:
- SuperChoice migrated over 200 applications to hybrid clouds using a Cloud Management Platform for orchestration.
- They took a "fix by rebuild" approach to automate deploying entire environments from source scripts.
- Significant challenges included addressing technical debt, cultural change for staff, and ensuring portability across clouds.
- Lessons learned were that automation is critical, people issues are the biggest barrier, and a methodical approach worked best for the transition.
Tagging Best Practices for Cloud GovernanceRightScale
In the cloud, it’s critical to implement specific global tags across your organization that enable cloud governance and cost management. If, like most enterprises, you are using multiple clouds, you will want to ensure consistency across all of the clouds you use, despite varying tagging capabilities on each cloud.
How to Use RightScale CMP to Manage Cloud: In-Depth DemoRightScale
Enterprises are quickly realizing that a cloud management platform (CMP) is a critical foundation for managing and optimizing cloud use. Whether you are already using one or more clouds or just getting started, RightScale CMP gives you visibility, governance, cost management, automation, and orchestration for resources across all your cloud and virtualized infrastructure. See an in-depth demo of RightScale that shows how.
Cloud Migration and Portability (with and without Containers)RightScale
Companies are moving more workloads to cloud and many need the flexibility to move some workloads between cloud providers on a one time or ongoing basis. The use of containers is further enabling companies to embrace portability. IT organizations need to understand the considerations, architectures, and tools that are needed to successfully migrate to and between clouds and create portable workloads.
Successful Cloud Orchestration with RightScale CMPRightScale
As cloud use explodes, it’s important to develop a strategy for orchestrating and automating across all your cloud and non-cloud infrastructure environments. However, the use of the term orchestration has become overloaded and can refer to many different types of tools. Learn about the different types of orchestration automation tools and the role a cloud management platform (CMP) can play as an “orchestrator of orchestrators.”
12 Ways to Manage Cloud Costs and Optimize Cloud SpendRightScale
It can be difficult to manage cloud costs. As a result, you are likely wasting 30-45 percent or more of your cloud spend. Cloud governance, IT, and finance teams need to understand where costs are coming from, allocate those costs to the appropriate departments, and find ways to reduce waste and save money. In this webinar, we will show you how to manage cloud costs and optimize spend.
Manage and Optimize Cloud Spend with RightScale OptimaRightScale
Cloud bills have climbed sharply as cloud use becomes strategic. RightScale Optima helps enterprises better understand, allocate, and optimize their cloud spend. Find out how to implement key cloud cost management practices with RightScale Optima.
A cloud management platform (CMP) is fast becoming a de facto requirement for enterprises pursuing a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud strategy. But what should you be looking for in a CMP? Many companies make the mistake of taking a “boil the ocean” approach to a CMP evaluation. We’ll share best practices and discuss whether you need an RFP.
Enterprise Cloud Strategy: 7 Areas You Need to Re-ThinkRightScale
Companies from Fortune 1000 on down are going all-in on cloud, but your enterprise cloud strategy also needs to address the broad impact of cloud use in your company. Your strategy needs to cover implications for your technical processes, but also supporting areas including finance, governance, organization, and culture.
Tagging Best Practices for Cloud GovernanceRightScale
In the cloud, it’s critical to implement specific global tags across your organization that enable cloud governance and cost management. If, like most enterprises, you are using multiple clouds, you will want to ensure consistency across all of the clouds you use, despite varying tagging capabilities on each cloud.
How to Use RightScale CMP to Manage Cloud: In-Depth DemoRightScale
Enterprises are quickly realizing that a cloud management platform (CMP) is a critical foundation for managing and optimizing cloud use. Whether you are already using one or more clouds or just getting started, RightScale CMP gives you visibility, governance, cost management, automation, and orchestration for resources across all your cloud and virtualized infrastructure. See an in-depth demo of RightScale that shows how.
Cloud Migration and Portability (with and without Containers)RightScale
Companies are moving more workloads to cloud and many need the flexibility to move some workloads between cloud providers on a one time or ongoing basis. The use of containers is further enabling companies to embrace portability. IT organizations need to understand the considerations, architectures, and tools that are needed to successfully migrate to and between clouds and create portable workloads.
Successful Cloud Orchestration with RightScale CMPRightScale
As cloud use explodes, it’s important to develop a strategy for orchestrating and automating across all your cloud and non-cloud infrastructure environments. However, the use of the term orchestration has become overloaded and can refer to many different types of tools. Learn about the different types of orchestration automation tools and the role a cloud management platform (CMP) can play as an “orchestrator of orchestrators.”
12 Ways to Manage Cloud Costs and Optimize Cloud SpendRightScale
It can be difficult to manage cloud costs. As a result, you are likely wasting 30-45 percent or more of your cloud spend. Cloud governance, IT, and finance teams need to understand where costs are coming from, allocate those costs to the appropriate departments, and find ways to reduce waste and save money. In this webinar, we will show you how to manage cloud costs and optimize spend.
