Rate Ur' Beats is a business and operational plan to encourage adults to monitor their cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk through an intuitive mobile app. The app will provide CVD risk assessments, monitoring, location-based reminders for screenings, a discussion forum, and APIs to partner with insurance companies. The strategy is to engage users through their smartphones to motivate heart health. The operational plan involves developing features across four quarters such as risk tracking, advertising frameworks, and networking capabilities to help 250,000 users by September 2013.
Ethiopian Pastoral Research and Devlopment network by daniel temesgenDaniel Temesgen
The Ethiopian Pastoral Research and Development Network (EPRDN) which is currently hosted by Haramaya University was established under the terms and conditions stated in Memorandum of Understanding which was signed by the different universities; pastoral research institutes and
development partners on October 25th , 2011 at Dire Dawa University. The Network was established with the aim of building and enhancing the capacity of stakeholders adapt and respond to emerging issues; changing circumstances and challenges; mobilizing and sharing resources among member organizations for coordinated research and development in pastoral areas; facilitating exchange of knowledge, skills and information on regular basis; creating a platform for designing and implementing training programs in pastoral development and support the process of pastoral- oriented curriculum development; and facilitate dissemination of technology packages and provide consultation and evidence based advice to end users.
Commercial destocking pastoralist areas of Borena Daniel Temesgen
Livestock destocking have been started in 1980s by NGOs and state agencies (Slaughter destocking related to meat supply during drought
Commercial destocking is recent, started to be practiced in Southern Ethiopia in Borena with NGOs and government,
The main strategy used was facilitating link between traders and the drought affected community or providing fund to the cooperatives
The two approaches in destocking are: commercial and slaughter destocking (Both types of destocking are familiar in Borena & practiced since 2005/6 by NGO & Government
Ethiopian Pastoral Research and Devlopment network by daniel temesgenDaniel Temesgen
The Ethiopian Pastoral Research and Development Network (EPRDN) which is currently hosted by Haramaya University was established under the terms and conditions stated in Memorandum of Understanding which was signed by the different universities; pastoral research institutes and
development partners on October 25th , 2011 at Dire Dawa University. The Network was established with the aim of building and enhancing the capacity of stakeholders adapt and respond to emerging issues; changing circumstances and challenges; mobilizing and sharing resources among member organizations for coordinated research and development in pastoral areas; facilitating exchange of knowledge, skills and information on regular basis; creating a platform for designing and implementing training programs in pastoral development and support the process of pastoral- oriented curriculum development; and facilitate dissemination of technology packages and provide consultation and evidence based advice to end users.
Commercial destocking pastoralist areas of Borena Daniel Temesgen
Livestock destocking have been started in 1980s by NGOs and state agencies (Slaughter destocking related to meat supply during drought
Commercial destocking is recent, started to be practiced in Southern Ethiopia in Borena with NGOs and government,
The main strategy used was facilitating link between traders and the drought affected community or providing fund to the cooperatives
The two approaches in destocking are: commercial and slaughter destocking (Both types of destocking are familiar in Borena & practiced since 2005/6 by NGO & Government
Distinguishing, Evaluating, and Selecting Cloud Service ProvidersGartnerJessica
This presentation is focused on addressing the broad category of Cloud Service Providers. Gartner will provide a overview of how Cloud Service Providers are being defined and how they different from traditional providers of outsourcing or products. And more importantly, what are they offering that is different, new and seeks to solve business problems for the enterprise. This session will provide an overview of these areas and begin the discussion of how do clients develop the business case for certain cloud services offerings.
Topics Discussed
Gartner analysts discussed with participants the following topics:
What is a cloud service provider and how does it differ from traditional outsourcing providers?
How will the approaches to evaluate and select among these providers differ?
How does the business case analysis differ?
Rebaca has been providing development and deployment support related to PCRF, AAA Server, SPR, DPI, Policy Server, EMS/NMS (SNMP, TR069), Subscriber Management, Service Provisioning, Assurance and Monitoring and Providing customization services (Mediation, Portal Development). for Tier-1 Operator like Reliance, Maxis, Bakrie,Zain, Optus, Tigo etc.
The key expertise areas are:
Familiarity from Wireless network (GSM/CDMA/LTE) to Wireline Network : DSL, xDSL
Familiarity with AAA Server ,PCRF, SPR, DPI
Familiarity with PCRF Diameter Interfaces : Gx, Gy, Gx+, Sh, Rx, Gz, Ro, S9, Gxx
Interoperability testing with GGSN,PDSN, OCS , DPI Switches , Edge Routers
Policy Server deployment , Customer data Migration and Service activation
Customer Care and Self Care Portal development
SNMP and TR-69 based EMS.
