Private Cloud: What, Why, and How discusses private cloud computing. It defines private cloud and compares it to highly virtualized computing environments. The document discusses how to get started with private cloud computing using tools like System Center and Hyper-V. It provides an example of how to deliver HR services using a private cloud architecture with shared resources, roles, and self-service provisioning. The presentation emphasizes that private cloud allows organizations to build on existing investments while gaining agility and economies of cloud computing.
Bringing SaaS Simplicity to Proactive Support & Live Threat UpdatesAvi Networks
Enterprises find it challenging to provide real-time security, manage tickets and issues efficiently, and achieve simplified operations. How can you enable a SaaS experience in the data centers? VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly Avi Networks) PULSE provides turnkey cloud services built to simplify enterprise’s operations, enhance supportability, and provide real-time security threat protection delivered through a friction-less SaaS model.
Learn how to help reduce complexity, management, and cost of your network operations:
• Enhance your operational experience through secure, agile, and programmable cloud services
• Enable proactive support - detect, remediate, collect and notify service failures automatically
• Provide real-time application protection through live security threat intelligence feed for IP reputation, app signatures, and WAF CRS rules
Securing Web Applications with Deep Automation with VMware NSX Advanced Load ...Avi Networks
Watch webinar on-demand here https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/securing-web-apps-deep-automation
Application security requires a high degree of automation, however making security decisions can be very difficult. Deploying and securing web applications gets further complicated in public clouds for load balancing and web application firewall. We show the importance of applying visibility, end-to-end orchestration and decision automation to different layers of application security. In this webinar, you will learn about:
- AI / ML based analytics for automating decisions
- Automated canary deployments for application security
- VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks) use cases
Multi-Cloud Load Balancing and Application ServicesAvi Networks
Watch the on-demand webinar here https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/multicloud-load-balancing-and-app-services
81% of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy and on average, operating 5 clouds. This reality imposes demanding requirements on automation and operational consistency across heterogeneous environments. In this webinar, we will explore what is required for application services, and how Avi Networks builds a single platform for load balancing, security and analytics. We will walk through live demos on how applications can be delivered consistently regardless of the underlying infrastructures.
You will learn how to:
- Integrate into private and public cloud ecosystems including AWS, Azure, Cisco and VMware.
- Deliver applications using a software-defined and policy-driven platform.
- Apply DevOps principles to application delivery and accelerate multi-cloud deployments.
Working From Anywhere with Advanced Load Balancing and VMware Horizon VDI Avi Networks
In this webinar, you will learn how to:
- Simplify your infrastructure and operations to deliver virtual desktops and apps
- Troubleshoot end-user experience issues with point and click simplicity
- Eliminate costly over-provisioning of load balancers and save costs for VDI deployments
- Deploy load balancing consistently for virtual desktops in any cloud environment
Deploying Elastic, Self-Service Load Balancing for VMware NSX-TAvi Networks
The VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly Avi Networks) delivers software load balancing, web application firewall (WAF), and Kubernetes ingress services across your data centers, multi-cloud, bare metal, and container infrastructure. With the integration with VMware NSX-T, Avi now offers enterprise-grade load balancing and WAF capabilities for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and NSX-T environments on a complete L2-L7 networking and security virtualization platform. Digital, app-centric companies are replacing traditional appliance-based load balancers that are not built for cloud use cases and cause over-provisioning, partial automation and little visibility.
In this webinar you will learn how to deliver complete automation and self-service by:
Managing load balancers centrally across any environment
Creating new virtual services in just minutes
Scaling load balancing capacity dynamically based on traffic patterns
Troubleshooting application issues without TCP dumps/log exports
Bringing SaaS Simplicity to Proactive Support & Live Threat UpdatesAvi Networks
Enterprises find it challenging to provide real-time security, manage tickets and issues efficiently, and achieve simplified operations. How can you enable a SaaS experience in the data centers? VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly Avi Networks) PULSE provides turnkey cloud services built to simplify enterprise’s operations, enhance supportability, and provide real-time security threat protection delivered through a friction-less SaaS model.
Learn how to help reduce complexity, management, and cost of your network operations:
• Enhance your operational experience through secure, agile, and programmable cloud services
• Enable proactive support - detect, remediate, collect and notify service failures automatically
• Provide real-time application protection through live security threat intelligence feed for IP reputation, app signatures, and WAF CRS rules
Securing Web Applications with Deep Automation with VMware NSX Advanced Load ...Avi Networks
Watch webinar on-demand here https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/securing-web-apps-deep-automation
Application security requires a high degree of automation, however making security decisions can be very difficult. Deploying and securing web applications gets further complicated in public clouds for load balancing and web application firewall. We show the importance of applying visibility, end-to-end orchestration and decision automation to different layers of application security. In this webinar, you will learn about:
- AI / ML based analytics for automating decisions
- Automated canary deployments for application security
- VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks) use cases
Multi-Cloud Load Balancing and Application ServicesAvi Networks
Watch the on-demand webinar here https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/multicloud-load-balancing-and-app-services
81% of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy and on average, operating 5 clouds. This reality imposes demanding requirements on automation and operational consistency across heterogeneous environments. In this webinar, we will explore what is required for application services, and how Avi Networks builds a single platform for load balancing, security and analytics. We will walk through live demos on how applications can be delivered consistently regardless of the underlying infrastructures.
You will learn how to:
- Integrate into private and public cloud ecosystems including AWS, Azure, Cisco and VMware.
- Deliver applications using a software-defined and policy-driven platform.
- Apply DevOps principles to application delivery and accelerate multi-cloud deployments.
Working From Anywhere with Advanced Load Balancing and VMware Horizon VDI Avi Networks
In this webinar, you will learn how to:
- Simplify your infrastructure and operations to deliver virtual desktops and apps
- Troubleshoot end-user experience issues with point and click simplicity
- Eliminate costly over-provisioning of load balancers and save costs for VDI deployments
- Deploy load balancing consistently for virtual desktops in any cloud environment
Deploying Elastic, Self-Service Load Balancing for VMware NSX-TAvi Networks
The VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly Avi Networks) delivers software load balancing, web application firewall (WAF), and Kubernetes ingress services across your data centers, multi-cloud, bare metal, and container infrastructure. With the integration with VMware NSX-T, Avi now offers enterprise-grade load balancing and WAF capabilities for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and NSX-T environments on a complete L2-L7 networking and security virtualization platform. Digital, app-centric companies are replacing traditional appliance-based load balancers that are not built for cloud use cases and cause over-provisioning, partial automation and little visibility.
