The document discusses the challenges of optimizing license management in the datacenter. It notes that while desktop license management is starting to be understood, datacenter licensing presents greater challenges due to heterogeneous environments, complex license models, virtualization, and entitlement requirements. The document outlines some of the key license management challenges in the datacenter including heterogeneous platforms, complex license models from vendors like Oracle and IBM that involve metrics like processor value units, and the need to track virtual machines and licenses consumed.
Understanding software licensing with IBM Power Systems PowerVM virtualizationJay Kruemcke
One of the key benefits of combining workloads in a virtualized environment is the ability to pay for less than the full capacity of the machine. Unfortunately there are many misconceptions about how software licensing really works in these environments.
The IBM Power Systems PowerVM virtualization technology offers a great deal of flexibility, but that flexibility also results in complexity when determining software license requirements. This presentation covers important licensing considerations for the IBM Power Systems environment.
Understanding software licensing with IBM Power Systems PowerVM virtualizationJay Kruemcke
One of the key benefits of combining workloads in a virtualized environment is the ability to pay for less than the full capacity of the machine. Unfortunately there are many misconceptions about how software licensing really works in these environments.
The IBM Power Systems PowerVM virtualization technology offers a great deal of flexibility, but that flexibility also results in complexity when determining software license requirements. This presentation covers important licensing considerations for the IBM Power Systems environment.
Alternative Architecture Overview 44956 AJames Price
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his white paper focuses on four of the prevalent alternative architectures: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Terminal Services, operating system (OS) streaming, and Blade Personal Computers (PCs). This white paper presents a technical overview and potential use cases for each of these architectures, and explores AMD as the platform of choice for each by demonstrating both technical (performance) and non-technical (cost) advantages.
Learn about IBM System x3650 M4 HD which is a 2-socket 2U rack-optimized server. This powerful system is designed for your most important business applications and cloud
deployments. Outstanding RAS and high-efficiency design improve your business environment and help save operational costs. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
The IBM® System x3530 M4 server delivers dual-socket performance in a 1U compact footprint. Featuring the latest Intel Romley EN platform, the x3530 M4 is a flexible rack server positioned as a good investment value, while considering your total cost of ownership (TCO) and IBM commitment. It is designed to provide more affordable value and increased flexibility with performance and quality to match...
Database performance: Dell PowerEdge R730xd vs. Lenovo ThinkServer RD650Principled Technologies
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 users, take note. In our datacenter, we found that the Dell PowerEdge R730xd server based on the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family with the Intel SSD DC S3610 Series handled up to 27.9 percent more orders per minute than the Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 did. With three times the SSDs, the PowerEdge R730xd delivered better response times—up to 24.6 percent for application latency and up to 93.1 percent for disk latency—than the ThinkServer RD650. Getting more performance per server and better response times means you can give customers a better, faster ecommerce experience. This can allow you to buy, store, and power fewer servers, helping stretch your IT budget further.
Compact, high-performing servers and streamlined software are a necessity for any data center that provides multi-tier hosted Web solutions, cloud services, or other scale-out implementations. Customers need quick access to Web applications that power their business, and the databases that power those Web applications. In our tests, we found that the Dell PowerEdge C6220 server with an open-source LAMP software stack was able to complete up to 38,793 orders per minute for one Web site, 79,759 orders per minute for two Web sites, and 119,758 orders per minute for four Web sites – all while providing the flexibility, efficiency, and maintenance features that large-scale deployments require.
Learn about the IBM System x3250 M5,.The x3250 M5 offers the following energy-efficiency features to save energy, reduce operational costs, increase energy availability, and contribute to a green environment, energy-efficient planar components help lower operational costs. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210746104/IBM-System-x3250-M5
Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 vs. VMware View 5: User experience and bandwidth consum...Principled Technologies
The experience that virtual desktops provide for workers is critical. If a user’s desktop is sluggish, or worse, choppy and difficult to navigate, working becomes difficult. Choosing a virtual desktop solution that provides sluggish, choppy desktops to remote end-users in branch offices defeats the purpose of implementing such a solution in the first place.
