DreamHost is using Dell's OpenStack-powered cloud solution to expand its cloud and storage services. Dell's solution provides proven components like PowerEdge servers and Crowbar software that simplifies deployment of OpenStack. This allows DreamHost to quickly deploy new services and lower costs by replacing traditional infrastructure and licensing with open source cloud technology.
Cloud also presents us with capabilities to enable IT to break out of silos and deliver real results on customer and organizational needs. Value creation processes are dynamic, flexible and multi-dimensional to meet the changing needs of the customer and your organization. Dell believes that cloud can be a ‘change agent’, helping to overcome capacity limitations and drive value creation rather than just reactive servicing.
With OpenStack and OpenSource, customers can get further cost benefits by not having to pay exhorbitant license fees and also get locked into proprietary vendor stacks and API/s
considering the cloud? From IaaS to SaaS and Beyond - Find Your Path to the C...Web2Present
This webinar will show you multiple pathways to the cloud – from Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to VDI and Desktop-as-a-Service– giving you valuable insight into how you can chart the right course for your organization.
http://www.web2present.com/upcoming-webinars-details.php?id=74
Building Blocks for Private and Hybrid CloudsRightScale
Learn key considerations about building a private or hybrid cloud, including selecting hardware, cloud infrastructure software, hosting vendors, systems integrators, and reference architectures.
Cloud also presents us with capabilities to enable IT to break out of silos and deliver real results on customer and organizational needs. Value creation processes are dynamic, flexible and multi-dimensional to meet the changing needs of the customer and your organization. Dell believes that cloud can be a ‘change agent’, helping to overcome capacity limitations and drive value creation rather than just reactive servicing.
With OpenStack and OpenSource, customers can get further cost benefits by not having to pay exhorbitant license fees and also get locked into proprietary vendor stacks and API/s
considering the cloud? From IaaS to SaaS and Beyond - Find Your Path to the C...Web2Present
This webinar will show you multiple pathways to the cloud – from Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to VDI and Desktop-as-a-Service– giving you valuable insight into how you can chart the right course for your organization.
http://www.web2present.com/upcoming-webinars-details.php?id=74
Building Blocks for Private and Hybrid CloudsRightScale
Learn key considerations about building a private or hybrid cloud, including selecting hardware, cloud infrastructure software, hosting vendors, systems integrators, and reference architectures.
Converged Infrastructure as a Go Forward StrategyJames Charter
Converged Infrastructure as the Go Forward Strategy. Overview of CI versus traditional architecture of compute, storage, networking and the benefits of adopting CI. Presented at VMware Virtualization Forum December 2010, February 2011.
F5 Networks' DevCentral gains cloud agility and scale with enterprise grade control in the Bluelock cloud. Collaboration with industry leader Bluelock demonstrates how F5’s application delivery virtual appliances enable cloud advantages with an enterprise frame of mind
Have you wondered what the future of collaboration looks like? Because collaboration is so central to our customers' productivity and profitability, it's a key area for innovation at Novell. It's also an area that complements our focus on intelligent workload management. Attend this session, presented by the Novell Collaboration leadership team, for a sneak peek into our plans for collaboration innovation, as well as the link between collaboration and intelligent workload management.
Richard Lindstedt Collaboration Solution Manager, Novell, Inc.
Ken Muir CTSO - Collaboration Novell, Inc.
Novell Success Stories: Collaboration in EducationNovell
Novell Collaboration benefits are to increase productivity, manage information growth, and leverage investments and skills on Linux.
The beaver Dam Unified School District, the University of Regensburg, George Washington University, and Tuscaloosa City Schools all employ Novell Collaboration services- from Novell Teaming, to Groupwise, to ZENworks, and more- to meet their IT needs.
Erik Ableson & Vincent Branger: What's best for vdi storage optimisation hard...ILKI - Your Cloud Designer
Cette présentation est le résumé des multiples discussions autour du stockage entre Erik et moi ! En effet, Erik considère qu'une solution matérielle est la plus adaptée alors que je prône l'utilisation de logiciels d'optimisation... Pour dire vrai, c'est plus complexe que cela mais en définitif nous sommes tous les deux d'accord... Comme le disait l'un de mes professeurs émérites à l'université, "on ne peut s'engueuler qu'avec les gens avec lesquels nous sommes d'accord..."
