We’ve all seen the trend everywhere around us: customers want self-service. It offers them the agility they need and gives businesses the ability to scale and lower their costs. With cloud deployments, enterprises can experience similar benefits through the use of a self-service portal where internal customers can provision their own resources while Central IT maintains control and visibility. This saves both time and money.
In this webinar, learn how to empower your internal customers to provision the necessary cloud resources when they need them but also ensure that what get receive is well within IT approved guidelines. Beyond simple convenience, this methodology permits you to operationalize your AWS cloud usage to easily roll cloud into an overall IT strategy.
Architects from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and RightScale, an Advanced Technology Partner, will provide an overview of the key business and technical considerations for operationalizing your AWS cloud usage. In the second half of the webinar, our technical experts will answer your questions. Priority will be given to pre-submitted questions.
To help illustrate the effectiveness of this approach, our architects will walk you through real-world examples and the overall impact on their organizations.
Key Topics:
1. Create an IT Vending machine with consistent and reproducible processes.
2. Enable your end users while maintaining visibility and control.
3. Use cost planning and forecasting to fine-tune and understand cloud spend.
4. Discover reporting and auditing tools to ensure compliance.
5. Avoid downtime through proven HA/DR architectures.
Best Practices for Architecting VDI with Flash StorageRyan Snell
Classic presentation from 2012 demonstrating exactly where the storage performance bottleneck is for virtual desktop environments that hampers the ability to scale VDI for optimal end user computing experience. Whiptail being the best solution of course!
RightScale Webinar: Hybrid-IT: Connecting Your On-Premises Infrastructure Wit...RightScale
Many organizations are moving applications and workloads to the cloud, but some still have questions about what to move, how to move and how to best manage and monitor a hybrid IT environment.
In this two-part webinar series, technical experts from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and RightScale, an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, will provide an overview of the key business and technical considerations for designing and managing your hybrid IT environment. In the second half of each webinar, our technical experts answer your live and presubmitted questions.
Key Topics:
The business case for moving applications and workloads to the cloud
Considerations and best practices for designing and implementing a hybrid environment in your organization
Customer use cases and lessons learned
Why monitoring and management is important and how to choose the best solution for your needs
The trials and triumphs of re architecting for aws and implementing dev ops -...Amazon Web Services
InLoop, the creators of FlexiSchools, and Bulletproof take a honest look at their technical and strategic journey into AWS. Chris from InLoop, presents alongside Bjorn and Mark from Bulletproof, to share InLoop’s experience in rearchitecting the FlexiSchools software application for the Cloud, all while laying down the foundations for a DevOps culture.
Enabling Innovative Business Opportunities Through Secure Cloud Adoption - Se...Amazon Web Services
Innovation is at the heart of the collaboration between Intel, Intel Security and AWS. As cloud adoption is fueling the next industrial revolution, this session will explore the new opportunities offered to you through cloud adoption. You will hear from Intel about the latest technologies that will help accelerate the adoption in the cloud in big data, HPC and IoT. As critical business workloads are rapidly deployed, Security needs to be a core component of this cloud adoption, not an afterthought. It should not prevent you from realizing the benefits of moving to cloud infrastructure. In this session Intel Security will also explore core security capabilities to enable automated visibility, security control and compliance in your AWS cloud environment.
Speaker: Andrew Hurren, Senior Regional Solution Architect, Intel Security, ANZ & Peter Kerney, Enterprise Solutions Architect, Intel
AWS re:Invent 2016: Deliver Engaging Experiences with Custom Apps Built on Sa...Amazon Web Services
Your developers are the most important part of transforming your customer interactions into engaging experiences. Salesforce App Cloud, which brings together Heroku, Force.com and Lightning, abstracts away infrastructure and devops complexity, so you can focus on what matters most: building differentiated experiences through apps. Reducing time to market and letting you iterate fast helps you rise above the competition and build lasting customer relationships. In this session, you hear from Zayo, a leading global communications infrastructure services provider, and how they are leveraging the power of integrating the Salesforce and AWS platforms to deliver highly engaging customer experiences, enhancing developer productivity and driving faster innovation cycles. We spotlight Heroku Connect, which makes it easy to extend and synchronize your customer data between Salesforce and AWS and enhance it in ways that empower your developers to do what they do best: innovate. Session sponsored by Salesforce.
Many large enterprises have begun using AWS to host development and test environments while also building greenfield applications in AWS. After realizing the benefits that AWS has to offer, many Enterprise look for ways to accelerate their migration to the cloud. In beginning this journey they are often faced with a number of challenges such as determining which applications should move, how they should move, and how can they be effectively managed in the cloud. Accenture, working with AWS Solution Architects, and AWS Professional Services have developed a framework, based on our experiences, to quickly, efficiently, and successfully move enterprise applications to AWS at scale. This session will review our approach, tools, and methods that can help Enterprises evolve their cloud transformation programs.
Cloud Adoption: Benchmark, Trends & Best Practices Jenna Starmer
Whether you are just starting your journey to the cloud, still weighing the benefits, or already knees-deep in several cloud databases or applications, you’re probably wondering if other organizations are asking the same questions or facing the same challenges that you are. What was the tipping point in the decision to move to the cloud? What has been the strategic value? And what are some common challenges you can expect to face along the way?
In partnership with TechValidate, an independent third-party surveyor, Datavail conducted a cloud adoption industry benchmark survey with hundreds of companies to better understand what the cloud landscape looks like for organizations of all sizes.