Accelerating Cloud Services and How to Match your Workload to the Right Intel...Amazon Web Services
This presentation will take you through the underlying Intel technologies available in AWS EC2 Instances, what benefits these technologies can provide and how to use these technologies to maximise your use case workloads AWS EC2 Instances provide a wide selection of instance types, optimised to fit a broad and diverse set of use cases, all supported by the latest Intel Xeon processors and technologies providing you with confidence to choose an AWS EC2 instance type that best meet your performance needs for compute intensive, memory intensive, or IOPS intensive applications.
So, if you are interested in how to maximise your existing code optimisations and investments or thinking about migrating workloads to AWS come to this session.
Speaker: Peter Kerney, Lead Enterprise Architect, Cloud, SDI and NFV, Intel
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Companies everywhere are feeling the pressures of today’s economic demands; and IT departments are being forced to find ways to do more with less. They are taking closer looks at infrastructure and processes—comparing them to business needs and budgets. Companies are looking for practical innovation to solve their problems and many companies are turning to CIBER. In this session listen to how CIBER leverages Nimsoft IT Management as a Service to help them elegantly provide IT management for their clients.
Visit www.nimsoft.com for more information.
MeasureWorks - Stay in control when moving into the cloud, Compuware May 4thMeasureWorks
One of the obstacles to be overcome when implementing Cloud-based IT services is the management challenge: applications that reach out from the datacenter into the borderless internet can not be monitored and managed in the same way currently done with the traditional system management tools.
Learn about how today’s borderless applications can be managed and monitored in a complex internet-based environment that spans various third parties as well as the datacenter.
An experience is a personal and emotional event we remember. Every experience is established based upon pre-determined expectations we conceive and create in our minds. It’s personal, and therefore, remains a moving and evolving target in every scenario. When our experience concludes and the moment has passed, the outcome remains in our memory. Think about what makes you happy when connecting with your own device and then think about what makes you really upset when things are hard, complicated, and slow. If the user has a bad experience in anyone of these areas (simple, fast, and smart), they are likely to leave, share their negative experience, and potentially never return. Users might forget facts or details about their computing environment but they find it difficult to forgot the feeling behind a bad network experience. When something goes wrong with the network or an application, do you always get the blame?
So what can Ultra Low, consistent latency deliver? Low latency is a requirement for intensive, time critical applications. Latency is measure on a port-to-port basis, that once a frame is received on a ingress port how long does it take the frame to go through the internal switching infrastructure and leave an ingress port. The Summit X670 Top of Rack switch supports latency of around 800-900usec while the Black Diamond chassis, BDX8, can switch frames in a little as 3usec. We’re big believers in the value of disaggregation – of breaking down traditional data center technologies into their core components so we can build new systems that are more flexible, more scalable, and more efficient. This approach has guided Facebook from the beginning, as we’ve grown and expanded our infrastructure to connect more than 1.28 billion people around the world.
Flatter networks. Traditional data center networks have a minimum of three tiers: top of rack (ToR), aggregation and core. Often, there is more than one aggregation tier, meaning the data center could have three or more network tiers. When network traffic is primarily best effort, this is sufficient. But as more mission-critical, real-time traffic flows into the data center, it becomes critical that organizations move to two-tier networks.
An increase in east-west traffic flows. Legacy data center networks are designed for traffic to flow from the edge of the network into the core and then back to the edge in a north-south direction. Today, however, factors such as workforce mobility, Hadoop, big data and other applications are driving east-west traffic flows from server to server.
Virtualization of other IT assets. Historically, compute resources such as processor, memory and storage were resident in the server itself. Over time, more and more of these resources are being put into “pools” that can be accessed on demand. In this case, the data center network becomes a “fabric” that acts as the backplane for the virtualized data center.
The BreakingPoint FireStorm CTM™ Delivers 120 Gbps of Application and Live Attack Traffic to Harden Network and Data Center Resiliency
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devices, and data centers before they are exploited to wreak havoc within critical network infrastructures. Leveraging all the power
and flexibility of the award-winning BreakingPoint Storm CTM, the BreakingPoint FireStorm CTM now takes performance to a new level to measure and harden the resiliency of today’s fastest and
most complex network and data center infrastructures.
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Project Business Case and Capital Justification for Implementation of Applica...Duane Bodle
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This presentation is focused on addressing the broad category of Cloud Service Providers. Gartner will provide a overview of how Cloud Service Providers are being defined and how they different from traditional providers of outsourcing or products. And more importantly, what are they offering that is different, new and seeks to solve business problems for the enterprise. This session will provide an overview of these areas and begin the discussion of how do clients develop the business case for certain cloud services offerings.
Topics Discussed
Gartner analysts discussed with participants the following topics:
What is a cloud service provider and how does it differ from traditional outsourcing providers?