This session will teach you how to leverage virtualization and advanced management technologies from Novell to build an internal cloud infrastructure. You'll be able to build an infrastructure that allows your IT organization to package, price and promote IT service capabilities to your internal customers while giving them exceptional visibility into how those services are performing against SLA targets. Learn what an enterprise cloud is, and why having a virtual infrastructure isn't enough. Understand how the concept of an internal cloud can help you work better and more efficiently with your customers, improve communication, boost utilization and speed delivery of new IT services.
Converged Infrastructure as a Go Forward StrategyJames Charter
Converged Infrastructure as the Go Forward Strategy. Overview of CI versus traditional architecture of compute, storage, networking and the benefits of adopting CI. Presented at VMware Virtualization Forum December 2010, February 2011.
F5 Networks' DevCentral gains cloud agility and scale with enterprise grade control in the Bluelock cloud. Collaboration with industry leader Bluelock demonstrates how F5’s application delivery virtual appliances enable cloud advantages with an enterprise frame of mind
Have you wondered what the future of collaboration looks like? Because collaboration is so central to our customers' productivity and profitability, it's a key area for innovation at Novell. It's also an area that complements our focus on intelligent workload management. Attend this session, presented by the Novell Collaboration leadership team, for a sneak peek into our plans for collaboration innovation, as well as the link between collaboration and intelligent workload management.
Richard Lindstedt Collaboration Solution Manager, Novell, Inc.
Ken Muir CTSO - Collaboration Novell, Inc.
Novell Success Stories: Collaboration in EducationNovell
Novell Collaboration benefits are to increase productivity, manage information growth, and leverage investments and skills on Linux.
The beaver Dam Unified School District, the University of Regensburg, George Washington University, and Tuscaloosa City Schools all employ Novell Collaboration services- from Novell Teaming, to Groupwise, to ZENworks, and more- to meet their IT needs.
Erik Ableson & Vincent Branger: What's best for vdi storage optimisation hard...ILKI - Your Cloud Designer
Cette présentation est le résumé des multiples discussions autour du stockage entre Erik et moi ! En effet, Erik considère qu'une solution matérielle est la plus adaptée alors que je prône l'utilisation de logiciels d'optimisation... Pour dire vrai, c'est plus complexe que cela mais en définitif nous sommes tous les deux d'accord... Comme le disait l'un de mes professeurs émérites à l'université, "on ne peut s'engueuler qu'avec les gens avec lesquels nous sommes d'accord..."
This session will teach you how to leverage virtualization and advanced management technologies from Novell to build an internal cloud infrastructure. You'll be able to build an infrastructure that allows your IT organization to package, price and promote IT service capabilities to your internal customers while giving them exceptional visibility into how those services are performing against SLA targets. Learn what an enterprise cloud is, and why having a virtual infrastructure isn't enough. Understand how the concept of an internal cloud can help you work better and more efficiently with your customers, improve communication, boost utilization and speed delivery of new IT services.
La ralentización de la economía mundial al inicio de 2016 se está caracterizando por el retorno de los pesimistas, de los agoreros que vaticinan próximas calamidades económicas de mayor o menor intensidad. Y, sin embargo, los datos que presenta nuestra economía en su conjunto no son malos. El PIB crece a tasas superiores al 3%, se recupera el empleo, disminuye el paro, mejora la entrada de viajeros y los pasajeros en el aeropuerto, las perspectivas del comercio minorista son buenas… También es verdad que el comercio exterior y la compraventa de viviendas se ha ralentizado, que se incrementa la precariedad del empleo y que la creación de empresas no termina de coger ritmo positivo pero,
de momento, siempre y cuando las condiciones y expectativas
actuales se mantenga, las previsiones para nuestra economía en 2016 continúan siendo positivas.
