Whether you are refreshing server hardware to POWER9, reorganizing storage, or consolidating data centers, migration plays an important role in keeping your IBM i environment up to date, efficient, and productive. Yet, IT pros often fear migration projects due to past experiences with intolerable downtime, lack of predictability, and time demands. View this webinar on-demand and learn how Syncsort can help organizations like yours accelerate your migration project, minimize risk and eliminate downtime.
Key topics include:
• What your peers say about their migration challenges
• How to migrate without downtime using replication
• Minimizing migration risk and resource demands
• How Syncsort can help
Troubleshoot Virtualization in All Its Guises: Server, Desktop and SDN.
The benefits of virtualization are well-known and widely accepted, from cost savings and efficiency, to disaster recovery and flexibility. But it’s probably not until you are firmly on the path to virtualization that you start to think about the operational aspects.
Virtualization comes in many guises; the most common is server virtualization. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) – including products such as Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp or VMware View – is a close second. Software-defined networking (SDN), although in its nascence, is also under heavy scrutiny.
Each of these virtualization technologies has one thing in common: they are incredibly difficult to monitor and troubleshoot. In this slide show you will learn how Riverbed Cascade 10.0 provides a single, unified interface to monitor and troubleshoot these many virtualization guises. To learn more please visit: www.riverbed.com/cascade
Over 600 Citrix professionals participated in the survey, and the results have been compiled into a data rich, 23-page report to provide valuable benchmarks and new insights into the challenges, technology choices, and best practices for Citrix performance management.
Download the Citrix Performance Management Report: http://www.eginnovations.com/reports/citrix-performance-management-2014/
Here are some of the key survey findings:
• Performance management is critical for the success of Citrix deployments. 97% of respondents consider performance management to be important for the expansion of their Citrix infrastructure. 86% of respondents consider performance as a key concern during migration of Citrix versions.
• Citrix gets the blame whether the problem is Citrix related or not. The biggest performance challenge respondents face is that Citrix gets blamed for all user experience problems – even if the problem is not with the Citrix tiers. However, a majority of the time (65%), performance problems are NOT directly caused by the Citrix tiers.
• Admins spend more time fire-fighting and troubleshooting performance problems. In over 60% of cases, respondents spend more than 30% of their time fire-fighting and troubleshooting performance problems. One of the key reasons is that Citrix performance management is still mostly manual.
• Proactive alerting most important to Citrix professionals. A majority of respondents (68%) are looking to make Citrix performance management proactive, so they get alerted and can fix issues before users notice.
• Most IT admins don’t benchmark their Citrix environment. Despite the interest in managing Citrix performance proactively, very few respondents have solid performance benchmarks of their Citrix infrastructure. 26% of respondents have NEVER conducted any performance benchmark. 18% conducted benchmarks only during migration.
Federal Webinar: Leverage IT Operations Monitoring and Log Data to Reduce Ins...SolarWinds
According to the fourth annual Federal Cybersecurity Survey from SolarWinds and Market Connections, insider threats are the leading source of threats to federal agencies. Human error is one of the most common insider threats, followed by abuse of privileges, and theft. The increased sophistication of threats, volume of attacks, and end-user policy violations make agencies more vulnerable than ever. In this webinar, we discussed how implementing the right tools, as well as continuously monitoring systems and networks, can provide the data to make informed decisions and help agencies safeguard against insider threats, and quickly identify and fix vulnerabilities.
During this webinar our presenters discussed:
The 2017 SolarWinds Federal Cybersecurity Survey, and the top sources of threats
How the right tools and technologies can provide IT infrastructure data to help safeguard against malicious and non-malicious internal threats, including:
Utilizing fault, performance, and log management data to help ensure that devices are continuously monitored and operating correctly
Leveraging configuration management to help prevent errors and reduce vulnerabilities
How the implementation of Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) tools can better equip agencies to quickly detect and respond to security threats and help to reduce vulnerability, including:
Utilizing log data to detect malicious or out-of-policy actions, fine-tune firewall configurations, and monitor Active Directory® changes
How to track devices and users on your network and maintain historic data for forensics
JD Edwards in the Cloud - Flipbook: What are your peers doing? ManageForce
What’s Inside:
Get the facts in 15 minutes. Use the planning information to get started.
Benchmark
Learn what your peers are doing (OAUG survey)
57% are using cloud service, and the number is growing.
Triggers
Explore cloud adoption scenarios
Survey: The impetus is coming from IT, and 35% are seeing unexpected benefits.
Options
Navigate cloud adoption options
Everything "as-a-service" explained, along with private/hybrid/public options--independent of provider bias.
Plan
Orchestrate your move considering the whole stack
No two organizations are handling their infrastructure the same way, and complex variables are at play. Explore windows of opportunity for incremental progress and cross-organization drivers.
Resources
Define Point B and determine next steps
Companies are moving their JD Edwards applications to the cloud to increase business agility while they are mindful not to compromise on application security or customizations that support their unique business. This presentation provides customer examples of what it is like to move JD Edwards applications to the cloud, including the customer business case, typical questions that should be asked of the business, and the benefits achieved by making the move to the cloud. Learn how delivering JD Edwards applications in the virtual private cloud enables your business to focus internal technology staff on innovative or transformational projects while providing a world-class customer experience and delivering application access to top levels of performance and availability.
Troubleshoot Virtualization in All Its Guises: Server, Desktop and SDN.
The benefits of virtualization are well-known and widely accepted, from cost savings and efficiency, to disaster recovery and flexibility. But it’s probably not until you are firmly on the path to virtualization that you start to think about the operational aspects.
Virtualization comes in many guises; the most common is server virtualization. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) – including products such as Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp or VMware View – is a close second. Software-defined networking (SDN), although in its nascence, is also under heavy scrutiny.
Each of these virtualization technologies has one thing in common: they are incredibly difficult to monitor and troubleshoot. In this slide show you will learn how Riverbed Cascade 10.0 provides a single, unified interface to monitor and troubleshoot these many virtualization guises. To learn more please visit: www.riverbed.com/cascade
Over 600 Citrix professionals participated in the survey, and the results have been compiled into a data rich, 23-page report to provide valuable benchmarks and new insights into the challenges, technology choices, and best practices for Citrix performance management.
Download the Citrix Performance Management Report: http://www.eginnovations.com/reports/citrix-performance-management-2014/
Here are some of the key survey findings:
• Performance management is critical for the success of Citrix deployments. 97% of respondents consider performance management to be important for the expansion of their Citrix infrastructure. 86% of respondents consider performance as a key concern during migration of Citrix versions.
• Citrix gets the blame whether the problem is Citrix related or not. The biggest performance challenge respondents face is that Citrix gets blamed for all user experience problems – even if the problem is not with the Citrix tiers. However, a majority of the time (65%), performance problems are NOT directly caused by the Citrix tiers.