Manage and Optimize Cloud Spend with RightScale OptimaRightScale
Cloud bills have climbed sharply as cloud use becomes strategic. RightScale Optima helps enterprises better understand, allocate, and optimize their cloud spend. Find out how to implement key cloud cost management practices with RightScale Optima.
A cloud management platform (CMP) is fast becoming a de facto requirement for enterprises pursuing a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud strategy. But what should you be looking for in a CMP? Many companies make the mistake of taking a “boil the ocean” approach to a CMP evaluation. We’ll share best practices and discuss whether you need an RFP.
Enterprise Cloud Strategy: 7 Areas You Need to Re-ThinkRightScale
Companies from Fortune 1000 on down are going all-in on cloud, but your enterprise cloud strategy also needs to address the broad impact of cloud use in your company. Your strategy needs to cover implications for your technical processes, but also supporting areas including finance, governance, organization, and culture.
How MSPs Can Be Successful in AWS, Azure, and Google CloudsRightScale
As cloud use explodes, organizations are looking for managed services providers (MSPs) to help them migrate to the cloud and manage cloud use. RightScale will share best practices from 10 years of migrating customers to cloud and delivering managed services. You’ll also learn how one MSP, Flair Data Systems, is leveraging the RightScale Cloud Management Platform to help.
7 Common Questions About a Cloud Management PlatformRightScale
You already know you need to deliver software more quickly. But what’s the best route to get that agility? Cloud, containers, and DevOps can all help, and a cloud management platform (CMP) pulls it all together. Get answers to the common questions about a CMP.
Kubernetes and Terraform in the Cloud: How RightScale Does DevOpsRightScale
Kubernetes adoption is growing and more companies are leveraging Terraform. At RightScale, we combine Kubernetes, Terraform, RightScale, and cloud. In this webinar, find out how we are combining these solutions to create a fully automated DevOps process.
How to Report and Optimize Cloud Costs Across All Your Clouds by RightScaleRightScale
With companies using six different clouds on average, it can be difficult to manage and optimize cloud spend. IT and financial managers need to understand where costs are coming from, allocate those costs to departments, and find ways to reduce waste and save money. This deck covers how to use RightScale to:
• Adjust cloud bills to account for markups or discounts
• Allocate costs for showback or chargeback
• Implement budget alerts
• Avoid zombie instances and other waste
• Use pricing data to proactively save money
For a free tool to compare public clouds, go to www.cloudcomparison.rightscale.com
Migrating Enterprise Applications to AWS: Best Practices & Techniques (ENT303...Amazon Web Services
This session discusses strategies, tools, and techniques for migrating enterprise software systems to AWS. We consider applications like Oracle eBusiness Suite, SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel. These applications are complex by themselves; they are frequently customized; they have many touch points on other systems in the enterprise; and they often have large associated databases. Nevertheless, running enterprise applications in the cloud affords powerful benefits. We identify success factors and best practices.
Using RightScale CMP with Cloud Provider ToolsRightScale
Large organizations are using cloud management platforms (CMPs) to manage and govern multi-cloud environments. They need their CMPs to work regardless of the cloud provider tools used by development teams, including AWS Cloud Formation templates, Azure Resource Manager templates, and container services. We will show how RightScale CMP can add operation orchestration and governance regardless of how you provision your workloads.
The 5 Stages of Cloud Management for EnterprisesRightScale
With cloud use exploding and cloud bills skyrocketing, enterprises are implementing new cloud governance processes and tools. A cloud management platform (CMP) will be a foundational technology you’ll need to get it all under control. We cover the 5 stages of cloud management that enterprises go through to fully manage their cloud use, and how a CMP helps.
Multi-Cloud Management with RightScale CMP (Demo)RightScale
Almost every enterprise will face the challenge of multi-cloud management. A cloud management platform (CMP) can help you broker standardized cloud services with a single view across both public and private clouds, giving you control over existing cloud usage and enabling you to offer self-service provisioning across all your clouds and virtualized infrastructure.
Identifying Workloads to Move to the CloudRightScale
RightScale Webinar: Cloud infrastructure offers a new set of building blocks for cost effectively deploying and managing applications. One of the first questions encountered is often which application workloads present the best fit? We’ll start by profiling different environments (datacenter, hosted and public/private cloud) and highlight the application characteristics that align well for each. We’ll then discuss the most common use cases we encounter and the reference architectures we’ve used to deliver them. Along the way, we’ll work to provide guidance how to evaluate company workloads for public, private and hybrid cloud deployments and when it makes sense to re-architect applications.
Whether you are already using one or more clouds or just getting started, a cloud management platform (CMP) can help right now. Realize value quickly by using a CMP to gain control over existing cloud usage and then expand your cloud use with a CMP that standardizes how you manage and provision resources across all your cloud and virtualized infrastructure.
Automating Multi-Cloud Policies for AWS, Azure, Google, and MoreRightScale
With the explosion of cloud use, enterprises need to implement appropriate governance controls. Automated policies can optimize costs and ensure that operational, compliance, and security requirements are met. Using RightScale, you can create a single policy to work across all of your clouds, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and VMware vSphere.
