The document summarizes a presentation about automation and cloud evolution. It discusses how automation is currently done mostly through scripting but that more advanced automation uses multiple toolsets like vCenter Orchestrator. It presents an ideal end state of full lifecycle automation from provisioning to decommissioning. It discusses choices around using scripting, vCloud Director or vCloud Automation Center depending on needs. It recommends investing in vCenter Orchestrator to improve automation capabilities.
How to consolidate Citrix Monitoring in a Single Pane of GlasseG Innovations
A recent survey by eG Innovations and xenappblog found that 68% of organizations are using 2-5 different tools for monitoring and managing their Citrix infrastructure. Multiple monitoring tools make it expensive to operate and troubleshoot IT infrastructure issues. Furthermore, a lot of manual effort is required to diagnose and fix performance issues.
Join Richard Faulkner, Enterprise Solutions Architect and CTP from Conversant Group, and John Worthington, Director of Customer Success at eG Innovations, and learn how you can get a single-pane-of-glass view of your Citrix infrastructure – from the client end to the virtual desktops/apps and even the backend applications.
See how you can:
--Monitor and get proactive alerts on the experience seen by Citrix users
--Track the performance of every layer and every tier of your Citrix infrastructure: NetScalers, StoreFronts, Virtual apps and desktops, WEM, PVS, License servers, etc.
--Troubleshoot in a single click and identify where the root-cause of a problem is: network, or storage, or virtualization, or the Citrix stack?
--Get insights to right-size and optimize your Citrix deployment
How to Assure Performance in Hybrid Cloud EcosystemseG Innovations
In the digital age, quality of service (QOS) and user experience are the keys to competitive advantage. With the rapid adoption of hybrid clouds, assuring the performance of applications running in hybrid cloud ecosystems has become business-critical.
The reality is that the explosion of new cloud-based IT services may not simplify performance management. In fact, since clouds are operating models the heterogeneous nature of hybrid and multi-cloud deployments makes performance management even more challenging.
This 30-minute webinar provides a quick overview of the key steps to assure the performance of digital business services as applications are migrated to various cloud services and shows some examples of how you can retain end-to-end visibility along the way.
Watch this webinar to learn:
• How unified, consistent views of performance can enable effective service delivery
• How to baseline services before, during and after cloud migrations
• How to get started on your hybrid cloud journey
In this presentation, desktop virtualization expert Bala Vaidhinathan (CTO, eG Innovations) demonstrates how eG Enterprise helps you manage your Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktop environment to:
• Proactively identify and diagnose the root cause of issues and resolve them before users notic
• Rapidly resolve user complaints such as “my desktop is slow” with automated identification of bottlenecks and their root cause
• Achieve real-time oversight and performance management to meet SLA and performance objectives
• Gain a holistic end-to-end view of the virtual desktop infrastructure, understand usage trends and bottlenecks and plan effectively for growth
• Customize real-time dashboards and create targeted reports to deliver timely, concise information that is relevant and valuable to each technical and management team member
How to Measure Agility Project Success in Business TermsEthan Ram
A session I gave in Agile Israel 2015 conference about measuring the success of transforming a company operations using agility/lean methodologies. I'm presenting several KPIs from different departments - evidence to a significant improvement that resulted from the agility projects we have taken.
Startups are continually evangelizing DevOps to be able to reduce risk, hasten feedback and deploy 1000’s of times a day. But what about the rest of the world that comes from Waterfall, Mainframes, Long Release Cycles and Risk Aversion? Learn how one company went from 480 day lead times and 6 month releases to 3 month releases with high levels of automation and increased quality across disparate legacy environments. We will discuss how Optimizing People & Organizations, Increasing the Rate of Learning, Deploying Innovative Tools and Lean System Thinking can help large scale enterprises increase throughput while decreasing cost and risk.
Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop Performance Management Made EasyeG Innovations
End users expect virtualized Citrix XenApp application delivery to be as fast and reliable as their physical desktop experience. When performance slowdowns occur, users expect IT operations to fix the problem - immediately. But in reality, most IT administrators are challenged to identify and then repair the root cause of a slowdown in a timely manner: Is it Citrix? Is it the application? Is it the VMware/Hyper-V virtualization layer? Is it the network or the storage? Where to begin, and what metrics can you trust?
