VMware Enterprise Management – The Vision cfArrow ECS UK
VMware Enterprise Management – The Vision
A steer on the vision for the new Enterprise Management solution suites – the biggest management launch in VMware history.
Colin Fernandes, Global Technical Marketing Manager, VMware
Cloud Services Essentials for CSPs from IBMIBMTelecom
Cloud computing delivers common ground among application developers, enterprises, suppliers and customers, to create a new set of cloud services. Cloud services are a means for providing essentially the same old user experience but at a better price.
VMware Enterprise Management – The Vision cfArrow ECS UK
VMware Enterprise Management – The Vision
A steer on the vision for the new Enterprise Management solution suites – the biggest management launch in VMware history.
Colin Fernandes, Global Technical Marketing Manager, VMware
Cloud Services Essentials for CSPs from IBMIBMTelecom
Cloud computing delivers common ground among application developers, enterprises, suppliers and customers, to create a new set of cloud services. Cloud services are a means for providing essentially the same old user experience but at a better price.
This is Lenovo's presentation at FETC 2013.
The mega-trends of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and the consumerization of IT go directly against the desire to limit security exposure and keep TCO low. In this session, Rich discusses approaches to meeting both needs plus drill down on how and where cloud computing can ultimately, resolve these seemingly mutually exclusive goals and streamline the enablement of BYOD.
Presenter: Rich Cheston, Chief Technical Architect, Distinguished Engineer and Master Inventor, Lenovo
www.lenovo.com/eduevents
Presentation on basics of cloud computing models, current status and future use in healthcare environments, differences between traditional outsourcing contracting and cloud contracting, and discussion of e-discovery issues created by cloud environments.
Cloud computing basically involves delivering hosted services over the Internet to store, manage, and process data, instead of using local server or a personal computer. These services are broadly divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). In scientific terms, cloud computing is a synonym for distributed computing over a network which means the ability to run a program on many connected computers at the same time. Therefore it involves a large number of computers that are connected through a real-time communication network.
Cloud computing is the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources as a service over the internet (public cloud) or intranet (private cloud)
This lecture was given by Professor June Sung Park at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in the 2012 Cloud Conference held in August 2012 by Electronic Times in Korea.
Cloud computing of late has become the new buzz word joining the ranks of terms including; grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc. However the problem is that everyone seems to have a different definition..
Danny Quilton from Capacitas presented a paper, ‘Capacity Management and the Cloud’. The presentation made the case for capacity management of cloud-based services, highlighting the critical role of capacity management in controlling cloud cost. The presentation referenced a number of client engagement case studies to debunk some of the myths surrounding cloud:
Capacity can be turned up instantaneously
Capacity planning discipline is no longer required
Cloud capacity is cheap
Bottlenecks can be alleviated by expanding cloud capacity
Capacity management can be delegated to the cloud provider
Performance is guaranteed by the cloud provider
Jambey Clinkscales gave presentation on "The Value of Cloud in the Business Technology Ecosystem" at the 2011 BDPA Technology Conference in Chicago.
Jambey shared his thoughts on the workshop during BDPA iRadio Show interview held on August 28, 2011 --> http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bdpa/2011/08/29/bdpa-iradio-workshop-presenters
Workshop Presenter:
Jambey Clinkscales
Capabilites and Program Manager, HP Enterprise Services
Topic: The Value of the Cloud in the Business Technology Ecology
BDPA New York Chapter
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
This is Lenovo's presentation at FETC 2013.
The mega-trends of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and the consumerization of IT go directly against the desire to limit security exposure and keep TCO low. In this session, Rich discusses approaches to meeting both needs plus drill down on how and where cloud computing can ultimately, resolve these seemingly mutually exclusive goals and streamline the enablement of BYOD.
Presenter: Rich Cheston, Chief Technical Architect, Distinguished Engineer and Master Inventor, Lenovo
www.lenovo.com/eduevents
Presentation on basics of cloud computing models, current status and future use in healthcare environments, differences between traditional outsourcing contracting and cloud contracting, and discussion of e-discovery issues created by cloud environments.
Cloud computing basically involves delivering hosted services over the Internet to store, manage, and process data, instead of using local server or a personal computer. These services are broadly divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). In scientific terms, cloud computing is a synonym for distributed computing over a network which means the ability to run a program on many connected computers at the same time. Therefore it involves a large number of computers that are connected through a real-time communication network.
Cloud computing is the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources as a service over the internet (public cloud) or intranet (private cloud)
This lecture was given by Professor June Sung Park at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in the 2012 Cloud Conference held in August 2012 by Electronic Times in Korea.
Cloud computing of late has become the new buzz word joining the ranks of terms including; grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc. However the problem is that everyone seems to have a different definition..
