The document discusses challenges in migrating from a traditional infrastructure to OpenStack. It outlines some initial steps such as mapping current infrastructure components to OpenStack services and identifying initial workloads. It also covers some technical challenges around deploying and managing OpenStack components like Compute, Networking, Storage, Identity Management and upgrades. The document shares a case study of Oracle Product Development IT's migration of 14,000 VMs to OpenStack.
Related OSS Projects - Peter Rowe, Flexera SoftwareOpenStack
Audience Level
Intermediate
Synopsis
Today’s fast-paced development environment has changed the compliance landscape. Many software projects consist of more than 50% Open Source Software (OSS) components, but as much as 99% are undocumented, increasing the complexities of managing your company’s software compliance process.
Of particular concern is “Zombie software”, or software that is outdated and contains vulnerable versions of certain components. Zombies can live in your code forever if you’re not aware of them. The acceleration of modern development lifecycles and the breakdown of an undocumented software supply chain have opened up new pathways for zombies to enter your software – leaving you exposed to security threats.
This presentation discusses best practices for implementing an Open Source Software management strategy that covers common pitfalls and commercial licence issues as well as the optimal way to track and eliminate the risks associated with Zombies!
Speaker Bio:
Involved in and around IT development for over 20 years, starting as a web developer using NotePad in 1995 when the most exciting thing online was Sun’s animated Java coffee cup, through Numega Pre-Sales selling BoundsChecker and now into the brave, new World of Open Source and software composition analysis.
Related OSS Projects - Peter Rowe, Flexera SoftwareOpenStack
Audience Level
Intermediate
Synopsis
Today’s fast-paced development environment has changed the compliance landscape. Many software projects consist of more than 50% Open Source Software (OSS) components, but as much as 99% are undocumented, increasing the complexities of managing your company’s software compliance process.
Of particular concern is “Zombie software”, or software that is outdated and contains vulnerable versions of certain components. Zombies can live in your code forever if you’re not aware of them. The acceleration of modern development lifecycles and the breakdown of an undocumented software supply chain have opened up new pathways for zombies to enter your software – leaving you exposed to security threats.
This presentation discusses best practices for implementing an Open Source Software management strategy that covers common pitfalls and commercial licence issues as well as the optimal way to track and eliminate the risks associated with Zombies!
Speaker Bio:
Involved in and around IT development for over 20 years, starting as a web developer using NotePad in 1995 when the most exciting thing online was Sun’s animated Java coffee cup, through Numega Pre-Sales selling BoundsChecker and now into the brave, new World of Open Source and software composition analysis.
Realizamos dia 19/07 com o apoio da Oracle Brasil o #1 Meetup Java @ Rio, uma iniciativa conjunta dos JUGs SouJava e RioJUG e da Oracle para energizar a Comunidade Java na Cidade Maravilhosa. A palestra técnica deste encontro foi Java @ Oracle Cloud que demonstrou como a Oracle Cloud suporta o desenvolvimento ágil e execução de aplicações Java EE e Java SE.
OOW16 - Oracle E-Business Suite: Technology Certification Primer and Roadmap ...vasuballa
Is your Oracle E-Business Suite technology stack up to date? Are you taking advantage of all the latest options and capabilities? This Oracle development session summarizes the latest certifications and roadmap for the Oracle E-Business Suite technology stack, including elements such as database releases and options, Java, Oracle Forms, desktop operating systems, browsers, Java runtime environment releases, development and web authoring tools, user authentication and management, business intelligence, Oracle Enterprise Manager plug-ins, security options, clouds, Oracle VM, and virtualization. The session also covers the most commonly asked questions about technology stack component support dates and upgrade implications.
Creating a Collaborative Workplace Culture Webinar Series: “How can remote wo...Cisco Canada
To increase innovation and productivity, organizations recognize that they have to get better at creating more “collaborative cultures” to leverage the collective knowledge, expertise and experience from within. View the slides from Part 2 of the series: “How can remote workers and distributed teams Collaborate Effectively”.
Swiss IPv6 Council: The Cisco-Journey to an IPv6-only BuildingDigicomp Academy AG
Die monatlichen Anlässe in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Swiss IPv6 Council behandeln verschiedene technische Themenbereiche von IPv6.
Ist Dual-Stack ein guter Weg? Was sind Erfahrungen mit reinen IPv6-Netzwerken? Viele Unternehmen kämpfen mit diesen Fragen. Genau aus diesem Grund hat Cisco in San Jose einen reinen IPv6-Campus eingerichtet und sucht Antworten auf solche Fragen.