Join virtualization expert Bala Vaidhinathan (CTO, eG Innovations) and watch a live solution demonstration of eG Enterprise and see how to:
• Get the most powerful analytics, reporting and auto-diagnosis for intelligent performance management
• Dramatically accelerate the discovery, diagnosis, and resolution of Citrix service performance issues
• Achieve 360-degree visibility of the entire service infrastructure even beyond the Citrix tiers
• Pinpoint and repair performance abnormalities even before users notice
• Ensure maximum ROI by right-sizing your XenApp infrastructure using powerful reporting & analytics
Cloud Computing: Powering the Future of Development and TestingTechWell
Developers and testers are under constant pressure to operate more efficiently, cut costs, and deliver on time. Without access to scalable, flexible, and cost effective computing resources, these challenges are magnified. Brett Goodwin explains how to create scalable dev/test environments in the cloud, and shares best practices for reducing cycle time and decreasing project costs. Learn how scalable, cloud-based data centers can run software without complicated re-writes; enable rapid defect resolution with snapshots and clones; and provide global collaboration for multiple product and release teams. Brett presents a case study of Cushman and Wakefield, the world's largest privately held real estate services firm, which struggled with an on-premises development and testing environment. By moving its dev/test infrastructure to the cloud, they reduced provisioning time from days to minutes, within four months doubled the number of projects supported, and improved collaboration among dispersed teams.
How to consolidate Citrix Monitoring in a Single Pane of GlasseG Innovations
A recent survey by eG Innovations and xenappblog found that 68% of organizations are using 2-5 different tools for monitoring and managing their Citrix infrastructure. Multiple monitoring tools make it expensive to operate and troubleshoot IT infrastructure issues. Furthermore, a lot of manual effort is required to diagnose and fix performance issues.
Join Richard Faulkner, Enterprise Solutions Architect and CTP from Conversant Group, and John Worthington, Director of Customer Success at eG Innovations, and learn how you can get a single-pane-of-glass view of your Citrix infrastructure – from the client end to the virtual desktops/apps and even the backend applications.
See how you can:
--Monitor and get proactive alerts on the experience seen by Citrix users
--Track the performance of every layer and every tier of your Citrix infrastructure: NetScalers, StoreFronts, Virtual apps and desktops, WEM, PVS, License servers, etc.
--Troubleshoot in a single click and identify where the root-cause of a problem is: network, or storage, or virtualization, or the Citrix stack?
--Get insights to right-size and optimize your Citrix deployment
How to Assure Performance in Hybrid Cloud EcosystemseG Innovations
In the digital age, quality of service (QOS) and user experience are the keys to competitive advantage. With the rapid adoption of hybrid clouds, assuring the performance of applications running in hybrid cloud ecosystems has become business-critical.
The reality is that the explosion of new cloud-based IT services may not simplify performance management. In fact, since clouds are operating models the heterogeneous nature of hybrid and multi-cloud deployments makes performance management even more challenging.
This 30-minute webinar provides a quick overview of the key steps to assure the performance of digital business services as applications are migrated to various cloud services and shows some examples of how you can retain end-to-end visibility along the way.
Watch this webinar to learn:
• How unified, consistent views of performance can enable effective service delivery
• How to baseline services before, during and after cloud migrations
• How to get started on your hybrid cloud journey
In this presentation, desktop virtualization expert Bala Vaidhinathan (CTO, eG Innovations) demonstrates how eG Enterprise helps you manage your Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktop environment to:
• Proactively identify and diagnose the root cause of issues and resolve them before users notic
• Rapidly resolve user complaints such as “my desktop is slow” with automated identification of bottlenecks and their root cause
• Achieve real-time oversight and performance management to meet SLA and performance objectives
• Gain a holistic end-to-end view of the virtual desktop infrastructure, understand usage trends and bottlenecks and plan effectively for growth
• Customize real-time dashboards and create targeted reports to deliver timely, concise information that is relevant and valuable to each technical and management team member
How to Measure Agility Project Success in Business TermsEthan Ram
A session I gave in Agile Israel 2015 conference about measuring the success of transforming a company operations using agility/lean methodologies. I'm presenting several KPIs from different departments - evidence to a significant improvement that resulted from the agility projects we have taken.
Startups are continually evangelizing DevOps to be able to reduce risk, hasten feedback and deploy 1000’s of times a day. But what about the rest of the world that comes from Waterfall, Mainframes, Long Release Cycles and Risk Aversion? Learn how one company went from 480 day lead times and 6 month releases to 3 month releases with high levels of automation and increased quality across disparate legacy environments. We will discuss how Optimizing People & Organizations, Increasing the Rate of Learning, Deploying Innovative Tools and Lean System Thinking can help large scale enterprises increase throughput while decreasing cost and risk.
Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop Performance Management Made EasyeG Innovations
End users expect virtualized Citrix XenApp application delivery to be as fast and reliable as their physical desktop experience. When performance slowdowns occur, users expect IT operations to fix the problem - immediately. But in reality, most IT administrators are challenged to identify and then repair the root cause of a slowdown in a timely manner: Is it Citrix? Is it the application? Is it the VMware/Hyper-V virtualization layer? Is it the network or the storage? Where to begin, and what metrics can you trust?