In both the small and medium-sized branch office scenarios we tested, we found that Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 provided a better desktop experience for remote users than VMware View 5, and used as much as 37.1 percent less bandwidth delivering it. Using Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 with Citrix Branch Repeater provided an even better experience for remote users by optimizing bandwidth over the WAN and delivering local-like virtual desktop sessions in both our 10-and 100-user tests. When selecting a VDI solution to deploy virtual desktops over the WAN to users in remote offices, determining the type of user experience the solution provides is paramount.
WebSphere Application Server support and monitoring tools presentation by Royal Cyber, tuning methodology, installation, migration, clustering, troubleshooting, deployment, automation scripts and much more.
Alternative Architecture Overview 44956 AJames Price
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his white paper focuses on four of the prevalent alternative architectures: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Terminal Services, operating system (OS) streaming, and Blade Personal Computers (PCs). This white paper presents a technical overview and potential use cases for each of these architectures, and explores AMD as the platform of choice for each by demonstrating both technical (performance) and non-technical (cost) advantages.
Learn about IBM System x3650 M4 HD which is a 2-socket 2U rack-optimized server. This powerful system is designed for your most important business applications and cloud
deployments. Outstanding RAS and high-efficiency design improve your business environment and help save operational costs. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
The IBM® System x3530 M4 server delivers dual-socket performance in a 1U compact footprint. Featuring the latest Intel Romley EN platform, the x3530 M4 is a flexible rack server positioned as a good investment value, while considering your total cost of ownership (TCO) and IBM commitment. It is designed to provide more affordable value and increased flexibility with performance and quality to match...
Database performance: Dell PowerEdge R730xd vs. Lenovo ThinkServer RD650Principled Technologies
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 users, take note. In our datacenter, we found that the Dell PowerEdge R730xd server based on the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family with the Intel SSD DC S3610 Series handled up to 27.9 percent more orders per minute than the Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 did. With three times the SSDs, the PowerEdge R730xd delivered better response times—up to 24.6 percent for application latency and up to 93.1 percent for disk latency—than the ThinkServer RD650. Getting more performance per server and better response times means you can give customers a better, faster ecommerce experience. This can allow you to buy, store, and power fewer servers, helping stretch your IT budget further.
Compact, high-performing servers and streamlined software are a necessity for any data center that provides multi-tier hosted Web solutions, cloud services, or other scale-out implementations. Customers need quick access to Web applications that power their business, and the databases that power those Web applications. In our tests, we found that the Dell PowerEdge C6220 server with an open-source LAMP software stack was able to complete up to 38,793 orders per minute for one Web site, 79,759 orders per minute for two Web sites, and 119,758 orders per minute for four Web sites – all while providing the flexibility, efficiency, and maintenance features that large-scale deployments require.
Learn about the IBM System x3250 M5,.The x3250 M5 offers the following energy-efficiency features to save energy, reduce operational costs, increase energy availability, and contribute to a green environment, energy-efficient planar components help lower operational costs. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210746104/IBM-System-x3250-M5
Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 vs. VMware View 5: User experience and bandwidth consum...Principled Technologies
The experience that virtual desktops provide for workers is critical. If a user’s desktop is sluggish, or worse, choppy and difficult to navigate, working becomes difficult. Choosing a virtual desktop solution that provides sluggish, choppy desktops to remote end-users in branch offices defeats the purpose of implementing such a solution in the first place.
In both the small and medium-sized branch office scenarios we tested, we found that Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 provided a better desktop experience for remote users than VMware View 5, and used as much as 37.1 percent less bandwidth delivering it. Using Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 with Citrix Branch Repeater provided an even better experience for remote users by optimizing bandwidth over the WAN and delivering local-like virtual desktop sessions in both our 10-and 100-user tests. When selecting a VDI solution to deploy virtual desktops over the WAN to users in remote offices, determining the type of user experience the solution provides is paramount.
WebSphere Application Server support and monitoring tools presentation by Royal Cyber, tuning methodology, installation, migration, clustering, troubleshooting, deployment, automation scripts and much more.
Flexera Software’s enterprise solutions help organizations increase the usage and value derived from the software applications they purchase and empower IT Procurement, Sourcing and Vendor Management teams to negotiate better software contracts
Virtualization products partition physical servers in multiple virtual machines. Each virtual machine represents a complete system, with processors, memory, networking, storage and BIOS.