• Admins spend more time fire-fighting and troubleshooting performance problems. In over 60% of cases, respondents spend more than 30% of their time fire-fighting and troubleshooting performance problems. One of the key reasons is that Citrix performance management is still mostly manual.
• Proactive alerting most important to Citrix professionals. A majority of respondents (68%) are looking to make Citrix performance management proactive, so they get alerted and can fix issues before users notice.
• Most IT admins don’t benchmark their Citrix environment. Despite the interest in managing Citrix performance proactively, very few respondents have solid performance benchmarks of their Citrix infrastructure. 26% of respondents have NEVER conducted any performance benchmark. 18% conducted benchmarks only during migration.
Federal Webinar: Leverage IT Operations Monitoring and Log Data to Reduce Ins...SolarWinds
According to the fourth annual Federal Cybersecurity Survey from SolarWinds and Market Connections, insider threats are the leading source of threats to federal agencies. Human error is one of the most common insider threats, followed by abuse of privileges, and theft. The increased sophistication of threats, volume of attacks, and end-user policy violations make agencies more vulnerable than ever. In this webinar, we discussed how implementing the right tools, as well as continuously monitoring systems and networks, can provide the data to make informed decisions and help agencies safeguard against insider threats, and quickly identify and fix vulnerabilities.
During this webinar our presenters discussed:
The 2017 SolarWinds Federal Cybersecurity Survey, and the top sources of threats
How the right tools and technologies can provide IT infrastructure data to help safeguard against malicious and non-malicious internal threats, including:
Utilizing fault, performance, and log management data to help ensure that devices are continuously monitored and operating correctly
Leveraging configuration management to help prevent errors and reduce vulnerabilities
How the implementation of Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) tools can better equip agencies to quickly detect and respond to security threats and help to reduce vulnerability, including:
Utilizing log data to detect malicious or out-of-policy actions, fine-tune firewall configurations, and monitor Active Directory® changes
How to track devices and users on your network and maintain historic data for forensics
JD Edwards in the Cloud - Flipbook: What are your peers doing? ManageForce
What’s Inside:
Get the facts in 15 minutes. Use the planning information to get started.
Benchmark
Learn what your peers are doing (OAUG survey)
57% are using cloud service, and the number is growing.
Triggers
Explore cloud adoption scenarios
Survey: The impetus is coming from IT, and 35% are seeing unexpected benefits.
Options
Navigate cloud adoption options
Everything "as-a-service" explained, along with private/hybrid/public options--independent of provider bias.
Plan
Orchestrate your move considering the whole stack
No two organizations are handling their infrastructure the same way, and complex variables are at play. Explore windows of opportunity for incremental progress and cross-organization drivers.
Resources
Define Point B and determine next steps
Companies are moving their JD Edwards applications to the cloud to increase business agility while they are mindful not to compromise on application security or customizations that support their unique business. This presentation provides customer examples of what it is like to move JD Edwards applications to the cloud, including the customer business case, typical questions that should be asked of the business, and the benefits achieved by making the move to the cloud. Learn how delivering JD Edwards applications in the virtual private cloud enables your business to focus internal technology staff on innovative or transformational projects while providing a world-class customer experience and delivering application access to top levels of performance and availability.
Enterprises rely on IT to provide the foundation for business services for maintaining all resources such as cloud instances, serverless infrastructure, network infrastructure, storage, etc.
Visualizing Your Network Health - Know your NetworkDellNMS
An old adage states that you cannot manage what you don’t know. Do you know what devices are on your network, where they are located, how they are configured, what they are connected to, and how they are affected by changes and failures?
Today’s network infrastructure is becoming more and more complex, while demands on the Network Administrator to ensure network availability and performance are higher than ever. Business critical systems depend upon you managing your entire network infrastructure and delivering high-quality service 24/7, 365 days a year. So how do you keep the pace?
Learn how real-time visibility into your entire network infrastructure provides the power to manage your assets with greater control.
Over the last decade, the Citrix portfolio of solutions has dramatically expanded to include Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer, XenMobile, Sharefile and Workspace Cloud. And, the use cases for Citrix technologies have also expanded with the needs of the market. Flexwork and telework, BYOD, mobile workspaces, PC refresh alternatives and remote partner access are now common user paradigms that are all supported by Citrix technologies.
To deliver the best possible user experience with all these Citrix technologies, Citrix environments need to be well architected but also well monitored and managed to identify and diagnose problems early on and prevent issues from escalating and impacting end users and business processes.
In this webinar, Doug Brown, founder of DABCC, and Srinivas Ramanathan, CEO of eG Innovations, discussed the results and implications of the 2nd-annual Citrix Performance Management Survey which was designed to explore the current state of Citrix performance management and helping Citrix users better understand current challenges, technology choices and best practices in the Citrix community. Join us to discover benchmarks and new insights into the best practices for effective Citrix performance management.
This guide not only helps ensure you remember to plan for everything, but if you aren’t a regular migrator (and many aren’t – large migrations, for many, tend to be a maybe once or twice in a career thing), the list also serves to highlight things that could otherwise go easily overlooked.
Loras College 2014 Business Analytics Symposium | Aaron Lanzen: Creating Busi...Cartegraph
Cisco Services is providing a behind-the-scenes perspective of its decision management and smart analytics programs. Success for Cisco is more than the technology or any one project. It's a mix of art, philosophy and technology that allows analytics to keep adding value to the business. You will hear how the program has evolved over the last 6 years and will explore different levels of smart analytics. Along the way, you will hear how the team grew a simple idea into a patent-pending resource allocation model.
For more information on the Loras College 2014 Business Analytics Symposium, the Loras College MBA in Business Analytics or the Loras College Business Analytics Certificate visit www.loras.edu/mba or www.loras.edu/bigdata.
MBT Webinar: Does the security of your business data keep you up at night? Jorge García
More and more manufacturers have been investing in cloud technology these days, but there is still a contingent of businesses who don’t see the appeal, or are concerned about the risks. In a recent MBT survey about cloud adoption, 50 percent of those manufacturers not using cloud computing said they didn’t because of security concerns. But are these concerns actually justified, or are businesses leaving opportunity on the table due to glaring misconceptions?
Cloud Service Management: Why Machine Learning is Now EssentialDevOps.com
You know that workloads, organizations, culture and process are impacted by the successful transition to cloud. When DevOps/Lean replaces ITIL, traditional IT service management must transform to remain relevant. Infrastructure ops must stop thinking of themselves as the "center of the universe" and start thinking of themselves as a "skilled service organization" for multiple DevOps teams. Indeed, site reliability engineering (SRE) has emerged, with a greater focus on automation to operate the cloud in a scalable way.
Join Sinead Glynn and Jim Carey as they explain why IBM believes adaptive automation, delivered through innovative machine learning, is now essential to achieve cloud service management at scale.