In seinem Referat präsentierte Khalid Jawaid die Bemühungen zur Einführung von IPv6 in einem einzelnen Campusgebäude und die Hürden, die dies mit sich bringt. Im Weiteren sprach er über die Herausforderungen, die sich aus der Erstellung des Business Case im Jahr 2010 und der Bereitstellung von mehr als 400 Remote-Standorten und den daraus gezogenen Lehren ergaben.
Die Inputs von Khalid Jawaid haben bei vielen Teilnehmern neue Perspektiven und Ideen für die Einführung von IPv6 geweckt.
Gerne stellen wir Ihnen die Slides von Manuel Schweizer zur Verfügung:
Trivadis TechEvent 2017 Leveraging the Oracle Cloud by Kris Bhanushali tech_e...Trivadis
Database and application performance testing often requires complete copies of database and application stack which can be tedious to produce. In this session you will learn how to leverage the Oracle cloud to quickly provision full clones of database and application to create a test environment for performance testing and debugging. I will also touch upon the subject of continuous integration, a hot topic among developers, from a database point of view and discuss ways to implement CI for the database using Oracle cloud services.
Realizamos dia 19/07 com o apoio da Oracle Brasil o #1 Meetup Java @ Rio, uma iniciativa conjunta dos JUGs SouJava e RioJUG e da Oracle para energizar a Comunidade Java na Cidade Maravilhosa. A palestra técnica deste encontro foi Java @ Oracle Cloud que demonstrou como a Oracle Cloud suporta o desenvolvimento ágil e execução de aplicações Java EE e Java SE.
OOW16 - Oracle E-Business Suite: Technology Certification Primer and Roadmap ...vasuballa
Is your Oracle E-Business Suite technology stack up to date? Are you taking advantage of all the latest options and capabilities? This Oracle development session summarizes the latest certifications and roadmap for the Oracle E-Business Suite technology stack, including elements such as database releases and options, Java, Oracle Forms, desktop operating systems, browsers, Java runtime environment releases, development and web authoring tools, user authentication and management, business intelligence, Oracle Enterprise Manager plug-ins, security options, clouds, Oracle VM, and virtualization. The session also covers the most commonly asked questions about technology stack component support dates and upgrade implications.
Creating a Collaborative Workplace Culture Webinar Series: “How can remote wo...Cisco Canada
To increase innovation and productivity, organizations recognize that they have to get better at creating more “collaborative cultures” to leverage the collective knowledge, expertise and experience from within. View the slides from Part 2 of the series: “How can remote workers and distributed teams Collaborate Effectively”.
Swiss IPv6 Council: The Cisco-Journey to an IPv6-only BuildingDigicomp Academy AG
Die monatlichen Anlässe in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Swiss IPv6 Council behandeln verschiedene technische Themenbereiche von IPv6.
Ist Dual-Stack ein guter Weg? Was sind Erfahrungen mit reinen IPv6-Netzwerken? Viele Unternehmen kämpfen mit diesen Fragen. Genau aus diesem Grund hat Cisco in San Jose einen reinen IPv6-Campus eingerichtet und sucht Antworten auf solche Fragen.
In seinem Referat präsentierte Khalid Jawaid die Bemühungen zur Einführung von IPv6 in einem einzelnen Campusgebäude und die Hürden, die dies mit sich bringt. Im Weiteren sprach er über die Herausforderungen, die sich aus der Erstellung des Business Case im Jahr 2010 und der Bereitstellung von mehr als 400 Remote-Standorten und den daraus gezogenen Lehren ergaben.
Die Inputs von Khalid Jawaid haben bei vielen Teilnehmern neue Perspektiven und Ideen für die Einführung von IPv6 geweckt.
Gerne stellen wir Ihnen die Slides von Manuel Schweizer zur Verfügung:
Trivadis TechEvent 2017 Leveraging the Oracle Cloud by Kris Bhanushali tech_e...Trivadis
Database and application performance testing often requires complete copies of database and application stack which can be tedious to produce. In this session you will learn how to leverage the Oracle cloud to quickly provision full clones of database and application to create a test environment for performance testing and debugging. I will also touch upon the subject of continuous integration, a hot topic among developers, from a database point of view and discuss ways to implement CI for the database using Oracle cloud services.