Multiple virtual machines can share physical resources and run side by side on the same server.
Operating systems and applications can run unmodified in virtual machines.
VMware End-User-Computing Best Practices PosterVMware Academy
The End-User-Computing Best Practices poster gives you up-to-date tips and guidelines for configuring and sizing the wide range of EUC products. Enlarge and print!
A Survey of Performance Comparison between Virtual Machines and Containersprashant desai
Since the onset of Cloud computing and its inroads into infrastructure as a service, Virtualization has become peak
of importance in the field of abstraction and resource management. However, these additional layers of abstraction provided by virtualization come at a trade-off between performance and cost in a cloud environment where everything is on a pay-per-use basis. Containers which are perceived to be the future of virtualization are developed to address these issues. This study paper scrutinizes the performance of a conventional virtual machine and contrasts them with the containers. We cover the critical
assessment of each parameter and its behavior when its subjected to various stress tests. We discuss the implementations and their performance metrics to help us draw conclusions on which one is ideal to use for desired needs. After assessment of the result and discussion of the limitations, we conclude with prospects for future research
Planning Optimal Lotus Quickr services for Portal (J2EE) DeploymentsStuart McIntyre
As per the Quickr Wiki ( http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lqwiki.nsf/dx/20052009045545WEBCGW.htm ):
"This document contains the presentation from Quickr masterclass covering planning optimal deployments – crawl/walk/run.
Discussing simplistic deployment architectures which can be linearily scaled over time (e.g. from POC to simple-non-clustered to clustered)
Sharing of key tips/recommendations from SVT and Perf - so as to help avoid expensive crit-sits in the field
Tuning for performance, stability and reliability"
Please note, I do not claim any ownership of this presentation, just am uploading to allow sharing via the Quickr Blog. Any questions/comments/issues, just let me know!
W22 - WebSphere Performance for Multicore and Virtualised PlatformsHendrik van Run
IBM European WebSphere Technical Conference 2010 presentation
The launch of IBM's POWER7 platform earlier this year continues a trend to multicore and multithreaded processor design. This has an impact on the hardware running in your datacenter, either today or in the near future. At the same time the deployment of virtualisation technology is becoming the new norm. Understanding the characteristics and best practices for these systems will enable you to maximise the investment in software and provide the best application performance. This enables developers, architects and system administrators to deliver solid applications on those platforms.
Everything you wanted to know about licensing Windows workloads on AWS, but w...Amazon Web Services
• Get an overview of options for licensing Windows Server, SQL Server and other Microsoft products on AWS
• Learn how to bring existing Microsoft lincenses to AWS and maintain license compliance
• Learn the scenarios where EC2 Dedicated Hosts make sense for your workloads
Running Windows workloads on AWS can be done by purchasing new instances with a license included, or for bringing your existing licensees to AWS. This session will cover everything you need to know about procuring and licensing Windows workloads on AWS and tracking license compliance. We will focus on ways you can easily bring your existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses to AWS to help save you time and money. In addition, we will discuss ways you can use AWS Config rules to manage license compliance.
Licensing Windows Workloads on AWS - AWS Online Tech TalksAmazon Web Services
Learning Objectives:
- Get an overview of options for licensing Windows Server, SQL Server and other Microsoft products on AWS
- Learn how to bring existing Microsoft licenses to AWS and maintain license compliance
- Learn the scenarios where EC2 Dedicated Hosts make sense for your workloads
Get a Complete View of Your Business Services and IT Estate in ServiceNow wit...Flexera
Context is Critical to IT and an Accurate CMDB is Vital to Context
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ServiceNow provides the essential management and big picture visibility that is crucial to an effective CMDB. And Flexera | RISC Networks provides detailed discovery data, context and analysis to push into your ServiceNow instance, making the picture of the current state accurate and contextually relevant.
10 Tips to Optimize, Automate, and Govern your Hybrid IT EnvironmentFlexera
Join our webinar for 10 tips to help you manage your hybrid environment, erase waste from your IT spend and reallocate spend to critical initiatives – enhancing your bottom line and accelerating your company.