Cloud offers organizations the opportunity to run their workloads on physical machines at a reduced cost, with better overall performance and enhanced security. Yet engaging in a partial or total migration to cloud requires a solid, holistic strategy that focuses on technical and management challenges that will likely arise, and an organizational mindset that will help ensure the migration’s success. This introductory, vendor agnostic talk will highlight the technical, management and cultural considerations that every cloud migration strategy should consider, how to address some common challenges, and best practices to help guide the process.
Savig cost using application level virtualizationNati Shalom
Saving cost using middleware and application level virtualization. This presentation provides description of the various cost saving elements beyond server-side consolidation. - Saving the cost of peak/static provisioning using on-demand scaling - Saving the downtime cost - Saving cost through outsourcing part of our application and operations to the cloud - Saving cost using application level optimization (doing more with less) - Saving cost using platform consolidation to reduce the number of software components as well as utilize OpenSource and more commodity Software packages Toward the end Jim Liddle provide real life case studies from iPhone launch in the UK and how those principles has been applied to enable successful launch in the UK. In addition to that Jim go through some of the motivations and case studies that led different telco and startup companies to utilize the cloud to gain better cost effectiveness.
Optimizing Your Cloud Applications in RightScaleRightScale
RightScale Conference Santa Clara 2011 - How do you tune application performance in the cloud? What if you want elasticity? We’ll talk through our experiences scaling and performance tuning the RightScale Cloud Management Platform in the cloud. Plus we’ll share tips for sizing, auto- scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting large-scale cloud deployments.
Best Practices for Data Center Migration Planning - August 2016 Monthly Webin...Amazon Web Services
Migrating large scale data centers to the cloud can be challenging and there are generally many ways to execute these projects successfully. Using the right AWS services and tools can help you lower migration risk and expense.. This webinar will recommend a project management and decision-making approach that will help you make the right AWS migration decisions while minimizing unnecessary expenses and maximizing ROI.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand how to apply the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework to migrations
• Understand financial considerations (ROI, CapEx versus OpEx, budgeting for overlapping expenses)
• Learn a method for prioritization of workloads (both technical and financial)
• Understand how different project management approaches (Traditional, Kanban/Lean) can be used most effectively
• Learn how to lower project risk and difficulty using key AWS services (Snowball, Direct Connect, RDS, DMS)
• Learn how to define project completion criteria - when is a migration really done?
How to Allocate and Report Cloud Costs with RightScale OptimaRightScale
Spend on cloud is increasing, but getting cloud costs allocated to the right business units can still be challenging, especially when you are using multiple clouds. You need automated tools that enable you to allocate costs from your cloud bill and report on spend to users across your organization.
Best Practices for Cloud Managed Services Providers: The Path to CMP SuccessRightScale
Managed services providers (MSPs) and other IT services providers offering managed services across multiple clouds use a cloud management platform (CMP) as a foundational technology. But what are the best practices for MSPs to leverage a CMP for success with end customers? MSPs need to implement appropriate account hierarchies, tagging strategies, cost management practices, templating and automation approaches, and DevOps processes.
As cloud services deployment matures in the enterprise, the emphasis has moved from deploying infrastructure as a service towards a model of delivering business services in a “SaaS-like” manner. How can organizations succeed in building hybrid technology models which effectively leverage AWS to deliver business services transparently to customers? In this presentation, we will discuss how use AWS and CSC to develop business services starting with hybrid IT, moving toward robust test and development strategies for enterprise applications, and finally providing a true “SaaS-like” experience for business users and customers alike.
Craig Stires, Head of Big Data and Analytics, Amazon Web Services, APAC
Dan Angelucci, Chief Technology Officer - Asia, Middle East and Africa, CSC
Matias Creimerman - Cloud migration and modernization effortMatias Creimerman
Matias Creimerman - Cloud migration and modernization effort
I spent a lot of time helping teams and companies migrate their important and core applications to the cloud.
It’s a hard process between company culture and technical teams.
The cloud apps are built using technologies and tools that weren’t mainstream three-five years ago.
This content is property of Matias Creimerman. Any misuse of this material will be punishable. Creative Commons License This work is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. About the author:
Matías Creimerman
How MSPs Can Be Successful in AWS, Azure, and Google CloudsRightScale
As cloud use explodes, organizations are looking for managed services providers (MSPs) to help them migrate to the cloud and manage cloud use. RightScale will share best practices from 10 years of migrating customers to cloud and delivering managed services. You’ll also learn how one MSP, Flair Data Systems, is leveraging the RightScale Cloud Management Platform to help.
7 Common Questions About a Cloud Management PlatformRightScale
You already know you need to deliver software more quickly. But what’s the best route to get that agility? Cloud, containers, and DevOps can all help, and a cloud management platform (CMP) pulls it all together. Get answers to the common questions about a CMP.
Kubernetes and Terraform in the Cloud: How RightScale Does DevOpsRightScale
Kubernetes adoption is growing and more companies are leveraging Terraform. At RightScale, we combine Kubernetes, Terraform, RightScale, and cloud. In this webinar, find out how we are combining these solutions to create a fully automated DevOps process.