The Five Myths of Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Axcient
A recent study by the Disaster Recovery Preparedness Council highlighted a disturbing fact: three out of four companies worldwide are failing in terms of disaster readiness. The impact IT interruptions have range from thousands of dollars to millions of dollars.
No wonder the “cloud” is having such an attraction and why businesses are rethinking their recovery strategies. However, what is preventing companies from fully adopting cloud solutions for disaster recovery? We believe that there are five myths surrounding cloud-based recovery services that have to be dispelled.
An industry-leading analyst discusses how you can take control of application performance and provide superior end-user experiences. Then, you’ll hear how a major US healthcare provider eliminated sporadic performance outages that affected its public-facing website, and prevented revenue loss and many hundreds of hours in support costs. To learn more, watch the webcast replay: http://rvbd.ly/1JGz1ke
Or to learn more about AppInternals, visit: http://rvbd.ly/1IsjC5t
Federal Webinar: Introducing SolarWinds Log Manager for OrionSolarWinds
The Federal Sales Engineering team discussed and demonstrated our newest product, SolarWinds® Log Manager for Orion®. This product provides real-time log collection, analysis, and visualization within your Orion Platform console. Your log data contains a wealth of information about the health and performance of your network and servers. A unified view of logs and infrastructure performance metrics improves visibility and troubleshooting of your IT infrastructure. Log Manager integrates directly with Network Performance Monitor, Server & Application Monitor, or any of the other Orion Platform-based products to provide a unified view of performance and log data.
During this interactive webinar, attendees learned about how Log Manager can help you:
• Aggregate, search, filter, tag, and chart logs
• See integrated log data and performance monitoring in a single console
• Review log data in real-time with an interactive livestream
• Rapidly identify performance and availability issues through log data
Webinar - How to Get Real-Time Network Management Right?ManageEngine
In this webinar, you will learn how to efficiently manage and embrace new technologies such as 4G and mobile. You will also learn to face the network monitoring challenges of the future. And you will watch an interesting demo of OpManager.
IBM Solutions Connect 2013 - Increase Efficiency by Automating IT Asset & Ser...IBM Software India
More than investing, managing and controlling IT assets is critical in an organisation. Companies have a lot to gain by maintaining control of IT assets. They can avoid massive unplanned expenses, increase productivity and provide easy access to information for decision making. When designing an IT asset management (ITAM) program, organisations need to keep the above in mind so as to make the most of their investments. Go through the presentation to find out more how IBM SmartCloud suite of solutions can help you achieve the above.
Gartner predicts that by 2026, 75% of organizations will adopt a digital transformation model predicated on cloud as the fundamental underlying platform. It is clear that cloud is here to stay and will continue to be top of mind for organizations of all sizes for years to come. To have a successful cloud strategy, not only is it important to know how other organizations are successfully migrating their architecture, but also how they are handling operations once they make the switch.
However, moving to and operating in the cloud successfully is not as easy as purchasing some public cloud credits and calling it a day. There are many common challenges that organizations face as they move to be cloud-first. By understanding more about these challenges, organizations can avoid expensive consequences.
Join this session to learn about:
Top trends in cloud migration and computingCommon challenges that organizations face as they move to a cloud-first approachConsequences that organizations face when they mishandle cloud adoption
Simplifying Security Management in the Virtual Data CenterAlgoSec
As enterprise data centers evolve to private and hybrid clouds, orchestration and automation are key to unleashing business agility.
But for most organizations, managing security and application connectivity involves manual, time-consuming processes that are error-prone and slow down the business. Complex application connectivity requirements, bloated firewall policies, poor processes and lack of communication between application developers, network and security teams create business disruptions and expose organizations to risk.
Join AlgoSec and guest Forrester Research to learn how organizations can automate security operations in the data center to manage security at the speed of business. By attending you will learn:
* How the concept of Zero Trust enables the business and minimizes risk
* Why management is the new backplane and security policy orchestration is critical in virtual environments
* How to ensure security policy accuracy throughout data center migration and consolidation projects
* How to securely deploy, maintain and decommission connectivity for data center applications
Enterprises rely on IT to provide the foundation for business services for maintaining all resources such as cloud instances, serverless infrastructure, network infrastructure, storage, etc.
Visualizing Your Network Health - Know your NetworkDellNMS
An old adage states that you cannot manage what you don’t know. Do you know what devices are on your network, where they are located, how they are configured, what they are connected to, and how they are affected by changes and failures?
Today’s network infrastructure is becoming more and more complex, while demands on the Network Administrator to ensure network availability and performance are higher than ever. Business critical systems depend upon you managing your entire network infrastructure and delivering high-quality service 24/7, 365 days a year. So how do you keep the pace?
Learn how real-time visibility into your entire network infrastructure provides the power to manage your assets with greater control.
Over the last decade, the Citrix portfolio of solutions has dramatically expanded to include Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer, XenMobile, Sharefile and Workspace Cloud. And, the use cases for Citrix technologies have also expanded with the needs of the market. Flexwork and telework, BYOD, mobile workspaces, PC refresh alternatives and remote partner access are now common user paradigms that are all supported by Citrix technologies.
To deliver the best possible user experience with all these Citrix technologies, Citrix environments need to be well architected but also well monitored and managed to identify and diagnose problems early on and prevent issues from escalating and impacting end users and business processes.
In this webinar, Doug Brown, founder of DABCC, and Srinivas Ramanathan, CEO of eG Innovations, discussed the results and implications of the 2nd-annual Citrix Performance Management Survey which was designed to explore the current state of Citrix performance management and helping Citrix users better understand current challenges, technology choices and best practices in the Citrix community. Join us to discover benchmarks and new insights into the best practices for effective Citrix performance management.
This guide not only helps ensure you remember to plan for everything, but if you aren’t a regular migrator (and many aren’t – large migrations, for many, tend to be a maybe once or twice in a career thing), the list also serves to highlight things that could otherwise go easily overlooked.
Loras College 2014 Business Analytics Symposium | Aaron Lanzen: Creating Busi...Cartegraph
Cisco Services is providing a behind-the-scenes perspective of its decision management and smart analytics programs. Success for Cisco is more than the technology or any one project. It's a mix of art, philosophy and technology that allows analytics to keep adding value to the business. You will hear how the program has evolved over the last 6 years and will explore different levels of smart analytics. Along the way, you will hear how the team grew a simple idea into a patent-pending resource allocation model.
For more information on the Loras College 2014 Business Analytics Symposium, the Loras College MBA in Business Analytics or the Loras College Business Analytics Certificate visit www.loras.edu/mba or www.loras.edu/bigdata.
MBT Webinar: Does the security of your business data keep you up at night? Jorge García
More and more manufacturers have been investing in cloud technology these days, but there is still a contingent of businesses who don’t see the appeal, or are concerned about the risks. In a recent MBT survey about cloud adoption, 50 percent of those manufacturers not using cloud computing said they didn’t because of security concerns. But are these concerns actually justified, or are businesses leaving opportunity on the table due to glaring misconceptions?