How will the approaches to evaluate and select among these providers differ?
How does the business case analysis differ?
Rebaca has been providing development and deployment support related to PCRF, AAA Server, SPR, DPI, Policy Server, EMS/NMS (SNMP, TR069), Subscriber Management, Service Provisioning, Assurance and Monitoring and Providing customization services (Mediation, Portal Development). for Tier-1 Operator like Reliance, Maxis, Bakrie,Zain, Optus, Tigo etc.
The key expertise areas are:
Familiarity from Wireless network (GSM/CDMA/LTE) to Wireline Network : DSL, xDSL
Familiarity with AAA Server ,PCRF, SPR, DPI
Familiarity with PCRF Diameter Interfaces : Gx, Gy, Gx+, Sh, Rx, Gz, Ro, S9, Gxx
Interoperability testing with GGSN,PDSN, OCS , DPI Switches , Edge Routers
Policy Server deployment , Customer data Migration and Service activation
Customer Care and Self Care Portal development
SNMP and TR-69 based EMS.
Accelerating Cloud Services and How to Match your Workload to the Right Intel...Amazon Web Services
This presentation will take you through the underlying Intel technologies available in AWS EC2 Instances, what benefits these technologies can provide and how to use these technologies to maximise your use case workloads AWS EC2 Instances provide a wide selection of instance types, optimised to fit a broad and diverse set of use cases, all supported by the latest Intel Xeon processors and technologies providing you with confidence to choose an AWS EC2 instance type that best meet your performance needs for compute intensive, memory intensive, or IOPS intensive applications.
So, if you are interested in how to maximise your existing code optimisations and investments or thinking about migrating workloads to AWS come to this session.
Speaker: Peter Kerney, Lead Enterprise Architect, Cloud, SDI and NFV, Intel
Seize the Cloud - Proven Tactics From a Successful Service ProviderCA Nimsoft
Companies everywhere are feeling the pressures of today’s economic demands; and IT departments are being forced to find ways to do more with less. They are taking closer looks at infrastructure and processes—comparing them to business needs and budgets. Companies are looking for practical innovation to solve their problems and many companies are turning to CIBER. In this session listen to how CIBER leverages Nimsoft IT Management as a Service to help them elegantly provide IT management for their clients.
Visit www.nimsoft.com for more information.
MeasureWorks - Stay in control when moving into the cloud, Compuware May 4thMeasureWorks
One of the obstacles to be overcome when implementing Cloud-based IT services is the management challenge: applications that reach out from the datacenter into the borderless internet can not be monitored and managed in the same way currently done with the traditional system management tools.
Learn about how today’s borderless applications can be managed and monitored in a complex internet-based environment that spans various third parties as well as the datacenter.
An experience is a personal and emotional event we remember. Every experience is established based upon pre-determined expectations we conceive and create in our minds. It’s personal, and therefore, remains a moving and evolving target in every scenario. When our experience concludes and the moment has passed, the outcome remains in our memory. Think about what makes you happy when connecting with your own device and then think about what makes you really upset when things are hard, complicated, and slow. If the user has a bad experience in anyone of these areas (simple, fast, and smart), they are likely to leave, share their negative experience, and potentially never return. Users might forget facts or details about their computing environment but they find it difficult to forgot the feeling behind a bad network experience. When something goes wrong with the network or an application, do you always get the blame?
So what can Ultra Low, consistent latency deliver? Low latency is a requirement for intensive, time critical applications. Latency is measure on a port-to-port basis, that once a frame is received on a ingress port how long does it take the frame to go through the internal switching infrastructure and leave an ingress port. The Summit X670 Top of Rack switch supports latency of around 800-900usec while the Black Diamond chassis, BDX8, can switch frames in a little as 3usec. We’re big believers in the value of disaggregation – of breaking down traditional data center technologies into their core components so we can build new systems that are more flexible, more scalable, and more efficient. This approach has guided Facebook from the beginning, as we’ve grown and expanded our infrastructure to connect more than 1.28 billion people around the world.
Flatter networks. Traditional data center networks have a minimum of three tiers: top of rack (ToR), aggregation and core. Often, there is more than one aggregation tier, meaning the data center could have three or more network tiers. When network traffic is primarily best effort, this is sufficient. But as more mission-critical, real-time traffic flows into the data center, it becomes critical that organizations move to two-tier networks.
An increase in east-west traffic flows. Legacy data center networks are designed for traffic to flow from the edge of the network into the core and then back to the edge in a north-south direction. Today, however, factors such as workforce mobility, Hadoop, big data and other applications are driving east-west traffic flows from server to server.