Push-button Composition of Oracle Application and Database Environments: Avi ...OpenStack
Push-button Composition of Oracle Application and Database Environments
Audience: Intermediate
Topic: Enterprise IT Strategies
Abstract: Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux simplifies deployment and management of OpenStack services, providing a cloud platform optimized for the enterprise.
Learn how Oracle deploys complete technology stacks with the Oracle Database based on building blocks defined in the OpenStack Murano application catalog.
Speaker Bio: Avi Miller, Oracle
Avi is the Product Management Director for Oracle Linux and has extensive experience across operating system, virtualisation and application stacks.
OpenStack Australia Day Government - Canberra 2016
https://events.aptira.com/openstack-australia-day-canberra-2016/
OOW16 - Leverage Oracle Integration Cloud Service for Oracle E-Business Suite...vasuballa
Oracle Integration Cloud Service is a platform-as-a-service solution from Oracle Cloud that is designed for citizen developers to quickly build integration solutions between cloud-to-cloud or hybrid systems. Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter for Oracle Integration Cloud Service provides an elevated user experience while designing integration between Oracle E-Business Suite and other cloud or on-premises applications. The powerful tool enables you to leverage both inbound and outbound integration capabilities by leveraging the rich API repository of Oracle E-Business Suite. In this session, learn how to implement integration solutions quickly and easily using Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter for Oracle Integration Cloud Service.
OOW16 - Oracle E-Business Suite Integration Best Practices [CON6709]vasuballa
Oracle is investing across applications and technologies to make the application integration experience easier for customers. Oracle E-Business Suite provides tools and technologies to address various application integration challenges and styles. Learn more about Oracle’s integration offering for cloud, data, event-driven, business-to-business, and process-centric integrations. In this session, you will get a better understanding of what Oracle integration technologies you can use and how, when, and where you can leverage them to connect end-to-end business processes across your enterprise, including the Oracle Applications portfolio in the cloud.
Swinburne University of Technology - Shunde Zhang & Kieran Spear, AptiraOpenStack
We recently teamed up with our good friends at SUSE to build a very high-performing and scalable storage landscape at a fraction of the cost than with traditional storage systems for the Swinburne University of Technology.
The challenge that the IT team at Swinburne were facing is how to accommodate the ever-growing need for performance and capacity while sticking to a tight budget. With SUSE Enterprise Storage we have been able to deploy a compelling and affordable solution to support Swinburne’s storage needs. Their new storage platform is fast and flexible, meaning the IT team at Swinburne can support the needs of researchers more effectively.
https://aptira.com/swinburne-university-technology/
Supercomputing by API: Connecting Modern Web Apps to HPCOpenStack
Audience Level
Intermediate
Synopsis
The traditional user experience for High Performance Computing (HPC) centers around the command line, and the intricacies of the underlying hardware. At the same time, scientific software is moving towards the cloud, leveraging modern web-based frameworks, allowing rapid iteration, and a renewed focus on portability and reproducibility. This software still has need for the huge scale and specialist capabilities of HPC, but leveraging these resources is hampered by variation in implementation between facilities. Differences in software stack, scheduling systems and authentication all get in the way of developers who would rather focus on the research problem at hand. This presentation reviews efforts to overcome these barriers. We will cover container technologies, frameworks for programmatic HPC access, and RESTful APIs that can deliver this as a hosted solution.
Speaker Bio
Dr. David Perry is Compute Integration Specialist at The University of Melbourne, working to increase research productivity using cloud and HPC. David chairs Australia’s first community-owned wind farm, Hepburn Wind, and is co-founder/CTO of BoomPower, delivering simpler solar and battery purchasing decisions for consumers and NGOs.
Federation and Interoperability in the Nectar Research CloudOpenStack
Audience Level
Beginner
Synopsis
The Nectar Research Cloud provides an OpenStack cloud for Australia’s academic researchers. Since its inception in 2012 it has grown steadily to over 30,000 CPUs, with over 10,000 registered users from more than 50 research institutions. It is different to many clouds in being a federation across eight organisations, each of which runs cloud infrastructure in one or more data centres and contributes to a distributed help desk and user support. A Nectar core services team runs centralised cloud services. This presentation will give an overview of the experiences, challenges and benefits of running a federated OpenStack cloud and a short demonstration on using the Nectar cloud. We will also describe some current approaches that are looking to extend this federation to encompass other institutions including some in New Zealand, to extend the infrastructure using commercial cloud providers, and to move towards interoperability with the growing number of international science and research clouds through the new Open Research Cloud initiative.