Using Automated Policies for SaaS Governance and ComplianceFlexera
Learn to use automated SaaS policies to enforce governance and compliance, including unsanctioned spend alerts, detecting suspicious user activity, onboarding and offboarding, and detecting inactive user accounts.
The Practical Approach for End-to-End SaaS ManagementFlexera
Watch this webinar and get the answers to help you learn to effectively manage software-as-a-service. Learn to optimize SaaS spend, manage multiple vendors and their pricing models, and right-size contracts with detailed usage and cost data.
7 Things You Need to Know for Your Cloud-First StrategyFlexera
One of your top priorities is implementing a cloud-first strategy. Learn to make the shift as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. Watch this webinar and learn the best practices for cloud migration, optimization, governance and automation.
The Role of In-House & External Counsel in Managing Open Source SoftwareFlexera
Amy Chun, Partner at Knobbe Martens and Marty Mellican, VP & Associate General Counsel at Flexera discuss the role of in-house counsel to better manage any potential legal risks that might be inherent with OSS use.
Addressing Open Source Risks During M&A: A Legal ViewFlexera
Amy Chun, Partner at Knobbe Martens and Marty Mellican, VP & Associate General Counsel at Flexera discuss why a carefully planned audit of open source should be part of every due diligence effort.
Having Trouble Managing All Your Cloud Services? We Know!Flexera
Most businesses have at least 3 or more cloud services, and it’s hard enough to control spend for just one. That’s why Flexera acquired RightScale, the leading multi-cloud management provider. With cloud services making up 20% of most IT budgets, the spend optimization stakes are high. This year’s Rightscale State Of The Cloud report shows that up to 35% of cloud services spend may be wasted.
View these slides to see how RightScale Optima helps you find that 35% and act on it.
Webinar: Maximizing the ROI of IT by Simplifying Technology ComplexityFlexera
View this webinar with Forrester analyst Charlie Betz and Forrester consultant Stephen Odell, as they present the detailed findings of their study. After the webinar, you will have a better understanding of the benefits of Flexera Data Platform.
Webinar: What's New In FlexNet Manager Suite 2018 R1Flexera
Learn about the new features in FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises 2018, which brings new capabilities to extend Flexera's leadership in Software Asset Management.
Software Distribution, Customer Experience and the IoT: Get Ready for Fast, S...Flexera
There’s no second chance to make a first impression! Are your software upgrades making a good impression on your customers? Are your software delivery processes fast, scalable, and secure?
Join Forrester Principal Analyst David Johnson, Akamai and Flexera as they discuss what modern electronic software delivery processes should look like in this rapidly growing IoT world.
Fast!
No one likes to wait. Learn how a robust software delivery solution gets software and updates out to customers – without the wait.
Scalable!
File sizes and cadence of updates are faster than ever. Intelligent devices defy conventional software distribution models. Hear what you can do to keep up.
Secure!
Security has many aspects – where do you focus? Discover how to deliver your software in a secure way and only to those entitled to receive it.
Windows 10 webinar: What’s new for IT pros Windows 10 v 1709Flexera
Join Microsoft's Iris Fang and Nick Moseley, Technical Solutions Professionals, for an overview of the new business-friendly features coming in the Windows 10 Update 1709. Whether you have already migrated to Windows 10 and are planning for the upgrade, or preparing to migrate from Windows 7 to The Fall Creators update, this webinar will review what enterprises can expect in the new release.
Don’t Let Hackers Breach Your Data: Shutting Your Risk Window on Apache Struts2Flexera
Cyber-criminals target these known vulnerabilities in both commercial and open source software. Many organizations are either unaware of what’s in their software or take too long to patch their systems. These gaps lead to ignorance of known vulnerabilities and/or a lack of efficient processes to apply critical patches quickly.
Watch this webinar on understanding these gaps, closing the risk window and reducing your risk of a breach. Find out how vulnerable code can be easy to discover and patch.
Announcing the availability of the largest and most comprehensive repository of technology asset data on the planet. Current and constantly curated. Available on the software industry’s first open platform for this data. It’s about time.
