This document discusses how increasing demands on IT administrators are leading to greater complexity in server rooms. It argues that datacenter simplification through technologies like hyperconvergence can help overworked administrators. Hyperconvergence uses commodity hardware and virtualization combined with smart software to simplify storage, networking, availability and management. This allows administrators to do more with less resources and meet rising expectations. The document provides examples of how hyperconvergence has helped large companies and can also benefit mid-sized companies by reducing complexity, costs, hardware requirements and support needs.
Webinar Slides: Global MySQL Availability: SaaS Cloud Contact Center Secures ...Continuent
Cloud-Based Active/Active Tungsten MySQL Clusters @ Vonage
Vonage, the global SaaS provider with Cloud Contact Center solution (formerly NewVoiceMedia), is the leading Salesforce telephony solution. They immediately deliver up-to-date routing data to clients for thousands of simultaneous VoIP calls and other communication channels.
When there is a significant write load on geographically distributed applications, active/active MySQL clustering is needed. These applications require fast response times for both reads and writes, and they also need to share data on a global scale.
Join this webinar with Eero Teerikorpi, CEO at Continuent, for a walk-through of how the Continuent Team helped Vonage build a multi-region active/active MySQL Tungsten Cluster in AWS Cloud serving a global high-volume Cloud Contact Center.
AGENDA
- Continuent Introduction
- How to build a global, multi-region active/active MySQL Tungsten Cluster in AWS Cloud for Cloud Contact Center
- Continuent Tungsten Solutions and Benefits
- Key Benefit Highlight: Global MySQL Availability
- Q&A
PRESENTER
Eero Teerikorpi - Founder and CEO, Continuent - is a 7-time serial entrepreneur who has more than 30 years of high-tech management and enterprise software experience. Eero has been in the MySQL marketplace virtually since day one, from the early 2000s. Eero has held top management positions at various cross-Atlantic entities (CEO at Alcom Corporation, President at Capslock, Executive Board Member at Esker S.A.) Eero started his career as a Product Manager at Apple Computer in Finland in the mid-80s. Eero also owns and manages a boutique NOET Vineyards producing high-quality dry-farmed Cabernet Sauvignon.
Eero is a former Navy officer and still an avid sailor on San Francisco Bay and around the world. Eero is a very active sportsman: a 4+ tennis player, a rookie golfer, a very careful mountain biker, and an experienced (40+ years) skier, both slalom and cross-country.
Even though users and application owners are demanding it, the Always-On Data Center seems unrealistic to most IT professionals. Overcoming the cost and complexity of an Always-On environment while delivering consistent results is almost too much to ask. But the reality is that data centers of all sizes can affordably meet this expectation. The Always-On environment requires a holistic approach, counting on a highly virtualized infrastructure, flexible data protection software and purpose built protection storage.
Listen in as experts from Storage Switzerland, Veeam and ExaGrid architect a data availability and protection infrastructure that can meet and even exceed the Always-On expectations of an Always-On organization.
Storage in the data center has evolved from islands of server attached storage to shared networked storage. But in both cases storage needed to be specifically designed for the workload it was on. This has lead to storage hardware sprawl.
In this Slideshare of our recent webinar you will learn what hardware sprawl is and how you can stop it. For full audio go to: http://bit.ly/storagesprawl
Webinar Slides: Global MySQL Availability: SaaS Cloud Contact Center Secures ...Continuent
Cloud-Based Active/Active Tungsten MySQL Clusters @ Vonage
Vonage, the global SaaS provider with Cloud Contact Center solution (formerly NewVoiceMedia), is the leading Salesforce telephony solution. They immediately deliver up-to-date routing data to clients for thousands of simultaneous VoIP calls and other communication channels.
When there is a significant write load on geographically distributed applications, active/active MySQL clustering is needed. These applications require fast response times for both reads and writes, and they also need to share data on a global scale.
Join this webinar with Eero Teerikorpi, CEO at Continuent, for a walk-through of how the Continuent Team helped Vonage build a multi-region active/active MySQL Tungsten Cluster in AWS Cloud serving a global high-volume Cloud Contact Center.
AGENDA
- Continuent Introduction
- How to build a global, multi-region active/active MySQL Tungsten Cluster in AWS Cloud for Cloud Contact Center
- Continuent Tungsten Solutions and Benefits
- Key Benefit Highlight: Global MySQL Availability
- Q&A
PRESENTER
Eero Teerikorpi - Founder and CEO, Continuent - is a 7-time serial entrepreneur who has more than 30 years of high-tech management and enterprise software experience. Eero has been in the MySQL marketplace virtually since day one, from the early 2000s. Eero has held top management positions at various cross-Atlantic entities (CEO at Alcom Corporation, President at Capslock, Executive Board Member at Esker S.A.) Eero started his career as a Product Manager at Apple Computer in Finland in the mid-80s. Eero also owns and manages a boutique NOET Vineyards producing high-quality dry-farmed Cabernet Sauvignon.