In this webinar you will learn how to deliver complete automation and self-service by:
Managing load balancers centrally across any environment
Creating new virtual services in just minutes
Scaling load balancing capacity dynamically based on traffic patterns
Troubleshooting application issues without TCP dumps/log exports
Multi-Cloud Load Balancing – Separating Fact from FictionAvi Networks
Watch webinar on-demand here https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/multi-cloud-lb-fact-fiction
Multi-cloud is not a trend, it’s a reality. Applications are deployed anywhere across on-premises data centers and public clouds. Application services including load balancing, web application firewall (WAF) and analytics need to be infrastructure agnostic, portable to containers and fully automatable. Avi Networks, now part of VMware, offers the only software-defined platform that truly delivers multi-cloud.
In this webinar, we will describe how to separate fact from fiction with vendor claims:
- Central control: a single orchestrator with consistent policies vs. a centralized dashboard with pretty UI
- Elastic scale: workload bursting across clouds vs. static capacity overprovisioned at low utilization
- Multi-cloud: enterprise load balancing with GSLB vs. siloed products for heterogeneous environments
Network Automation and Microservices ApplicationAppViewX
Learn more about Network Automation and Microservices Application
1. Monolithic vs Microservices Architecture
2. Primary Changes of Application Microservices
3. Microservices Architecture and the Network
4. Ways to Overcome the Challenges
5. How does AppViewX Help?
How to Eliminate Load Balancer Upgrade DisruptionsAvi Networks
Watch on-demand here https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/load-balancer-upgrade-disruptions
Upgrading load balancers has always been time-consuming. Maintenance windows need to be carefully planned weeks in advance to minimize impact to operations. What if you could schedule non-disruptive, per-tenant patches without requiring the entire load balancing fabric to upgrade?
In this webinar, we will talk about separate control and data plane updates, and pointed partial service engine (SE) upgrades / patches enabled by software-defined architectures. This is impossible with hardware appliances that have to upgrade as a whole. The following use cases will be covered:
- Sandbox upgrades with functional validation prior to 100% rollout
- Partial upgrades on the SE group level without impacting others
- CI/CD pipeline with self-service and canary upgrades
Industry's Best Multi Cloud Application Services from Avi Networks, Now part ...Avi Networks
Watch on-demand https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/industry-best-multi-cloud-app-services
Join the fireside chat with Devyani Pisolkar, Sr. Manager of Networking and Security (NSX) from VMware and Ashish Shah, Sr. Director of Product Management from Avi Networks, Now part of VMware.
We will talk about the industry's only complete L2-L7 software-defined networking stack that delivers consistent application services (including load balancing) across multi-cloud environments. Together, we will help enterprises automate their application delivery, enable self-service and bring public cloud agility on-premises with intrinsic security.
How Multi-Cloud Load Balancing Automates Application Delivery and Drives Oper...Avi Networks
81% of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy, with new requirements on automation and operational consistency across heterogeneous environments. We will explore how modern application services, including load balancing, security and analytics, help deliver applications consistently regardless of underlying infrastructures. Avi Networks now part of VMware, automates application delivery from a single software-defined platform.
You will see live demos and learn how to:
• Integrate into private and public cloud ecosystems including VMware, AWS, Azure, and more.
• Deliver applications consistently using a software-defined and policy-driven platform.
• Apply DevOps principles to application delivery and accelerate multi-cloud deployments.
What's New VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks)Avi Networks
Watch webinar on-demand https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/accelerating-public-cloud-migration
With the Avi Networks acquisition, VMware is officially entering the application delivery controller (ADC) market. VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer delivers multi-cloud application services consistently across on-premises data centers and public clouds.
It’s a new addition to the VMware price list. Join the webinar to learn about software load balancing, web application firewall (WAF), and what’s new with the latest upcoming release:
- Positive security model (PSM) and learning mode for WAF
- Flexible Upgrade for non-disruptive load balancer upgrades
- Support for modern encryption: TLS 1.3
A conflict emerges when people/consumers/employees are accumulating devices (avg. person carries 3) and want to use those for work while organizations are in the process of consolidating infrastructure and the amount of devices they need to manage. Providing employees with anywhere, anytime access is the top reason for VDI interest. Other important areas include the ability to centrally manage desktops to boost efficiency, reduce the cost in upgrading or purchasing desktop computers, the ability to automate and have a robust disaster recovery plan, providing enhanced control over data security along with no limitation on end point devices.
1° Sessione - Tecnologie hyperconvergenti e di virtualizzazione storage: VMwa...Jürgen Ambrosi
Questa prima sessione offre una visione della proposta VMware studiata per consentire l’adozione del paradigma del SDS (Software Defined Storage). VMware vSAN è una soluzione di storage condiviso di classe enterprise estremamente semplice per l’infrastruttura hyperconvergente, ottimizzata per le moderne prestazioni all-flash e configurazioni in Business Continuity e Disaster Recovery.
Achieving Closed Loop Firewall Automation with Batfish Enterprise & ItentialItential
In today’s dynamic IT environment, network and security teams often find themselves caught between the need to make network and security changes quickly while allowing enough time for due diligence to ensure those changes are secure. IT teams are deploying applications at a rapid pace to support their business, so network and security teams need a modern way to rapidly deploy changes without creating unintentional security risks to the organization.
Batfish Enterprise allows network engineers to setup policy rule validation so configuration changes into firewalls (and other network devices) aren’t a guessing game. But now that you finally feel better about making changes, there is more to consider ¬– the change process, the actual change itself, the policy validation, and pre/post checks. That’s where Itential comes in. The Itential Automation Platform is an end-to-end network automation platform purpose-built for this very use case.
Join Mike Elrom, Senior Solutions Architect at Itential and Samir Parikh, Head of Product at Intentionet for a live webinar on achieving closed-loop policy configuration management. Mike and Samir will showcase how Itential automates the entire process, leveraging Intentionet’s Itential Pre-Built contributions to perform policy validation (pre- and post-change) with Batfish Enterprise.
With Batfish Enterprise and Itential, network operators can take comfort in knowing their configuration will meet the configured network policy, all while enjoying the full benefits of automation.
In this live webinar, you’ll see a demo of Batfish Enterprise and Itential’s Automation Platform perform:
Creation and management of a Change Request Process (ServiceNow).
Continuous notification (Slack).
Pre-change validation (Batfish Enterprise).
Fully automated deployment (Palo Alto).
Post-change verification (Batfish Enterprise).
VMworld 2013
Charlie Cano, F5 Networks
Dan Mitchell, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Prevent threats With Analytics Driven Web Application FirewallAvi Networks
Watch on-demand here https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/prevent-threats-waf
In order to secure modern web applications and effectively prevent attacks, security policies including SSL/TLS, ACLs, IP Reputation, and web application firewall (WAF) need to be automated and applied consistently. Explore how Avi Vantage, now VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer, provides central control for security policies with a software-defined architecture, and enables agile application security that aligns with DevOps practices.
In this webinar, you will learn about:
- WAF capabilities including positive security model (PSM) to improve security posture
- Modeling application behavior through learning mode to autotune security policies
- A case study with Swisslos on how WAF helps secure their lottery application
IBM Private Cloud Platform - Setting Foundation for Hybrid (JUKE, 2015)Denny Muktar
This is the slide for IBM Partner Event, November 2015.