Webinar: Take Proactive Control of Your SAP Licensing, Indirect Usage and Ven...Flexera
Join UpperEdge and Flexera in this webinar to learn the importance of getting more proactive control of your SAP relationship to drive predictable outcomes and increased value.
Keeping a Lid on Costs for Cloud Infrastructure and SaaS ApplicationsFlexera
Join us for this webinar as we discuss the spend management risks associated with cloud services and some of the strategies organizations can use to keep a lid on these costs using Software Asset Management processes and tools. We’ll use Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Office 365 as specific examples of cloud infrastructure services and SaaS applications, respectively, that can be managed for better cost efficiency.
Do You Manage Software? Understanding Your Role in Cybersecurity DefenseFlexera
Organizations are under constant attack by hackers targeting applications used by the business. The University of Maryland recently quantified the near-constant rate of attacks on computers with Internet access to every 39 seconds. The best defense requires a holistic approach and collaboration of different teams in a concerted effort to reduce the attack surface for hackers. In this webinar we will discuss the roles and the impact that activities, not always associated with security, have in reducing risk. Whether you are an asset manager, a desktop or datacenter manager, or an IT security professional, your role has a significant impact on your organizations ability to reduce the risk of cyber-attack.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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/
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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.
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
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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.
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.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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.
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.
2. Optimized License Management
for the Datacenter
Introduction license and maintenance spend in the datacenter typically
Optimized license management is a necessity for all licenses represents the greatest potential cost-savings in the software
owned by the enterprise. While organizations are starting portfolio. Decreasing ongoing costs of multi-million dollar
to understand their license position for the desktop estate, applications in the datacenter is a fundamental component
the reality is that licensing in the datacenter presents a of overall IT spend reduction. As organizations continue
daunting set of challenges that require a robust, automated datacenter consolidation through virtualization, license
license management solution. Compounding this, it is optimization in the datacenter becomes even more
difficult to take the same set of processes, technologies, critical to reduce the associated risk of software license
and remediation techniques used to manage desktop noncompliance – and more difficult without an
licenses and apply them to datacenter license management. automated solution. Datacenter license management
Organizations need a solution to address the unique license challenges include:
management requirements of all enterprise IT environments
including the desktop and the datacenter. • Heterogeneous / Multi-platform environments
• Complex License Models
Applications in the datacenter are strategic and run • Virtualization
the business, but they are also expensive. Optimizing • License Entitlements: Product Use Rights
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In most companies, the datacenter and server infrastructure for example. These applications require the collection
represent the most diverse computing environment in the of important option, component, version, and edition
company. Companies typically have multiple flavors of information not available in most standard inventory tools.
Linux, UNIX and Windows in the estate. Effective license
management within this heterogeneous environment requires Virtual Machine Discovery & Inventory
a robust multi-platform solution. With the growing deployment of server virtualization
technologies from vendors such as VMware (ESX/vSphere)
Typical DataCenter Plat form Diversity and Microsoft (Hyper-V), organizations must also collect
inventory for virtual machines across the network. In these
Sun Solaris environments, it’s necessary to not only bring back inventory
IBM AIX of software on each virtual machine, but also identify
HP UX the relationship between virtual machines and physical
RedHat host servers. The hardware details— number and type of
Fedora processors and cores, memory size, etc., are important, as
CentOS is the allocation of hardware resources to virtual machines.
Windows Server This data is often required to perform license management in
virtual environments, particularly where the license model is
The license optimization solution should also leverage based on server and/or processor characteristics. Examples
existing IT investments by integrating with common of vendors that use processor based licensing for enterprise
inventory tools used in the datacenter, such as BMC/ server software abound: IBM, Oracle, and Symantec, to
Tideway, IBM Tivoli, CA, etc. Another advantage of this name just a few.