Cloud Service Management: Why Machine Learning is Now EssentialDevOps.com
You know that workloads, organizations, culture and process are impacted by the successful transition to cloud. When DevOps/Lean replaces ITIL, traditional IT service management must transform to remain relevant. Infrastructure ops must stop thinking of themselves as the "center of the universe" and start thinking of themselves as a "skilled service organization" for multiple DevOps teams. Indeed, site reliability engineering (SRE) has emerged, with a greater focus on automation to operate the cloud in a scalable way.
Join Sinead Glynn and Jim Carey as they explain why IBM believes adaptive automation, delivered through innovative machine learning, is now essential to achieve cloud service management at scale.
The Five Myths of Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Axcient
A recent study by the Disaster Recovery Preparedness Council highlighted a disturbing fact: three out of four companies worldwide are failing in terms of disaster readiness. The impact IT interruptions have range from thousands of dollars to millions of dollars.
No wonder the “cloud” is having such an attraction and why businesses are rethinking their recovery strategies. However, what is preventing companies from fully adopting cloud solutions for disaster recovery? We believe that there are five myths surrounding cloud-based recovery services that have to be dispelled.
An industry-leading analyst discusses how you can take control of application performance and provide superior end-user experiences. Then, you’ll hear how a major US healthcare provider eliminated sporadic performance outages that affected its public-facing website, and prevented revenue loss and many hundreds of hours in support costs. To learn more, watch the webcast replay: http://rvbd.ly/1JGz1ke
Or to learn more about AppInternals, visit: http://rvbd.ly/1IsjC5t
Federal Webinar: Introducing SolarWinds Log Manager for OrionSolarWinds
The Federal Sales Engineering team discussed and demonstrated our newest product, SolarWinds® Log Manager for Orion®. This product provides real-time log collection, analysis, and visualization within your Orion Platform console. Your log data contains a wealth of information about the health and performance of your network and servers. A unified view of logs and infrastructure performance metrics improves visibility and troubleshooting of your IT infrastructure. Log Manager integrates directly with Network Performance Monitor, Server & Application Monitor, or any of the other Orion Platform-based products to provide a unified view of performance and log data.
During this interactive webinar, attendees learned about how Log Manager can help you:
• Aggregate, search, filter, tag, and chart logs
• See integrated log data and performance monitoring in a single console
• Review log data in real-time with an interactive livestream
• Rapidly identify performance and availability issues through log data
Webinar - How to Get Real-Time Network Management Right?ManageEngine
In this webinar, you will learn how to efficiently manage and embrace new technologies such as 4G and mobile. You will also learn to face the network monitoring challenges of the future. And you will watch an interesting demo of OpManager.
IBM Solutions Connect 2013 - Increase Efficiency by Automating IT Asset & Ser...IBM Software India
More than investing, managing and controlling IT assets is critical in an organisation. Companies have a lot to gain by maintaining control of IT assets. They can avoid massive unplanned expenses, increase productivity and provide easy access to information for decision making. When designing an IT asset management (ITAM) program, organisations need to keep the above in mind so as to make the most of their investments. Go through the presentation to find out more how IBM SmartCloud suite of solutions can help you achieve the above.
Gartner predicts that by 2026, 75% of organizations will adopt a digital transformation model predicated on cloud as the fundamental underlying platform. It is clear that cloud is here to stay and will continue to be top of mind for organizations of all sizes for years to come. To have a successful cloud strategy, not only is it important to know how other organizations are successfully migrating their architecture, but also how they are handling operations once they make the switch.
However, moving to and operating in the cloud successfully is not as easy as purchasing some public cloud credits and calling it a day. There are many common challenges that organizations face as they move to be cloud-first. By understanding more about these challenges, organizations can avoid expensive consequences.
Join this session to learn about:
Top trends in cloud migration and computingCommon challenges that organizations face as they move to a cloud-first approachConsequences that organizations face when they mishandle cloud adoption
Simplifying Security Management in the Virtual Data CenterAlgoSec
As enterprise data centers evolve to private and hybrid clouds, orchestration and automation are key to unleashing business agility.
But for most organizations, managing security and application connectivity involves manual, time-consuming processes that are error-prone and slow down the business. Complex application connectivity requirements, bloated firewall policies, poor processes and lack of communication between application developers, network and security teams create business disruptions and expose organizations to risk.
Join AlgoSec and guest Forrester Research to learn how organizations can automate security operations in the data center to manage security at the speed of business. By attending you will learn:
* How the concept of Zero Trust enables the business and minimizes risk
* Why management is the new backplane and security policy orchestration is critical in virtual environments
* How to ensure security policy accuracy throughout data center migration and consolidation projects
* How to securely deploy, maintain and decommission connectivity for data center applications
Make A Stress Free Move To The Cloud: Application Modernization and Managemen...Dell World
Delivering IT services that keep the business running from day to day is always challenging. Delivering these services while simultaneously moving your IT infrastructure to the cloud can be almost impossible without the right tools and support. Attend this session to hear directly from leaders at Dell who specialize in application management and learn how Dell migration tools and services accelerate your move to the cloud while maintaining the high quality access to web and mobile services that your users demand.
ThousandEyes EMEA - Why 74% of IT Teams Are Not Ready for the CloudThousandEyes
Slides from ThousandEyes EMEA webinar of May 16th 2019 at 1000 BST. Presented by Ian Waters, Director of Solutions Marketing and Tim Hale, Senior Solutions Engineer. Presentation includes overview of Primary Research from EMA as well as ThousandEyes demo.
Clint Harder, Vice President of Product Strategy for TDS HMS presents on "Cloud Services and Enterprise IT Applications: Are They a Match?". Clint Harder takes you through key decision points in selecting cloud services for enterprise applications.
This presentation was given at the Enterprise Cloud Summit on October 16, 2012 - presented by VISI.
Learn more about enterprise cloud computing at http://www.reliacloud.com.
Get ahead of the cloud or get left behindMatt Mandich
An enterprise cloud computing strategy results in:
Broad consensus on goals and expected results of moving select processes to the cloud
Standardized, consistent approach to evaluating the benefits and challenges of cloud projects
Clear requirements for the negotiation and monitoring of partnerships with cloud service providers
Understanding and consensus on the enabling and managing role IT will play in future cloud initiatives
Goals and a roadmap for transforming internal IT from asset managers to service broker
The new Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research study Big Data Impacts on Hybrid Infrastructure and Management study examined what types of IT monitoring data enterprises are collecting and analyzing with big data technology and how they leverage that analytics to improve IT management practices. These slides cover some of the findings.