Digital Transformation, Innovation, and Industry Transformer through Hybrid Cloud. IBM Scenarios of Hybrid Cloud and Roadmap .An example of how Enterprise can get into Hybrid Cloud through simple Dev/Test Private Cloud as the start.
Web Application Security for Continuous Delivery PipelinesAvi Networks
Watch on-demand webinar: https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/web-application-security-continuous-delivery-pipelines
Applications today have evolved into containers and microservices deployed in fully automated and distributed environments across data centers and clouds. Application services such as load balancing, security, and analytics become critical for continuous delivery.
To secure modern web applications, security policies including SSL/TLS, ACLs, IP Reputation, and WAF need to be applied quickly. We will share a reference implementation from Avi Networks.
Join this webinar to learn:
- CI/CD in the web application security context
- Challenges and solutions integrating a modern web application firewall (WAF) into the application development pipeline
- How to create processes that support both security and development requirements
Enterprise-Grade Load Balancing for VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC)Avi Networks
Multi-Cloud is a reality for modern applications that are deployed everywhere – from data centers to the clouds. VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (by Avi Networks) is a full-featured L4-7 load balancing software solution that is agnostic to the underlying environments. We talked about how to separate fact from fiction and accelerate public cloud migration in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
In this webinar, we will focus on:
- Hybrid cloud deployments with VMC on AWS
- Seamless migration of VMware workloads to AWS
- Use cases including fast Horizon VDI deployments with VMC on AWS
vCloud Air - Infrastructure and Application Services for the EnterprisePhilip Say
VMware vCloud Air is a cloud services platform for businesses. This presentation provides a introduction to the service and a description of a few of the distinctive features that cater to enterprise IT requirements related to networking, workload failover, performance and application design consistency.
Multi-Cloud Load Balancing – Separating Fact from FictionAvi Networks
Watch webinar on-demand here https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/multi-cloud-lb-fact-fiction
Multi-cloud is not a trend, it’s a reality. Applications are deployed anywhere across on-premises data centers and public clouds. Application services including load balancing, web application firewall (WAF) and analytics need to be infrastructure agnostic, portable to containers and fully automatable. Avi Networks, now part of VMware, offers the only software-defined platform that truly delivers multi-cloud.
In this webinar, we will describe how to separate fact from fiction with vendor claims:
- Central control: a single orchestrator with consistent policies vs. a centralized dashboard with pretty UI
- Elastic scale: workload bursting across clouds vs. static capacity overprovisioned at low utilization
- Multi-cloud: enterprise load balancing with GSLB vs. siloed products for heterogeneous environments
Network Automation and Microservices ApplicationAppViewX
Learn more about Network Automation and Microservices Application
1. Monolithic vs Microservices Architecture
2. Primary Changes of Application Microservices
3. Microservices Architecture and the Network
4. Ways to Overcome the Challenges
5. How does AppViewX Help?
How to Eliminate Load Balancer Upgrade DisruptionsAvi Networks
Watch on-demand here https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/load-balancer-upgrade-disruptions
Upgrading load balancers has always been time-consuming. Maintenance windows need to be carefully planned weeks in advance to minimize impact to operations. What if you could schedule non-disruptive, per-tenant patches without requiring the entire load balancing fabric to upgrade?
In this webinar, we will talk about separate control and data plane updates, and pointed partial service engine (SE) upgrades / patches enabled by software-defined architectures. This is impossible with hardware appliances that have to upgrade as a whole. The following use cases will be covered:
- Sandbox upgrades with functional validation prior to 100% rollout
- Partial upgrades on the SE group level without impacting others
- CI/CD pipeline with self-service and canary upgrades
Industry's Best Multi Cloud Application Services from Avi Networks, Now part ...Avi Networks
Watch on-demand https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/industry-best-multi-cloud-app-services
Join the fireside chat with Devyani Pisolkar, Sr. Manager of Networking and Security (NSX) from VMware and Ashish Shah, Sr. Director of Product Management from Avi Networks, Now part of VMware.
We will talk about the industry's only complete L2-L7 software-defined networking stack that delivers consistent application services (including load balancing) across multi-cloud environments. Together, we will help enterprises automate their application delivery, enable self-service and bring public cloud agility on-premises with intrinsic security.
How Multi-Cloud Load Balancing Automates Application Delivery and Drives Oper...Avi Networks
81% of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy, with new requirements on automation and operational consistency across heterogeneous environments. We will explore how modern application services, including load balancing, security and analytics, help deliver applications consistently regardless of underlying infrastructures. Avi Networks now part of VMware, automates application delivery from a single software-defined platform.
You will see live demos and learn how to:
• Integrate into private and public cloud ecosystems including VMware, AWS, Azure, and more.
• Deliver applications consistently using a software-defined and policy-driven platform.
• Apply DevOps principles to application delivery and accelerate multi-cloud deployments.
What's New VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks)Avi Networks
Watch webinar on-demand https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/accelerating-public-cloud-migration
With the Avi Networks acquisition, VMware is officially entering the application delivery controller (ADC) market. VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer delivers multi-cloud application services consistently across on-premises data centers and public clouds.
It’s a new addition to the VMware price list. Join the webinar to learn about software load balancing, web application firewall (WAF), and what’s new with the latest upcoming release:
- Positive security model (PSM) and learning mode for WAF
- Flexible Upgrade for non-disruptive load balancer upgrades
- Support for modern encryption: TLS 1.3
A conflict emerges when people/consumers/employees are accumulating devices (avg. person carries 3) and want to use those for work while organizations are in the process of consolidating infrastructure and the amount of devices they need to manage. Providing employees with anywhere, anytime access is the top reason for VDI interest. Other important areas include the ability to centrally manage desktops to boost efficiency, reduce the cost in upgrading or purchasing desktop computers, the ability to automate and have a robust disaster recovery plan, providing enhanced control over data security along with no limitation on end point devices.
1° Sessione - Tecnologie hyperconvergenti e di virtualizzazione storage: VMwa...Jürgen Ambrosi
Questa prima sessione offre una visione della proposta VMware studiata per consentire l’adozione del paradigma del SDS (Software Defined Storage). VMware vSAN è una soluzione di storage condiviso di classe enterprise estremamente semplice per l’infrastruttura hyperconvergente, ottimizzata per le moderne prestazioni all-flash e configurazioni in Business Continuity e Disaster Recovery.
Achieving Closed Loop Firewall Automation with Batfish Enterprise & ItentialItential
In today’s dynamic IT environment, network and security teams often find themselves caught between the need to make network and security changes quickly while allowing enough time for due diligence to ensure those changes are secure. IT teams are deploying applications at a rapid pace to support their business, so network and security teams need a modern way to rapidly deploy changes without creating unintentional security risks to the organization.