Join virtualization expert Bala Vaidhinathan (CTO, eG Innovations) and watch a live solution demonstration of eG Enterprise and see how to:
• Get the most powerful analytics, reporting and auto-diagnosis for intelligent performance management
• Dramatically accelerate the discovery, diagnosis, and resolution of Citrix service performance issues
• Achieve 360-degree visibility of the entire service infrastructure even beyond the Citrix tiers
• Pinpoint and repair performance abnormalities even before users notice
• Ensure maximum ROI by right-sizing your XenApp infrastructure using powerful reporting & analytics
Cloud Computing: Powering the Future of Development and TestingTechWell
Developers and testers are under constant pressure to operate more efficiently, cut costs, and deliver on time. Without access to scalable, flexible, and cost effective computing resources, these challenges are magnified. Brett Goodwin explains how to create scalable dev/test environments in the cloud, and shares best practices for reducing cycle time and decreasing project costs. Learn how scalable, cloud-based data centers can run software without complicated re-writes; enable rapid defect resolution with snapshots and clones; and provide global collaboration for multiple product and release teams. Brett presents a case study of Cushman and Wakefield, the world's largest privately held real estate services firm, which struggled with an on-premises development and testing environment. By moving its dev/test infrastructure to the cloud, they reduced provisioning time from days to minutes, within four months doubled the number of projects supported, and improved collaboration among dispersed teams.
Citrix Troubleshooting 101: How to Resolve and Prevent Business-Impacting Cit...eG Innovations
One of the most challenging tasks for a Citrix administrator is when a user calls in complaining of a Citrix problem: logon is slow, session is getting disconnected, application launch is slow, session itself is slow, etc. So, how does a Citrix admin go about solving these issues? A Citrix infrastructure has many tiers and dependencies. Where do you start looking, what do you analyze, and how do you triage?
Watch this webinar by George Spiers, Citrix CTP and EUC Architect, who shares his real-world experience to help you learn the art of Citrix troubleshooting. You will find out how to:
• Methodically go about finding the scope, magnitude of impact, and source of the problem
• Troubleshoot common Citrix problems like slow logons, slow app/desktop launch, disconnecting sessions, frozen sessions, etc.
• Investigate issues in the supporting infrastructure (network, AD, virtualization, etc.)
• Optimize the Citrix environment for maximum performance
At the end, we discuss how automated monitoring can help accelerate performance troubleshooting.
The future of (Windows) operations #WinOps #DevOpsDevOpsGroup
DevOpsGuys co-founder Steve Thair talks about the impact DevOps automation and Cloud Technologies will have on IT operations, and how you can change your skills to remain relevant
Is Agile Development right for you? Many proponents would say, of course it is. But it can also be a little scary, especially if you come from a traditional approach. This presentation describes two case studies in which Agile development was successful, and some situations in which it may not be the best choice.
The world of IT is shifting rapidly towards DevOps with analysts predicting the majority of companies will adopt DevOps practices in the next few years. In fact, in a recent study on DevOps by International Data Corp. (IDC), they believe that DevOps will be adopted (in either practice or discipline) by 80% of Global 1000 organizations by 2019!
Forming a DevOps team seems like a natural step, but the idea of creating a dedicated DevOps team has ignited anger in the community. Why? What's the concern? Is a DevOps team evil? Completely necessary? A necessary Evil?
Join IBM UrbanCode's Eric Minick to learn the pitfalls of creating bad DevOps teams, and successful approaches of good ones. Along the way, we’ll explore other heresies such as using tools to change culture.
WinOps - Lessons learned from Enterprise DevOps with Microsoft technologies DevOpsGroup
WinOps - DevOps on Windows - is a community started in London, UK to share the lessons learnt from those organisations who are successfully doing DevOps in a Windows world. In this session we'll share some lessons learnt from DevOps implementations in large Enterprise organisations who are using Microsoft technologies, but we'll also share how we can learn lessons from the open-source community. We'd also like to encourage attendees to "spread the word" of WinOps and create new WinOps meetups in their own tech communities. Presented at Microsoft Ignite Orlando 2018
SD DevOps Meet-up - Exploring Quadrants of DevOps MaturityBrian Dawson
his is a presentation given at the March 16th San Diego DevOps Meet-up , which maps the enterprise DevOps journey to 4 quadrants of maturity and covers practical process, tools and leadership strategies for "crossing the chasm" from an organization's current quadrant to the next level of maturity.
WinOps - Lessons learned from Enterprise DevOps with Microsoft technologies ...DevOpsGroup
WinOps - DevOps on Windows - is a community started in London, UK to share the lessons learnt from those organisations who are successfully doing DevOps in a Windows world. In this session we'll share some lessons learnt from DevOps implementations in large Enterprise organisations who are using Microsoft technologies, but we'll also share how we can learn lessons from the open-source community. We'd also like to encourage attendees to "spread the word" of WinOps and create new WinOps meetups in their own tech communities.
What's New in eG Enterprise v6 - Unified performance monitoring, diagnosis, a...eG Innovations
See live the brand-new release of eG Enterprise v6 – the first intelligent performance monitoring solution designed to simplify the management of today’s complex and distributed IT environments.