How to Report and Optimize Cloud Costs Across All Your Clouds by RightScaleRightScale
With companies using six different clouds on average, it can be difficult to manage and optimize cloud spend. IT and financial managers need to understand where costs are coming from, allocate those costs to departments, and find ways to reduce waste and save money. This deck covers how to use RightScale to:
• Adjust cloud bills to account for markups or discounts
• Allocate costs for showback or chargeback
• Implement budget alerts
• Avoid zombie instances and other waste
• Use pricing data to proactively save money
For a free tool to compare public clouds, go to www.cloudcomparison.rightscale.com
Migrating Enterprise Applications to AWS: Best Practices & Techniques (ENT303...Amazon Web Services
This session discusses strategies, tools, and techniques for migrating enterprise software systems to AWS. We consider applications like Oracle eBusiness Suite, SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel. These applications are complex by themselves; they are frequently customized; they have many touch points on other systems in the enterprise; and they often have large associated databases. Nevertheless, running enterprise applications in the cloud affords powerful benefits. We identify success factors and best practices.
Using RightScale CMP with Cloud Provider ToolsRightScale
Large organizations are using cloud management platforms (CMPs) to manage and govern multi-cloud environments. They need their CMPs to work regardless of the cloud provider tools used by development teams, including AWS Cloud Formation templates, Azure Resource Manager templates, and container services. We will show how RightScale CMP can add operation orchestration and governance regardless of how you provision your workloads.
The 5 Stages of Cloud Management for EnterprisesRightScale
With cloud use exploding and cloud bills skyrocketing, enterprises are implementing new cloud governance processes and tools. A cloud management platform (CMP) will be a foundational technology you’ll need to get it all under control. We cover the 5 stages of cloud management that enterprises go through to fully manage their cloud use, and how a CMP helps.
Multi-Cloud Management with RightScale CMP (Demo)RightScale
Almost every enterprise will face the challenge of multi-cloud management. A cloud management platform (CMP) can help you broker standardized cloud services with a single view across both public and private clouds, giving you control over existing cloud usage and enabling you to offer self-service provisioning across all your clouds and virtualized infrastructure.
Identifying Workloads to Move to the CloudRightScale
RightScale Webinar: Cloud infrastructure offers a new set of building blocks for cost effectively deploying and managing applications. One of the first questions encountered is often which application workloads present the best fit? We’ll start by profiling different environments (datacenter, hosted and public/private cloud) and highlight the application characteristics that align well for each. We’ll then discuss the most common use cases we encounter and the reference architectures we’ve used to deliver them. Along the way, we’ll work to provide guidance how to evaluate company workloads for public, private and hybrid cloud deployments and when it makes sense to re-architect applications.
Whether you are already using one or more clouds or just getting started, a cloud management platform (CMP) can help right now. Realize value quickly by using a CMP to gain control over existing cloud usage and then expand your cloud use with a CMP that standardizes how you manage and provision resources across all your cloud and virtualized infrastructure.
Automating Multi-Cloud Policies for AWS, Azure, Google, and MoreRightScale
With the explosion of cloud use, enterprises need to implement appropriate governance controls. Automated policies can optimize costs and ensure that operational, compliance, and security requirements are met. Using RightScale, you can create a single policy to work across all of your clouds, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and VMware vSphere.
Cloud offers organizations the opportunity to run their workloads on physical machines at a reduced cost, with better overall performance and enhanced security. Yet engaging in a partial or total migration to cloud requires a solid, holistic strategy that focuses on technical and management challenges that will likely arise, and an organizational mindset that will help ensure the migration’s success. This introductory, vendor agnostic talk will highlight the technical, management and cultural considerations that every cloud migration strategy should consider, how to address some common challenges, and best practices to help guide the process.
Savig cost using application level virtualizationNati Shalom
Saving cost using middleware and application level virtualization. This presentation provides description of the various cost saving elements beyond server-side consolidation. - Saving the cost of peak/static provisioning using on-demand scaling - Saving the downtime cost - Saving cost through outsourcing part of our application and operations to the cloud - Saving cost using application level optimization (doing more with less) - Saving cost using platform consolidation to reduce the number of software components as well as utilize OpenSource and more commodity Software packages Toward the end Jim Liddle provide real life case studies from iPhone launch in the UK and how those principles has been applied to enable successful launch in the UK. In addition to that Jim go through some of the motivations and case studies that led different telco and startup companies to utilize the cloud to gain better cost effectiveness.
Optimizing Your Cloud Applications in RightScaleRightScale
RightScale Conference Santa Clara 2011 - How do you tune application performance in the cloud? What if you want elasticity? We’ll talk through our experiences scaling and performance tuning the RightScale Cloud Management Platform in the cloud. Plus we’ll share tips for sizing, auto- scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting large-scale cloud deployments.