Trystakc.cn was announced in OpenStack Summit San Diego 2012(www.slideshare.net/openstack/trystack-introfinalpdf
).It was a Non-profit OpenStack community projects.
By Stackers, for stackers.Experience the latest OpenStack features.
Welcoming contributions and feedback, Join the fun !
Rightscale Webinar: Building Blocks for Private and Hybrid CloudsRightScale
Looking for some solid guidance to help build your private or hybrid cloud? Want to turn your existing data center into a private cloud? Or perhaps you want to integrate your private cloud with a public cloud, but you’re not sure where to get started.
In this webinar you'll learn the key considerations for building a private or hybrid cloud, presented by the pros at RightScale who help our customers do this every single day.
We’ll discuss:
- Selecting hardware: How to decide which compute, networking and storage options to select.
- Private cloud considerations such as workload and infrastructure interaction, security, latency, user experience, and cost.
-Reference architectures and design considerations such as the location of physical hardware and configuration for availability and redundancy.
- Use cases and real-life scenarios: Private and hybrid clouds are especially well-suited for scalable applications with uncertain demand, disaster recovery and self-service IT portals.
- How to select the cloud solution provider that’s right for you, and how to manage your cloud resources effectively.
You’ll leave this webinar with a thorough understanding of building blocks for private and hybrid clouds.
The Netflix recipe for migrating your organization from building a datacenter based product to a cloud based product. First presented at the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Meetup "Speak Cloudy to Me" on Saturday April 30th, 2011
Current State of Affairs – Cloud Computing - Indicthreads Cloud Computing Con...IndicThreads
Session presented at the 2nd IndicThreads.com Conference on Cloud Computing held in Pune, India on 3-4 June 2011.
http://CloudComputing.IndicThreads.com
Abstract: Cloud Computing has had phenomenal growth over the past year and continues to entrench itself in all facets of IT. Cloud Computing is definitely more than just a buzz word or a passing trend. Now the heavy weights like IBM, HP and SAP are ready lock horns with existing players like Amazon, Salesforce and Microsoft whose offerings have matured over a period of time. Besides these big players, a lot of start ups are coming up with innovative offerings in this space.
The talk is about the current state of affairs in the cloud computing. It will cover the products, services and offerings that have been making a lot of noise in the cloud computing space.
Following are the main points that will be covered in the talk:
1. New Players: A lot of enterprise market giants are now coming to the cloud party offering infrastructure and platform services. IBM has come out with its SmartCloud for private as well as public clouds. Oracle has released its Cloud-in-a-box solution. The talk will cover all the new offerings by these enterprise giants.
2. Old Players, New offerings – Amazon being the leader in the Cloud Infrastructure space has rolled out a lot of new products and services, strengthening its hold in the market and expanding into the PaaS segment. Amazon Beanstalk, Amazon CloudFormation and EC2 Dedicated instances most notably have the power to be game changers. SalesForce the leader in the Cloud SaaS space released database.com, enterprise cloud database and its “PaaS” offering similar to GAE – VMforce.com This section will cover the new offerings by the players.
3 .Interesting Players in the cloud ecosystem: There have been a lot of new players who are leveraging the cloud to build some exciting products like Scalable API platforms, Cloud-based logging, Java in the Cloud. etc eg. Apigee, PiCloud, Loggly,Cumulogic, Cloudbees being some of them. This section will cover most of the exciting platforms and technologies these companies are working on.
4. Current Trends and Future: This section will cover the current trends(where a lot of startups are investing in) and how the future will look like in the cloud space.
Finally, the talk plans to “arm” developers and architects with the latest and cutting edge platforms, products and technologies in the cloud that have been developed and made available over the last year, helping them to leverage the cloud and make better choices leading to higher ROI and lesser TCO.
Speaker:
Chirag Jog, is the CTO at Clogeny Technologies where the main focus is on Innovation in the Cloud Computing, Scalable Applications and Storage space. He is the chief geek at Clogeny who talks “Cloud” and works on architecting exciting ideas in the cloud space. He has previously spoken at IndicThreads, CloudCamp and other cloud related events.