Infrastructure as Code Continuous Integration: A Delivery Pipeline Journey Se...Amazon Web Services
The aim of this presentation is to provide a technical overview of how we built a Continuous Delivery pipeline for one of our key clients. More broadly, we’ll discuss the path we took to get to our current state – including the successes, the surprises and the shifts along the way – because as is so often the case, it is the journey that yields the greatest insight rather than the destination.
Best Practices for Architecting VDI with Flash StorageRyan Snell
Classic presentation from 2012 demonstrating exactly where the storage performance bottleneck is for virtual desktop environments that hampers the ability to scale VDI for optimal end user computing experience. Whiptail being the best solution of course!
RightScale Webinar: Hybrid-IT: Connecting Your On-Premises Infrastructure Wit...RightScale
Many organizations are moving applications and workloads to the cloud, but some still have questions about what to move, how to move and how to best manage and monitor a hybrid IT environment.
In this two-part webinar series, technical experts from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and RightScale, an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, will provide an overview of the key business and technical considerations for designing and managing your hybrid IT environment. In the second half of each webinar, our technical experts answer your live and presubmitted questions.
Key Topics:
The business case for moving applications and workloads to the cloud
Considerations and best practices for designing and implementing a hybrid environment in your organization
Customer use cases and lessons learned
Why monitoring and management is important and how to choose the best solution for your needs
The trials and triumphs of re architecting for aws and implementing dev ops -...Amazon Web Services
InLoop, the creators of FlexiSchools, and Bulletproof take a honest look at their technical and strategic journey into AWS. Chris from InLoop, presents alongside Bjorn and Mark from Bulletproof, to share InLoop’s experience in rearchitecting the FlexiSchools software application for the Cloud, all while laying down the foundations for a DevOps culture.
Enabling Innovative Business Opportunities Through Secure Cloud Adoption - Se...Amazon Web Services
Innovation is at the heart of the collaboration between Intel, Intel Security and AWS. As cloud adoption is fueling the next industrial revolution, this session will explore the new opportunities offered to you through cloud adoption. You will hear from Intel about the latest technologies that will help accelerate the adoption in the cloud in big data, HPC and IoT. As critical business workloads are rapidly deployed, Security needs to be a core component of this cloud adoption, not an afterthought. It should not prevent you from realizing the benefits of moving to cloud infrastructure. In this session Intel Security will also explore core security capabilities to enable automated visibility, security control and compliance in your AWS cloud environment.
Speaker: Andrew Hurren, Senior Regional Solution Architect, Intel Security, ANZ & Peter Kerney, Enterprise Solutions Architect, Intel
AWS re:Invent 2016: Deliver Engaging Experiences with Custom Apps Built on Sa...Amazon Web Services
Your developers are the most important part of transforming your customer interactions into engaging experiences. Salesforce App Cloud, which brings together Heroku, Force.com and Lightning, abstracts away infrastructure and devops complexity, so you can focus on what matters most: building differentiated experiences through apps. Reducing time to market and letting you iterate fast helps you rise above the competition and build lasting customer relationships. In this session, you hear from Zayo, a leading global communications infrastructure services provider, and how they are leveraging the power of integrating the Salesforce and AWS platforms to deliver highly engaging customer experiences, enhancing developer productivity and driving faster innovation cycles. We spotlight Heroku Connect, which makes it easy to extend and synchronize your customer data between Salesforce and AWS and enhance it in ways that empower your developers to do what they do best: innovate. Session sponsored by Salesforce.
Many large enterprises have begun using AWS to host development and test environments while also building greenfield applications in AWS. After realizing the benefits that AWS has to offer, many Enterprise look for ways to accelerate their migration to the cloud. In beginning this journey they are often faced with a number of challenges such as determining which applications should move, how they should move, and how can they be effectively managed in the cloud. Accenture, working with AWS Solution Architects, and AWS Professional Services have developed a framework, based on our experiences, to quickly, efficiently, and successfully move enterprise applications to AWS at scale. This session will review our approach, tools, and methods that can help Enterprises evolve their cloud transformation programs.
Cloud Adoption: Benchmark, Trends & Best Practices Jenna Starmer
Whether you are just starting your journey to the cloud, still weighing the benefits, or already knees-deep in several cloud databases or applications, you’re probably wondering if other organizations are asking the same questions or facing the same challenges that you are. What was the tipping point in the decision to move to the cloud? What has been the strategic value? And what are some common challenges you can expect to face along the way?
In partnership with TechValidate, an independent third-party surveyor, Datavail conducted a cloud adoption industry benchmark survey with hundreds of companies to better understand what the cloud landscape looks like for organizations of all sizes.
Infrastructure as Code Continuous Integration: A Delivery Pipeline Journey Se...Amazon Web Services
The aim of this presentation is to provide a technical overview of how we built a Continuous Delivery pipeline for one of our key clients. More broadly, we’ll discuss the path we took to get to our current state – including the successes, the surprises and the shifts along the way – because as is so often the case, it is the journey that yields the greatest insight rather than the destination.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Building Enterprise Cloud Operations As a Service with T-...Amazon Web Services
After launching several thousand EC2 instances in the cloud, we've learned that the key to running an IT fleet successfully on AWS is enforcing operational and economic discipline. As AWS service consumption grows, operational costs and overhead shouldn't grow linearly. Instead, IT should encourage new tenants that migrate from data centers to AWS to slowly shift toward a self-service delivery model and adopt the DevOps operations model. Creating and offering an AWS Cloud operations service catalog enables organizations to efficiently take full advantage of AWS' flexibility and modularity. T-Mobile, whose journey to AWS Cloud management started more than 2 years ago, uses a service catalog to enforce operational discipline in the Cloud. Their catalog is custom crafted for each Cloud-based IT workload. This session provides insight into the AWS Cloud operations strategy and its transformation, the creation of a Cloud operations service catalog, and how this approach supports reliable engineering on AWS. Sponsored by Accenture.