Digital Transformation: How to Run Best-in-Class IT Operations in a World of ...Precisely
IT leaders looking to move beyond reactive and ad hoc troubleshooting need to find the intersection of maintaining existing systems while still driving innovation - solving for the present while preparing for the future. Identifying ways to bring existing infrastructure and legacy systems into the modern world can create the business advantage you need.
View the conversation with Splunk’s Chief Technology Advocate, Andi Mann and Syncsort’s Chief Product Officer, David Hodgson where we discuss the digital transformation taking place in IT and how machine learning and AI are helping IT leaders create a more business-centric view of their world including:
• The importance of data sharing and collaboration between mainframe and distributed IT
• The value of integrating legacy data sources and existing infrastructure into the modern world
• Achieving an end to end view of IT operations and application performance with machine learning
Navigating Cloud Trends in 2024 Webinar DeckPrecisely
According to Gartner, “85% of organizations will embrace a cloud-first principle by 2025”, and as customers expectations become more demanding, understanding the intricacies of cloud migration and modernization is crucial. However, cloud migration and modernization projects do not always go according to plan and understanding essential trends can guide you through potential pitfalls. From the evolution of multi-cloud strategies to the surging influence of AI and automation, our experts will unravel key insights, enabling organizations to harness the power of cloud computing for unprecedented success and operational efficiency.
Join this session to learn actionable insights around moving to the cloud in 2024 and empower your organization for success in the cloud-first era!
Moving your business to the cloud helps you focus on your customers and bring new offerings to market in hours instead of months. Yet the journey to the cloud is often bumpy, with half of all migration projects failing.(*1)
Learn the top 5 pitfalls to avoid.
(*1. Worldwide Cloud Infrastructure Services Market Share, Q3 2015)
Kaseya: Managing Remote IT Systems from Your Office: 5 Tips for Education IT Directors
Jared Henry, IT Director
Wills Point Independent School District
Gary Frenkel, IT Support Specialist
The Wharton School - Graduate Division
Four Essential Steps for Removing Risk and Downtime from POWER9 MigrationPrecisely
The performance and scalability of IBM’s POWER9 servers is exciting, but the prospect of migrating to new systems isn’t. View this webinar on-demand as we explore the essential steps you need to take when planning and executing a POWER9 migration project to eliminate risk and downtime. We also share how real-time replication can be leveraged to support a painless cutover to your new machine.
During this webinar, we discuss:
• Assessing migration scope and planning your project
• Selecting a migration method
• Creating and executing a migration plan
• How Syncsort can help
Technology Megatrends Reshaping IT: What’s Your Migration PathFadi Semaan
This IDC study is a deep dive analysis in:
1) The shift in infrastructure implementation - new trend
2) Migration challenges & cost from legacy to cloud & hybrid cloud
3) Datacenter management cost comparison - legacy infrastructure vs new one
4) Benefit of transition into Cloud...
Presented by: David Senf
Vice President, Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions
Similar to IBM Power Migration without the Risk and Downtime (20)
AI-Ready Data - The Key to Transforming Projects into Production.pptxPrecisely
Moving AI projects from the laboratory to production requires careful consideration of data preparation. Join us for a fireside chat where industry experts, including Antonio Cotroneo (Director, Product Marketing, Precisely) and Sanjeev Mohan (Principal, SanjMo), will discuss the crucial role of AI-ready data in achieving success in AI projects. Gain essential insights and considerations to ensure your AI solutions are built on a solid foundation of accurate, consistent, and context-rich data. Explore practical insights and learn how data integrity drives innovation and competitive advantage. Transform your approach to AI with a focus on data readiness.
Building a Multi-Layered Defense for Your IBM i SecurityPrecisely
In today's challenging security environment, new vulnerabilities emerge daily, leaving even patched systems exposed. While IBM works tirelessly to release fixes as they discover vulnerabilities, bad actors are constantly innovating. Don't settle for reactive defense – secure your IT with a layered approach!
This holistic strategy builds multiple security walls, making it far harder for attackers to breach your defenses. Even if a certain vulnerability is exploited, one of the controls could stop the attack or at least delay it until you can take action.
Join us for this webcast to hear about:
• How security risks continue to evolve and change
• The importance of keeping all your systems patched an up-to-date
• A multi-layered approach to network, system object and data security
Navigating the Cloud: Best Practices for Successful MigrationPrecisely
In today's digital landscape, migrating workloads and applications to the cloud has become imperative for businesses seeking scalability, flexibility, and efficiency. However, executing a seamless transition requires strategic planning and careful execution. Join us as we delve into the insightful insights around cloud migration, where we will explore three key topics:
i. Considerations to take when planning for cloud migration
ii. Best practices for successfully migrating to the cloud
iii. Real-world customer stories
Unlocking the Power of Your IBM i and Z Security Data with Google ChroniclePrecisely
In today's ever-evolving threat landscape, any siloed systems, or data leave organizations vulnerable. This is especially true when mission-critical systems like IBM i and IBM Z mainframes are not included in your security planning. Valuable security data from these systems often remains isolated, hindering your ability to detect and respond to threats effectively.
Ironstream and bridge this gap for IBM systems by integrating the important security data from these mission-critical systems into Google Chronicle where it can be seen, analyzed and correlated with the data from other enterprise systems Here's what you'll learn:
• The unique challenges of securing IBM i and Z mainframes
• Why traditional security tools fall short for mainframe data
• The power of Google Chronicle for unified security intelligence
• How to gain comprehensive visibility into your entire IT ecosystem
• Real-world use cases for integrating IBM i and Z security data with Google Chronicle
Join us for this webcast to hear about:
• The unique challenges of securing IBM i and IBM Z systems
• Real-world use cases for integrating IBM i and IBM Z security data with Google Chronicle
• Combining Ironstream and Google Chronicle to deliver faster threat detection, investigation, and response times
Unlocking the Potential of the Cloud for IBM Power SystemsPrecisely
Are you considering leveraging the cloud alongside your existing IBM AIX and IBM I systems infrastructure? There are likely benefits to be realized in scalability, flexibility and even cost.
However, to realize these benefits, you need to be aware of the challenges and opportunities that come with integrating your IBM Power Systems in the cloud. These challenges range from data synchronization to testing to planning for fallback in the event of problems.
Join us for this webcast to hear about:
• Seamless migration strategies
• Best practices for operating in the cloud
• Benefits of cloud-based HA/DR for IBM AIX and IBM i
It can be challenging display and share capacity data that is meaningful to end users. There is an overabundance of data points related to capacity, and the summarization of this data is difficult to construct and display.
You are already spending time and money to handle the critical need to manage systems capacity, performance and estimate future needs. Are you it spending wisely? Are you getting the level of results from your investment that you really need? Can you prove it?
The good news is that the return on investment of implementing capacity management and capacity planning is most definitely positive and provable, both in terms of tangible monetary value and in some less tangible but no-less-valuable benefits.