The road to Cloud Computing is not without a few bumps. This session will help to smooth out your journey by tackling some of the potential complications. We’ll examine whether standardization is a prerequisite for the Cloud. We’ll look at why refactoring isn’t just for application code. We’ll check out deployable entities and their simplification via higher levels of abstraction. And we’ll close out the session with a look at engineered systems and modular clouds.
(As presented by Dr. James Baty at Oracle Technology Network Architect Day in Chicago, October 24, 2011.)
Presentation of Vincent Desveronnieres, Oracle at the TMT.CloudComputing'11 Warsaw conference organized in Warsaw, Poland on February 10th, 2011 by New Europe Events
The lessons I learned is that Open source quickly becomes the natural choice wherever commoditization is happening in the software stack. Thus we expect business-to-business open source, which is already a significant trend in recent history, to become an increasingly common form of open source collaboration. Companies who understand the ground rules of business-to-business open source will be better positioned to identify and take advantage of open source opportunities in the competitive spaces that they share with other companies.
So I will share why open strategy is import for the enterprise. And how to do contributions for the open source projects n today’s topic.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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/
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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.
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.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZGlobus
ESnet has led the way in helping national facilities—and many other institutions in the research community—configure Science DMZs and troubleshoot network issues to maximize data transfer performance. In this talk we will present a summary of approaches and tips for getting the most out of your network infrastructure using Globus Connect Server.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
4. There can be many objectives for cloud
4 Revolutionary Cloud Solutions
5. What our customers are telling us…
• “My current IT infrastructure is becoming too
• “I need the ability to keep ahead of security
difficult to manage”
threats quickly. ”
• “I want my limited resources to
• “My business requires me react faster to its
work on value-add tasks, as
changing needs”
opposed to maintenance”
• “I want to make my own design
• “I’m interested in cloud
changes rather than waiting on
solutions for backup and DR”
vendors” Resource
Time to Value • “I lack expertise around
Limitations
• “I have insufficient time to
certain applications and
procure hardware and configure
emerging technologies”
the software required”
• “I have budget constraints • I’d like a replicated site for
for traditional IT use cases Flexibility and improved disaster
IT Spend
and view cloud technology Performance recovery”
as an outsource mechanism”
• “I want to move ‘cold’ data to
• “My application has migrated the cloud”
to a cloud implementation”
• “My datacenter has inconsistent
• “I don’t want to purchase and manage demand requirements”
hardware so cloud solutions are appealing”
• “Escalating license costs limit the scalability I
• “I want to replace Capex with Opex” require to be profitable”
From Dell Strategy Hybrid Cloud Research, July 2011 Revolutionary Cloud Solutions
6. Why cloud computing?
• Short deadlines require fast access to
resources
• Tight budgets mean more is needed
from less hardware
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7. Why open source?
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Source: The 451 Group‖s Commercial Adoption of Open Source practice
8. What is OpenStack?
• OpenStack is an open standards and
open source software with a mission to
provide scalable and elastic cloud
operating system for both private and
public clouds, large and small. It
– Has support from major industry players
– Is being collaboratively developed without a
single owner
– Has an API that is Service Provider license
friendly
– Has been demonstrated to run at scale
– Has been built on open source components
– Had global reach and support
8 Revolutionary Cloud Solutions
9. What is in OpenStack?
• OpenStack has a collection of projects
that are developed and maintained
collaboratively by an active and large
community:
– Compute (Nova)
– Storage (Swift)
– Glance (Imaging)
– Horizon (Dashboard)
– Keystone (Authentication)
– Quantum (Network service)
• OpenStack‖s basic requirement:
“Clouds must be simple to implement
and massively scalable.”