AWS Competency Partner
As companies prepare to move to the next generation of Infor™ solutions, more businesses are leveraging the cloud. In Velocity's latest webcast, Chance Veasey outlines why companies are moving their Infor Lawson and complementary business applications to the cloud and how to succeed in this endeavor. He reviews interim steps companies can take with current versions of Infor Lawson to prepare for Infor 10. Learn about critical success factors for moving to the cloud and how you can mitigate potential risks, including real life examples.
Key take-aways:
1. Ways cloud computing can drive process transformation for your organization;
2. How companies are using business applications in the cloud for competitive advantage;
3. Find out about interim steps you can take to prepare for Infor 10;
4. How virtual private cloud computing eliminates risks commonly associated with public cloud environments.
Migrating Legacy Applications to AWS Cloud: Strategies and ChallengesOSSCube
To reduce the TCO of application infrastructure and to make them more scalable and resilient it is advisable to migrate on-premise legacy applications to AWS cloud. In this webinar, you will learn the benefits, key challenges and strategies to mitigate them. It will also talk about leveraging the cloud infrastructure to further modernize the application.
Key Take Away:
Opportunities and challenges while migrating premise application to cloud.
Identifying the applications
Assessing cloud architecture and costs
Data migrations strategies and options
Strategies for migration applications
Leveraging the cloud and optimization
RightScale Webinar: Don’t pave the cow path. Cloud infrastructure is very different from traditional infrastructure and requires different approaches to really harness cloud value. From dev/test/prod lifecycle management to deployment automation, patch management, monitoring and automation for autoscaling and disaster recovery... we’ll provide insight into how we automate and manage cloud servers at RightScale to avoid having to get hands on. Especially at 3am.
Enterprise Customer Cloud Consumption – Operating in a Hybrid Model – Alex Ne...Amazon Web Services
This session aims to share with you our insights & learnings from working with customers on Bi-Modal IT models, cloud service management layers, building repeatable cloud artefacts, and the role of tactical & strategic activities.
Getting Started: What Should My Enterprise Do in the First 90 Days?Amazon Web Services
Transform
It is critical that your cloud program gets off to a great start and delivers business value quickly, as this new IT endeavour will have high visibility across the business. In this session you will learn about the capabilities and activities needed to be able to host production enterprise applications within the AWS cloud within your first 90 days.
Speaker:
Andrew Boyd, Enterprise Account Manager, Amazon Web Services
Develop an Enterprise-wide Cloud Adoption Strategy – Chris MerriganAmazon Web Services
Taking a cloud first approach requires a different approach than you probably had to consider for your initial few workloads in the cloud. You’ll be deploying hybrid environments, and that means taking a broad view of your IT strategy, architecture, and organisational design. In this session, we cover how the CAF framework offers practical guidance and comprehensive guidelines to enterprise organisations, particularly around roles, governance, and efficiency.
Cloud and Enterprise Tools – Rob Purdy, General Manager, DatacomAmazon Web Services
Many Enterprises are now seeing AWS as a viable alternative for core Enterprise applications. The long term vision for these customers is to move from a traditional on premise infrastructure to a dynamic, on demand, agile platform that enables business growth and innovation. In this Session, Rob Purdy will cover the migration frameworks Enterprises can use to transform their core systems. The session will also cover a customer case study revealing both the technical and business challenges that need to be overcome when moving to the next generation of cloud solutions.
Keeping an application running at scale can be a daunting task. When do you need to add more capacity? Larger databases? Additional servers? These questions get harder as the complexity of your application grows. Microservice based architectures and cloud-based dynamic infrastructures are technologies that help you keep your application running with high availability, even during times of extreme scaling. We will discuss some of the best practices we’ve learned working with New Relic customers on how you can manage your applications running at scale, and how technologies such as microservices and dynamic infrastructure can help you with this challenge.
As presented by Lee Atchison, Senior Director, Strategic Architecture of New Relic at Amazon Web Services Summit, Sydney on April 6, 2017.
Enterprise Cloud Strategy: 7 Areas You Need to Re-ThinkRightScale
Companies from Fortune 1000 on down are going all-in on cloud, but your enterprise cloud strategy also needs to address the broad impact of cloud use in your company. Your strategy needs to cover implications for your technical processes, but also supporting areas including finance, governance, organization, and culture.