Join us for this webinar and learn:
• Top Trends in Capacity Management
• Common customer pain points
• Ways to demonstrate these benefits to your company
Automate Studio Training: Materials Maintenance Tips for Efficiency and Ease ...Precisely
Ready to improve efficiency, provide easy to use data automations and take materials master (MM) data maintenance to the next level?
Find out how during our Automate Studio training on March 28 – led by Sigrid Kok, Principal Sales Engineer, and Isra Azam, Sales Engineer, at Precisely.
This session’s for you if you want to discover the best approaches for creating, extending or maintaining different types of materials, as well as automating the tricky parts of these processes that slow you down.
Greater control over your Automate Studio business processes means bigger, better results. We’ll show you how to enable your business users to interact with SAP from Microsoft Office and other familiar platforms – resulting in more efficient SAP data management, along with improved data integrity and accuracy.
This 90-minute session will be filled with a variety of topics, including:
real world approaches for creating multiple types of materials, balancing flexibility and power with simplicity and ease of use
tips on material creation, including
downloading the generated material number
using formulas to format prior to upload, such as capitalization or zero padding to make it easy to get the data right the first time
conditionally require fields based on other field entries
using LOV for fields that are free form entry for standard values
tips on modifying alternate units of measure, building from scratch using GUI scripting
modify multiple language descriptions, build from scratch using a standard BAPI
make end-to-end MM process flows more of a reality with features including APIs and predictive AI
Through these topics, you’ll gain plenty of actionable takeaways that you can start implementing right away – including how to:
improve your data integrity and accuracy
make scripts flexible and usable for automation users
seamlessly handle both simple and complex parts of material master
interact with SAP from both business user and script developers’ perspectives
easily upload and download data between SAP and Excel – and how to format the data before upload using simple formulas
You’ll leave this session feeling ready and empowered to save time, boost efficiency, and change the way you work.
Automate Studio reduces your dependency on technical resources to help you create automation scenarios – and our team of experts is here to make sure you get the most out of our solution throughout the journey.
Questions? Sigrid & Isra will be ready to answer them during a live Q&A at the end of the session.
Who should attend:
Attendees who will get the most out of this session are Automate Studio developers and runners familiar with SAP MM. Knowledge of Automate Studio script creation is nice to have, but not required.
Leveraging Mainframe Data in Near Real Time to Unleash Innovation With Cloud:...Precisely
Join us for an insightful roundtable discussion featuring experts from AWS, Confluent, and Precisely as they delve into the complexities and opportunities of migrating mainframe data to the cloud.
In this engaging webinar, participants will learn about the various considerations, strategies, and customer challenges associated with replicating mainframe data to cloud environments.
Our panelists will share practical insights, real-world experiences, and best practices to help organizations successfully navigate this transformative journey.
Whether you're considering migrating and modernizing your mainframe applications to cloud, or augmenting mainframe-based applications with data replication to cloud, this roundtable will provide valuable perspectives and insights to maximize the benefits of migrating mainframe data to the cloud.
Join us on March 27 to gain a deeper understanding of the opportunities and challenges in this evolving landscape.
Data Innovation Summit: Data Integrity TrendsPrecisely
Data integrity remains an evolving process of discovery, identification, and resolution. With an all-time low in public confidence on data being used for decision-making, attention has gradually shifted to data quality and data integration across multiple systems and frameworks. Data integrity becomes a focal point again for companies to make strategic moves in a world facing an evolving economy.
Key takeaways:
· How to build a data-driven culture within your organization
· Tips to engage with key stakeholders in your business and examples from other businesses around the world
· How to establish and maintain a business-first approach to data governance
· A summary of the findings from a recent survey of global data executives by Drexel University's LeBow College of Business
AI You Can Trust - Ensuring Success with Data Integrity WebinarPrecisely
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a strategic imperative in a rapidly evolving business landscape. However, the rush to embrace AI comes with risks, as illustrated by instances of AI-generated content with fake citations and potentially dangerous recommendations. The critical factor underpinning trustworthy AI is data integrity, ensuring data is accurate, consistent, and full of rich context.
Attend our upcoming webinar, "AI You Can Trust: Ensuring Success with Data Integrity," as we explore organizational challenges in maintaining data integrity for AI applications and real-world use cases showcasing the transformative impact of high-integrity data on AI success.
During this panel discussion, we'll highlight everything from personalized recommendations and AI-powered workflows to machine learning applications and innovative AI assistants.
Key Topics:
AI Use Cases with Data Integrity: Discover how data integrity shapes the success of AI applications through six compelling use cases.
Solving AI Challenges: Uncover practical solutions to common AI challenges such as bias, unreliable results, lack of contextual relevance, and inadequate data security.
Three Considerations of Data Integrity for AI: Learn the essential pillars—complete, trusted, and contextual—that underpin data integrity for AI success.
Precisely and AWS Partnership: Explore how the collaboration between Precisely and Amazon Web Services (AWS) addresses these challenges and empowers organizations to achieve AI-ready data.
Join our panelists to unlock the full potential of AI by starting your data integrity journey today. Trust in AI begins with trusted data – let's future-proof your AI together.
Less Bias. More Accurate. Relevant Outcomes.
Optimisez la fonction financière en automatisant vos processus SAPPrecisely
La fonction finance est au cœur du succès de l’entreprise, et doit aussi évoluer pour faire face aux enjeux d’aujourd’hui : aller plus vite, traiter plus d’informations et assurer une qualité des données sans faille.
Nous vous proposons de découvrir ensemble comment répondre à ces défis, notamment les points suivants :
Gérer les référentiels comptables et financiers, comptes comptables, clients, fournisseurs, centres de couts, centres de profits…Accélérer les clôtures et permettre de passer les écritures comptables nécessaires, de lancer les rapports adéquats et d’extraire les informations en temps réelOrganiser les taches en les affectant de manière ordonnancée à leurs responsables ou en les lançant automatiquement et les suivre de manière granulaire
Notre webinaire sera l’occasion d’évoquer et d’illustrer cette palette de capacités disponibles pour des utilisateurs métier sans code ou avec peu de code et nous vous espérons nombreux.
In dieser Präsentation diskutieren wir, welche Tools aus unserer Sicht dabei helfen, die Transformation zu SAP S/4HANA optimal zu gestalten. Aber wir blicken auch nach vorne!
In unserem Beitrag fokussieren wir uns nicht nur auf kurzfristige Lösungen, sondern es geht auch um das Thema „Nachhaltigkeit“. Um Investitionen für die Zukunft.
Dazu gehören Entwicklungen, die die SAP Welt nachhaltig verändern werden.
Wir betrachten zukünftige Technologien, wie KI oder Machine Learning, die dazu beitragen, datenintensive SAP Prozesse zu optimieren, die Datenqualität zu verbessern, manuelle Prozesse zu reduzieren und Mitarbeiter zu entlasten.