Speaker Bio
Dr Paul Coddington is a Deputy Director of Nectar, responsible for the Nectar national Research Cloud, and also Deputy Director of eResearch SA. He has over 30 years experience in eResearch including computational science, high performance and distributed computing, cloud computing, software development, and research data management.
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Audience Level
Intermediate
Synopsis
In this presentation, Shunde will show you how to simplify the migration process with a workload migration engine, making the move to OpenStack easy. This talk will address the various difficulties operators and administrators face when migrating workloads and resources between various cloud platforms, including removing time consuming, repetitive and complicated steps.
This tool can be applied to many cloud migrations, including between Virtual Machines and OpenStack, between Public and Private clouds, as well as between OpenStack and OpenStack. This tool integrates completely with other OpenStack projects minimising deployment and maintenance efforts. So whether you’re looking to upgrade from your existing traditional virtualisation platform, setup a new OpenStack instance, or upgrade to a newer version of OpenStack, we will show you how to simplify this process using GUTS.
Speaker Bio
Shunde is a senior software developer in Aptira with over 15 years experience in software development, automation and system administration. He has worked with OpenStack since the Diablo cycle and has been involved in projects from OpenStack infrastructure to distributed systems running on top of OpenStack.
Hyperconverged Cloud, Not just a toy anymore - Andrew Hatfield, Red HatOpenStack
Audience Level
Intermediate
Synopsis
Hypercoverged Compute, Network and Storage is ready for production workloads – where it makes sense.
Whether you’re a telecommunications carrier, service provider or enterprise; implementing Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), focusing on specific known workloads or simply a dev / test cloud – deploying a hypercoverged OpenStack cloud makes a lot of sense.
Come along and discover which workloads fit a hyperconverged architecture, see examples and look into the very near future and learn how OpenStack is truly ready to serve your every need.
Speaker Bio
Andrew has over 20 years experience in the IT industry across APAC, specialising in Databases, Directory Systems, Groupware, Virtualisation and Storage for Enterprise and Government organisations. When not helping customers slash costs and increase agility by moving to the software-defined future, he’s enjoying the subtle tones of Islay Whisky and shredding pow pow on the world’s best snowboard resorts.
A glimpse into an industry Cloud using Open Source Technologies - Adrian Koh,...OpenStack
Audience Level
All levels
Synopsis
Often times, prospects and existing OpenStack users wonder if there is indeed strong business and technical value proposition for cloud platforms serving a specific industry vertical.
In this session, EasyStack would like to share with the participants our experience engaging with an industry leader to build a credible solution platform catering to their current and future business and technology roadmap.
Speaker Bio:
Adrian is Director Global Business Development in EasyStack and has 20 years working experience in leading tech companies in the IT industry.
Prior to joining EasyStack, Adrian was with IBM Singapore and IBM China and served in roles such as Offering Manager, Engagement Manager, Solution Architect, Services Consultant, IT Specialist.
Adrian holds a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Computer Sciences from University of Texas at Austin.
Enabling OpenStack for Enterprise - Tarso Dos Santos, VeritasOpenStack
Audience Level
All levels
Synopsis
OpenStack offers many advantages for organisations building out their cloud environments, including flexibility and community-driven innovation. However, enterprises looking to deploy OpenStack in production typically find its storage management capabilities wanting from the perspective of management complexity and business resiliency. Enterprises are also challenged when it comes to ensuring protection of their data and providing the necessary performance – especially for their tier one applications. Meeting these fundamental needs is critical for enterprises to proceed confidently with their OpenStack deployments.
Veritas HyperScale for OpenStack is a software-defined storage management solution uniquely developed for OpenStack based clouds. It leverages direct attached storage (DAS) and provides enterprise-strength capabilities that enable robust, production-scale deployment while meeting performance and data protection needs. Learn how this innovative solution, coupled with other relevant Veritas offerings, solve the remaining issues around implementing OpenStack within the enterprise.
Speaker Bio:
Tarso dos Santos works as a Technical Account Manager at Veritas, directly engaging with customers to develop strategies, architectures and solutions with focus on Cloud – Openstack, Containers, Data Protection, High Availability and Compliance.
He has over 21 years in the IT industry architecting, delivering and positioning solutions such as private clouds, distributed systems, hpc, storage, and high available platforms.