Eero is a former Navy officer and still an avid sailor on San Francisco Bay and around the world. Eero is a very active sportsman: a 4+ tennis player, a rookie golfer, a very careful mountain biker, and an experienced (40+ years) skier, both slalom and cross-country.
Even though users and application owners are demanding it, the Always-On Data Center seems unrealistic to most IT professionals. Overcoming the cost and complexity of an Always-On environment while delivering consistent results is almost too much to ask. But the reality is that data centers of all sizes can affordably meet this expectation. The Always-On environment requires a holistic approach, counting on a highly virtualized infrastructure, flexible data protection software and purpose built protection storage.
Listen in as experts from Storage Switzerland, Veeam and ExaGrid architect a data availability and protection infrastructure that can meet and even exceed the Always-On expectations of an Always-On organization.
Storage in the data center has evolved from islands of server attached storage to shared networked storage. But in both cases storage needed to be specifically designed for the workload it was on. This has lead to storage hardware sprawl.
In this Slideshare of our recent webinar you will learn what hardware sprawl is and how you can stop it. For full audio go to: http://bit.ly/storagesprawl
Get the most out OpenStack block storage with SolidFireNetApp
Learn how SolidFire storage can be used to deliver predictable application performance and improve infrastructure efficiency in your OpenStack environment.
This presentation covers:
- Consolidation of multiple mission critical applications on the same storage system
- Integrated End-to-End Quality of Service allocation using OpenStack Cinder Volume Types to eliminate inconsistent performance
- Boot from Cinder Volumes
- Cinder snapshots and clone offloading with SolidFire
Decoupling storage capacity from performance (Infinio at SpiceCorps)Infinio
The problem with storage isn't capacity, it's performance. TBs != IOPS
Most companies spend 2x - 3x as much on storage as they do on server virtualization. But storage capacity isn't the issue, it's storage performance. Technologies like server-side caching can improve storage performance by bringing the content closer to the workload. And faster storage means faster apps.
Infinio's offload engine boosts the performance of VMware environments running on NFS storage, letting you get more IOPS from the NAS you already have.
This presentation is from the SpiceCorps Boston Storage meeting held January 22, 2014.
Protect the Hype: Backup Best Practices for Converged & Hyperconverged Infras...marketingunitrends
Infrastructure is getting smaller through convergence. Cisco UCS exploded in the market by reducing infrastructure components and footprint. Hyperconverged vendors like Nutanix are taking that concept even further – talking about “invisible infrastructure.” The shifts in delivery of storage, compute, networking and virtualization create huge opportunities to improve delivery and TCO, but they can also make you want to tear your hair out trying to protect it all.
It is changing -- and there's a desire to find new ways to deliver applications and services -- to serve the business. Our own Don Frame and Gina Hefner address these challenges specifically for the public sector...
VMworld 2013: Low-Cost, High-Performance Storage for VMware Horizon Desktops VMworld
VMworld 2013
Courtney Burry, VMware
Donal Geary, VMware
Tristan Todd, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Deploying Web-Scale Private Clouds using the Azure Pack and Nutanix Web-scale...Tom Van Gramberen
Presented on November 29th, 2014 at TechEd Europe 2014 in Barcelona:
The rise of virtualization and new applications has created pressure on IT departments to develop, deliver, and maintain an application and storage infrastructure that is not only high performing, but also simple to manage, VM-centric, and highly scalable. In this Lunch Presentation, we discuss how to create the ideal infrastructure for Hyper-V and virtualized Windows applications, that is always available and literally invisible to the application teams. We also explore a real-world Azure Pack deployment of a European service provider Synergics during this technical presentation. One of the Synergics’ architects explains and demonstrates how they deployed a scalable, easy-to-manage cloud based on Azure Pack.
MT46 Virtualization Integration with UnityDell EMC World
This session focuses on how virtualized application environments using Dell EMC Unity storage solutions are more agile, more efficient in their use of IT resources and lower costs. With over 90+ integration points with the major virtualization stacks (VMware, Microsoft and OpenStack) Unity is the ideal storage solution for your use. Our discussion will include how storage services are represented and policy based storage provisioning methods used.