Werfen Sie mit uns einen Blick in die Zukunft und gestalten Sie die digitale Transformation in Ihrem Unternehmen mit.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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.
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.
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/
Welocme to ViralQR, your best QR code generator.ViralQR
Welcome to ViralQR, your best QR code generator available on the market!
At ViralQR, we design static and dynamic QR codes. Our mission is to make business operations easier and customer engagement more powerful through the use of QR technology. Be it a small-scale business or a huge enterprise, our easy-to-use platform provides multiple choices that can be tailored according to your company's branding and marketing strategies.
Our Vision
We are here to make the process of creating QR codes easy and smooth, thus enhancing customer interaction and making business more fluid. We very strongly believe in the ability of QR codes to change the world for businesses in their interaction with customers and are set on making that technology accessible and usable far and wide.
Our Achievements
Ever since its inception, we have successfully served many clients by offering QR codes in their marketing, service delivery, and collection of feedback across various industries. Our platform has been recognized for its ease of use and amazing features, which helped a business to make QR codes.
Our Services
At ViralQR, here is a comprehensive suite of services that caters to your very needs:
Static QR Codes: Create free static QR codes. These QR codes are able to store significant information such as URLs, vCards, plain text, emails and SMS, Wi-Fi credentials, and Bitcoin addresses.
Dynamic QR codes: These also have all the advanced features but are subscription-based. They can directly link to PDF files, images, micro-landing pages, social accounts, review forms, business pages, and applications. In addition, they can be branded with CTAs, frames, patterns, colors, and logos to enhance your branding.
Pricing and Packages
Additionally, there is a 14-day free offer to ViralQR, which is an exceptional opportunity for new users to take a feel of this platform. One can easily subscribe from there and experience the full dynamic of using QR codes. The subscription plans are not only meant for business; they are priced very flexibly so that literally every business could afford to benefit from our service.
Why choose us?
ViralQR will provide services for marketing, advertising, catering, retail, and the like. The QR codes can be posted on fliers, packaging, merchandise, and banners, as well as to substitute for cash and cards in a restaurant or coffee shop. With QR codes integrated into your business, improve customer engagement and streamline operations.
Comprehensive Analytics
Subscribers of ViralQR receive detailed analytics and tracking tools in light of having a view of the core values of QR code performance. Our analytics dashboard shows aggregate views and unique views, as well as detailed information about each impression, including time, device, browser, and estimated location by city and country.
So, thank you for choosing ViralQR; we have an offer of nothing but the best in terms of QR code services to meet business diversity!
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
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.
2. Topics for Today’s Webinar
Migration challenges
IT insights on migration projects
Near-zero downtime migration
Customer successes and case studies
Q&A
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3. MIGRATION AND DOWNTIME CHALLENGES
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4. Migration Challenges
Down time
– Operations may be down 1-48+ hours
– 24/7 operations make outages difficult
Unforeseen problems after cutover
– Lack of application testing on new target
– Lack of infrastructure testing on new target
– Lack of viable and robust fallback plan
Penalties incurred for missed migrations
– Missing hardware return deadlines
– SLAs or regulatory mandates for downtime
Tape is too slow and unreliable for migration
– Read error could abort a migration
– Long migration window; limited back-out options
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5. Industry Snapshot: Is IT Turbulence the New Normal?
Malevolent state- and non-state actors breached corporate and governmental systems.
Non-hacking failures afflicted companies.
Mother Nature: an adversary of resilience. Natural disasters—wildfires, hurricanes, floods—
highlight the need for protection and recovery.
Broad mix of solutions—operating systems, databases.
Hardware and software approaching the end of service life.
Escalating storage driven by exploding content on social, mobile platforms, IOT.
Real-time data is a requirement; data-driven decision making via analytics a must.
Rapidly evolving regulatory environment: Data privacy/security laws vary from country to country.
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6. Central Issues for IT Leaders in 2018
Security, business continuity, and disaster recovery are flashpoints for IT professionals.
Companies use a mix of data protection technologies. Diversity can impact recovery, resource use, IT
efficiency.
Security is the chief initiative—and headache—of professionals in the coming months. Education, policies,
and procedures would most help IT professionals address security challenges.
Migration practices lag. Many migrations fail; a majority are delayed due to fears of downtime.
Business intelligence and analytics are main goals for data sharing. Most companies use real-time data
sharing technologies. But heterogeneous database environments complicate the work of IT staff--especially
those using older data sharing tools.
Cloud use is pervasive, yet concerns about data privacy and sovereignty remain. Multi-platform cloud
environments add complexity and risk to IT management.
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7. Top Technology Initiatives
Security
High availability / disaster recovery
Cloud computing
Upgrading application(s)
Virtualization
Hardware refresh
IT workflow automation
Reduced IT spending
Big data / analytics / business intelligence
Mobile access
Modernizing internal applications
Document management
Storage refresh
BYOD policies
Change control
I don't know
Other (please specify)
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
What are your company’s top IT initiatives for the next 24 months?
Choose all that apply.
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The most common IT
initiatives for the next
24 months:
Security (49%)
High availability / disaster
recovery (45%)
Cloud Computing (43%)
Note that this was a check all that apply question so
figures will not total to 100%.
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8. The State of Migration
Key Takeaways
The majority of IT organizations migrate to upgrade outdated technology.
Business disruption is a major issue: Downtime is the primary reason
companies delayed migrations.
IT must balance the risk of migration downtime against the business impact of
inaction—continuing to use outdated or unsupported hardware or software.
Most companies use staff and third party consultants after hours.
IT resilience during migration calls for better tools, technologies, and practices
to minimize risk.
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9. Top Three Drivers for Migration
Upgrade outdated technology
Improve performance
Consolidate servers
Adopt virtualization technology
Reduce maintenance costs
Move to a different data center(s)
Adopt a cloud platform
Reduce required management resources
Change virtualization and/or cloud strategy
Conserve data center resources
Move to hosting by a managed service provider
Don’t know
Other (please specify)
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
What were the objectives for your organization’s last migration?
Please check all that apply.
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Upgrade outdated
technology (68%)
Improve performance (50%)
Consolidate servers (42%)
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10. Migration: The Staffing, Scheduling Challenge
• 92% use internal staff for migration.
• 50% use third party consulting services.
• A remarkable 72% performed migrations on weekends.
• 54% migrated on weekdays after the office closed.
Fast Facts
The State of Migration
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11. Migration Time: Not Trivial
Less than 1 hour
1 to 8 hours
9 to 24 hours
25 to 50 hours
51 to 100 hours
More than 100 hours
Don’t know
0% 10% 20% 30%
For your last migration project, what was the average number
of hours required to perform the entire migration project
including planning, migration, testing and cutover?
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Roughly 20% of respondents
(each) selected the options
from 1 to 50 hours or more
than 100 hours.