Enterprise IT teams know they need to broker cloud services to their internal cloud users. Many companies implement a cloud management platform to provide a foundation for delivering cloud services. However, success as a cloud broker also requires also organizational, cultural, and process changes. Learn about the key steps needed to transform your IT organization into a cloud broker.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the July Edition:
• VMware introduces integrations with Dell EMC to accelerate workforce transformation
• HPE unveils new high-performance computing solution
• Weathering the cybersecurity storm - Hishamul Hasheel VP, Software and Security, Redington Gulf - Value Distribution
• AWS Greengrass is now available
• CyberArk acquires Conjur for $42 Million
• Fidelis Cybersecurity releases endpoint cloud solution
• Fortinet Threat Landscape report highlights most threats are opportunistic
• Fujitsu rolls out new biometric authentication solution
• Trend Micro launches $100 Million venture fund
• Malwarebytes unveils inaugural channel programme
• Red Hat Ceph storage release expands versatility as object store
• Veeam and Microsoft extend alliance to deliver availability for always-on cloud
AWS 201 Webinar Series - Rightsizing and Cost Optimizing your DeploymentAmazon Web Services
Leveraging the AWS Cloud can help you further lower your overall IT costs and avoid fixed, upfront IT investments. Learning how to right-size your environments can help you to go from capacity guessing to meeting QoE targets for your customers. The session will also cover best practices on how to Architect for Cost from real world customer use cases and ultimately how the AWS Cloud can help you increase revenue by focusing on Innovation and Return on Agility.
Key takeaways
- Replace up-front capital expenses with low variable costs
- Outsource undifferentiated IT tasks to useful services
- Evaluate the total Cost of (Non) Ownership
- Build Cost-aware architectures
- AWS features that help you reduce your spend
- Different purchasing options available with AWS
Who should attend
- Technical Users: Developers, engineers, system administrators and architects
- Decision Makers: IT Managers, directors and business leaders
AWS re:Invent 2016: Building Enterprise Cloud Operations As a Service with T-...Amazon Web Services
After launching several thousand EC2 instances in the cloud, we've learned that the key to running an IT fleet successfully on AWS is enforcing operational and economic discipline. As AWS service consumption grows, operational costs and overhead shouldn't grow linearly. Instead, IT should encourage new tenants that migrate from data centers to AWS to slowly shift toward a self-service delivery model and adopt the DevOps operations model. Creating and offering an AWS Cloud operations service catalog enables organizations to efficiently take full advantage of AWS' flexibility and modularity. T-Mobile, whose journey to AWS Cloud management started more than 2 years ago, uses a service catalog to enforce operational discipline in the Cloud. Their catalog is custom crafted for each Cloud-based IT workload. This session provides insight into the AWS Cloud operations strategy and its transformation, the creation of a Cloud operations service catalog, and how this approach supports reliable engineering on AWS. Sponsored by Accenture.
AWS Competency Partner
As companies prepare to move to the next generation of Infor™ solutions, more businesses are leveraging the cloud. In Velocity's latest webcast, Chance Veasey outlines why companies are moving their Infor Lawson and complementary business applications to the cloud and how to succeed in this endeavor. He reviews interim steps companies can take with current versions of Infor Lawson to prepare for Infor 10. Learn about critical success factors for moving to the cloud and how you can mitigate potential risks, including real life examples.
Key take-aways:
1. Ways cloud computing can drive process transformation for your organization;
2. How companies are using business applications in the cloud for competitive advantage;
3. Find out about interim steps you can take to prepare for Infor 10;
4. How virtual private cloud computing eliminates risks commonly associated with public cloud environments.
Migrating Legacy Applications to AWS Cloud: Strategies and ChallengesOSSCube
To reduce the TCO of application infrastructure and to make them more scalable and resilient it is advisable to migrate on-premise legacy applications to AWS cloud. In this webinar, you will learn the benefits, key challenges and strategies to mitigate them. It will also talk about leveraging the cloud infrastructure to further modernize the application.
Key Take Away:
Opportunities and challenges while migrating premise application to cloud.
Identifying the applications
Assessing cloud architecture and costs
Data migrations strategies and options
Strategies for migration applications
Leveraging the cloud and optimization
RightScale Webinar: Don’t pave the cow path. Cloud infrastructure is very different from traditional infrastructure and requires different approaches to really harness cloud value. From dev/test/prod lifecycle management to deployment automation, patch management, monitoring and automation for autoscaling and disaster recovery... we’ll provide insight into how we automate and manage cloud servers at RightScale to avoid having to get hands on. Especially at 3am.
Enterprise Customer Cloud Consumption – Operating in a Hybrid Model – Alex Ne...Amazon Web Services
This session aims to share with you our insights & learnings from working with customers on Bi-Modal IT models, cloud service management layers, building repeatable cloud artefacts, and the role of tactical & strategic activities.
Getting Started: What Should My Enterprise Do in the First 90 Days?Amazon Web Services
Transform
It is critical that your cloud program gets off to a great start and delivers business value quickly, as this new IT endeavour will have high visibility across the business. In this session you will learn about the capabilities and activities needed to be able to host production enterprise applications within the AWS cloud within your first 90 days.
Speaker:
Andrew Boyd, Enterprise Account Manager, Amazon Web Services
Develop an Enterprise-wide Cloud Adoption Strategy – Chris MerriganAmazon Web Services
Taking a cloud first approach requires a different approach than you probably had to consider for your initial few workloads in the cloud. You’ll be deploying hybrid environments, and that means taking a broad view of your IT strategy, architecture, and organisational design. In this session, we cover how the CAF framework offers practical guidance and comprehensive guidelines to enterprise organisations, particularly around roles, governance, and efficiency.
Cloud and Enterprise Tools – Rob Purdy, General Manager, DatacomAmazon Web Services
Many Enterprises are now seeing AWS as a viable alternative for core Enterprise applications. The long term vision for these customers is to move from a traditional on premise infrastructure to a dynamic, on demand, agile platform that enables business growth and innovation. In this Session, Rob Purdy will cover the migration frameworks Enterprises can use to transform their core systems. The session will also cover a customer case study revealing both the technical and business challenges that need to be overcome when moving to the next generation of cloud solutions.