Virtualization to Cloud - Accelerating Efficiency in the Data CenterHugh Jenkins
What are some of challenges in moving virtualization forward toward a Private Cloud environment? How can these challenges be overcome? Role of Dell VIS management tools and vStart 'cloud-in-a-rack' solutions in helping customers tackle automating converged infrastructure and lifecycle of cloud application workloads.
MT48 A Flash into the future of storage…. Flash meets Persistent Memory: The...Dell EMC World
Several key technology trends are redefining the boundaries of the traditional storage infrastructure stack: In a rapidly changing world of system interconnects, emerging memory media, and storage semantics, Server Designers and Storage Architects are engaging and collaborating like never before to exploit breakthrough technology capabilities.
With the backdrop of Big Data volume, Cloud Data ubiquity and IoT Data velocity, Application Developers are entering the Post-POSIX world of real-time, high-frequency, low latency data management frameworks.
This session will address key technology trends in Storage, Networking, and Compute, as they define the parameters of a Memory Centric Architecture (MCA) and the Next Generation Data Center.
Webinar: Hyperconvergence is Broken, Learn How to Fix it!Storage Switzerland
While hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI) offer rapid startup they lock organizations into a specific set of vendor compute, storage, networking and hypervisor configurations. And, as the infrastructure scales it becomes increasingly difficult to deliver workload specific levels of performance and data protection.
Dell EMC VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 – powered by the universally trusted Hypermax/Enginuity operating system - continues to revolutionize the ways organizations are deploying, provisioning, protecting, and managing enterprise storage. This interactive session allows attendees to discuss new Dell EMC VMAX features and functionality in an open forum with specialists and engineering leaders. Bring your questions and top of mind discussion topics for this always-lively session.
Forensics: Human Identity Testing in the Applied Genetics GroupNathan Olson
"Forensics: Human Identity Testing in the Applied Genetics Group" presentation at the Standards for Pathogen Identification via NGS (SPIN) workshop hosted by the National Institute for Standards and Technology October 2014 by Peter Vallone, PhD from NIST.
Get the most out OpenStack block storage with SolidFireNetApp
Learn how SolidFire storage can be used to deliver predictable application performance and improve infrastructure efficiency in your OpenStack environment.
This presentation covers:
- Consolidation of multiple mission critical applications on the same storage system
- Integrated End-to-End Quality of Service allocation using OpenStack Cinder Volume Types to eliminate inconsistent performance
- Boot from Cinder Volumes
- Cinder snapshots and clone offloading with SolidFire
Decoupling storage capacity from performance (Infinio at SpiceCorps)Infinio
The problem with storage isn't capacity, it's performance. TBs != IOPS
Most companies spend 2x - 3x as much on storage as they do on server virtualization. But storage capacity isn't the issue, it's storage performance. Technologies like server-side caching can improve storage performance by bringing the content closer to the workload. And faster storage means faster apps.
Infinio's offload engine boosts the performance of VMware environments running on NFS storage, letting you get more IOPS from the NAS you already have.
This presentation is from the SpiceCorps Boston Storage meeting held January 22, 2014.
Protect the Hype: Backup Best Practices for Converged & Hyperconverged Infras...marketingunitrends
Infrastructure is getting smaller through convergence. Cisco UCS exploded in the market by reducing infrastructure components and footprint. Hyperconverged vendors like Nutanix are taking that concept even further – talking about “invisible infrastructure.” The shifts in delivery of storage, compute, networking and virtualization create huge opportunities to improve delivery and TCO, but they can also make you want to tear your hair out trying to protect it all.
It is changing -- and there's a desire to find new ways to deliver applications and services -- to serve the business. Our own Don Frame and Gina Hefner address these challenges specifically for the public sector...
VMworld 2013: Low-Cost, High-Performance Storage for VMware Horizon Desktops VMworld
VMworld 2013
Courtney Burry, VMware
Donal Geary, VMware
Tristan Todd, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Deploying Web-Scale Private Clouds using the Azure Pack and Nutanix Web-scale...Tom Van Gramberen
Presented on November 29th, 2014 at TechEd Europe 2014 in Barcelona:
The rise of virtualization and new applications has created pressure on IT departments to develop, deliver, and maintain an application and storage infrastructure that is not only high performing, but also simple to manage, VM-centric, and highly scalable. In this Lunch Presentation, we discuss how to create the ideal infrastructure for Hyper-V and virtualized Windows applications, that is always available and literally invisible to the application teams. We also explore a real-world Azure Pack deployment of a European service provider Synergics during this technical presentation. One of the Synergics’ architects explains and demonstrates how they deployed a scalable, easy-to-manage cloud based on Azure Pack.