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10. OpenStack Timeline Folsom
Essex “Platform for
Innovation”
Diablo “Production
Ready” Core Platform for
Workable Innovation
Cactus
Foundation Stable Foundation
Community Network as a
Bexar Development Exposes Gaps Included in Service
Forming Solidify Ubuntu 12.04 Block Storage
Austin First Community
Public Working Incubated: Public Adoption
Code Prototypes Loses VMware Network & Block Multiple Scale
Formation
& HyperV Storage Deployments
2011 2012
Nov 2010 Dec Feb Apr Jun Aug Oct Dec Feb Apr Jun Aug
Nov 2010: Feb 2011: Apr 2011: Sep 2011: Mar 2012: Oct 2012:
Austin Bexar Cactus Diablo Essex Folsom
Release Release Release Release Release Release
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13. Even the best technology won’t necessarily solve the
problems of cloud data centers
What you need:
Proven built Proven
solutions with components
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Dell
14. Dell OpenStack-Powered “Dell‖s commitment to
OpenStack and their team with
Cloud Solution deep expertise in Data Center
Solutions is the foundation for
a great partnership.”
Ben Cherian, General Manager of
Proven solutions Emerging Technologies, DreamHost
Elastic , vastly scalable and designed Proven components
to handle massive data loads
OpenStack Cloud operating system
• Rely on Dell‖s tested, validated, and
innovative designs in infrastructure, Dell-developed Crowbar Software
software, and services Dell PowerEdge C6100
• Get what you need to develop, deploy, /C6105/R720/R720xd servers
and deliver your cloud environment
Force 10 S60 Switches
• Enables you to quickly offer new cloud
services, lower software licensing costs, Reference Architecture
and help mitigate the risks of cloud Deployment Guide
computing
Dell Service and Support
14 Confidential Revolutionary Cloud Solutions
Dell
15. “Dell … was one of the first of
Dell’s Distinctive the hardware vendors to grasp
the fact that cloud is about
Competence provisioning services, not
about the hardware.”
Proven solutions Maxwell Cooter, Cloud Pro
• First OpenStack cloud solution provider Proven components
• Gold member of the OpenStack foundation
• Pioneer OpenStack partner (Only Tier 1 Day
1 hardware provider)
– Most history with the OpenStack technology
– Reference architectures that have been
tested longer and fuller than newcomers
• Deep partnership ecosystem
– Mirantis, Canonical, and enStratus
– Single point of service and support
• ONLY company providing automated
software to do multi-node OpenStack
provisioning: Crowbar
– Dell developed software
• OpenStack experts work at Dell: Rob
Hirschfeld, Greg Althaus and others
15 continually investing in the community Revolutionary Cloud Solutions
16. Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution
HW + SW + Services
• C6100, C6105, C2100, R720, R720XD Servers
HW Reference
Architecture
• Storage and compute
Hardware • Force 10 S60 and PowerConnect
Configuration Min 6 nodes. Max 60 nodes
• OpenStack Installer and continuous integration (Crowbar)
Software • OpenStack cloud SW
• Other SW elements installed by Crowbar
Software
Operating
• Ubuntu 12.04 (Host)
System
• Windows (Guests)
• Linux (Guests)
Hypervisor KVM
• Hardware Integration – Onsite or Merge Center
• Software Installation – Onsite
Deployment
& Consulting
• OpenStack Consulting Services
• Assessment, Design and Installation
Services • Delivered via partnerships with Mirantis & Canonical
• HW/Crowbar: Dell ProSupport
Support
• OpenStack support via Canonical (Coming Soon)
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18. Dell Taxonomy as of the Essex release
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19. Crowbar Software “Dell solved a problem that we had.
And when Dell solved that
Framework problem, our engineers thought,
―We‖re going to use this.”
