VMworld 2013: Real-world Design Examples for Virtualized SAP Environments VMworld
VMworld 2013
Vas Mitra, VMware
Mohan Potheri, VMware
Markus Winter, SAP
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
The presentation covers solutions from EMC to improve performance, increase data protection, enhance business continuity for your conventional SAP applications as well as SAP HANA.
Troubleshooting Storage Devices Using vRealize Operations (formerly vC Ops)
In this presentation you will discover:
- The challenges facing today’s storage environment
- How vR Ops solves storage troubleshooting
- When to use vR Ops
- Where to get a Management Pack for Storage Devices (MPSD)
- Partner Solutions
VMworld 2013: Real-world Design Examples for Virtualized SAP Environments VMworld
VMworld 2013
Vas Mitra, VMware
Mohan Potheri, VMware
Markus Winter, SAP
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
The presentation covers solutions from EMC to improve performance, increase data protection, enhance business continuity for your conventional SAP applications as well as SAP HANA.
Troubleshooting Storage Devices Using vRealize Operations (formerly vC Ops)
In this presentation you will discover:
- The challenges facing today’s storage environment
- How vR Ops solves storage troubleshooting
- When to use vR Ops
- Where to get a Management Pack for Storage Devices (MPSD)
- Partner Solutions
VMware and Puppet: How to Plan, Deploy & Manage Modern ApplicationsPuppet
Are you looking to better understand how to use Puppet with VMware to rapidly deploy applications?Join us to learn how to easily model and automate delivery of modern applications to private or public clouds. We will walk through how to use Application Director and Puppet together to build, deploy and configure standardized multi-tier applications within minutes. Once these applications are deployed, you’ll learn how best to provide ongoing management and maintenance. We will show you how to manage drift, roll out updates and ensure consistency in your applications to reduceoutages and unnecessary downtime. This session will include a demo of common use cases and customer case examples.
Speakers
Nigel Kersten
CTO, Puppet Labs
Nigel came to Puppet Labs from Google HQ in Mountain View, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of one of the largest Puppet deployments in the world. He’s been a sysadmin for Linux and Mac deployments for longer than he is entirely comfortable calculating.
Becky Smith
Product Line Manager, VMware
Becky Smith has 16 years of experience in IT and System Management space. As a Product Line Manager for VMware's Enterprise Management business unit, Becky is responsible for product direction for operational, security and regulatory configuration and compliance management across cloud, virtual and physical infrastructures and workloads. Becky Smith's technical background and expertise consists of cloud and virtualization infrastructure management, system administration and compliance.
VMware Ready vRealize Automation Program
Author: Meena Nagarajan
IT’s quest for maximum speed, flexibility and accountability is driving a shift in thinking about cloud management platforms. VMware’s new cloud management platform provides automated management for heterogeneous and hybrid clouds.
Learn more about how VMware delivers the foundation for the Software Defined Enterprise:
- Managing a multi-vendor, multi-cloud infrastructure
- Providing centralized automation of infrastructure services
- Creating extensibility opportunities for cloud management
EMC VSPEX BLUE is an all-in-one Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance powered by Intel processor technology and VMware EVO:RAIL software.
It simplifies and automates deployment, provides and intuitive management dashboard that embeds the VSPEX BLUE Manager to simplify operations, upgrades and patches.
With a software designed building block approach, capacity and performance scale linearly – eliminating the need for pre-planned infrastructure purchases and reducing your upfront investments.
All wrapped with a single point of global support from EMC for both hardware and software
PuppetConf 2016: Puppet and vRealize Automation: The Next Generation – Ganesh...Puppet
Here are the slides from Ganesh Subramaniam's PuppetConf 2016 presentation called Puppet and vRealize Automation: The Next Generation. Watch the videos at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV86BgbREluVjwwt-9UL8u2Uy8xnzpIqa
IT could resolve storage issues much faster with better visibility into the storage area network. VMware’s vCenter Operations improves storage operations by offering an extensible, flexible architecture.