Find out how eG Enterprise helps you make IT Operations more productive, reduce IT support cost & complexity, and keep your end users happy & productive. During the demonstration, we will show how you can:
- Have a single unified solution that addresses your application monitoring, database monitoring, server monitoring, network monitoring, virtualization monitoring, service monitoring and even mobile device monitoring needs;
- Use intelligent analytics to analyze and correlate performance across the tiers to provide unparalleled speed & ease of proactive alerting, diagnosis & analysis;
- View best-in-class customizable dashboards that integrate performance metrics to provide real-time role-based and domain-based views on user experience, system and service health, resource consumption, capacity and more;
- Report on historical performance and trends and analyze usage patterns to right-size and optimize your IT infrastructure for maximum ROI;
- Address gaps in your current monitoring for Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI), multi-tier Java applications and heavily virtualized IT environments – in the cloud or on-premise;
This presentation covers two main topics: 1) how to roll out a DriveWorks implementation, and 2) where in an organization DriveWorks can provide benefit, outside of engineering. In addition, the following areas are covered:
- The impact of business processes on design automation
- Engineering drawings and communication challenges
- How design automation can directly impact sales revenue
- Why DriveWorks matters to marketing and where advertising fits into the equation
- What other deliverables can come along for free when generating models and drawings
- Why it is important to think about ongoing maintenance of a DriveWorks deployment
- Ensuring a positive and productive User Experience (UX) with DriveWorks
- How triggered actions can help ANY DriveWorks implementation
- Top failure modes for DriveWorks projects (how to fail at deployment)
- Why Use Cases are critical to the success of design automation projects, and what happens when they aren't used
- Top 10 ways to fail at design automation UX
- Steps to properly testing any design automation deployment
5 Keys to Building a Successful DevOps Culture featuring Mandi WallsSerena Software
DevOps is not just about tools and processes, it’s about people and their interactions. It requires a cultural shift that impacts every level in the organization and requires everyone to contribute.
From Waterfall to Agile: A ScrumMaster’s ViewTechWell
In less than one year, a leading software company's product team transitioned from a twenty-five year history of waterfall development to using agile methodologies. They had produced software the old-fashioned way—sequentially, firmly entrenched in the process and procedure of pure waterfall. Long release cycles, a mature code base, and an ingrained development model prevented their rapid response to the needs of their customers. The “rush for the finish line” left schedules and deadlines shredded, quality and development staff exhausted, and management frustrated. Andrew Montcrieff describes the processes, challenges, and lessons learned while moving from waterfall to agile. He provides insight on how they dealt with the problems encountered along the way. Andrew will make you feel more comfortable with moving a legacy waterfall product to a more predictable, reliable, agile methodology-driven product by learning what to expect and how to deal with the obstacles you’ll likely encounter along the way.
VMworld 2013: Moving Enterprise Application Dev/Test to VMware’s Internal Pri...VMworld
VMworld Europe 2013
Thirumalesh Reddy, Vmware
Venkat Gopalakrishnan, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
2018 Citrix Migration Survey - Industry InsightseG Innovations
With the end of maintenance of Citrix XenApp 6.5 approaching quickly (June 30, 2018), there is increased adoption of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x. eG Innovations and DABCC have conducted a joint survey across 795 Citrix professionals to understand this migration trend, challenges involved, and performance expectations.
Read this survey analysis report and understand how the industry is gearing up for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x adoption.
A Deep Dive Into Comprehensive Citrix & VDI Monitoring with eG EnterpriseeG Innovations
Performance management of Citrix technologies has always been a challenge. Determining if user complaints of Citrix logon slowness, session disconnects, screen freezes, etc. are caused by the Citrix stack or by one of the supporting tiers has often been a time consuming and knowledge intensive process. Virtualization of Citrix applications has only added to the challenge.
View this presentation to learn how eG Innovations, one of the earliest Citrix-focused monitoring software vendors, has been adapting its eG Enterprise solution to keep pace with Citrix technology evolution.
Full Video available at: http://architester.com/blog/2016/05/27/my-devops-presentation-from-keep-austin-agile-2016/
Presented at the Keep Austin Agile 2016 Conference by Chris Edwards
By now you have likely heard about DevOps. It's quickly gaining adoption. But what is it? And why should you care? DevOps is all about creating a culture of high collaboration between development and operations with a goal of optimizing the entire software delivery pipeline—from code commit to features running in production. This enables organizations to deliver value into production faster and at a lower cost—even enabling multiple production deployments per day. Imagine the competitive advantage gained by delivering new features in hours or days rather than weeks, months or quarters.
This talk will show how DevOps improves agility by optimizing the delivery pipeline. We’ll look at common patterns and anti-patterns. We’ll see the kind of tools needed to automate and manage the ever increasing number of servers and applications modern organizations need. We’ll also discuss the benefits and costs of adopting a DevOps culture.