Keeping an application running at scale can be a daunting task. When do you need to add more capacity? Larger databases? Additional servers? These questions get harder as the complexity of your application grows. Microservice based architectures and cloud-based dynamic infrastructures are technologies that help you keep your application running with high availability, even during times of extreme scaling. We will discuss some of the best practices we’ve learned working with New Relic customers on how you can manage your applications running at scale, and how technologies such as microservices and dynamic infrastructure can help you with this challenge.
As presented by Lee Atchison, Senior Director, Strategic Architecture of New Relic at Amazon Web Services Summit, Sydney on April 6, 2017.
Enterprise Cloud Strategy: 7 Areas You Need to Re-ThinkRightScale
Companies from Fortune 1000 on down are going all-in on cloud, but your enterprise cloud strategy also needs to address the broad impact of cloud use in your company. Your strategy needs to cover implications for your technical processes, but also supporting areas including finance, governance, organization, and culture.
Enterprise IT teams know they need to broker cloud services to their internal cloud users. Many companies implement a cloud management platform to provide a foundation for delivering cloud services. However, success as a cloud broker also requires also organizational, cultural, and process changes. Learn about the key steps needed to transform your IT organization into a cloud broker.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the July Edition:
• VMware introduces integrations with Dell EMC to accelerate workforce transformation
• HPE unveils new high-performance computing solution
• Weathering the cybersecurity storm - Hishamul Hasheel VP, Software and Security, Redington Gulf - Value Distribution
• AWS Greengrass is now available
• CyberArk acquires Conjur for $42 Million
• Fidelis Cybersecurity releases endpoint cloud solution
• Fortinet Threat Landscape report highlights most threats are opportunistic
• Fujitsu rolls out new biometric authentication solution
• Trend Micro launches $100 Million venture fund
• Malwarebytes unveils inaugural channel programme
• Red Hat Ceph storage release expands versatility as object store
• Veeam and Microsoft extend alliance to deliver availability for always-on cloud
AWS 201 Webinar Series - Rightsizing and Cost Optimizing your DeploymentAmazon Web Services
Leveraging the AWS Cloud can help you further lower your overall IT costs and avoid fixed, upfront IT investments. Learning how to right-size your environments can help you to go from capacity guessing to meeting QoE targets for your customers. The session will also cover best practices on how to Architect for Cost from real world customer use cases and ultimately how the AWS Cloud can help you increase revenue by focusing on Innovation and Return on Agility.
Key takeaways
- Replace up-front capital expenses with low variable costs
- Outsource undifferentiated IT tasks to useful services
- Evaluate the total Cost of (Non) Ownership
- Build Cost-aware architectures
- AWS features that help you reduce your spend
- Different purchasing options available with AWS
Who should attend
- Technical Users: Developers, engineers, system administrators and architects
- Decision Makers: IT Managers, directors and business leaders
Migrations of existing enterprise applications to the cloud can be complex. There are no migration methodologies or magic bullets that enable a simple lift and shift or automated migration. Typical migration projects take a great deal of discovery work, re-architecture, and refactoring. In this session, we will share known challenges and considerations that must be accounted for when designing, planning, and executing a migration. Topics will include: scale-out and distributed architectures, geographic dispersion, leveraging existing cloud services, and logging & monitoring. In addition, this session will address how in-depth discovery efforts can be paired with configuration management, automation, and source control to minimize the risk of future technical debt. Finally, we’ll cover the business and technical factors the affect the complexity of application refactoring.
Migrations of existing enterprise applications to the cloud can be complex. There are no migration methodologies or magic bullets that enable a simple lift and shift or automated migration. Typical migration projects take a great deal of discovery work, re-architecture, and refactoring. In this session, we will share known challenges and considerations that must be accounted for when designing, planning, and executing a migration. Topics will include: scale-out and distributed architectures, geographic dispersion, leveraging existing cloud services, and logging & monitoring. In addition, this session will address how in-depth discovery efforts can be paired with configuration management, automation, and source control to minimize the risk of future technical debt. Finally, we’ll cover the business and technical factors the affect the complexity of application refactoring.
SaaS architectures can be deployed onto AWS in a number of ways, and each optimizes for different factors from security to cost optimization. Come learn more about common deployment models used on AWS for SaaS architectures and how each of those models are tuned for customer specific needs. We will also review options and tradeoffs for common SaaS architectures, including cost optimization, resource optimization, performance optimization, and security and data isolation.
estrat and Amazon Web Services (AWS) breakfast in Perth with presenters from MINEMAN, Present Group, AWS and estrat. An informative session on cloud adoption as the new normal in IT strategy.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Driving Innovation with Big Data and IoT (GPSST304)Amazon Web Services
With unforeseen competitive threats and potential market disruptions, enterprises are seeking to innovate for the benefit of their customers. Business transformation in the digital age requires the successful use of new technologies including the cloud, IoT, and Big Data. Attend this session to learn more about how AWS can help organizations innovate faster around IoT and Big Data. We dive into specific opportunities and approaches for managing billions of connected devices and associated big data workloads on the cloud.