approach is that yet another agent doesn’t need to be
deployed. Once the hardware and software inventory data Complex License Models
is collected, it must be processed and normalized to quickly License metrics in the datacenter are becoming increasingly
identify and categorize server-based applications, including complex. More publishers are moving to capacity-based
publisher, title, version and edition. licensing models which make it difficult to calculate an
accurate license position without automation. Organizations
Agent and Agentless Inventory must be able to determine how many licenses are consumed
For organizations that do not have a standard inventory based on the license models in effect and the capacity
solution for the server estate the datacenter license characteristics of installed machines (e.g. processors, cores,
management solution should provide a multi-platform and memory). As a simple example, the organization must
agent-less and agent-based inventory capability. Particularly calculate processor-based license consumption based on the
for datacenter server environments, an agentless inventory number of processors in each (physical or virtual) server to
capability is often required for server performance and determine whether the appropriate number of licenses have
security reasons—an agent is not allowed to be installed on been purchased and allocated in the most optimal way.
many of these systems. As shown in the pie chart above,
the typical datacenter has a mix UNIX, Linux and Windows Some examples of datacenter/server license models include:
operating systems that may include: Sun Solaris, HP UX, • IBM Processor Value Unit (PVU) – license position is
IBM AIX, RedHat Linux, CentOS, SuSE Linux, Fedora, calculated based on cores, sockets, and processor
Windows Server, and other OS platforms. type. IBM provides PVU tables that define the number
of points assigned to each type of processor (as well
In some cases, specialized multi-platform, agent-less as based on the other parameters, as shown in the
discovery and inventory tools are needed. This is true example chart below), and publishes PVU license rules.
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• Oracle Named User Plus – Oracle currently uses two
different license models for their database software—
Named User Plus and Processor based. Named User
Plus is a user based license where named users can
access multiple database instances on multiple servers.
There is a 25 NUP license minimum per processor in
the server (which means that organizations must still • Processor Points – Count processors based on different
know the hardware details of the Oracle servers). processor types. This is a points-based license that
consumes different numbers of points according to the
• Oracle Processor – The Oracle Processor license is type of processors in the computers.
based on the type and number of processor cores in the
server. The number of cores is multiplied by the Oracle
Core Factor value for that processor type to come up
with the number of licenses needed for that server.
Note that Oracle software running on a virtual machine
will still require that same number of licenses as the full
physical server—there is no sub-capacity licensing here.
• Processor Core – A license priced according to the
The Processor license is attractive when there are large number of processor cores in the computer(s) on which
numbers of users accessing the database. The Oracle the software will run. VMware is an example of a
pricing ratio is 50 to 1 for processor licenses compared publisher that utilizes this license model.
to user licenses, so an organization would need to
have more than 50 times the number of users relative
to processors on Oracle servers to make the processor
model more cost effective.
• Core Points - Counts cores differently for different
processor types. This is a points-based license that
assigns different numbers of points according to the
type of processors on the computers.
• Tiered Device – A license that is tiered according to
a processor or server type. Symantec is an example
of a publisher that utilizes this license model for their
Sun
popular Storage Foundation, Netbackup, and other
Ultra-
enterprise server products.
SPARC T1
X .25 = 2
6 Cores
Requires a License for Two Processors
• SAP Named User – SAP defines a number of different
user based license types—Professional, Limited
Professional, Developer, Employee, etc. Different
SAP software usage characteristics are defined for
• Per Processor – Collect hardware inventory including each type, and each has a different price point.
the number of processors running on each machine Organizations must optimize the mix of SAP license
where the application is installed and calculate the types across the organization based on actual usage to
number of processor licenses required. Microsoft SQL ensure appropriate licensing and usage-based spending
Server is a common example of this license type. on an ongoing basis.
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Publishers often have specific product use rights associated
with virtual machine (VM) installations. For example,
one Windows Server 2008 Enterprise license can cover
installations on one physical machine and up to 4 virtual
machines on the same physical host. The installation of
Windows Server 2008 on a fifth virtual machine on the
same host would consume another license.
Similarly, Symantec Storage Foundation running on
Windows Server uses the Symantec Tiered OS license
model which has the same rights and restrictions on number
of VMs as the Windows OS edition in use—e.g. 4 VMs for
Enterprise Edition, unlimited VMs for Datacenter Edition.