Learn more about how VMware works with leading storage solutions to create single-pane-of-glass management. VMware’s storage partners include:
- EMC
- Hitachi
- NetApp
- HP
- Fujitsu
- IBM
- Dell
One key to mastering a converged infrastructure is to deploy an extensible architecture. You can create domain-specific visibility through management packs.
Learn more about maximizing vCenter Operation with additions such as these:
Managing HP’s Converged Infrastructure in a VMware environment
· Connecting with HP OneView for vCenter Operations Manager
· Preview the upcoming Vblock vC Operations Management Pack
· Explore integration with Hitachi Unified Compute Operational Management
The Age of Network Operations Management Software Defined Data Centers
Author: Bill Erdman
VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) is a reference architecture designed to deliver important business outcomes in a scalable, highly flexible manner. SDDC enables intelligent operations from apps to storage.
Learn how to unlock the business value of SDDC for your enterprise, experiencing gains in key areas such as:
- Securing your infrastructure
- Speed and agility
- Time-to-market
- Compute capacity utilization
Huawei SAPPHIRE presentation on KunLun 32-socket serverMike Nelson
Huawei SAPPHIRE 2016 presentation at SUSE Mini-theatre. An introduction to the first 32-socket x86 server for Mission-Critical computing. Speaker: Francis Lam, Huawei
This technical paper discusses the deployment of a VMware environment and best practices in using IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) for its primary storage. To know more about the Network Attached Storage, visit http://ibm.co/SH8WJo.
The values of server virtualization are well understood today. Customers implement
server virtualization to increase server utilization, handle peak loads efficiently,
decrease total cost of ownership (TCO), and streamline server landscapes.
Similarly, storage virtualization helps to address the same challenges as server
virtualization. Storage virtualization also expands beyond the boundaries of physical
resources and helps to control how IT infrastructures adjust to rapidly changing
business demands. Storage virtualization benefits customers through improved
physical resource utilization and improved hardware efficiency, as well as reduced
power and cooling expenses. In addition, consolidation of resources obtained
through virtualization offers measurable returns on investment for today’s
businesses. Finally, virtualization serves as one of the key enablers of cloud
solutions, which are designed to deliver services economically and on demand.
VMware and Puppet: How to Plan, Deploy & Manage Modern ApplicationsPuppet
Are you looking to better understand how to use Puppet with VMware to rapidly deploy applications?Join us to learn how to easily model and automate delivery of modern applications to private or public clouds. We will walk through how to use Application Director and Puppet together to build, deploy and configure standardized multi-tier applications within minutes. Once these applications are deployed, you’ll learn how best to provide ongoing management and maintenance. We will show you how to manage drift, roll out updates and ensure consistency in your applications to reduceoutages and unnecessary downtime. This session will include a demo of common use cases and customer case examples.
Speakers
Nigel Kersten
CTO, Puppet Labs
Nigel came to Puppet Labs from Google HQ in Mountain View, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of one of the largest Puppet deployments in the world. He’s been a sysadmin for Linux and Mac deployments for longer than he is entirely comfortable calculating.
Becky Smith
Product Line Manager, VMware
Becky Smith has 16 years of experience in IT and System Management space. As a Product Line Manager for VMware's Enterprise Management business unit, Becky is responsible for product direction for operational, security and regulatory configuration and compliance management across cloud, virtual and physical infrastructures and workloads. Becky Smith's technical background and expertise consists of cloud and virtualization infrastructure management, system administration and compliance.
VMware Ready vRealize Automation Program
Author: Meena Nagarajan
IT’s quest for maximum speed, flexibility and accountability is driving a shift in thinking about cloud management platforms. VMware’s new cloud management platform provides automated management for heterogeneous and hybrid clouds.
Learn more about how VMware delivers the foundation for the Software Defined Enterprise:
- Managing a multi-vendor, multi-cloud infrastructure
- Providing centralized automation of infrastructure services
- Creating extensibility opportunities for cloud management
EMC VSPEX BLUE is an all-in-one Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance powered by Intel processor technology and VMware EVO:RAIL software.