Danny Quilton from Capacitas presented a paper, ‘Capacity Management and the Cloud’. The presentation made the case for capacity management of cloud-based services, highlighting the critical role of capacity management in controlling cloud cost. The presentation referenced a number of client engagement case studies to debunk some of the myths surrounding cloud:
Capacity can be turned up instantaneously
Capacity planning discipline is no longer required
Cloud capacity is cheap
Bottlenecks can be alleviated by expanding cloud capacity
Capacity management can be delegated to the cloud provider
Performance is guaranteed by the cloud provider
Jambey Clinkscales gave presentation on "The Value of Cloud in the Business Technology Ecosystem" at the 2011 BDPA Technology Conference in Chicago.
Jambey shared his thoughts on the workshop during BDPA iRadio Show interview held on August 28, 2011 --> http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bdpa/2011/08/29/bdpa-iradio-workshop-presenters
Workshop Presenter:
Jambey Clinkscales
Capabilites and Program Manager, HP Enterprise Services
Topic: The Value of the Cloud in the Business Technology Ecology
BDPA New York Chapter
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
This jointly authored white paper examines how organizations are confronting
the challenges of integrating cloud-based services into a traditional managed
services model. General considerations around industry- and company specific
objectives are outlined, and case studies are used to illustrate a range
of scenarios, strategies and benefits achieved.
Cloud-based systems have brought a new, scalable application
delivery service model to the market. They can help clients
save both capital and operational costs, and further shift capital
expenses (CAPEX) to operational expenses (OPEX) while
providing increased flexibility for their organizations. However,
a key aspect of any type of Cloud deployment is reliable service
delivery, on which ready access to the digital information (data)
in the Cloud is foundational requirement.
Container ecosystem based PaaS solution for Telco Cloud Analysis and ProposalKrishna-Kumar
In our lab setup, we have derived a cluster
container orchestration mechanism to handle the
Telco specific (NFV) capabilities on top of the
traditional containers.
Original document @ http://dl6.globalstf.org/index.php/joc/article/view/1641/1667
Cloud Lock-in vs. Cloud Interoperability - Indicthreads cloud computing conf...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:As the cloud adoption increases, there is a growing concern about the lock-in of customers into the various cloud platforms. This session will discuss various major cloud platforms, the type of lock-in the customer will face in each of these platforms and what each customer can do to minimize their lock-in.
Key takeaways for audience are:
Understand what is cloud lock-in
Types of cloud vendor lock-ins
What is cloud interoperability
Major initiatives around cloud interoperability standards
Goals, differences and players/proponents of these major standards
Steps to minimize cloud lock-in for your customers
Speaker: Ashwin Waknis is a Sr. IT professional with 15 years in the industry. Ashwin is currently head of the Cloud Professional Services Business at Persistent Systems. Before that Ashwin was a Sr. Product Manager at Cisco Systems where he lead major initiatives around Knowledge Management, Enterprise Portal, Web 2.0/Social softwares and Enterprise Search. For the last 2 years, Ashwin has been involved in Cloud Computing initiatives first at Cisco and then at Persistent Systems.Ashwin has spoken at many customer workshops and events organized for educational institutes.
The L51W LED is a fully featured mobile projector with a comprehensive input panel as well as an integrated office viewer for PC- less and wireless presentations.
As a leading System Integrator, NEC APAC provides the best-of-breed security solutions with Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall and Infotect Security’s iNSIGHT For Web Server (IWS) to provide the intelligence, flexibility, and scale
you need to stay secure in today’s ever-changing and increasingly chaotic threat landscape.
NEC NEOFACE- Biometric Face Recognition SystemNECIndia
NEC NeoFace combines an extracted analysis of the eyes with a
detailed determination of facial feature, using a GLVQ based multiple matching face recognition system.Providing a reliable verification solution.
The way an organization handles callers can make the difference
between business won and lost. NEC’s UC for Business (UCB)
Executive Desktop gives employees the tools they need to provide
faster, more personalized service to customers and business partners
Unified Communication - Healthcare's New AidNECIndia
Health care organisations are looking up to Unified Communications to improve healthcare delivery, employee productivity, and work team collaboration through planned and cost-effective implementation.
Blade Servers for SMEs - A Growing AdoptionNECIndia
SMEs (small and medium enterprises) are India’s budding stars, the role played by IT tools & applications has proved to be crucial in the growth and expansion of these industries.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
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.
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.
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.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
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
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
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:
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/
4. Carrier Cloud
2. Carrier Cloud
This paper describes something we at NEC call Carrier Cloud. The
concept has three pillars:
2.2 Carriers’ Advantage
- Carrier-centric cloud, which is the use of cloud computing services, We have already talked about the need for new revenue sources and
technologies and business models to acquire new value chains; how the cloud owner can control the cloud business model. This is
- Carrier-grade cloud – being able to deliver cloud services that strong motivation for carriers to move into this space – but what
millions can rely on; competitive advantages do they have?
- Differentiation through IT and network innovation and integration.