Tarso has a great interest in distributed systems performance, and scientific organizations that push the boundaries of existing technologies, but also need to link these into the Enterprise.
Tarso in his life has enjoyed working in some of the most amazing projects ranging from mission critical systems protecting Australian lives, to IT infrastructure projects that are looking at the sky and discovering new planets out in the space.
OpenStack Australia Day Melbourne 2017
https://events.aptira.com/openstack-australia-day-melbourne-2017/
Understanding blue store, Ceph's new storage backend - Tim Serong, SUSEOpenStack
Audience Level
Intermediate
Synopsis
Ceph – the most popular storage solution for OpenStack – stores all data as a collection of objects. This object store was originally implemented on top of a POSIX filesystem, an approach that turned out to have a number of problems, notably with performance and complexity.
BlueStore, a new storage backend for Ceph, was created to solve these issues; the Ceph Jewel release included an early prototype. The code and on-disk format were declared stable (but experimental) for Ceph Kraken, and now in the upcoming Ceph Luminous release, BlueStore will be the recommended default storage backend.
With a 2-3x performance boost, you’ll want to look at migrating your Ceph clusters to BlueStore. This talk goes into detail about what BlueStore does, the problems it solves, and what you need to do to use it.
Speaker Bio:
Tim works for SUSE, hacking on Ceph and related technologies. He has spoken often about distributed storage and high availability at conferences such as linux.conf.au. In his spare time he wrangles pigs, chickens, sheep and ducks, and was declared by one colleague “teammate most likely to survive the zombie apocalypse”.
OpenStack Networks the Web-Scale Way - Scott Laffer, Cumulus NetworksOpenStack
Audience Level
Beginner
Synopsis
Layer 2 versus Layer 3, MLAG, Spanning-Tree, switch mechanism drivers, overlays and routing-on-the-host — What scales and what does not? The underlying plumbing of an OpenStack network is something you’d rather not have to think about. This presentation examines the network architectures of web-scale and large enterprise OpenStack users and how those same efficiencies can be used in deployments of all sizes.
Speaker Bio:
Scott is a Member of Technical Staff at Cumulus Networks where he designs, supports and deploys web-scale technologies and architectures in enterprise networks globally. Prior to becoming a founding member of the Cumulus office in Australia, Scott started his career as a network administrator before joining Cisco Systems to support their data centre products.
OpenStack Australia Day Melbourne 2017
https://events.aptira.com/openstack-australia-day-melbourne-2017/
Diving in the desert: A quick overview into OpenStack Sahara capabilities - A...OpenStack
Audience Level
Intermediate
Synopsis
Data Analytics is a hot topic today for most organisations as they race to convert vast amounts of data into useful information that can be leveraged to make critical decisions or recommendations in a very limited time window.
Today, there is a widely accepted talent gap when it comes to creating and managing Hadoop Clusters. Even for the experts can take hours (or days) to get a fully functional Hadoop farm up and running.
On top of that it can be difficult to find java programmers that have enough experience to be productive with Map Reduce.
OpenStack Sahara is looking to address most of this challenges by facilitating the deployment of Hadoop clusters and provide a set of API to provide data processing tasks.
This session will provide an insight into OpenStack Sahara capabilities and how the end users can leverage on it.
Speaker Bio:
Alex has been working with Open Source enterprise technologies for the better part of his 15 years IT career in companies like Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Red Hat, IBM and Sun Microsystems.
He started his OpenStack journey with Grizzly, delivering the first HPC cloud in APAC for a Singapore University making use of SRIOV technologies combined with big data. He has extensive deployment experience on configuration management and automation of private cloud based on OpenStack.
Alex is currently an APJ Cloud Consultant in the Helion Cloud team at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, where he evangelizes the OpenSource side of the Helion portfolio (OpenStack / Docker / Ceph).
He enjoys running automation workshops and seminars in the APJ region for cloud adopters.
Building a GPU-enabled OpenStack Cloud for HPC - Blair Bethwaite, Monash Univ...OpenStack
Audience Level
Intermediate
Synopsis
M3 is the latest generation system of the MASSIVE project, an HPC facility specializing in characterization science (imaging and visualization). Using OpenStack as the compute provisioning layer, M3 is a hybrid HPC/cloud system, custom-integrated by Monash’s R@CMon Research Cloud team. Built to support Monash University’s next-gen high-throughput instrument processing requirements, M3 is half-half GPU-accelerated and CPU-only.