Batfish Enterprise allows network engineers to setup policy rule validation so configuration changes into firewalls (and other network devices) aren’t a guessing game. But now that you finally feel better about making changes, there is more to consider ¬– the change process, the actual change itself, the policy validation, and pre/post checks. That’s where Itential comes in. The Itential Automation Platform is an end-to-end network automation platform purpose-built for this very use case.
Join Mike Elrom, Senior Solutions Architect at Itential and Samir Parikh, Head of Product at Intentionet for a live webinar on achieving closed-loop policy configuration management. Mike and Samir will showcase how Itential automates the entire process, leveraging Intentionet’s Itential Pre-Built contributions to perform policy validation (pre- and post-change) with Batfish Enterprise.
With Batfish Enterprise and Itential, network operators can take comfort in knowing their configuration will meet the configured network policy, all while enjoying the full benefits of automation.
In this live webinar, you’ll see a demo of Batfish Enterprise and Itential’s Automation Platform perform:
Creation and management of a Change Request Process (ServiceNow).
Continuous notification (Slack).
Pre-change validation (Batfish Enterprise).
Fully automated deployment (Palo Alto).
Post-change verification (Batfish Enterprise).
VMworld 2013
Charlie Cano, F5 Networks
Dan Mitchell, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Prevent threats With Analytics Driven Web Application FirewallAvi Networks
Watch on-demand here https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/prevent-threats-waf
In order to secure modern web applications and effectively prevent attacks, security policies including SSL/TLS, ACLs, IP Reputation, and web application firewall (WAF) need to be automated and applied consistently. Explore how Avi Vantage, now VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer, provides central control for security policies with a software-defined architecture, and enables agile application security that aligns with DevOps practices.
In this webinar, you will learn about:
- WAF capabilities including positive security model (PSM) to improve security posture
- Modeling application behavior through learning mode to autotune security policies
- A case study with Swisslos on how WAF helps secure their lottery application
IBM Private Cloud Platform - Setting Foundation for Hybrid (JUKE, 2015)Denny Muktar
This is the slide for IBM Partner Event, November 2015.
Digital Transformation, Innovation, and Industry Transformer through Hybrid Cloud. IBM Scenarios of Hybrid Cloud and Roadmap .An example of how Enterprise can get into Hybrid Cloud through simple Dev/Test Private Cloud as the start.
Web Application Security for Continuous Delivery PipelinesAvi Networks
Watch on-demand webinar: https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/web-application-security-continuous-delivery-pipelines
Applications today have evolved into containers and microservices deployed in fully automated and distributed environments across data centers and clouds. Application services such as load balancing, security, and analytics become critical for continuous delivery.
To secure modern web applications, security policies including SSL/TLS, ACLs, IP Reputation, and WAF need to be applied quickly. We will share a reference implementation from Avi Networks.
Join this webinar to learn:
- CI/CD in the web application security context
- Challenges and solutions integrating a modern web application firewall (WAF) into the application development pipeline
- How to create processes that support both security and development requirements
Enterprise-Grade Load Balancing for VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC)Avi Networks
Multi-Cloud is a reality for modern applications that are deployed everywhere – from data centers to the clouds. VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (by Avi Networks) is a full-featured L4-7 load balancing software solution that is agnostic to the underlying environments. We talked about how to separate fact from fiction and accelerate public cloud migration in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
In this webinar, we will focus on:
- Hybrid cloud deployments with VMC on AWS
- Seamless migration of VMware workloads to AWS
- Use cases including fast Horizon VDI deployments with VMC on AWS
vCloud Air - Infrastructure and Application Services for the EnterprisePhilip Say
VMware vCloud Air is a cloud services platform for businesses. This presentation provides a introduction to the service and a description of a few of the distinctive features that cater to enterprise IT requirements related to networking, workload failover, performance and application design consistency.
RightScale Webinar: Cloud is the most nebulous and abused term in information technology today. It describes multiple, disparate service models and has been retroactively applied to countless legacy technologies in attempts to keep them current. In this webinar, we'll discuss the cloud technology landscape and where RightScale fits in to drive agility, cost, and time savings above cloud infrastructure. RightScale has been investing heavily for the past four years to make cloud infrastructure easy to leverage. This webinar will clarify elements that are straightforward, what continues to be difficult, and the impact on your schedule and budget.
Lecture #6 - ET-3010
Cloud Computing - Overview and Examples
Connected Services and Cloud Computing
School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics SEEI / STEI
Institut Teknologi Bandung ITB
Update April 2017
SIM204-What's Coming in Virtual Machine Manager 2012?Lai Yoong Seng
In this session, we (Raymond Chou (SCOM MVP) & Lai Yoong Seng (VM MVP) provided an overview of the new features in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 which included new architecture of VMM 2012 and 4 pillar of management:- deployment, fabric, cloud and services management at Microsoft Tech-Ed New Zealand 2011 (Auckland).
CIT-2697 - Customer Success Stories with IBM PureApplication SystemHendrik van Run
This IBM InterConnect 2015 session will cover a number of successful customer deployments of IBM PureApplication System. The described case studies include a variety of middleware platforms, as well as many additional operational requirements, like High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Monitoring and more. Main focus is on giving a broad overview of what customers have done with the system and what the critical success factors were.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
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Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
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.