It simplifies and automates deployment, provides and intuitive management dashboard that embeds the VSPEX BLUE Manager to simplify operations, upgrades and patches.
With a software designed building block approach, capacity and performance scale linearly – eliminating the need for pre-planned infrastructure purchases and reducing your upfront investments.
All wrapped with a single point of global support from EMC for both hardware and software
PuppetConf 2016: Puppet and vRealize Automation: The Next Generation – Ganesh...Puppet
Here are the slides from Ganesh Subramaniam's PuppetConf 2016 presentation called Puppet and vRealize Automation: The Next Generation. Watch the videos at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV86BgbREluVjwwt-9UL8u2Uy8xnzpIqa
IT could resolve storage issues much faster with better visibility into the storage area network. VMware’s vCenter Operations improves storage operations by offering an extensible, flexible architecture.
Learn more about how VMware works with leading storage solutions to create single-pane-of-glass management. VMware’s storage partners include:
- EMC
- Hitachi
- NetApp
- HP
- Fujitsu
- IBM
- Dell
One key to mastering a converged infrastructure is to deploy an extensible architecture. You can create domain-specific visibility through management packs.
Learn more about maximizing vCenter Operation with additions such as these:
Managing HP’s Converged Infrastructure in a VMware environment
· Connecting with HP OneView for vCenter Operations Manager
· Preview the upcoming Vblock vC Operations Management Pack
· Explore integration with Hitachi Unified Compute Operational Management
The Age of Network Operations Management Software Defined Data Centers
Author: Bill Erdman
VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) is a reference architecture designed to deliver important business outcomes in a scalable, highly flexible manner. SDDC enables intelligent operations from apps to storage.
Learn how to unlock the business value of SDDC for your enterprise, experiencing gains in key areas such as:
- Securing your infrastructure
- Speed and agility
- Time-to-market
- Compute capacity utilization
Huawei SAPPHIRE presentation on KunLun 32-socket serverMike Nelson
Huawei SAPPHIRE 2016 presentation at SUSE Mini-theatre. An introduction to the first 32-socket x86 server for Mission-Critical computing. Speaker: Francis Lam, Huawei
This technical paper discusses the deployment of a VMware environment and best practices in using IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) for its primary storage. To know more about the Network Attached Storage, visit http://ibm.co/SH8WJo.
The values of server virtualization are well understood today. Customers implement
server virtualization to increase server utilization, handle peak loads efficiently,
decrease total cost of ownership (TCO), and streamline server landscapes.
Similarly, storage virtualization helps to address the same challenges as server
virtualization. Storage virtualization also expands beyond the boundaries of physical
resources and helps to control how IT infrastructures adjust to rapidly changing
business demands. Storage virtualization benefits customers through improved
physical resource utilization and improved hardware efficiency, as well as reduced
power and cooling expenses. In addition, consolidation of resources obtained
through virtualization offers measurable returns on investment for today’s
businesses. Finally, virtualization serves as one of the key enablers of cloud
solutions, which are designed to deliver services economically and on demand.
White paper: IBM FlashSystems in VMware EnvironmentsthinkASG
Drive performance in VMware environments with IBM FlashSystem. IBM flash storage delivers extreme, scalable performance for virtualized infrastructure.
Tudor Damian - Comparing Microsoft Cloud with VMware CloudITSpark Community
The session plans to review the key capabilities of the latest release of Hyper-V and see how they match with the latest release of VMware vSphere across four key areas: scalability and performance, security and multi-tenant environments.
Virtualization simply means maximizing the value of your IT resources - including hardware, software applications and infrastructure - by decoupling them from physical assets and turning them into a "pool" of resources that can be called upon and used on an on demand basis.
Similar to SAP Solution On VMware - Best Practice Guide 2011 (20)
Measuring Nexsan Performance and Compatibility in Virtualized Environments, Medición de desempeño y compatibilidad de de Nexsan en ambietes virtualizados.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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/
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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.
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.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
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.
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.
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.