Ben Cherian, GM of Emerging
Technologies, DreamHost
Proven solutions
A modular, open source framework that Proven components
accelerates multi-node deployments,
simplifies maintenance, and streamlines Opscode Chef Server Capabilities
ongoing updates Download the open source software:
https://github.com/dellcloudedge/cr
• Deploy an OpenStack cloud or Hadoop owbar
cluster in hours instead of days
Active community
• Use or build barclamps to install and http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinf
configure software modules o/crowbar
• Supports a cloud Resources on the Wiki:
operations model https://github.com/dellcloudedge/cr
owbar/wiki
to interact,
modify, and build Rob Hirschfeld’s blog
based on http://robhirschfeld.com/2011/07/26/
changing needs crowbar-source-released/
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20. Crowbar Software Framework
To Builds Up Clouds
APIs, User Access,
& Ecosystem
Partners
Ops Management
Dell “Crowbar”
Cloud
Infrastructure
Core Components &
Operating Systems
Physical Resources
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25. Developing Dell IP: Crowbar
APIs, User Access, & Nagios Ganglia Dashboard
Ecosystem Partners
enSTratus RightScale
Ops Management
Dell “Crowbar”
Cloud Infrastructure Nova Swift Glance
& Dell IP Extensions
Compellent EqualLogic
Core Components &
Crowbar DNS Logging
Operating Systems
Deployer NTP
Provisioner
BIOS IPMI
Physical Resources
Network RAID
* Crowbar has potential to service other programs beyond OpenStack
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26. Cloud Taxonomy
Software as a Service IT as a Service Platform as a Service Infrastructure as a Service Everything as a Service
Admin Software
Web Services & APIs Self Service Portal
SSO
Customer Management
Entitlement, rights Billing Metering
Information Service Management
LDAP/AD
Infrastructure Software
Workload Lifecycle
Legacy Management
Ser Gov/Workflow Automation Monitoring
Management
Orchestration Intelligent Resource Manager Platform Provisioning
Reporting
Analytics
Security
Abstraction Software
OS Data Store Operating System Application Run-Time
Hardware Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization
IPS
Physical
Compute Switch Storage
Firewall
Network
HVAC Power Facility
Overarching Environmentals Revolutionary Cloud Solutions
Systems
27. Crowbar fits into Cloud Taxonomy
Software as a Service IT as a Service Platform as a Service Infrastructure as a Service Everything as a Service
Admin Software
OpenStack APIs OpenStack Dashboard
SSO
Customer Management
Entitlement, rights Billing Metering
Information Service Management
LDAP/AD
Infrastructure Software
Workload Lifecycle
Legacy Management
Ser Gov/Workflow Automation Monitoring
Management
Orchestration Intelligent Resource Manager Crowbar
Reporting
Analytics
Keystone
Abstraction Software
OS
Ubuntu Data Store Operating System Application Run-Time
HardwareKVM
Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization
IPS
Physical
Nova Switch
Glance Swift
Firewall
Quantum
BIOS RAID NETWORK
Overarching Environmentals Revolutionary Cloud Solutions
Systems
28. Crowbar Builds the Cloud Taxonomy
Software as a Service IT as a Service Platform as a Service Infrastructure as a Service Everything as a Service
Admin Software
OpenStack APIs OpenStack Dashboard
SSO
Customer Management
Entitlement, rights Billing Metering
Information Service Management
LDAP/AD
Infrastructure Software
Workload Lifecycle
Legacy Management
Ser Gov/Workflow Automation Monitoring
Management
Orchestration Intelligent Resource Manager Crowbar
Reporting
Analytics
Keystone
Abstraction Software
OS
Ubuntu Data Store Operating System Application Run-Time
HardwareKVM
Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization
IPS
Physical
Nova Switch
Glance Swift
Firewall
Quantum
BIOS RAID NETWORK
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Systems
29. Dell OpenStack
Customer Case
Sharing
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30. Morphlabs Delivers Enterprise-grade
OpenStack Converged Infrastructure
Company
The company is a recognized leader in converged
infrastructure solutions for the Enterprise. The SSD-powered
mCloud Rack Enterprise Edition is the first OpenStack
powered converged infrastructure solution for Enterprise
deployment
Challenge
Morphlabs‖ challenge is to become the most widely deployed
converged infrastructure solution in the world. The
company works with G2000 and Telcos in emerging markets
to make price performant on-premise and hosted private
clouds available for the Enterprise.