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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
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
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.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
4. Cloud Computing Deployment Choices Off Premises On Premises Location Homogeneous Heterogeneous Infrastructure CapEx OpEx Business model Own Lease/Rent Ownership Choices Choices Self Third Party Management IT Common Management Platform On-Demand Self-Service Location- Independent Resource Pooling Rapid Elasticity Ubiquitous Network Access Measured service with pay per use Application Programming Fundamentals Fundamentals http://technetevents.com 4 Copyright 2011 Microsoft
6. Separation of Responsibilities On-Premises Infrastructure as a Service Software as a Service Platform as a Service You manage Applications Applications Applications Applications You manage Data Data Data Data You manage Runtime Runtime Runtime Runtime Middleware Middleware Middleware Middleware Others Manage Others Manage O/S O/S O/S O/S Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization Others Manage Servers Servers Servers Servers Storage Storage Storage Storage Networking Networking Networking Networking
7. Gartner, Private Cloud Computing Plans From Conference Polls, Thomas Bittman, 4/30/2010 Will your enterprise be pursuing a private cloud computing strategy by 2012? Through 2012, how will your IT organization invest in cloud computing? Don’t know 6% No 4% Neither 11% Maybe 20% More public 8% More private 75% Yes 76% N=88 N=106 Private and Public Cloud Plans Copyright 2011 Microsoft http://technetevents.com 7
8. Private Cloud Challenges Gartner, Private Cloud Computing Plans From Conference Polls, Thomas Bittman, 4/30/2010 What are your three biggest challenges (in priority order) in creating a private cloud computing service? n=95 Weighted scores: 1st priority = 3 2nd priority = 2 3rd priority = 1 7 42 77 56 96 92 76 32 Copyright 2011 Microsoft http://technetevents.com 8
9. Private Cloud Benefits Accelerate time-to-market Respond rapidly changing business needs Reduce resource consumption by increasing automation and self-services Improve cost-effectiveness Copyright 2011 Microsoft http://technetevents.com 9
11. Cloud Computing On Premises Datacenter Evolution Off premises On-premises/ Hosted TraditionalDatacenter VirtualizedDatacenter Deliver IT as a ServiceControl Shared cloud-like agility and economics Well-known, stable, and secure Utilization <15% Utilization Increases to >50% Management Costs Decrease Global reach Capacity on demand Service Standardization High agility Scale Economics Copyright 2011 Microsoft http://technetevents.com 11
12. Highly Virtualized Computing vs. Private Cloud Highly virtualized computing Key Attributes Copyright 2011 Microsoft + http://technetevents.com 12
13. Prepare for Cloud Computing Today Building on-premises private cloud of IaaS Optimizing and automating infrastructure and services Integrating physical, virtual and cloud management Managing from a single-pane of glass Leveraging investments in Hyper-V, System Center and PowerShell Data Protection & Recovery Configure & Deploy IT Service Management Monitor & Manage Service End to End Virtualize, Deploy & Manage IT Process Automation Common Management Platform Copyright 2011 Microsoft http://technetevents.com 13
15. Microsoft Private Cloud Offerings Hyper-V Cloud Deployment Guide Fast Track Service providers Integrated and extended security Server consolidation Non-MS OS support Self-service portal Datacenter to cloud management Multi-platform support Copyright 2011 Microsoft http://technetevents.com 15
17. Get Started Private Cloud Computing Today How To 2 3 1 Standardize and automate datacenter management with System Center Standardize identity with Active Directory Virtualize with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Deploy applications on Windows Azure platform 4 5 Windows Azure Platform Enable self-service with Self-Service Portal Copyright 2011 Microsoft http://technetevents.com 17
18. Vision Partner-extensible portal that enables datacenters to pool, allocate, and manage resources to enable IT as a service A free turnkey solution providing: Infrastructure readiness guidance On-boarding, admin and Self-Service Lightweight provisioning engine Extensibility authoring UI http://technetevents.com 18 Copyright 2011 Microsoft
19. Self Service Web Portal Administrator’s Console Operator’s Console Web Console Windows PowerShell Windows® PowerShell Connector Virtual Machine Manager Server Operations Manager Server Management Interfaces Virtual Server Host VMM Library Server VMware VI3 Virtual Center Server ESX Host VM VM VM VM VM VM Template VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM ISO Script VHD SAN Storage SCVMM Architecture Copyright 2011 Microsoft http://technetevents.com 19
24. VMMSSP 2.0 Components No! Upgrade from VMMSSP 1.0? Database (failover cluster) Server Web Site Windows Server 2008 R2 SQL Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Windows PowerShell 2.0 Message Queuing (also known as MSMQ) VMM 2008 R2 Administrator Console Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS 7.0 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Copyright 2011 Microsoft http://technetevents.com 24
25. VMMSSP Role It’s a policy defining what actions an authenticated self-service portal user can act upon a deployed virtual machine . Objects a user may take actions on + + Profile Scope Membership AD security groups, and user accounts Permitted actions, accessible user interface Copyright 2011 Microsoft http://technetevents.com 25
26. VMMSSP 2.0 Roles Data Center IT (DCIT) Admin Business Unit IT (BUIT) Admin Advanced Operator Business Unit User Custom role Copyright 2011 Microsoft Use VMMSSP 2.0 UI to manage SSP 2.0 user roles. http://technetevents.com 26
27. VMM SSP: Building Blocks for IaaS Copyright 2011 Microsoft http://technetevents.com 27
28. Shared Resource Pool of Network Storage Compute Shared Resource Pool of HR Marketing Finance Sales Staffing Solution Employment Info. Service Hiring Service Production Environment Dev-Test Environment Production Environment Headcount Approval Resume Screening General Data Employment Record Service Role Service Role Service Role Service Role Network Storage Compute Corporate network Resources: Network access, storage allocation & quotas, access control Development virtual network Resources: Network access, storage allocation & quotas, access control Corporate network Resources: Network access, storage allocation & quotas, access control Sample HR Service Delivery Model http://technetevents.com 28 Copyright 2011 Microsoft
29. Sample HR Service Deliveries Architecture Copyright 2011 Microsoft http://technetevents.com BU Detail Environment Quota Template Infrastructure Staffing Solution Service Environment Type Service Quota Network Access Control SAN Hiring Service Environment Type Service Quota Network Access Control SAN Service Role Service Role Service Role Employee Information General Data Employment Record Headcount Approval Role Network Load Balancing Role Network Load Balancing Role Network Load Balancing Role Network Load Balancing Candidate Screening Service Role 29
33. Microsoft Cloud Solutions http://technetevents.com 33 Provides a familiar and consistent platform across traditional, private and public cloud environments Builds on existing datacenter investments and skill sets 1/6 Costs 1/6 the amount of competitor’s offerings Manages your heterogeneous IT Infrastructure Copyright 2011 Microsoft
34. Private cloud Public cloud Cloud Computing on Your Terms MANAGEMENT COMMON: DEVELOPMENT VIRTUALIZATION IDENTITY http://technetevents.com 34 Copyright 2011 Microsoft
35. Changes are happening to IT pros’ roles. They are exciting and for the better. Closing Thoughts
36. Once, I managed servers. Now, I manage services. Infrastructure as a Service Business as a Service IT as a Service
50. Call to Action Harold’s blog posts http://blogs.technet.com/haroldwong Free trial of SCVMM and free download of SSP 2.0 http://microsoft.com Download Center Hyper-V Cloud Deployment guide http://microsoft.com/privatecloud Copyright 2011 Microsoft http://technetevents.com 39
What Is the New Conversation?The goal of the “new conversation” is to enhance our ability to become trusted advisors to our customers through relevant and timely conversations at the right altitude with the right audience. By aligning executive decision maker conversations with our customers’ enterprise investment areas and connecting these conversations to other capability, workload, product, and service conversations that we are already having with IT and business decision makers, IT professionals, and developers in an account, we can ensure the greatest sales impact.New for FY10, the “enterprise investment area” conversations were selected using both third-party analyst insight (such as from Gartner, Forrester, and IDC) and input from internal sources (such as Executive Briefing Centers [EBCs] and Segment Alignment Workshops [SAWs]). The selected topics reflect:What our customers are talking about.What our customers want to talk to Microsoft about.What Microsoft wants to talk to customers about.For FY10, we have prioritized six conversations: low-cost computing in the enterprise, business intelligence, innovation for growth, corporate environmental sustainability, consumerization of IT, and cloud computing.For a view of how these conversations connect with other conversations, please download the connected conversation map presentation or spreadsheet.What Is Cloud Computing?Cloud computing refers to the ability to deploy and consume IT services over the Web; it is based on the concepts of being highly virtualized, managed in a consistent manner, and dynamic and offering elastic scalability. Enterprise interest in cloud computing is growing rapidly, and analysts consistently predict increased spending/adoption over the next few years. Cloud computing can help organizations reduce costs, increase IT efficiency and productivity, deliver continual access for remote users, and increase business agility.Available ResourcesIn addition to this sales presentation, a conversation guideis available. For more information on the enterprise investment area conversations and supporting resources, please visit the New Conversation section on http://resourceone.Please send your feedback and suggestions on this sales conversation presentation to “Ask Steve” at http://infoweb2007/sites/resourceone/blogs/asksteve/Pages/r1.aspx.