(ISM315) How to Quantify TCO & Increase Business Value Gains Using AWSAmazon Web Services
"Do you need to develop a business case for moving to cloud or communicate business value of your investment in AWS? This session introduces you to methods and tools to help you calculate total cost of ownership (TCO) and evaluate your business value gains from AWS.
In this session, you learn how to measure TCO and business value, and communicate a business case to organizations such as finance and procurement. You compare the costs of running your own IT infrastructure on-premises vs. on AWS and quantify intangible benefits. You also learn about resources available from AWS to help you engage in business value conversations with your organization’s leaders and what contact is available to you for further evaluation. "
Building and Successfully Selling ISV Solutions with AWS Partner-Summit-Singa...Amazon Web Services
In this session, as an APN Technology Partner, you will learn about the broad range of AWS programs and resources to assist you successfully build, market and sell your solutions. Whether you are a start-up, established ISV with pre-packaged software offerings or a SaaS provider, we can customize the right set of tools, training and go-to-market programs to accelerate your business. You will learn about our SaaS Partner Program, Quick Start and AWS Marketplace. We will also discuss opportunities and success stories of APN Technology and Consulting partners coming together and collaborating to deliver high value solutions in the market.
10 Must-Have Automated Cloud Policies for IT GovernanceRightScale
As both cloud use and spend increase, enterprises need to implement automated cloud governance. IT leaders must avoid impeding the agility that cloud provides while ensuring efficient cloud spend and reducing risk. In this webinar, we will cover 10 automated policies that every enterprise should have as part of IT governance best practices for cloud.
Kubernetes and Terraform in the Cloud: How RightScale Does DevOpsRightScale
Kubernetes adoption is growing and more companies are leveraging Terraform. At RightScale, we combine Kubernetes, Terraform, RightScale, and cloud. In this webinar, find out how we are combining these solutions to create a fully automated DevOps process.
Optimize Software, SaaS, and Cloud with Flexera and RightScaleRightScale
Flexera and RightScale have now joined forces to help you optimize the technologies you use. Learn how Flexera solutions for software license optimization and SaaS management complement RightScale cloud management and cost optimization offerings to give you comprehensive management of your technology spend.
Prepare Your Enterprise Cloud Strategy for 2019: 7 Things to Think About NowRightScale
Cloud adoption just keeps on growing and now is the time to take control. Your enterprise cloud strategy for 2019 needs to address the broad impact of cloud use in your company. Your strategy should also cover implications for your technical processes, as well as supporting areas including finance, governance, organization, and culture.
How to Set Up a Cloud Cost Optimization Process for your EnterpriseRightScale
As cloud spend grows, enterprises need to set up internal processes to manage and optimize their cloud costs. This process will help organizations to accurately allocate and report on costs while minimizing wasted spend. In this webinar, experts from RightScale’s Cloud Cost Optimization team will share best practices in how to set up your own internal processes.
Multi-Cloud Management with RightScale CMP (Demo)RightScale
Almost every enterprise will face the challenge of multi-cloud management. A cloud management platform (CMP) can help you broker standardized cloud services with a single view across both public and private clouds, giving you control over existing cloud usage and enabling you to offer self-service provisioning across all your clouds and virtualized infrastructure.
Comparing Cloud VM Types and Prices: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBMRightScale
In today’s multi-cloud world, you need to understand how VM types and prices compare between public clouds. Whether you are comparing clouds to find the best placement, benchmarking your compute costs, or want to migrate between clouds, you’ll find out how to map the instance types and how costs will vary by cloud provider.
How to Allocate and Report Cloud Costs with RightScale OptimaRightScale
Spend on cloud is increasing, but getting cloud costs allocated to the right business units can still be challenging, especially when you are using multiple clouds. You need automated tools that enable you to allocate costs from your cloud bill and report on spend to users across your organization.
Should You Move Between AWS, Azure, or Google Clouds? Considerations, Pros an...RightScale
The media is highlighting scores of stories about companies that have moved from one public cloud to another for business or technical reasons. Regardless of whether you are running on AWS, Azure, or Google, there will likely come a time that you’ll want to consider switching cloud providers. Whether you are contemplating a move now or just want to keep your options open in the future, you will need to consider a variety of cost, service, and technical factors. In this webinar, we’ll walk you through the evaluation process of migrating to another cloud provider and highlight the pros and cons.
Using RightScale CMP with Cloud Provider ToolsRightScale
Large organizations are using cloud management platforms (CMPs) to manage and govern multi-cloud environments. They need their CMPs to work regardless of the cloud provider tools used by development teams, including AWS Cloud Formation templates, Azure Resource Manager templates, and container services. We will show how RightScale CMP can add operation orchestration and governance regardless of how you provision your workloads.
Best Practices for Multi-Cloud Security and ComplianceRightScale
The last few months have seen ongoing cloud security breaches and a heightened data privacy focus due to GDPR. In today’s multi-cloud environment, enterprises are challenged to ensure security and compliance across both public and private clouds. We will help you understand best practices for multi-cloud security and compliance and how a cloud management platform (CMP) can help.
Automating Multi-Cloud Policies for AWS, Azure, Google, and MoreRightScale
With the explosion of cloud use, enterprises need to implement appropriate governance controls. Automated policies can optimize costs and ensure that operational, compliance, and security requirements are met. Using RightScale, you can create a single policy to work across all of your clouds, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and VMware vSphere.