Solution
Morphlabs‖ mCloud converged infrastructure solutions, built
on SSD-powered PowerEdge C5220 and C2100 servers,
“We want to make sure we are ahead of the game in provide a proven, easy to deploy, and secure cloud.
terms of innovation for the delivery of cloud computing, Enterprises can rapidly deploy on premises, and telcos can
starting with ease of use and powered by performance use mCloud solutions to quickly generate revenue by
delivering modular share-nothing hosted private clouds.
and efficiency. We want to always be at the bleeding
edge in terms of researching new technologies, new Benefits
processing technologies, new storage technologies, • SSD-powered OpenStack Enterprise-grade converged
new networking technologies, and then rapidly cloud infrastructure
recombine them into a solution that brings end users • Open Source building blocks and Hyperscale hardware
the most efficient computing platform.” deliver revolutionary price and performance
• Global deployment and support
• Dramatically reduce cost of IT while accelerating time to
Morphlabs CEO Winston Damarillo market
• Focus on differentiating business, not IT procurement,
integration, optimization and assembly
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31. OpenStack Used to Save Lives
Company
This company offers a cloud-based infrastructure to
pharmas that enables them to host and manage clinical
trials
Challenge
Large license costs for on-premise operating system
and virtualization infrastructure, and labor costs for
management and maintenance. Increasing costs in
public clouds and want to bring workloads back in-
house
Solution
“Deploying OpenStack is a Piloting Dell OpenStack –powered cloud solution and
heavily leverage existing skills with Chef, opensource.
Looking to create highly automated DevOps
competitive advantage for us. It infrastructure.
provides freedom to innovate, Benefits
• Cost-effective open source cloud
reduces costs, and improves •
•
Compatibility with AWS
Automated to reduce labor costs
speed of deployment and • DevOps to ease and speed of deployment and
management
management through massive • Freedom to modify to meet unique needs
automation”
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32. DreamHost Expands Cloud and Storage
Services with Dell OpenStack Cloud
Challenge
DreamHost was in need of a flexible, open source
cloud platform for their public cloud compute
Solution
DreamHost uses Dell hardware for its core
business—shared hosting, dedicated hosting and
virtual private server hosting—as well as its
emerging businesses.
For its OpenStack cloud, DreamHost is using the
Crowbar barclamp for Nova. The company is
writing its own barclamp for its Ceph storage
solution.
Benefits
“Without Crowbar, we’d be writing • Took advantage of Dell’s OpenStack reference
code, and that costs us money. architecture and deployment framework
Having a viable, open-source • Saved 4-6 months of software development
solution for deploying OpenStack work
and deploying Ceph are very • Leveraged cloud and scale-out servers and
reference architecture
important, very core, to our
• Realized business advantages of leasing with
business.” Dell Financial Services
Bryan Bogensberger, VP Business Strategy,
DreamHost
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33. Mirantis Speeds and Eases OpenStack
Deployment
Company
With OpenStack engineering expertise, Mirantis helps
service providers, SaaS vendors and enterprises build and
run robust OpenStack cloud infrastructure
Challenge
As cloud computing enters the mainstream, more and
more organizations are turning to Mirantis for help with
OpenStack, including Dell Reference Architecture and
hardware.
Solution
With the Crowbar software framework, the team can
deploy an OpenStack cloud in hours instead of days.
Crowbar also provides an easy, modular way for ongoing
cloud evolution and maintenance
Benefits
• Faster time to cloud
“At Mirantis, we strive to make it extremely easy, yet • Open source freedom and flexibility
safe, for organizations to adopt OpenStack software • Ease of migration and integration
that is uncompromised by proprietary packaging. The • Engineering collaboration
Dell OpenStack –Powered Cloud Solution fits well
with our commitment to the open source vision for
OpenStack.”
Boris Renski, co-founder and executive vice
president at Mirantis
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35. Dell Cloud Consulting IT Consulting Config and Deploy Support
• Limited duration, high impact engagements
• Delivered by OpenStack experts
• Clear phases and decision points
• Validated repeatable process
• Knowledge share at each step
Understand Make Informed Lay the Path
Capture the Value Ongoing Success
the Potential Decisions for Success
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36. OpenStack Solution IT Consulting Config and Deploy Support
Installation and Implementation
A turnkey solution • Project management from order drop to
deployment service customer acceptance
• Based on Dell-validated reference architectures
• Onsite hardware and software installation
• Optional Rack Integration at a Dell facility
• Validation of the installed solution
• Knowledge transfer on Crowbar software
Save money, minimize
disruption and optimize
performance.