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12. Zero Downtime Not a Reality for Most
64% of professionals reported that their systems were actually down
between 1 and 48 hours during their last migration. Nearly half noted that
their systems were down between 1 and 12 hours.
Fast Facts
The State of Migration
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13. Vulnerability: Migration Failures
42%54%
4%
Have you ever experienced a migration failure?
Yes No Don't know
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Many professionals had
experienced a migration failure
(42%).
When a migration failed, the
most common action they took
was to delay the migration and
attempt it at a later date.
14. The majority of IBM Power users (66%) had not experienced a migration
failure. 31% had. IBM is a workhorse for high transaction processing
applications in banking, finance, manufacturing, and retail.
The consequence of failure in these industries is serious, so perhaps these
organizations plan migration more carefully to avoid performance problems
and higher costs.
IBM Power Insight
The State of Migration
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15. The State of Migration: Delayed Projects
Roughly two-thirds of respondents
have delayed a migration (66%).
Have you found yourself in the
position of needing to delay a
migration?
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Yes
No
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Have you ever delayed a migration?
16. The State of Migration: Reasons for Delay
Among those who had delayed a
migration, over half (57%) sited
concerns about downtime.
– 42% selected lack of resources.
– 24% cited lack of expertise
Do you have downtime or staffing
concerns about your next
migration?
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Concerns about downtime
Lack of resources
Lack of expertise
No management mandate…
Lack of a plan
Cost
Other (please specify)
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
In the previous question you said you had delayed a
migration. What were the reasons for the delay? Please
check all that apply.
17. MIGRATE WHILE ACTIVE
Complete Migration Service Offering
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18. Migrate While Active Service for All Your Migration Needs
System upgrade or refresh
Data center consolidation
Data center migration
Moving to new Power generation
Cloud migrations
Storage refresh
Application or OS upgrades
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Let Syncsort’s migration experts meet all your migration
needs with minimal downtime!
19. What Is a Migrate While Active Service?
Software and services from Syncsort
– Software for near-zero downtime migration
– Expert services to manage the migration process and mitigate risks
Covers all your migration needs
– Data
– Applications
– Critical objects
Hardware and OS independent
– Any version of IBM i to any version of IBM i (V5R4 to 7.3)
– Any server to any server
– Any storage to any storage
– Physical, virtual or Cloud
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OS
20. How Does a Migrate While Active Service Work?
Syncsort HA/DR products provide the engine
– Comprehensive, real time replication powered by a Syncsort HA/DR product
– Audits verify the integrity of the replicated objects
– Straightforward cutover procedures
Syncsort migration experts provide the expertise
– Software installation and configuration
– Synchronization monitoring
– Verification testing on new system
– Final switch to your new system
– All scheduled with your staff to ensure a successful
migration and cutover window
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21. Comprehensive Replication of Critical Data & Objects
Data (libraries, files)
Data areas
Data queues
IFS
MQ / WebSphere
User profiles
Spool files & output queues
Program objects
Controllers, lines and devices
Triggers
Constraints
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22. Popular Migration Scenarios
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Current
Production
New
Server
Current
Production
HA/DR
Server
New
Server
New
Server
New
Server
Current
Production
Current
Production
Production System Migration
One to Many Migration Many to One Migration
Replication from an HA/DR Server
Current
Production
New
Server
Broadcast or Cascade
23. Minimizes Migration Risk and Downtime
Current and new system run in parallel
– All changes are replicated to the new system in real time
– Test your new system on current data before making the switch
– Users work without interruption
Minimal downtime at cutover
– A typical 24-hour system upgrade/migration requires
only minutes of downtime
Syncsort personnel are there from start to finish
– Installation and configuration
– Synchronization
– Testing
– Cutover
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Save time and money by starting your migration
when it is convenient and easy for you, maintaining
regular business operations, and cutting over when
it is convenient for your and incurs the least risk.
24. Move and Protect
After migration use Syncsort HA/DR to protect your new server
The HA/DR product is already installed on the source
Makes implementation of your High Availability policy easy
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MOVE PROTECT
25. WHAT ARE CUSTOMERS SAYING?
Customer Success Stories
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26. Case Study: Raven Transportation
Corporate overview
– Truck fleet authorized to operate in the 48 lower United States
– Headquartered in Jacksonville, FL, USA
Business challenge
– Upgrade IBM i hardware at the same time as upgrading the OS
– 24 x 7 x 365 operation requires little or no downtime
– Wanted seamless migration for end users
– Lean IT department
Result
– New hardware installed in parallel with the old system
– Created a replica and kept it in sync throughout testing
– Automated cutover with virtually no downtime
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“If you want someone to
take you from the
beginning and put you to
the end—in production—
that’s what Migrate While
Active does.”
- Craig Faulkner,
Systems Administrator,
Raven Transport
27. Case Study: Adventist Health
Corporate overview
– 17 hospitals with more than 2,600 beds, 17,500 employees
– Numerous clinics, outpatient facilities, 14 home care agencies
Business challenge
– Upgrade to System i model 570 to remedy response time
– 800 gigabytes of data
– Best case scenario was 20 hours of downtime
Result
– Allowed Adventist to run the new 570 in parallel
– Testing was performed on-line
– Users logged off the old system and logged on to the
new system at midnight on day of cutover
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“There were other alternatives,
but [Syncsort’s] product was the
best. We would have had to
cover a 20-hour migration with
two shifts of technicians. Being
able to run the two servers in
parallel also eliminated
unwelcome surprises at cutover
time.”
- Florencio Alcocer,
Senior System Engineer,
Adventist Health
28. More Syncsort IBM i Migration Customers
Nationwide Insurance
Electrolux
Campbell’s Soup
SYSCO Foods
Seneca Gaming
Adventist Health
Sutter Health
Trinity Health
Tropicana Hotel and Casino
Isle of Capri Casino
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Beaulieu USA
DOT Foods
Jennie-O Turkey
Key Energy
RCN Corporation
Norfolk Iron and Metal
DR Horton
Wire Harness Via Systems
ACH Foods
The Venetian Hotel and Casino
Siemens Medical
Corrflex Graphics Displays
Johnson Diversey
US Healthworks
Silver Legacy
Hormel Foods
Comcast Cable
Resorts International
Gerald Champion Regional
…..and more!
29. Syncsort Migration Benefits
Minimizes Downtime
All changes are replicated while users are online and productive
Cutover windows take minutes as opposed to hours of downtime
Flexibility for scheduling cutover window
Eliminates Risk
Syncsort migration experts work with you from start to finish
Test the new server and perform test cutovers before the final cutover
In case of unforeseen problems on new server, failback is quick and easy
Flexible Implementation
Hardware, storage and OS independent
Supports physical, virtual, cloud configurations
Custom services available for cross-OS or cross-database migrations
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