Best Practices for Data Center Migration Planning - August 2016 Monthly Webin...Amazon Web Services
Migrating large scale data centers to the cloud can be challenging and there are generally many ways to execute these projects successfully. Using the right AWS services and tools can help you lower migration risk and expense.. This webinar will recommend a project management and decision-making approach that will help you make the right AWS migration decisions while minimizing unnecessary expenses and maximizing ROI.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand how to apply the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework to migrations
• Understand financial considerations (ROI, CapEx versus OpEx, budgeting for overlapping expenses)
• Learn a method for prioritization of workloads (both technical and financial)
• Understand how different project management approaches (Traditional, Kanban/Lean) can be used most effectively
• Learn how to lower project risk and difficulty using key AWS services (Snowball, Direct Connect, RDS, DMS)
• Learn how to define project completion criteria - when is a migration really done?
How to Allocate and Report Cloud Costs with RightScale OptimaRightScale
Spend on cloud is increasing, but getting cloud costs allocated to the right business units can still be challenging, especially when you are using multiple clouds. You need automated tools that enable you to allocate costs from your cloud bill and report on spend to users across your organization.
Best Practices for Cloud Managed Services Providers: The Path to CMP SuccessRightScale
Managed services providers (MSPs) and other IT services providers offering managed services across multiple clouds use a cloud management platform (CMP) as a foundational technology. But what are the best practices for MSPs to leverage a CMP for success with end customers? MSPs need to implement appropriate account hierarchies, tagging strategies, cost management practices, templating and automation approaches, and DevOps processes.
As cloud services deployment matures in the enterprise, the emphasis has moved from deploying infrastructure as a service towards a model of delivering business services in a “SaaS-like” manner. How can organizations succeed in building hybrid technology models which effectively leverage AWS to deliver business services transparently to customers? In this presentation, we will discuss how use AWS and CSC to develop business services starting with hybrid IT, moving toward robust test and development strategies for enterprise applications, and finally providing a true “SaaS-like” experience for business users and customers alike.
Craig Stires, Head of Big Data and Analytics, Amazon Web Services, APAC
Dan Angelucci, Chief Technology Officer - Asia, Middle East and Africa, CSC
Matias Creimerman - Cloud migration and modernization effortMatias Creimerman
Matias Creimerman - Cloud migration and modernization effort
I spent a lot of time helping teams and companies migrate their important and core applications to the cloud.
It’s a hard process between company culture and technical teams.
The cloud apps are built using technologies and tools that weren’t mainstream three-five years ago.
This content is property of Matias Creimerman. Any misuse of this material will be punishable. Creative Commons License This work is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. About the author:
Matías Creimerman
A perspective on cloud computing and enterprise saa s applicationsGeorge Milliken
A perspective on Cloud computing and SaaS for Enterprise applications by a SaaS industry veteran.
Please make sure you read the speakers notes, there's a significant amount of content there.
Why Your Digital Transformation Strategy Demands Middleware ModernizationVMware Tanzu
Your current middleware platform is costing you more than you think. It wasn't designed to support high-velocity software releases and frequent iteration of applications—prerequisites for success in today’s world. A new, modern approach to middleware is needed that enables both developer productivity and operational efficiency.
Join Pivotal’s Rohit Kelapure and Perficient’s Joel Thimsen as they discuss:
- The limitations of traditional middleware
- The benefits of middleware modernization
- Your options for modernization, including a cloud-native platform
- Tips for overcoming some common challenges
Presenters: Rohit Kelapure, Pivotal, Joel Thimsen, Perficient & Jeff Kelly, Pivotal (Host)
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VMworld 2013: Exploring Technology Trends within Financial Services VMworld
VMworld 2013
Scott Key, VMware
Brian Martinez, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Develop an Enterprise-wide Cloud Adoption Strategy – Chris MerriganAmazon Web Services
Taking a cloud first approach requires a different approach than you probably had to consider for your initial few workloads in the cloud. You’ll be deploying hybrid environments, and that means taking a broad view of your IT strategy, architecture, and organisational design. In this session, we cover how the CAF framework offers practical guidance and comprehensive guidelines to enterprise organisations, particularly around roles, governance, and efficiency.
VMworld 2013: Architecting the Software-Defined Data Center VMworld
VMworld 2013
Aidan Dalgleish, VMware
David Hill, VMware
Kamau Wanguhu, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Creating an Operating Model to enable a high frequency organizationTom Laszewski
Establishing an appropriate cloud operating model is critical to forming your organization’s successful adoption of cloud, and delivering greater business agility, increasing the cloud migration Return on Investment, and deliver a more secure, performant, reliable, and cost effective cloud computing environment. The impact of the cloud will be felt across your entire organization, including processes and people - not just Information technology. It will significantly affect, and be affected by, your organizational culture and Information technology delivery structures. This session will provide prescriptive guidance regarding the best approaches to evolving an operating model from projects to products, manual, process intensive governance to a ‘trust but verify’ model, long development cycles to continuous integration and deployment, silos between business and IT into a collaborative organizational structure, self-service processes, and continuous improvement. The recommendations in the presentation are based upon lesson learned, best practices, and anti-patterns from thousands of customer’s cloud transformation journeys.