We’ll discuss the design and tech used to build this innovative platform as well as detailing approaches and challenges to building GPU-enabled and HPC clouds. We’ll also discuss some of the software and processing pipelines that this system supports and highlight the importance of tuning for these workloads.
Speaker Bio
Blair Bethwaite: Blair has worked in distributed computing at Monash University for 10 years, with OpenStack for half of that. Having served as team lead, architect, administrator, user, researcher, and occasional hacker, Blair’s unique perspective as a science power-user, developer, and system architect has helped guide the evolution of the research computing engine central to Monash’s 21st Century Microscope.
Lance Wilson: Lance is a mechanical engineer, who has been making tools to break things for the last 20 years. His career has moved through a number of engineering subdisciplines from manufacturing to bioengineering. Now he supports the national characterisation research community in Melbourne, Australia using OpenStack to create HPC systems solving problems too large for your laptop.
OpenStack and Red Hat: How we learned to adapt with our customers in a maturi...OpenStack
Audience Level
All levels
Synopsis
Peter has been involved in OpenStack community since its B-release, and he has been enabling and helping customers across various industries adopt OpenStack in strategic ways. In this session, you will learn from his experience what Red Hat’s perspective is on the current state of affairs in the OpenStack community and the path we see ahead that Red Hat is putting its efforts in. OpenStack is not a product that tries to solve any one business problem in particular, but a technology that aims to be usable for many – what are the required steps to make sure that your organisation is ready for the OpenStack-based cloudification and transformation.
Speaker Bio:
Peter Jung is a Senior Business Development Manager at Red Hat where he leads the practice in the areas of Cloud, SDN/NFV and IoT across Australia and New Zealand. He is passionate about open innovation and open source software development model as the foundation for next generation society and ICT systems. Prior to Red Hat, he had various roles at Cisco and Dell for 15 years. He holds a BSEE and an MBA.
OpenStack Australia Day Melbourne 2017
https://events.aptira.com/openstack-australia-day-melbourne-2017/
Meshing OpenStack and Bare Metal Networks with EVPN - David Iles, Mellanox Te...OpenStack
Audience Level
Intermediate
Synopsis
The latest SDN revolution is centered on creating efficient virtualized data center networks using VXLAN & EVPN. We will talk about the scale, performance, and cost advantages of using a modern controller-free virtualized network solution built on 100 Gigabit Ethernet switches with hardware based VXLAN Routing. We will explore the ease of automating such a network in an OpenStack environment and take you through a real world use case of using OpenStack Network Node bridging between a bare metal cloud (EVPN) and a fully virtualized cloud environments (orchestrated by Neutron).
Speaker Bio:
David has held leadership roles at 3COM, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, and IBM where he promoted advanced network technologies including High Speed Ethernet, Layer 4-7 switching, Virtual Machine-aware networking, and Software Defined Networking.
David’s current focus is on the evolving landscape of data center networking, scale out storage, Open Networking, and cloud computing.
The Why and How of HPC-Cloud Hybrids with OpenStack - Lev Lafayette, Universi...OpenStack
Audience Level
Intermediate
Synopsis
High performance computing and cloud computing have traditionally been seen as separate solutions to separate problems, dealing with issues of performance and flexibility respectively. In a diverse research environment however, both sets of compute requirements can occur. In addition to the administrative benefits in combining both requirements into a single unified system, opportunities are provided for incremental expansion.
The deployment of the Spartan cloud-HPC hybrid system at the University of Melbourne last year is an example of such a design. Despite its small size, it has attracted international attention due to its design features. This presentation, in addition to providing a grounding on why one would wish to build an HPC-cloud hybrid system and the results of the deployment, provides a complete technical overview of the design from the ground up, as well as problems encountered and planned future developments.
Speaker Bio
Lev Lafayette is the HPC and Training Officer at the University of Melbourne. Prior to that he worked at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing for several years in a similar role.
Audience Level
All levels
Synopsis
Our journey towards solving our Application and Infrastructure Problems using Immutability, Codification, Mesos, Docker and Ironic.