In the interest of time and simplification of setup - this is optional.We may add a demo of SCVMM 2012 at some point after the beta is released (Shh! It’s coming at MMS)
To refresh our memory again on the aspects behind our choice of where we run our services….
SaaS - Applications deployed where provider licenses application to customer for use on-demandPaaS - Computing or software development platform and solutions stack delivered as-a-serviceIaaS - Computing infrastructure delivered from the cloud “as-a-service”
Don’t spend more than 10 seconds on this slide.Indeed, many case studies published by Microsoft at http://microsoft.com/casestudies, for instance, have proved the many benefits private cloud or cloud computing in general can bring to enterprise IT including:….
So how do we get there, how do we move from point a to point b?
Key message – tell a story that virtualization is a stepping stone into something bigger, and lead to system management is the center of all this.Reference MaterialClarify taxonomy: On prem and off premDeployment topologies: On prem: Physical/Virt/Private cloud IaaS/ PaaS ; Off prem: IaaS (hoster)/PaaS/ SaaSVirt is key catalyst: will have to virtualize to enable pooling etc. Private cloud is sweet spot although most orgs will deploy a mix of hybrid models including shared/ public cloudsShared/Public clouds are benchmark for private clouds to emulate Mgmt and operational process maturity is key to cloud computing….Key pointsCloud = (Shared resource pool + Virt) + Automation + Service standardization (service centric mgmt. + app modeling/design + h/w stdization.) + Self-service + ChargebackVirt = Ops Efficiency, increased util / reduced OPEX/CAPEX; Private Cloud = Agility + Control; Public Cloud = agility with reach and fully variable usage meteringVirtualization is the catalyst which enables cloud computingPublic cloud is the “benchmark” and is driving conversation between LOB/CIO and internal IT – e.g. I can get a unit of compute in 15 mins & 12c/hr from foo public cloud, why cant you provide me the same? We see an opportunity to bring “cloud principles” in the form of product capabilities to your datacenters. Private Cloud is still the majority comfort zone for enterprises over the next few years given their unique SLA or biz integration or privacy/security concernsTo get the best of both worlds, Hybrids will be the norm with enterprises: Full time infra or sensitive infra/services inside the firewall in phy/virt/private cloud modes while wanting to leverage public cloud benefits for temporary infra capacity or global scale or undifferentiated workloads…We’ve already seen how important mgmt is to virt environments. End to end management capabilities across this continuum is key to ensure enterprises get full flexibility and freedom of choice to deploy. Mgmt and operational processes biggest challenge in adoption of private cloud computing (see appendix)Supporting Evidence: Cloud is priority #2 (up from #16) – Gartner CIO survey, Q4 2009, published Jan 201078% of midsized and large enterprises plan to pursue a cloud computing strategy (public or private) by 2012 – Gartner, March 201081% of customer environments expected to be hybrid by 2012 – Source: Microsoft sponsored Cloud Study 2009*Quote: IT operations organizations supporting corporate public cloud initiatives should seek management tools that integrate with in-house management architectures to more readily enable end-to-end management. – Gartner Research, March 4 2010 Quote: Achieving integration between existing on-premises management products and public cloud management tooling is seen as a key enabler to the adoption of public cloud computing by enterprises. – Gartner Research, March 4 2010
In the past few years, many IT shops have in various shapes and forms introduced virtualization into existing computing environment. Some also run highly virtualized IT environment with automated virtualization. And we are in a way familiar with the benefits and the technical aspects of server virtualization, application virtualization, user state virtualization, presentation virtualization, desktop virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure, etc. etc. The question then become “Is automated virtualization the same with private cloud?” and “I am running a highly virtualization environment today, do I still need private cloud? Or simply “What is the difference between highly virtualized computing and private cloud?”It turns out highly virtualized computing gives you the benefits of increased utilization of your servers, power savings, and reduced server footprint. We are familiar with these as they are in datacenters today. However, this does not equal the private cloud.[Build1] A Private cloud provides all of those benefits plus highly integrated and automated management, scalable and elastic platforms, and self service.Highly Automated – No longer do IT personnel need to worry about keeping software up to dateScalable and Elastic – Enabling faster delivery of capacity when resource needs change. Self-Service– Providing self-service IT infrastructure to business units and departments with an SLA. This forces service-level discussion and removes the burden to procure, provision and manage infrastructure on a per application, ad-hoc basisIn fact, virtualization is not a destination, buta stepping stone into cloud computing.
How System Center will help you evolve your datacenter investments and help you prepare for the cloud. Talk about why System Center Integrated management using one single central set of tools across phy, virt and cloud environments is very critical to reducing complexity in your datacenter environment. This is also key to bridging the gap between on premises and shared/ public cloud deployments across the full stack. Our vision is much more holistic and credible with our deep datacenter investments and experience running cloud services. System Center can help you improve your business responsiveness withon premises cloud Computing infrastructure using your existing investments. Advanced Virt-Mgmt capabilities allow you to optimize your infra and business critical apps like Exchange, SP, SQL in a way that competition cannot.Deep datacenter automation enables you to streamline your datacenter processes, lower costs, improve service reliability/predictability. We are ahead of VMware on this.
When we talk with partners and customers, there are a few reasons why they’re starting to find the cloud attractive: The cloud is service oriented. A cloud platform provides a utility-like model to compute and store resources—where organizations can pay only for what they use. This is often called a “pay as you go” model. The cloud enables “always available” resources.By pushing services and resources to the cloud, Microsoft cloud solutions include high availability and disaster recovery. Cloud services can improve time to market for new applications.Instead of spending weeks or months deploying servers and infrastructure to support new applications, organizations can quickly deploy applications to the cloud or use storage in the cloud, where vendors provide pre-provisioned datacenters. Cloud Services can make it much easier to scale up or down as needed.Instead of building out capacity for peak usage or not having enough capacity to deal with usage spikes, the cloud allows the platform vendor to manage the capacity—and you use (and pay for) only what you need. Think of this as “pay as you grow.”The Microsoft foundation for cloud computing on premises is enabled by the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-service Portal, System Center, Forefront, and Windows Server.