Making the Journey_ 7 Essential Steps to Cloud Adoption.pdfAnil
Cloud adoption can be a transformative journey for businesses, offering scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. Here are seven essential steps to successfully adopt cloud technology
Cloud: a disruptive technlogy that CEO should use to transform their businessBertrand MAES
Cloud:
What cloud really means ?
How it should help CEO transform their business ?
How it should help CEO transform their IT department ?
Prerequisite for a sucessful cloud project
Similar to Hybrid Cloud Orchestration: How SuperChoice Does It (20)
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As both cloud use and spend increase, enterprises need to implement automated cloud governance. IT leaders must avoid impeding the agility that cloud provides while ensuring efficient cloud spend and reducing risk. In this webinar, we will cover 10 automated policies that every enterprise should have as part of IT governance best practices for cloud.
Optimize Software, SaaS, and Cloud with Flexera and RightScaleRightScale
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Prepare Your Enterprise Cloud Strategy for 2019: 7 Things to Think About NowRightScale
Cloud adoption just keeps on growing and now is the time to take control. Your enterprise cloud strategy for 2019 needs to address the broad impact of cloud use in your company. Your strategy should also cover implications for your technical processes, as well as supporting areas including finance, governance, organization, and culture.
How to Set Up a Cloud Cost Optimization Process for your EnterpriseRightScale
As cloud spend grows, enterprises need to set up internal processes to manage and optimize their cloud costs. This process will help organizations to accurately allocate and report on costs while minimizing wasted spend. In this webinar, experts from RightScale’s Cloud Cost Optimization team will share best practices in how to set up your own internal processes.
Comparing Cloud VM Types and Prices: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBMRightScale
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Should You Move Between AWS, Azure, or Google Clouds? Considerations, Pros an...RightScale
The media is highlighting scores of stories about companies that have moved from one public cloud to another for business or technical reasons. Regardless of whether you are running on AWS, Azure, or Google, there will likely come a time that you’ll want to consider switching cloud providers. Whether you are contemplating a move now or just want to keep your options open in the future, you will need to consider a variety of cost, service, and technical factors. In this webinar, we’ll walk you through the evaluation process of migrating to another cloud provider and highlight the pros and cons.
Best Practices for Multi-Cloud Security and ComplianceRightScale
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Cloud storage costs are increasing and now represent a significant portion of cloud spend. As a result, cloud users need to focus on ways to reduce storage spend by selecting the best options while also finding ways to manage the rapid increase in the use of cloud storage.
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Serverless computing, (sometimes called function-as-a-service) is the top-growing cloud service year-over-year in 2018 compared to 2017 according to the RightScale State of the Cloud Survey. Serverless is appropriate for a variety of different use cases. We share how serverless offerings and pricing for different cloud providers compare.
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2018 Cloud Trends: RightScale State of the Cloud ReportRightScale
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Got a Multi-Cloud Strategy? How RightScale CMP HelpsRightScale
Most enterprises already have a multi-cloud strategy. A cloud management platform (CMP) can help you broker cloud services with a single view across both public and private clouds, giving you control over existing cloud usage and enabling you to offer self-service provisioning across all your clouds and virtualized infrastructure.
How to Manage Cloud Costs with RightScale OptimaRightScale
With cloud use rising, managing cloud costs for your enterprise becomes more critical. To effectively control costs, you can leverage a cloud cost management tool like RightScale Optima to collaborate across your organization to report on and optimize your cloud spend.
Top 10 Cloud Trends for 2018 and Actions You Can Take NowRightScale
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Get behind the hype and headlines from AWS re:Invent 2017 and find out what it all means to you. We’ll share what’s working for AWS users and highlight which new features and services you’ll want to look at. Whether or not you attended re:Invent, this wrap-up will help you determine how your cloud initiatives will evolve in 2018.
Cloud Instances Price Comparison: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBMRightScale
The cloud price wars are heating up with Azure’s announcement of reserved instances, the introduction of per-second billing by AWS and Google, and other recent changes from the leading cloud providers. To get the most out of your cloud spend, you need to stay on top of the latest information on price cuts and changes to pricing models. And if your organization is multi-cloud, you may even want to adjust your investment across your cloud providers based on who has the lowest prices.
Orchestrating PaaS and IaaS+ with RightScaleRightScale
The lines between IaaS and PaaS are blurring. Cloud providers are offering dozens of individual IaaS+ services as an alternative to “all-in-one” PaaS options like OpenShift and Cloud Foundry. How do you handle cloud orchestration when you have a blend of IaaS, IaaS+, and PaaS? We’ll show how you can manage them all with a single pane of glass.
Managing Container-as-a-Service and Docker Clusters in the Cloud with RightScaleRightScale
As companies look to orchestrate Docker in the cloud, they have several options for container orchestration. We delve into both container-as-a-service options from AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform as well as running your own Kubernetes cluster in the cloud.
VMware Cloud on AWS is now generally available and many VMware users are wondering what it can do for them. Despite its name, VMware Cloud on AWS is not much like AWS. In this webinar we will explain the architecture, technical limitations, pricing, and benefits.