An optimized license management solution must have this
licensing knowledge built-in. This allows organizations to
Virtualization find machines with “free” license slots to save licensing
Virtualization adds yet another twist in the quest for costs. Most importantly, it allows enterprises to accurately
license optimization in the datacenter. Organizations are count the number of licenses required, taking into account
increasingly deploying virtualization technologies, such virtual product use rights.
as datacenter server virtualization from vendors including
VMware and Microsoft. Many software publishers have Windows 2008 Enterprise
grappled with how to handle virtualization from a licensing
perspective and have created unique product use rights VM VM
around virtualization, making it even harder to calculate an
accurate license position. In addition, the dynamic nature of
virtual environments, due to VM mobility and the
speed with which VMs can be created further complicates VM VM
license management.
1 Physical
Organizations need an agent-less discovery tool which Server License Allows 4 Virtual Instances
finds virtual machines in the environment, reads the
capacity dedicated to the virtual machine for capacity- Other virtual and thin-app solutions, such as Citrix Server,
based license calculations, and maps virtual machines may also be deployed, and the license management tools
to their physical hosts. For example, software that uses a should provide comprehensive license reconciliation across
per-processor license is installed on a virtual machine that multiple virtualization technologies.
has two processors assigned to it while the physical host
has 32 processors. Typical inventory tools would report 32 Product Use Rights
processors on each virtual machine—greatly increasing Datacenter licenses have complex product use rights that
the license requirements for per-processor based licenses. govern how organizations can use the software and
An optimized solution will accurately count the licenses determine the number of licenses consumed in the process.
required in the virtual environment, minimizing license
consumption and reducing costs accordingly. Listed below are a few examples:
• Unlimited virtual machines except
when running on IBM zSeries
• Clustering with two active/passive
servers on a single license
• Cold disaster recovery machines
do not consume a license
• Failover machines consume a
license if used during the year
• Hot Disaster Recovery machines
consume a license
• Four QA and development
machines allowed with no
license charge
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Ideally, the license management solution will automatically • Reduced risks — Minimize the risk of a software audit
apply these license entitlements to minimize license and the associated risks of unbudgeted true-up fees,
consumption and maintain license compliance. For example, penalties, litigation and brand damage, by ensuring
server roles (disaster recovery, failover, production, proper licensing of all software in use. Protect the
test, etc.) commonly confer a set of use rights and/or relationship with your most strategic software vendors.
restrictions. By understanding the role of the server in the • Rapid ROI — Leverage existing IT systems as part of
IT environment and taking full advantage of the associated a total FlexNet Manager Suite solution, rather than
rights, it is possible to exclude certain machines from license replacing them. FlexNet Manager Suite provides rapid
consumption in many cases. time to value by quickly finding software cost savings in
the datacenter.
Other product use rights such as upgrade rights, downgrade
rights, virtual machine rights (as discussed above), etc. also
come into play in the datacenter and must be applied to
correctly calculate a license position. This allows enterprises
to maintain continuous license compliance and minimize
ongoing software license and maintenance costs. FlexNet Manager Suite is the only solution that automates
license optimization for key software vendors, offers support
FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises for the broadest array of license models and manages
Flexera Software’s FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises licenses in complex virtual environments. With FlexNet
solution uniquely meets all of these requirements for Manager Suite, organizations have achieved multi-million
optimized license management in the datacenter. FlexNet dollar savings with their highest-spend publishers such as
Manager Suite delivers unprecedented levels of automation SAP, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and Symantec.
for management of datacenter software assets, producing
the highest possible return on investment (ROI). With About Flexera Software
FlexNet Manager Suite, organizations can eliminate over- Flexera Software is the leading provider of strategic
spending and under-spending on licenses, and reduce solutions for Application Usage Management; solutions
ongoing maintenance costs associated with server-based delivering continuous compliance, optimized usage and
software. The FlexNet Manager Suite solution offers a maximized value to application producers and their
range of benefits for datacenter software asset and license customers. Flexera Software is trusted by more than 80,000
management including: customers that depend on our comprehensive solutions-
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• Reduced license costs — Apply product use rights to
minimize license consumption and reduce true-up costs.
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hefty ongoing maintenance streams. FlexNet Manager
Suite suggests optimal maintenance payments based
on the optimized license position. This ensures the
organization is not over-spending on the multi-million
dollar maintenance contracts that are associated with
high-value datacenter licenses.
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