Virtualization of other IT assets. Historically, compute resources such as processor, memory and storage were resident in the server itself. Over time, more and more of these resources are being put into “pools” that can be accessed on demand. In this case, the data center network becomes a “fabric” that acts as the backplane for the virtualized data center.
The BreakingPoint FireStorm CTM™ Delivers 120 Gbps of Application and Live Attack Traffic to Harden Network and Data Center Resiliency
BreakingPoint’s Cyber Tomography Machines (CTMs) are the world’s only products capable of pinpointing previously impossible-to-detect weaknesses and vulnerabilities in networks, network
devices, and data centers before they are exploited to wreak havoc within critical network infrastructures. Leveraging all the power
and flexibility of the award-winning BreakingPoint Storm CTM, the BreakingPoint FireStorm CTM now takes performance to a new level to measure and harden the resiliency of today’s fastest and
most complex network and data center infrastructures.
Migrate a on-prem platform to the public cloud with Java - SpringBoot and PCFRoy Braam
This describes a story about a couple of teams that started their migration to the public cloud so the platform becomes available for ~300 teams. War stories, their journey, bloopers and their choices all shared.
Project Business Case and Capital Justification for Implementation of Applica...Duane Bodle
Business Case and Capital Justification Presentation For
Application Performance Monitoring and Retrospective Network Analysis Implementation. *** This Presentation Has Been Sanitized of IP Information ***
StrikeIron IronCloud API Web Service Publishing Platform SAASsibob
IronCloud commercialization platform for publishing data and APIs to the Web for consumption and integration by others including applications, Web sites, and devices.
StrikeIron IronCloud API Web Service Publishing Platform SAAS
Rate Ur Beat Business Op Plan
1. RATE UR’ BEATS
BUSINESS AND OPERATIONAL PLAN
FaizalSheriff K
Sindhu
TEAM: THINK!
Oct 31st 2012
2. Business Plan
• Rate Ur’ Beats Mission 2014
– Reach out to each and every adult and encourage them to keep track
of their CVD Risk
• What are the services offered?
– CVD Risk Assessment
– CVD Risk Monitoring and Mitigation
– A Smart Locator that simplifies the life of the user to get his/her
screenings done
– Super Intelligent “Geo Reminder Services” a reminder service to
remind consumer when he or she is in closer proximities of the
biomarker provider’s locations
– “Chat Corner” a discussion forum for the consumers
– API for the value based insurance systems
– Self Supporting Advertisement API Framework
3. Business Plan contd..
• Who are my customers ?
– Each and every adult in US (free Program)
– Corporates and Insurance companies for ‘Value Based Insurance
Systems’
• What is the Strategy adopted to achieve the mission?
– A simple intuitive SEO compliant web solution that targets primarily
all Smart Phone Consumers(55% of US population) followed by
tablets and desktops with the only mission to engage users and
motivate them
• What is the value proposed to customers ?
– A handy intuitive, convincing solution for getting CVD risk assessed in
less than a few minutes at user’s convenience
– Win Win deal for Corporates and Insurance companies through
Value Based Insurance Systems API
4. Operational Plan FY 13
Resource No. of Man Tangible
Period Features Planned Expertise Hours Output Infrastructure
SEO Analyst 80
Software >> 50,000 users
>> SEO Enhancements Resources 400 access Rate Ur'
>> Track Your Beats - A Risk Tracking and Beats
Monitoring Feature Server >> A Base to raise
>> "Share it with your Buddy If you Care" Infrastructur revenue
First Quarter Enhancements e through
(Oct '12 - Dec '12) >> Self Serving Advertisement Framework Maintenance 360 Advertisement 2 Cloud Servers
>>"Geo Reminder"
to get the
screenings
completed
>>100,000 user
access
>> Self Serving Advertisement Framework >>Latest news in
Enhancements Heart Health and
Second Quarter >> Newsletter Feeds Software Medical
(Jan '13 - Mar '13) Resources 800 Advancements 3 Cloud Servers
5. Operational Plan FY 13 contd..
Resource No. of Man Tangible Infrastructur
Period Features Planned Expertise Hours Output e
>> A solid
networking platform
for the consumers
to discuss
>> Rate Ur' Beat consumers base framework on CVD
Third and
for Networking Site Risks,Preventions,
Fourth Quarter >> Base API framework for Value Based Mitigations etc..
(Apr '13 - Sep Insurance systems Software >> 250,000 user
'13) >> Big Data Integration Resources 1800 access 6 Cloud Servers
>> Sustainance and Enhancement of
Networking Site to involve physicians,
Pharmaceutical Experts and Med Students in
discussions with other Rate Ur' Beats
consumers
>> Sustainance and Enhancement of Base API
Framework
for Value Based Insurance Systems
>> Sustainance and Enhancement of Self Software
FY 14 Serving Advertisement API Resources TBD