Here is a taste of some of the things we will discuss:
- Get ops involved up front rather than at the end, so deployment and monitoring issues are found early and rework is reduced.
- Treat infrastructure as code so it is automated, repeatable, and under version control.
- Ensure your development and test environments are identical to production (or as close as possible). This helps catch issues sooner rather than in production.
- Deploy more frequently so you are dealing with a smaller batch of changes. This is easier to manage, and less likely to fail.
If you struggle with deployments, or your ops team is constantly fighting fires and drowning in unplanned work, this talk is for you. Come see how DevOps can improve the agility of your organization.
Large organizations are increasingly turning to DevOps and Continuous Delivery principles, often with the goal of shipping better software faster. However, they're then faced with important considerations for scaling these processes across teams and in diverse environments while still maintaining the visibility and control necessary for compliance.
This presentation from Matt Meservey, Director of Product Management at SaltStack and Andrew Phillips, VP of DevOps Strategy at XebiaLabs discusses:
Practical advice and tips gleaned from the large organizations they have helped implement and scale DevOps and Continuous Delivery initiatives for
How to focus your initiatives around practicing improvement not just practicing “DevOps”
How the combination XebiaLabs and SaltStack accelerates the software cycle, delivers advanced automation capabilities, enables data-driven improvement and provides continuous insight into your end-to-end software release process in a way other tools simply cannot
VMworld 2013: SDDC IT Operations Transformation: Multi-customer Lessons LearnedVMworld
VMworld 2013
Bjoern Brundert, VMware
Valentin Hamburger, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Citrix Troubleshooting 101: How to Resolve and Prevent Business-Impacting Cit...eG Innovations
One of the most challenging tasks for a Citrix administrator is when a user calls in complaining of a Citrix problem: logon is slow, session is getting disconnected, application launch is slow, session itself is slow, etc. So, how does a Citrix admin go about solving these issues? A Citrix infrastructure has many tiers and dependencies. Where do you start looking, what do you analyze, and how do you triage?
Watch this webinar by George Spiers, Citrix CTP and EUC Architect, who shares his real-world experience to help you learn the art of Citrix troubleshooting. You will find out how to:
• Methodically go about finding the scope, magnitude of impact, and source of the problem
• Troubleshoot common Citrix problems like slow logons, slow app/desktop launch, disconnecting sessions, frozen sessions, etc.
• Investigate issues in the supporting infrastructure (network, AD, virtualization, etc.)
• Optimize the Citrix environment for maximum performance
At the end, we discuss how automated monitoring can help accelerate performance troubleshooting.
The future of (Windows) operations #WinOps #DevOpsDevOpsGroup
DevOpsGuys co-founder Steve Thair talks about the impact DevOps automation and Cloud Technologies will have on IT operations, and how you can change your skills to remain relevant
Is Agile Development right for you? Many proponents would say, of course it is. But it can also be a little scary, especially if you come from a traditional approach. This presentation describes two case studies in which Agile development was successful, and some situations in which it may not be the best choice.
The world of IT is shifting rapidly towards DevOps with analysts predicting the majority of companies will adopt DevOps practices in the next few years. In fact, in a recent study on DevOps by International Data Corp. (IDC), they believe that DevOps will be adopted (in either practice or discipline) by 80% of Global 1000 organizations by 2019!
Forming a DevOps team seems like a natural step, but the idea of creating a dedicated DevOps team has ignited anger in the community. Why? What's the concern? Is a DevOps team evil? Completely necessary? A necessary Evil?
Join IBM UrbanCode's Eric Minick to learn the pitfalls of creating bad DevOps teams, and successful approaches of good ones. Along the way, we’ll explore other heresies such as using tools to change culture.
WinOps - Lessons learned from Enterprise DevOps with Microsoft technologies DevOpsGroup
WinOps - DevOps on Windows - is a community started in London, UK to share the lessons learnt from those organisations who are successfully doing DevOps in a Windows world. In this session we'll share some lessons learnt from DevOps implementations in large Enterprise organisations who are using Microsoft technologies, but we'll also share how we can learn lessons from the open-source community. We'd also like to encourage attendees to "spread the word" of WinOps and create new WinOps meetups in their own tech communities. Presented at Microsoft Ignite Orlando 2018
SD DevOps Meet-up - Exploring Quadrants of DevOps MaturityBrian Dawson
his is a presentation given at the March 16th San Diego DevOps Meet-up , which maps the enterprise DevOps journey to 4 quadrants of maturity and covers practical process, tools and leadership strategies for "crossing the chasm" from an organization's current quadrant to the next level of maturity.