The 5 Stages of Cloud Management for EnterprisesRightScale
With cloud use exploding and cloud bills skyrocketing, enterprises are implementing new cloud governance processes and tools. A cloud management platform (CMP) will be a foundational technology you’ll need to get it all under control. We cover the 5 stages of cloud management that enterprises go through to fully manage their cloud use, and how a CMP helps.
Cloud storage costs are increasing and now represent a significant portion of cloud spend. As a result, cloud users need to focus on ways to reduce storage spend by selecting the best options while also finding ways to manage the rapid increase in the use of cloud storage.
Serverless Comparison: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBMRightScale
Serverless computing, (sometimes called function-as-a-service) is the top-growing cloud service year-over-year in 2018 compared to 2017 according to the RightScale State of the Cloud Survey. Serverless is appropriate for a variety of different use cases. We share how serverless offerings and pricing for different cloud providers compare.
Best Practices for Cloud Managed Services Providers: The Path to CMP SuccessRightScale
Managed services providers (MSPs) and other IT services providers offering managed services across multiple clouds use a cloud management platform (CMP) as a foundational technology. But what are the best practices for MSPs to leverage a CMP for success with end customers? MSPs need to implement appropriate account hierarchies, tagging strategies, cost management practices, templating and automation approaches, and DevOps processes.
Cloud Storage Comparison: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBMRightScale
As public cloud storage services mature, it becomes easier to make apples-to-apples comparisons. We drill down on the latest specs and features for object, block, archival, and file storage across AWS, Azure, Google, and IBM. We also compare prices for a variety of storage scenarios.
2018 Cloud Trends: RightScale State of the Cloud ReportRightScale
The RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud Report has just been released. It includes new insights on cloud adoption trends. We highlight the most interesting cloud trends that will help you evolve your cloud strategy, deliver on your 2018 cloud goals, and mobilize your internal stakeholders for cloud initiatives
Got a Multi-Cloud Strategy? How RightScale CMP HelpsRightScale
Most enterprises already have a multi-cloud strategy. A cloud management platform (CMP) can help you broker cloud services with a single view across both public and private clouds, giving you control over existing cloud usage and enabling you to offer self-service provisioning across all your clouds and virtualized infrastructure.
How to Manage Cloud Costs with RightScale OptimaRightScale
With cloud use rising, managing cloud costs for your enterprise becomes more critical. To effectively control costs, you can leverage a cloud cost management tool like RightScale Optima to collaborate across your organization to report on and optimize your cloud spend.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...
RightScale Webinar: Operationalize Your Enterprise AWS Usage Through an IT Vending Machine
1. Ask
the
Architect
Opera.onalize
your
Enterprise
AWS
Usage
through
an
IT
Vending
Machine
Brian
Adler,
Sr.
Services
Architect,
RightScale
Kyle
Lichtenberg,
Solu.ons
Architect,
AWS
Ryan
Geyer,
Cloud
Solu.ons
Engineer,
RightScale
2. Introduc.ons
Q&A
• Michael
Curry,
Account
Execu.ve,
RightScale
• Bryan
Cox,
Sales
Development
Representa.ve
Please
use
the
“Ques,ons”
window
to
ask
ques,ons
any
,me!
Brian
Adler
Senior
Services
Architect
RightScale
Kyle
Lichtenberg
Solu.ons
Architect
AWS
Ryan
Geyer
Cloud
Solu.ons
Engineer
RightScale
3. Agenda
• Opportuni.es
in
the
Enterprise
• The
Cloud
Challenge
• Opera.onalizing
your
AWS
Usage
• Real
World
Examples
• Demo
• Q&A
6. 1.
Pay
For
Infrastructure
as
you
Need
it,
Not
Up
Front
On-Premises
$0 to get started
Pay as you go
7. 2. Lower
Total
Cost
of
IT
Scale allows us to constantly
reduce our costs
We are comfortable running a high
volume, low margin business
We pass the savings along to
our customers in the form of
low prices
8. 3.
You
Don’t
Need
to
Guess
Capacity
Self
Hosting
Waste
Customer
Dissatisfaction
Actual demand
Predicted Demand
Rigid Elastic
Actual demand
AWS
9. 4.
Increase
Innova.on:
Experiment
Fast
with
Low
Cost
and
Low
Risk
On-Premises
Experiment Infrequently
Failure is expensive
Less Innovation
Experiment Often
Fail quickly at a low cost
More Innovation
$ Millions Nearly $0
10. 5. Get
Rid
of
Undifferen.ated
Heavy
Liing
Data Centers
Power
Cooling
Cabling
Networking
Racks
Servers
Storage
Labor
Buy and install new hardware
Setup and configure new software
build or upgrade data centers
We take care of it… So you don’t have to …
12. The
Benefits
Of
Cloud
Are
Only
Possible
IN
THE
CLOUD
Pay as you Go Lower Overall
Costs
Stop
Guessing
Capacity
Agility / Speed /
Innovation
Avoid
Undifferentiated
Heavy Lifting
Go Global in
Minutes
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
“Private”
Cloud X X X X X X
13. 4X More Reliable & 1/4 the Cost of On-Premises Infrastructure
In early 2012, AWS commissioned IDC to interview 11 organizations that deployed applications on AWS.
14. Architected for Enterprise Security Requirements
“The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
[Amazon VPC] was a unique option that
offered an additional level of security and
an ability to integrate with other aspects
of our infrastructure.”