Hyper-V, the Windows Server 2008 R2 hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, is a core component of the Microsoft private cloud. Hyper-V helps you to make the best use of your server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as separate virtual machines (VMs) running on a single physical machine. It also helps you efficiently run multiple, different operating systems—Windows, Linux, and others—in parallel, on a single server, and fully leverage the power of x64 computing.Private Cloud for the EnterpriseThe private cloud is a new model of success for enterprises because it allows them to scale up as needed, quickly and cost-effectivelywhile improving business capabilities with dynamic, flexible applications. Benefits include the ability to:Deliver scalable applications and workloads.Enable federated services across the full cloud continuum.Manage the data center fabric as a single pool of resources.Focus on the management of the data center service and its dependencies.Hyper-V Cloud OfferingsDeployment guidesTo help you get started building your own private cloud with Microsoft products.Build your own private cloud based on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and System CenterFast TrackFor pre-validated configurations from Microsoft and OEM server partners.Hyper-V Cloud partners have specialized resources, industry knowledge, and best practices to help you plan, build, and deploy commercial private and public clouds based on Windows Server Hyper-V, System Center, and related products.Service providersFor partners who can host a dedicated private cloud for you.
1. Ramp up virtualization efforts and expertise with Hyper-V™ and Virtual Machine Manager2. Standardize on server platform leveraging Windows Server 2008 R23. Standardize on System Center management platform for both physical and virtual environments4. Architect IT services for shared and abstracted compute resource pools using the free Self Service Portal5. Get started today with the Windows Azure Platform, testing new apps and service delivery mechanismsThe best way to prepare for the cloud is to use the same Microsoft products and technologies you would use to optimize a traditional datacenter. Additionally, you should consider the following five options: Ramp up Virtualization Efforts and ExpertiseOrganizations should increase their knowledge of and experience with virtualization and virtualization management by utilizing Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager. Together, these tools can enable organizations to increase hardware utilization, reduce costs, and streamline physical and virtual server management.Standardize on Scalable Server HardwareWith the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, organizations have access to a wealth of new capabilities that can reduce the cost of datacenter operations, enhance security and availability, extend access more broadly, and improve server manageability. The opportunity for organizations is to scale these benefits to their entire server and datacenter infrastructure while maximizing the use of their resources through new approaches such as server virtualization. Because of its primary role in the server infrastructure, server modernization is a great way to accelerate the process of optimizing the datacenter. Standardize Management for Both Physical and Virtual Server EnvironmentsThe adoption of server-management best practices for automation, virtualization, and integrated management provides the opportunity to save thousands of dollars each year in operational costs. As part of the Microsoft optimized datacenter capabilities, System Center datacenter-management solutions are designed to help organizations take advantage of opportunities to both improve operations and lower costs when managing physical and virtual systems.Architect IT services for shared and abstracted compute resource pools using the free Self Service PortalIn addition, you should look to download the free self service portal so that you can truly begin to realize the benefits of cloud computing for your datacenter services.Fine-tune processes around IT/people interactionFinally, you should look at how your team is going to best leverage cloud computing – look at how you can begin to reallocate the resources to delivering greater business value. Start to look at how cloud computing can help you realign your resources to help your organization realize new business opportunities.Preparing for the CloudScale virtualization – Maturing your virt environment and virtualizing a greater % of your datacenter is key enabler to cloud computing. For e.g. Production workloads, business critical LOB apps.Standardize on mgmt – Mgmt is so key to efficiently managing virtenv so standardizing is key across all your environments…be they physical, virtual or cloudStandardize and Automate datacenter processes – Start with simplifying your service management processes based on industry standardmodels like MOF/ITIL. The key to cloud computing is to have very high levels ofautomation. Reduces costs and drives down complexity. Need to have shared homogeneous (as much as possible) resource pools to gain the efficiencies of scale in cloud environments Finally, you’ve got to architect services for shared resource pools; another key principle of cloud computingYou can see that the Datacenter Management solutions we will discuss are very well aligned to support you in your Cloud Computing journey.
Stay 30 seconds most on this slide and talk about the requirements and architecture in the next side. Key – free download from microsoft.com
Key messages – SSP runs on top of SCVMM. Both need a database and don’t need to use the same instance. Use SCVMM admin console to configure resources (Hosts, Libraries, VHDs, ISOs, profiles, template, etc.) available as before. And Us SSP 2.0 web site to configure IaaS including data center setting, registration of business unit, initiating and approve requests, processing change requests, creating virtualization machines, etc. which we will be discussing in upcoming slides and demos.
In the interest of time and simplification of setup - this is optional.We may add a demo of SCVMM 2012 at some point after the beta is released (Shh! It’s coming at MMS)
VMMSSP (also referred to as the self-service portal) is a fully supported, partner-extensible solution built on top of Windows Server® 2008 R2, Hyper-V™ technology, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). You can use it to pool, allocate, and manage resources to offer infrastructure as a service and to deliver the foundation for a private cloud platform inside your datacenter. VMMSSP includes a pre-built web-based user interface that has sections for both the datacenter managers and the business unit IT consumers, with role-based access control. VMMSSP also includes a dynamic provisioning engine. VMMSSP reduces the time needed to provision infrastructures and their components by offering business unit “on-boarding,” infrastructure request, and change management.The self-service portal has three components: the VMMSSP website component, which provides the user interface itself, and the VMMSSP server and VMMSSP database components, which work together to provide the underlying functionality.The VMMSSP website component provides a role-based user interface to the self-service portal; in this way, it provides functionality for different levels of users within business units, and for datacenter administrators who oversee the entire system.The VMMSSP server component is a Windows® service that runs default and customized virtual machine actions that users request through the VMMSSP website. The VMMSSP server component uses the VMMSSP database component to store and retrieve information (described later in this section), and communicates with the Virtual Machine Manager server to manage virtual machines and access resources such as the VMM Library and virtual machine hosts. Customized virtual machine actions may contain scripts that interact with Virtual Machine Manager or with other datacenter resources, such as SANs or load balancers. The VMMSSP server component runs any embedded scripts when it runs the virtual machine actions.The VMMSSP server component also makes sure that business units do not exceed the memory and storage quotas that have been reserved for their use, and calculates the charge-back costs—costs to business units of both the reserved resources and the resources in use.The VMMSSP database component is a SQL Server® database that stores information about configured assets, information related to business units and requests, and information about what has been provisioned to various business units. The database also stores the XML that encodes default and customized virtual machine actions and other information related to the configuration of the self-service portal.
Profile determines which actions are permitted and which user interface is accessibleScope determinesWhich objects a user may take actions on
Datacenter administrators (DC administrators) belong to the DCIT Admin role.Each business unit enrolled in the self-service portal has at least one business unit administrator, who belongs to the BUIT Admin role. Each business unit can have multiple members of the Advanced Operator and Business Unit User roles; each role member is associated with one of the services in the business unit’s infrastructures. A self-service portal user can be a member of the Advanced Operator role for one service and a member of the Business Unit User role for another service. Permissions for the Advanced Operator role and the Business Unit User role pertain to virtual machine actions; these roles cannot have permissions for operations not related to virtual machine actions. Members of the DCIT Admin role can add custom user roles to the self-service portal. Permissions for the custom roles pertain to virtual machine actions; custom roles cannot have permissions for operations not related to virtual machine actions.