Performed according to Rapid time-to-live
Dell’s best practices
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37. Dell ProSupport IT Consulting Config and Deploy Support
• Single point of accountability from experts with
Premium hardware and solution-specific training
software support available • Support for Crowbar
around the clock, 24x7x365
• Collaborative Support with Solution Partners
• Next Business Day onsite service with four and
eight hour parts & labor response options
• Escalation management with customer-set
severity level options
Dell Services ranked #1
for onsite support
response time1
Leverage our global Shift downtime into Conquer complexity
scale and skill uptime & escalations so you can focus on
to satisfaction innovation
1Technology Business Review, “Service & Support Customer Satisfaction | Fourth Calendar Quarter 2010” March 2011,
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38. Dell Openstack
Solution in
China
38 Revolutionary Cloud Solutions
39. Dell Openstack solution in China
● Milestone:
● 2011/07/27 – Dell Openstack solution
launched in US
● 2012/07/12 – Dell Openstack solution
launched in China
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40. How to Bring OpenStack into Application
Environments
• Assess the appropriateness and value of OpenStack
Use Case Discovery for their organization
• Verify the prototype functionality and project
Proof of Concept feasibility for a new OpenStack deployment
• Development-define the requirements and
Process and Team processes for creating a new OpenStack
team
• Deploy their first production-level pilot project
Production Pilot using OpenStack
• Perform a periodic health checks and tune up
Production existing OpenStack deployment
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41. Available Resources
● Dell OpenStack Reference Architecture:
● Overall architecture, BOM’s, SKU’s
● Dell OpenStack Deployment Guide
● Site Prep, Hardware Setup, Network/Switch configuration,
Admin Node, Crowbar, and OpenStack installation
● Dell Crowbar Users Guide
● Architecture description, User Interface details, Barclamp
details
● OpenStack has much improved documentation on
Essex
● More doc improvements expected in Folsom
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Cloud also presents us with capabilities to enable IT to break out of silos and deliver real results on customer and organisational needs. Value creation processes are dynamic, flexible and multi-dimensional to meet the changing needs of the customer and your organization. Dell believes that cloud can be a ‘change agent’, helping to overcome capacity limitations and drive value creation rather than just reactive servicing. Furthermore, at any point-in-time business priorities can shift from the time you set out. Shifting between cost, collaboration, competition, customers, or mobility there’s NOT a business outcome that should requires compromiseto building your cloud.
OpenStack – a community that is setting standards for cloudGlobalBig and evolvingBroad industry supportOpenStack is an open source cloud infrastructure projectInitiative’s purpose is to offer alternative to Amazon and drive standardsFounded by Rackspace and NASA, heavily driven by RackspacePartners include Dell, Intel, Citrix, AMD, Cisco, othersApache 2.0 LicenseAPI license is not legally encumbered (Amazon’s API has issues)Leverages popular ecosystemsBoth dominant APIs: Amazon EC2 & RackspaceBoth dominant opensource hypervisors: KVM & XenIncludes platforms for both cloud Compute and StorageDesigned for hyperscale deploymentsWill be the basis of both Rackspace and NASA’s cloud data centersBeing designed multi-geography with 1000+ nodes per region
Ever growing community-ensures new features are constantly being added- Customer pain points are being actively solvedWill always be updated, latest and ever evolvingLot of Community support forums
First OpenStack cloud solution provider in marketPioneer OpenStack partner (Only Day 1 hardware provider)Most history with the OpenStack technology = expertize + RA’s that have been tested longer and fuller than newcomersDell offers a deep partnership ecosystemSingle point of support and purchase to reduce the problem of dealing with multiple vendorsONLY company providing automated software to do multi-node OpenStack provisioning: CrowbarDell developed software that we opensourced in the community.OpenStack expertsize
Speaker notes.Good information in RA.
Bryan Bogensberger, DreamHost’s vice president for business strategy
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