WinOps - Lessons learned from Enterprise DevOps with Microsoft technologies ...DevOpsGroup
WinOps - DevOps on Windows - is a community started in London, UK to share the lessons learnt from those organisations who are successfully doing DevOps in a Windows world. In this session we'll share some lessons learnt from DevOps implementations in large Enterprise organisations who are using Microsoft technologies, but we'll also share how we can learn lessons from the open-source community. We'd also like to encourage attendees to "spread the word" of WinOps and create new WinOps meetups in their own tech communities.
What's New in eG Enterprise v6 - Unified performance monitoring, diagnosis, a...eG Innovations
See live the brand-new release of eG Enterprise v6 – the first intelligent performance monitoring solution designed to simplify the management of today’s complex and distributed IT environments.
Find out how eG Enterprise helps you make IT Operations more productive, reduce IT support cost & complexity, and keep your end users happy & productive. During the demonstration, we will show how you can:
- Have a single unified solution that addresses your application monitoring, database monitoring, server monitoring, network monitoring, virtualization monitoring, service monitoring and even mobile device monitoring needs;
- Use intelligent analytics to analyze and correlate performance across the tiers to provide unparalleled speed & ease of proactive alerting, diagnosis & analysis;
- View best-in-class customizable dashboards that integrate performance metrics to provide real-time role-based and domain-based views on user experience, system and service health, resource consumption, capacity and more;
- Report on historical performance and trends and analyze usage patterns to right-size and optimize your IT infrastructure for maximum ROI;
- Address gaps in your current monitoring for Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI), multi-tier Java applications and heavily virtualized IT environments – in the cloud or on-premise;
This presentation covers two main topics: 1) how to roll out a DriveWorks implementation, and 2) where in an organization DriveWorks can provide benefit, outside of engineering. In addition, the following areas are covered:
- The impact of business processes on design automation
- Engineering drawings and communication challenges
- How design automation can directly impact sales revenue
- Why DriveWorks matters to marketing and where advertising fits into the equation
- What other deliverables can come along for free when generating models and drawings
- Why it is important to think about ongoing maintenance of a DriveWorks deployment
- Ensuring a positive and productive User Experience (UX) with DriveWorks
- How triggered actions can help ANY DriveWorks implementation
- Top failure modes for DriveWorks projects (how to fail at deployment)
- Why Use Cases are critical to the success of design automation projects, and what happens when they aren't used
- Top 10 ways to fail at design automation UX
- Steps to properly testing any design automation deployment
5 Keys to Building a Successful DevOps Culture featuring Mandi WallsSerena Software
DevOps is not just about tools and processes, it’s about people and their interactions. It requires a cultural shift that impacts every level in the organization and requires everyone to contribute.
From Waterfall to Agile: A ScrumMaster’s ViewTechWell
In less than one year, a leading software company's product team transitioned from a twenty-five year history of waterfall development to using agile methodologies. They had produced software the old-fashioned way—sequentially, firmly entrenched in the process and procedure of pure waterfall. Long release cycles, a mature code base, and an ingrained development model prevented their rapid response to the needs of their customers. The “rush for the finish line” left schedules and deadlines shredded, quality and development staff exhausted, and management frustrated. Andrew Montcrieff describes the processes, challenges, and lessons learned while moving from waterfall to agile. He provides insight on how they dealt with the problems encountered along the way. Andrew will make you feel more comfortable with moving a legacy waterfall product to a more predictable, reliable, agile methodology-driven product by learning what to expect and how to deal with the obstacles you’ll likely encounter along the way.
VMworld 2013: Moving Enterprise Application Dev/Test to VMware’s Internal Pri...VMworld
VMworld Europe 2013
Thirumalesh Reddy, Vmware
Venkat Gopalakrishnan, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
2018 Citrix Migration Survey - Industry InsightseG Innovations
With the end of maintenance of Citrix XenApp 6.5 approaching quickly (June 30, 2018), there is increased adoption of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x. eG Innovations and DABCC have conducted a joint survey across 795 Citrix professionals to understand this migration trend, challenges involved, and performance expectations.
Read this survey analysis report and understand how the industry is gearing up for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x adoption.
A Deep Dive Into Comprehensive Citrix & VDI Monitoring with eG EnterpriseeG Innovations
Performance management of Citrix technologies has always been a challenge. Determining if user complaints of Citrix logon slowness, session disconnects, screen freezes, etc. are caused by the Citrix stack or by one of the supporting tiers has often been a time consuming and knowledge intensive process. Virtualization of Citrix applications has only added to the challenge.
View this presentation to learn how eG Innovations, one of the earliest Citrix-focused monitoring software vendors, has been adapting its eG Enterprise solution to keep pace with Citrix technology evolution.
Full Video available at: http://architester.com/blog/2016/05/27/my-devops-presentation-from-keep-austin-agile-2016/
Presented at the Keep Austin Agile 2016 Conference by Chris Edwards
By now you have likely heard about DevOps. It's quickly gaining adoption. But what is it? And why should you care? DevOps is all about creating a culture of high collaboration between development and operations with a goal of optimizing the entire software delivery pipeline—from code commit to features running in production. This enables organizations to deliver value into production faster and at a lower cost—even enabling multiple production deployments per day. Imagine the competitive advantage gained by delivering new features in hours or days rather than weeks, months or quarters.