Compare Cloud Services: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBMRightScale
Most enterprises are leveraging multiple clouds, but it can be difficult to understand which services are available in each cloud and how they compare. If you are looking to move a workload, you may not know what the equivalent services are on a different cloud. We outline the services available for each public cloud provider and share a free tool to compare public cloud features.
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 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
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
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.
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
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/
2. 2
Agenda
Why automation and orchestration are critical
How we automated 200+ apps
The role of the Cloud Management Platform (CMP)
Lessons Learned
3. 3
SuperChoice at a Glance
SuperChoice is a pension / superannuation e-commerce platform provider
with a leading Australian market position, an emerging UK business and
aspirations to expand into Asia and Europe
SuperChoice – the company
– Established in 1996
– Sydney based with approx. 90 professional staff
– Privately owned by CPS Group and management
– 20 years of continuous, double-digit growth
Largest player in the Australian market
– Approx. 40% of the total market by transaction numbers
– approx. 20% of the active Self Managed Superannuation Funds
5. 5
The SuperChoice journey so far
SuperChoice Technology Headcount
(FTEs)
Trained
all staff
on
Agile
Commenced
SuperStream
project
Hired Full-
time Agile
Coach
Commenced
1-Click-
Build™
Commenced automated
regression testing
Selectively
outsourced
development (Aust,
NZ, Malaysia)
Adopted New Technology
Strategy
Initiated actions to
increase staff engagement
Adopted Atlassian
tool stack
Adopted
new Code
Quality
practices
Initiated capability
development programme
Started
redeveloping core
platform
Moved from 2
Monthly to Monthly
to Weekly
deployments
Started investigating
migrating database
technology
Commenced
piloting cloud
migration
100
Head
Count
75
50
25
6. 6
Most organisations can no longer do infrastructure and
security cost effectively
Lack economies of scale and scope and the ability to develop deep expertise
Complex integration of people, processes and products
Interconnectedness
Defence in depth / layers of counter measures
Impossible to win an Arms Race:
– Hackers compromised 2.2 Billion records in just the first 10 months of 2016
– Security budgets climbed from 22% of technology budgets in 2014 to 28% in 2016!
Source: Forrester, Develop Your Information Security Management System, January 19, 2017
7. 7
Few Mature Corporates are Migrating Fully to Public cloud
20%
25% 24%
15%
5%
2%
9%
<20% 20% to
39%
40% to
59%
60% to
79%
80% to
99%
100% Don't
know
How much of the server-side
code that you write is deployed
to cloud environments today?
(2015; Index: N = 55)
Source: Forrester Business Technographics Infrastructure Survey, 2015
What percentage of your
infrastructure is in the Public cloud?
(2015; Index: N = 49)
14.5%
8. 8
SuperChoice Requirements
Core Objectives:
– Reduce costs and timeframes by automating provisioning infrastructure and deploying
environments
– Reduce operational costs with maintaining and supporting infrastructure and environments
Clouds:
– Initially: AWS and VMware Private, Azure added in the last 6 months, investigating Google
Applications:
– Rapidly growing list of apps (>200 currently) from adopting micro services architecture
VMs/Instances:
– Averaging several hundred concurrent instances, varies considerably over time
Environments:
– Multiple Development, Test and Client Acceptance Test environments
Frequency of updates:
– Daily to Weekly
9. 9
SuperChoice’s Overarching Strategy
Automatically deploying entire, complex software environments
Adopting a “Fix by Rebuild” approach
Supporting multiple cloud service providers independently
10. 10
Key Benefits Targeted
Automate deployments ‘at scale’ of large sets of applications and
infrastructure to a managed baseline in a timely manner
Deploy and test environments in approx. 60 minutes to enable moving from
a Break-Troubleshoot-Fix model to a Fix-by-Rebuild model
Have repeatable and consistent deployments
Support high agility for environment provisioning for dev and test teams
Track environments and charge directly to the project team
Optimize costs by stopping instances not in use (e.g. scheduled to run only
within business hours)
Choose the right Cloud for the Environment’s purpose
11. 11
Adopt Cloud IaaS / Paas / SaaS capabilities
Automate Infrastructure Provisioning
Benefit
Automation Capability
Automate Environment
Provisioning
Straight replacement
of physical
infrastructure
Uplift platform-level
provisioning and
management (for
discrete components)
Fully automate provisioning of
integrated suites of
applications and databases
Cloud technologies have the ability to transform the way
functionality is delivered while reducing costs
12. 12
Control / Master Manufacture Use Dispose
SCM
Developer
Continuous
Integration
Platform
Management
Source
Scripts
Libraries
Reference
Data
Test Data
Reference Data
Management
Tester
Environment
Config
Release
Management
Dev
Test
Environments
DevDevelopment
Environments
Production
Environment
Changes are applied to Environments
by updating Automation
Cloud
Management
Platform
Automation
Tools
Configuration,
Deployment and
Compliance
Testing tools
Automation drives rethinking how we deliver capability
14. 14
Public or Private Cloud
Cloud Account
Network (VPC/Vnet) Boundary
Factory
Nexus Master
Confluence
BitBucket
Bamboo
Bamboo
Agents
Other …
Management
DNS2SMTP DNS1
Logging Consul 1 Consul 2
Auto-
mation
Backup
Jump-
host
Boundary Network Device
(Cloud or appliance, e.g. Palo Alto)
Inbound
Proxy
Outbound
Internet Proxy
Environment
Environment
Environment
DMZ
webserver webserver
Business
Application Servers
App
Environment
Integration
DMZ
SFTP MQIPT
Axway MQ
App
Data Tier (Master)
Shared File Storage
Application
Database
Application
Database
Application
Database
Ephemeral deployments
managed fully by Fix-By-
Rebuild.