InfrastructuresIn the context of the self-service portal, an infrastructure is a collection of services that a business unit needs for a specific purpose. For example, a human resources business unit may create an infrastructure called “Payroll” that contains the services needed to run the payroll system. A single business unit can manage multiple infrastructures. ServicesAn infrastructure must contain at least one service. The service coordinates the resources needed for a specific function or set of related functions. These resources include networks, Active Directory® domains, users that have access to the service, memory and storage capacity available to the virtual machines, and locations of virtual machine templates to use in creating virtual machines. A business unit can use a service to contain groups of virtual machines (see the discussion of service roles later in this section) that must communicate with each other, such as a set of web servers and their supporting database server. A business unit can use multiple services to set up parallel versions of the same environment, such as a production environment and a development or test version of the same environment.If the datacenter environment includes a storage area network (SAN), services can take advantage of the rapid provisioning features provided in Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. Rapid provisioning decreases the amount of time to create virtual machines by eliminating the need to copy the virtual hard disks (VHDs) for the new virtual machines over a network connection. For more information about how rapid provisioning works or about how to configure it, see What's New in VMM 2008 R2 Scripting.Service RolesA service must contain at least one service role. A service role is a group of virtual machines that perform a single function and share some configuration settings. Service roles within a service have access to a common set of networks (configured as part of the service), or may be configured to use a subset of those networks.A common way to use service roles is to group virtual machines for load balancing. You can designate a load balancer for a service role, and the load balancer can manage network traffic to the virtual machines in the service role. Incoming traffic connects to the single virtual IP address and a TCP/IP port configured for the load balancer, and the load balancer forwards the traffic to one of the virtual machines in the service role. For example, to run a web application, a BUIT administrator can request a service role of load-balanced virtual web servers. The load-balancing configuration of the service role applies to each member virtual machine. The BUIT administrator can request new virtual machines for the service role as appropriate. The self-service portal does not provide its own load balancing functionality; you can configure a service role to use the virtual IP address, port numbers, and network connections of an external load balancer. Note Depending on your specific load balancer, the self-service portal may need to use custom versions of the virtual machine actions (Stop, Start, and so forth). In addition to configuring a service role to use a specific load balancer, you can configure the service role to use a matching set of customized virtual machine actions. For more information, see “Extending the Self-Service Portal.”In this figure, the single service of the HR Recruiting Infrastructure runs the Recruiting website. This service contains two service roles, one of front-end web servers and one of back-end servers.The business unit uses the HR Benefits Infrastructure to develop and test software for its Benefits website. One service runs a development environment, and a separate service runs the testing environment. The two services are configured similarly, so the business unit can develop and test changes in parallel environments. Each service has two sets of virtual machines, grouped into two service roles. (Although not shown in the diagram, in the Web Front-End Servers service role, the virtual machines are load balanced.)
1. Assess and plan, get to shared resource pool2. Map and config resources to the VMM Self Service Portal 3. Onboard BUITs (e.g HR, Legal) by having them define their infra requirements and then allocating them as per availability 4. Allow BUIT end-users to self provision infra for their apps within their allocated “sandbox”
The self-service portal is an extensible web-based application that provides virtual machine self-service provisioning functions to groups within an organization (referred to as business units) while the physical resources (servers, networks, storage devices, and related hardware) remain in a centralized pool, referred to as the datacenter. The self-service portal has three components: the VMMSSP website component, which provides the user interface itself, and the VMMSSP server and VMMSSP database components, which work together to provide the underlying functionality.The figure provides an overview of how different types of users can interact with the self-service portal, how the self-service portal components interact with each other, and how the self-service portal interacts with the components of Virtual Machine Manager and other datacenter components.
This is where you do the DemoMate demo starting at Demo 2.
[20 seconds most]Either your ultimate goal is private cloud or public cloud, or a hybrid model, the strategic investments you have made yesterday and today like Active Directory, Hyper-V, System Center, .Net Services are and will continue relevant and reusable.Reference MaterialDeploying Microsoft’s private cloud infrastructure positions you to take advantage of the Windows Azure public cloud platform Common management, identity and development tools that work across physical, virtual, private and public cloud environmentsWith Microsoft solutions for private cloud, you’ll have the flexibility and control to harness the full power of the cloud on your terms. Deploying Microsoft’s private cloud infrastructure positions you to take advantage of the Windows Azure public cloud platform so that you can benefit from limitless scale and even greater efficiencies whenever needed. Microsoft provides common management, identity and development tools that work across physical, virtual, private and public cloud environments, giving you the flexibility to build, run, migrate, or extend an application to the cloud on your terms. Today, our federated identity solutions allow your to manage identities and access on premises and in multiple public cloud services (including non-Microsoft). Microsoft is also bringing the power of Windows Azure to the private cloud with the Windows Azure Platform Appliance, a turnkey cloud platform thatservice providers, large enterprises and governments can deploy in their own datacenter, across hundreds to thousands of servers. WAPA will deliver the power of the Windows Azure Platform to your datacenter. Common Management “Single pane of glass” for apps deployed across on-premises and Windows Azure:§ Common Identity with Windows Azure AppFabric: Fabrikam demo on how federated identities across multiple entities enable streamlining of business processes (we’re landing this demo at PDC as well I believe) § We should also try and reinforce the business value of the following Windows Azure PDC announcements: · Easier mobility of apps between on premises and Windows Azure (enabling burst scenarios for example): VM role · Enable a broader set of appsrun in the public cloud without requiring a rewrite, simplified app deployment and lowered operational expense: Server Application Virtualization allows app sequencing and deployment on Windows Azure worker roles. Messaging around server Application Virtualization is still being finalized….but the above should hold for most part.
Tell a story about pre-cloud era infrastructure…. how IT professionals like network architects, infrastructure specialist, system engineer, IT supports, etc. architect an IT environment, acquire hardware, set hardware and software standards, build networks, place servers, roll out applications, etc. etc.And frequently, when people ask “what do you do? We would say: infrastructure, networks, you know, I ma an infrastructure guy, I manage servers, I mean a whole lot of servers, and so on.After this session, I hope it will be clear to you all that exciting changes are happening and great opportunities are presenting themselves to us at this time, and I believe you will recognize the description [Build1] and response that you have been given to talk about you jobs are no longer adequate. Then…. we were managing… “infrastructure”…..Now, you and I…. In this cloud era…..[Build2] We manage… Infrastructure… [Build3]… I mean “Infrastructure as a Service.”Let’s find out.
SSP 2.0 SP1 Beta just went up on Connect at the beginning of March.