This talk will show how DevOps improves agility by optimizing the delivery pipeline. We’ll look at common patterns and anti-patterns. We’ll see the kind of tools needed to automate and manage the ever increasing number of servers and applications modern organizations need. We’ll also discuss the benefits and costs of adopting a DevOps culture.
Here is a taste of some of the things we will discuss:
- Get ops involved up front rather than at the end, so deployment and monitoring issues are found early and rework is reduced.
- Treat infrastructure as code so it is automated, repeatable, and under version control.
- Ensure your development and test environments are identical to production (or as close as possible). This helps catch issues sooner rather than in production.
- Deploy more frequently so you are dealing with a smaller batch of changes. This is easier to manage, and less likely to fail.
If you struggle with deployments, or your ops team is constantly fighting fires and drowning in unplanned work, this talk is for you. Come see how DevOps can improve the agility of your organization.
Large organizations are increasingly turning to DevOps and Continuous Delivery principles, often with the goal of shipping better software faster. However, they're then faced with important considerations for scaling these processes across teams and in diverse environments while still maintaining the visibility and control necessary for compliance.
This presentation from Matt Meservey, Director of Product Management at SaltStack and Andrew Phillips, VP of DevOps Strategy at XebiaLabs discusses:
Practical advice and tips gleaned from the large organizations they have helped implement and scale DevOps and Continuous Delivery initiatives for
How to focus your initiatives around practicing improvement not just practicing “DevOps”
How the combination XebiaLabs and SaltStack accelerates the software cycle, delivers advanced automation capabilities, enables data-driven improvement and provides continuous insight into your end-to-end software release process in a way other tools simply cannot
VMworld 2013: SDDC IT Operations Transformation: Multi-customer Lessons LearnedVMworld
VMworld 2013
Bjoern Brundert, VMware
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Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
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3. About
Long View
One of the most powerful IT Solutions and
Services Company
Offices across North America
Industry leading expertise in key technology
innovations and best practices
Best People.
Best Practices.
Best Value.
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Innovative, flexible, cost-effective, and
business focused
A people-focused corporate culture
dedicated to “Being the Best”
4. Key Statistics:
Quick Stats
What we do
•
• Largest and Fastest Growing IT
Solutions Company 10 to 1000+
employees, $2M to $300M+ in 14
years
•
•
•
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Calgary (CDN HQ), Vancouver,
Victoria, Edmonton, Toronto,
Denver (USA HQ), Houston, Dallas,
Phoenix
850+ employees are technical today
2014 total headcount trending to
1300+
Privately owned and debt free,
focused organic growth in leading
technology areas
5. Strategic
Partners
• VMware Premier Solution Provider (Canada/US)
• VMware Enterprise Service Provider
• Cisco Gold Partner
• EMC Velocity Solution Provider Partner
• VCE Solution Provider (Canada/US)
• HP Converged Infrastructure Elite Partner
• NetApp Star Partner
• FlexPod Premium Partner (First Canadian Premium Partner)
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6. What we do
Virtualization
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ASSESSMENTS:
• Environment Health Checks
• Full Technology Assessments
• Operational Readiness
• Business cases & ROI analysis
PLANNING & DESIGN:
• Architect and Design Solutions
• Proof of Concepts and Pilots
• Disaster Recovery Planning
• Solution Strategies & Roadmaps
SOLUTIONS:
• Converged Infrastructure
• Private Cloud / Infrastructure as-aService
• Public Cloud
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
• Application Virtualization
Infrastructure and Packaging
• Onsite Experts
MANAGEMENT & OPTIMIZATION:
• Systems Automation,
Provisioning and Capacity
Allocation
• Backup and Recovery
• Performance and Capacity
Management
• Availability, Monitoring and
Alerting solutions
7. What Has
Changed?
Announcements @ VMworld 2013 San Francisco
• vCloud Director development stopping after the 5.5
release, patches only, no new features
Product
Functionality &
• vCloud Director product functionality being replaced by
vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) and future release
vCenter capabilities
• So what do we do?
• So what do we use?
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vCloud
Automation
Center
9. Automation
Today
How do we do it
now? Mostly
Scripting!
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Let’s start at the beginning…
What does automation look like today?
Basic automation
• Product interface or scripts to accomplish simple
workflows
• Single use & some re-occurring administrative use
Advanced automation
• Multiple toolsets to accomplish complicated workflows
for scalability
• Enterprise automation toolsets
10. Automation
Today
How do we do it
now? Scripting!
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What does basic automation look like today?