OpenStack Australia Day Melbourne 2017
https://events.aptira.com/openstack-australia-day-melbourne-2017/
Traditional Enterprise to OpenStack Cloud - An Unexpected JourneyOpenStack
Audience Level
Intermediate
Synopsis
Hostworks is a part of the Inabox group and an Australian based Managed Hosting and Services Provider with a strong background in management of infrastructure, servers, and applications following Traditional Enterprise management practices. 2 years ago, we began our transition to adopt and deploy cloud technologies and mindsets with an on On-Premises OpenStack platform as part of a larger hybrid cloud offering. This presentation details how we did it, what went wrong, and what went right, important lessons and recommendations for other businesses who wish to follow the same path.
Speaker Bio:
Daniel is Platform Engineer at Hostworks and specialises in their On-Premises OpenStack cloud offering.
Building a GPU-enabled OpenStack Cloud for HPC - Lance Wilson, Monash UniversityOpenStack
Audience Level
Intermediate
Synopsis
M3 is the latest generation system of the MASSIVE project, an HPC facility specializing in characterization science (imaging and visualization). Using OpenStack as the compute provisioning layer, M3 is a hybrid HPC/cloud system, custom-integrated by Monash’s R@CMon Research Cloud team. Built to support Monash University’s next-gen high-throughput instrument processing requirements, M3 is half-half GPU-accelerated and CPU-only.
We’ll discuss the design and tech used to build this innovative platform as well as detailing approaches and challenges to building GPU-enabled and HPC clouds. We’ll also discuss some of the software and processing pipelines that this system supports and highlight the importance of tuning for these workloads.
Speaker Bio
Blair Bethwaite: Blair has worked in distributed computing at Monash University for 10 years, with OpenStack for half of that. Having served as team lead, architect, administrator, user, researcher, and occasional hacker, Blair’s unique perspective as a science power-user, developer, and system architect has helped guide the evolution of the research computing engine central to Monash’s 21st Century Microscope.
Lance Wilson: Lance is a mechanical engineer, who has been making tools to break things for the last 20 years. His career has moved through a number of engineering subdisciplines from manufacturing to bioengineering. Now he supports the national characterisation research community in Melbourne, Australia using OpenStack to create HPC systems solving problems too large for your laptop.
Monitoring Uptime on the NeCTAR Research Cloud - Andy Botting, University of ...OpenStack
Audience Level
Intermediate
Synopsis
We will discuss how we do monitoring on the Nectar research cloud, utilising tools like OpenStack tempest, Nagios and translating this into a user facing dashboard.
Speaker Bio:
Andy is a DevOps engineer working at the University of Melbourne in the Core Services team for the Nectar Research Cloud.
Containers and OpenStack: Marc Van Hoof, Kumulus: Containers and OpenStackOpenStack
Containers and OpenStack
Audience: Intermediate
Topic: Infrastructure
Abstract: Containers are the new darling of the development world, and many are calling for an end of the IaaS world. But there are still key reasons that IaaS is important even as Container based development becomes the desired path for the development community. We will review containers in the context of their growth in popularity, and look at how OpenStack both continues to support and enable Container solutions, and the latest developments in OpenStack as a containerized solution directly.
Speaker Bio: Marc Van Hoof, Kumulus
Marc van Hoof has been in the technology industry for over 20 years, focused on developing, deploying, and scaling internet applications. He was part of a team that built the first internet data centre in Australia, has worked on some of the largest online real-time events, and advises companies on how to take advantage of the true benefits of migrating to the cloud.
OpenStack Australia Day Government - Canberra 2016
https://events.aptira.com/openstack-australia-day-canberra-2016/
Moving to Cloud for Good: Alexander Tsirel, HiveTecOpenStack
Moving to Cloud for Good.
Audience: Intermediate
Topic: User Stories
Abstract: Chase to be compliant when you work with gov systems.
– Planning your move from traditional infrastructure to cloud.
– Rolling out CoreOs and Windows in the cloud as a part of infrastructure. Tough journey.
– Security in Openstack. How we passed IRAP assessment to ISM. Always hard to explain why software replace hardware.
– Swift. Good and bad parts.
– When to complain about OpenStack or Infrastructure.
Speaker Bio: Alexander Tsirel, HiveTec
Senior Developer/Devops in HiveTec. Moved from Estonia to join a huge project about building software deeply integrated with government Employment Services. Specialising in infrastructure architecting, cloud automation, continuous integration.
Working on infrastructure scaling for resource-hungry applications grid bundling docker, windows server, swift in one in our mission critical system.
OpenStack Australia Day Government - Canberra 2016
https://events.aptira.com/openstack-australia-day-canberra-2016/
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/
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
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.
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/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.