Later we will discuss what makes Carrier Cloud special, but first Our studies have shown that carriers have several advantages over
let’s take a look at the service landscape. Web 2.0 cloud service providers. These advantages includes their
networks, which provide appropriate bandwidth, quality of service
and end-to-end security; and commercial maturity which provides
2.1 Cloud Services by Carrier
more commercial stability, customer support, customer trust and
Cloud services are the fundamental purpose of cloud: “The ability to better operational processes. Better service availability can be
provide services on demand, on a per-use basis, which scale derived from both. Carriers already have human resources and
dynamically, with the illusion of unlimited resources and without know-how to build/ operate datacenters and backup centers.
exposing the actual assets providing the service.” Carriers also have many telephony switching central offices that
have earth-quake resistant, high-power air conditioning, power
What is important to the business customer, whose core purpose is supply and security facilities. Carrier can use these offices as
rarely IT, is that they can convert much of their IT capex to IT opex datacenters. Based on their human and material resources, carriers
while cutting inhouse IT support opex. For consumers, it is the same a re c o n side re d to have g re at adva nt ag e s ove r othe r clou d
model except that they are expected to generate advertising or providers.
market intelligence income for the provider.
The uptake of cloud services among the small to medium size
enterprise community is complicated. We need to look at network
bandwidth and stability, the prevalence of software piracy, regional
trust levels and the attractiveness of the accumulated business
applications (SaaS) portfolio.
NEC can see at least two phases of cloud service provision for
carriers. The phases are differentiated by ecosystem complexity. In
Figure 2, Stage 2 demands more cloud user devices, embedded
devices, new business models and processes interacting within a
more complex ecosystem.
Figure 3. The Carrier Advantage
Relative Introduction Effort (Client Side)
Business
Process
M2M Remote Stage2 Outsourcing These advantages give the carrier a secret weapon, an end-to-end
Systems &
High
Network SLA that can only come from a carrier with service availability at
Management
Connected carrier levels.
Home DaaS Virtual Private
Cloud
SaaS Carriers have other strong points, too: they have preferential access
(Replacement Digital
service) Signage to user's location information such as GPS or femtocell information
Stage1
SaaS for example. Carriers can even handle settlement and authentication
Low
(New service)
PaaS functions, and use information about their customers and sales
Light
Consumer
laaS Services channels. All of which add value to cloud services. As carriers can
bundle network access with cloud services, they can also offer a
Low High
more competitive price.
Relative Introduction Effort (Carrier Side)
Figure 2. Cloud Service Phases
4
6. Carrier Cloud
3. Building Clouds
As we move from an era of “best effort” to “as promised”, more
3.3 SaaS Applications bandwidth will either have to be managed on a per flow basis or
Revenue generating applications are hosted on the Cloud Service within fatter virtual pipes, dedicated to commercial cloud traffic.
Platform. These are typically provided by third party ISVs wishing to Transport networks that are service and user aware will have an
provide services to the carrier’s SME subscribers. They could be advantage in delivering cloud. This awareness has to permeate
hosted on another cloud but a carrier’s attractive traffic and hosting every layer of the transport since higher level policy control systems
prices, an SLA and the carrier’s brand should win them over. can only really work when they receive the bandwidth they expect.
In the future, NEC believes that OpenFlow™ technologies will unify
3.4 NGN Transport and Access the telecoms transport and datacenter’s IT network. OpenFlow
brings an unrivalled awareness and communication between the
The quality of cloud ser vices is only as good as the network network and the application management layer.
delivering the service. QoS, stability and security are the carrier’s
primary weapons when competing with Web 2.0 clouds.
3.5 Cloud Connected Devices,
Gateways and Terminals
In some countries, carriers are looking at LTE hot zones as the key
to providing cloud in central business districts, where customers are Home Gateways and femtocells are the critical link between the
highly mobile. In some developing countries, this will be the primary cloud, home and SME domains. Now users can stream media in
broadband access service. their house from anywhere. They can access media libraries in the
cloud or remotely control home electronics and appliances such as
Lighter cloud based ser vices such as SaaS can be used personal video recorders and digital picture frames.
successfully over lower broadband speeds provided by DSL and
HSDPA. Heavier services such as DaaS require more bandwidth. A Machine to Machine (M2M) can be commercial or consumer in
single user can normally use DSL or HSDPA to support a DaaS nature but millions of cloud devices will need to be connected and
session when out of the office, but it may not be feasible to have controlled, each within their own unique cloud business process.
many users sharing the same connection. From smart cars to e-book readers, set-top boxes to electricity
meters, each one will have their own business model, charging
model with embedded traffic charges and roaming policies. This list
continues to grow.
Cloud Platform Suite Programmable
Servers and Storage Flow
PASOLINKTM
SaaS
LTE/SAE Solution
WiMAX
Solution
FTTx
Solution Digital HGW
3G/LTE Femtocell
Digital Signage
Virtual PC Center
Solution
Figure 5. NEC’s Solutions for Carrier Cloud Services
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