Dr. Michael Miller, Head of HPC for R&D
19. U@lity
Compu@ng
What
IT
Management
Sees
Chargeback/Billing
Runbook/Process
Automa@on
Applica@on
Lifecycle
Management
Workload
Management
Configura@on
Management
Applica@on
Streaming
Automa@on
OS
Provisioning
Virtualiza@on
GRID/HPC/clusters
What
End
Users
See
21. Visibility
• Cloud
agility
– For
every
cloud
project
you
know
about,
there
may
be
3-‐5
others
you
don’t
know
about
(Forrester)
• Not
rebellion,
but
revenue
&
produc.vity
– Security
and
compliance
– Billing
and
chargeback
Business
Unit
2
Business
Unit
1
Marke.ng
Site
QA
Stage
Prod
Dev
SaaS
Analy.cs
Marke.ng
Site
Chicago
San
Diego
Tokyo
Region
n
Region
1
Region
z
Enterprise
Business
Unit
C
Business
Unit
B
Business
Unit
A
Retail
plaeorm
w/
PII
and
PCI
22. Standardiza.on
• Cloud
builds
are
everywhere
– Machine
image
&
workload
sprawl
– Configura.on
language
smorgasbord
– Almost
limitless
cloud
deployment
op.ons
• How
can
IT
support
this?
By
2016,
more
than
70%
of
large
enterprises
will
choose
a
heterogeneous
IT
opera.ons
management
vendor
(rather
than
an
infrastructure
vendor)
for
their
cloud
management
plaeorm
to
unify
cloud
investments
through
a
single
manager-‐of-‐managers
style
of
management
and
control.
Donna
Scoh,
Gartner
24. Self-‐Service
• IT
can
be
the
hero,
agility
with
control
• Provide
standardized
builds
with
opera.onal
excellence
• Legacy
management
approaches
are
not
designed
for
cloud
25. Cloud
Management
Requirements
Simplified
provisioning
Access
controls
&
chargeback
No Wait IT
Public,
private
&
hybrid
Heterogeneous
stacks
Scalable
and
automated
Highly
available
Workload
Liberation
IT
at
Scale
27. IM Demo Cloud
From Presentation to Evaluation in Minutes
§ IBMer initiates the project
– Nothing for the customer to provide
– Nothing to slow the engagement
§ Create BigInsights Enterprise sandbox for
enablement engagement in minutes
– No need for customers to get hardware
– No need to install/patch OS, BigInsights software
– No need to write Hadoop jobs
– No need to find data sets
§ Also great for beta, product introductions,
technology previews, etc.
§ Built on RightScale Platform!
28. No
Wait
IT
at
Quest
Requirements:
• Compliance and BAA
• Self Service, API driven
• Hybrid Cloud
Solution:
• Built self-service HashBang UI on RightScale
• Use multiple clouds to power Quest apps
29. No
Wait
IT
at
Lilly
Solu.on:
• IT Vending Machine
• Reduce provisioning time from 36,000 to 30
minutes
• Measure costs in cents per hour for compute
and storage
Requirements:
• Self-service access
• Deploy on selected IT resource pools based
on job and group
• Share best practices
• Consumption metering
31. Upcoming
“Ask
the
Architect”
Events
Connect
Your
On-‐Premises
Infrastructure
to
AWS
Depth
of
content
Webinar
Digging Deep with Hybrid IT
AWS
re:Invent
In
Person
Online
Recording
NYC
10/1
Connecting your Datacenter to AWS
Designing and Implementing a Hybrid IT
Strategy and Solution
@
AWS
re:Invent
Las
Vegas,
NV
11/12
33. Q&A
• I
have
setup
a
Microso
windows
based
AMI
with
my
soware
environment
and
have
EBS
drives
containing
image
I
would
like
to
automate
the
process
of
launching
my
AMI
instance,
ahaching
EBS
drives,
star.ng
my
soware
(runs
for
several
hours)
and
then
automa.cally
download
the
results
and
kill
the
EC2
instance.
I
could
develop
this
automa.on
program
in
C++/C#
or
python.
This
will
provide
the
basis
of
a
service
I
can
provide
to
remote
customers.
Which
is
the
best
language
and
library
to
use,
where
I
can
get
example
code
and
help
troubleshoo.ng?
34. Q&A
• I
am
interested
in
implemen.ng
VPC.
What
are
the
Best
prac.ces
and
things
to
avoid?
35. Q&A
• Examples
and/or
best
prac.ces
of
self-‐service
deploy
of
mul.ple
services
at
a
given
revision
for
applica.on
development
/
tes.ng
purposes.
For
example,
I'm
making
a
change
to
service
A
&
B
and
want
to
regression
test
service
C
along
with
it,
and
have
a
separate,
transient
set
of
servers
for
those
services
just
long
enough
to
complete
my
development
and
tes.ng
36. Q&A
• We
have
an
interest
in
empowering
external
customers,
too,
perhaps
through
their
own
account
portal.
Are
their
examples
that
show
how
such
arrangements
can
be
mone.zed?
37. Q&A
• My
current
hot
buhon
is
data
center
extension
for
dev/test
with
no
public
facing
elements.
What
are
the
security/cost
tradeoffs
between
the
various
connec.vity
op.ons?
38. Q&A
• When
will
we
be
able
to
copy
custom
AMI's
from
region
to
region?
39. Q&A
• Given
the
underlying
storage
system,
does
pupng
database
data
and
log
files
on
separate
EBS
volumes
have
any
value?
That
is,
can
one
s.ll
fail
and
the
other
not?