Deployments are “Cookie-
Cutter” with no Configuration
Variance, resulting in
Simplicity and Repeatability
Long-lived Data, retained
through Environment
rebuilds
Long-lived Management
Services
Boundary Security
Network
Network
Internet
Network
A Standardised Model
A standardised model for
DataCentre components with
standardised, segmented
Network layout
Each ‘Cell’ is deployed using
Automation, managed as a Unit
Lifecycle and management
approach for each Cell
tailored to the nature of the
services
Repeat with as many Networks
across as many Clouds as
needed
15. 15
Key Concepts / Approach
Information Model - model all of the information associated with an
enterprise's environments. Baseline and keep separate from the execution
Software management and control disciplines applied to Infrastructure;
“Infrastructure as code”
Take a manufacturing approach to building complex environments.
Always go back to source and rebuild from the ground up
Fix by rebuild model, we don’t spend time fixing environments
Alter mindset around asset value
16. 16
Leveraging RightScale CMP
RightScale as the Orchestration Engine or manufacturing engine
(Multi-Cloud + Governance)
Establish RightScale Cloud Application Templates (CAT) for automated multi-
cloud deployment:
– Specific functional areas (eg SDN, DNS, FW, Management / App tier etc)
– Generate CATs for specific purposes eg deployment models
– Launch an application / environment
18. 18
Lessons Learned
Key Lessons:
CI/CD tools & processes are critical
Change Management must be a focus with respect to human resources
Cost to Value needs to be tracked. Favour a user pays approach and cost
allocation model at the environment level
Concept of Brittleness in Infrastructure deployment (Embrace it)
19. 19
Misconfigurations have a major impact on costs
80% of unplanned outages are due to ill-planned changes made by
“operations staff”
- IT Process Institute’s Visible Ops Handbook
60% of availability and performance errors are the result of
misconfigurations
- Enterprise Management Association
80% of outages impacting mission-critical services will be caused by people
and process issues, and more than 50% of those outages will be caused by
change / configuration / release integration and hand-off issues
- Gartner
Source: Downtime, Outages and Failures – Understanding their true costs, November 2015
20. 20
What we have achieved so far with migrating to the Cloud
Addressed a lot of historical tech debt
Automated / migrated nearly 100% of our code including:
– Core legacy application
– 100% of new distributed micro services (IS’s)
De-commissioned 4 physical environments
Implemented software firewalls and cloud neutral backup capability
Spun up 5 (more on the way) dedicated Client test environments
Transitioned some staff
Upgraded security capability (and there’s more to come!)
– Piloting Voice authentication
Upgraded the Build process
21. 21
What’s been more difficult than we thought it would be
Order of operations – Which applications to migrate first?
Some lack of clarity on requirements – Trying to replicate “existing
environments” when the requirements were implicit or poorly specified
Finding portable cloud technologies – The cloud is fairly AWS-centric, often
difficult to find cloud solutions that were portable to other cloud providers
Running hybrid environments – cloud environments that have
interconnectivity into our existing data centres
Getting some basics right:
– Error reporting is slower than previously; takes an hour
– Infrastructure changes were impacting code branches
– Need to re-launch an environment when an application fails
22. 22
What we found that surprised us
Approx. 40% of the efforts been in addressing tech debt
Benefits have been higher and costs at or lower (even after requiring greater
external assistance)
Cloud service provider agnostic backups are not easy to do
Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs) are still a maturing technology
Demand for dedicated test environments much higher then expected
Cloud service providers are not that interested in what we are doing:
– Focus on sole sourcing
– “Adopt AWS, resistance is futile” attitude
Had to slow the pace of change to accommodate the team’s ability to cope:
– Adopted small, regular milestones
Cloud environment support takes up a lot more time during transition
23. 23
Biggest challenge is addressing the People issues
Building the understanding of how it all should work
Developing and upgrading new skills eg analytical and conceptual capabilities
Getting infrastructure / operations staff to start thinking like developers
Getting the Developers on board / caring about the Infrastructure:
– Understanding how to use and taking on greater responsibility
– Addressing Tech Debt issues
24. 24
Observations from our experience to date
Today’s Key Messages:
Automation is critical to staying sane
Accessing the right mindset and skills is important
Cultural change is the biggest barrier to success and benefits capture
Don’t under-estimate the amount of Tech debt that you’ll need to address
along the way
– No different to the early days of virtualisation
Moving to the cloud is not a straight lift and shift (where uplifting capability)
While it’s all new, taking a deliberate methodical approach works