Basic automation
• Product interface typically (or scripts)
• vCenter Orchestrator for simple workflows
• PowerCLI & PowerShell for simple tasks
• vCloud Director for deploying vApps
• Requires some skill and scripting knowledge, minimal
investment
12. Automation
Today
How do we do it
now? Multiple
toolsets!
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What does advanced automation look like today?
• Web Portal front end
• vCenter Orchestrator for backend workflows (AMQP,
component plug-ins, call other scripts, start other tasks,
provision physical components)
• PowerShell scripting for component specific
requirements
• Requires skills and ongoing investment
13. Automation
Today
How do we do it
with one toolset?
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What does advanced automation look like today with
Enterprise tools?
• Web Portal front end
• Orchestration framework with modules of repeatable
workflows, scalable
• Extensible with scripting for component specific
requirements
• Requires skills and ongoing investment
14. Automation
Today
Public Tenant Provisioning Workflow
Workflow Portal
How do we do it
now? Multiple
toolsets!
Tenant
environment
created
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3rd Party Calls
• Network
Provisioning
• Server
Provisioning
• Storage
Provisioning
IPAM &
CMDB
From 4 Hours
to 15 Minutes!
15. Automation
Today
How do we do it
now? Workflows!
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Back end vCO
workflows for
client and
admin tasks
16. Ideal End
State
Where should I be going with this?
• Bare metal to applications (fast scaling, agile)
• Reusable tasks (everything is repeatable, efficiency)
Why? What is the
benefit?
• Integration between provisioning, logging, reporting,
alerting, decommissioning (circle of life)
• Reduce operation effort – focus on faster service, more
services, more flexibility (business value, agile)
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17. vCD
Product
Functionality &
vCAC
vCAC with
App Director
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• Common day-to-day tasks
• Deployment of customized
VMs
• Provide Self Service Portal for
end users and fenced
networking
• Provide a full life-cycle
management flow from
inception to decommissioning
servers
• Include application
deployment into the
workflow
Basic
PowerShell,
Scripts, vCO
More Advanced
Automation Complexity
Why Do We
Want to
Automate?
18. Effort to
Automate
Processes
Complexity = Bad
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Can’t the more advanced tasks all be done just with Scripts,
PowerShell and vCO?
Do you want to spend months and years creating complex
workflows?
22. Choices
So what if I am already invested in scripting today?
• Is it giving you what you want? Then keep doing it!
What do I do?
Scripting
• Requires more substantial skill and time investment
than you have? Leverage more vCO to increase your
benefit.
• Require more advanced features? Consider vCAC
Going forward more vCO integration
will be available in products
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23. Choices
So what if I am already invested in vCloud Director today?
vCloud Director Basic Deployment
What do I do?
vCloud Director
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• Meeting your needs? Keep it, look at
upgrade/migration later
• If you need network fencing, keep it until roadmap
catches up with vCAC
24. Choices
So what if I need Infrastructure as a Service now and can’t
wait for new functionality in a future release?
Determine your use case, simple questions:
What do I do?
Do you need network fencing?
YES - vCloud Director
NO – vCloud Automation Center (vCAC)
• Do not layer vCAC and vCD – too complex!
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25. Choices
Do you need this?
Cradle to Grave lifecycle with integration to existing
process tools
What do I do?
CMDB
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26. Approaches
for Success
Where to invest
now?
You’ve determined that you can benefit from more
automation
What can I be investing in right now to help me?
• Determine where automation could help
• vCenter Orchestrator
• PowerShell
• vCloud Automation Center (vCAC)
• vFabric Application Director
If you can take away one thing today:
Use vCO – most environments don’t leverage this tool!
It will become more important going forward.
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28. More
Information?
Education Resources
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vBrownBag Automation Track - Podcasts
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/professionalvmwarevbrownbag/id468638808?mt=2
vCO Blog
http://blogs.vmware.com/orchestrator/tag/orchestration
Power CLI Blog
http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/
VMTN PowerCLI Community
https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/automationtools/po
wercli?view=discussions
William Lam Blog
http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/
Alan Renouf
http://www.virtu-al.net/2013/12/04/automationits-just-tick-box/
Luc D Blog
http://www.lucd.info/
29. How can we
help?
Interested in moving forward with your own integrations?
•
Drop by the Long View table, tell us your story, and talk
with one of our experts
•
Ask to have one of our Account team book a meeting to
discuss your requirements
Contact us
Email: info@longviewsystems.com
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30. Contact Us
Let’s get
connected.
James Charter
Practice Director, Virtualization Solutions
Email: james.charter@lvs1.com
Twitter: @DavesRant
Blog: www.longviewsystems.com/blog
Blog: www.jamescharter.com
Calgary Office
Main: 403.515.6900
Email: calgarysales@lvs1.com
Facebook
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Linkedin
YouTube
Facebook.com/
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Twitter.com/
longviewsystems
Linkedin.com/
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Youtube.com/
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