MT46 Virtualization Integration with UnityDell EMC World
This session focuses on how virtualized application environments using Dell EMC Unity storage solutions are more agile, more efficient in their use of IT resources and lower costs. With over 90+ integration points with the major virtualization stacks (VMware, Microsoft and OpenStack) Unity is the ideal storage solution for your use. Our discussion will include how storage services are represented and policy based storage provisioning methods used.
Virtualization to Cloud - Accelerating Efficiency in the Data CenterHugh Jenkins
What are some of challenges in moving virtualization forward toward a Private Cloud environment? How can these challenges be overcome? Role of Dell VIS management tools and vStart 'cloud-in-a-rack' solutions in helping customers tackle automating converged infrastructure and lifecycle of cloud application workloads.
MT48 A Flash into the future of storage…. Flash meets Persistent Memory: The...Dell EMC World
Several key technology trends are redefining the boundaries of the traditional storage infrastructure stack: In a rapidly changing world of system interconnects, emerging memory media, and storage semantics, Server Designers and Storage Architects are engaging and collaborating like never before to exploit breakthrough technology capabilities.
With the backdrop of Big Data volume, Cloud Data ubiquity and IoT Data velocity, Application Developers are entering the Post-POSIX world of real-time, high-frequency, low latency data management frameworks.
This session will address key technology trends in Storage, Networking, and Compute, as they define the parameters of a Memory Centric Architecture (MCA) and the Next Generation Data Center.
Webinar: Hyperconvergence is Broken, Learn How to Fix it!Storage Switzerland
While hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI) offer rapid startup they lock organizations into a specific set of vendor compute, storage, networking and hypervisor configurations. And, as the infrastructure scales it becomes increasingly difficult to deliver workload specific levels of performance and data protection.
Dell EMC VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 – powered by the universally trusted Hypermax/Enginuity operating system - continues to revolutionize the ways organizations are deploying, provisioning, protecting, and managing enterprise storage. This interactive session allows attendees to discuss new Dell EMC VMAX features and functionality in an open forum with specialists and engineering leaders. Bring your questions and top of mind discussion topics for this always-lively session.
Forensics: Human Identity Testing in the Applied Genetics GroupNathan Olson
"Forensics: Human Identity Testing in the Applied Genetics Group" presentation at the Standards for Pathogen Identification via NGS (SPIN) workshop hosted by the National Institute for Standards and Technology October 2014 by Peter Vallone, PhD from NIST.
Presentation on material selection and characterization of microbial genomic reference materials being developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA.
Scrum Framework: Manage Anything Efficiently and AccuratelyAmir Syafrudin
Note: This presentation is an update of my previous uploaded presentation found here: http://www.slideshare.net/AmirSyafrudin/scrum-methodology-managing-project-efficiently-and-accurately
This is a presentation material used to introduce Scrum Framework in the Directorate General of Taxes, Ministry of Finance, Republic of Indonesia.
Metrology for Identity and Other Nominal PropertiesNathan Olson
"Metrology for Identity and Other Nominal Properties" presentation at the Standards for Pathogen Identification via NGS (SPIN) workshop hosted by the National Institute for Standards and Technology October 2014 by David Duewer, PhD from NIST.
"Microbial Genomics @NIST" presentation at the Standards for Pathogen Identification via NGS (SPIN) workshop hosted by the National Institute for Standards and Technology October 2014 by Nathan Olson from NIST.
"Bacterial Pathogen Genomics at NCBI" presentation at the Standards for Pathogen Identification via NGS (SPIN) workshop hosted by the National Institute for Standards and Technology October 2014 by Dr. Bill Klimke.
VMworld 2013: Symantec’s Real-World Experience with a VMware Software-Defined...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Jeremiah Cornelius, VMware
Jason Puig, Symantec
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Tailoring Converged Solutions To Fit Your Business Needs, Not The Other Way A...Dell World
Data center modernization, simplified management and cost reduction has led to an industry shift towards converged infrastructure. Yet, most converged infrastructure solutions are sold as 'one-size-fits-all' and typically don't align well to your business objectives. At Dell, we don't believe that you should have to change the way you run your business to fit your technology solution. In this session, you will learn about our broad and innovative portfolio of converged platforms and unified management tools that allow you to tailor fit your infrastructure to meet your unique requirements—and achieve the benefits of convergence on your terms.
24 Hours of PASS, Summit Preview Session: Virtual SQL Server CPUsDavid Klee
One of the largest points of contention with virtual SQL Servers and the VM administrators is how to configure the CPUs. Experience says more CPUs are better for performance. VM admins say less is better. Third-party vendors say you need all of them (and it doesn’t matter how many your hosts have either). Can over-provisioning virtual machine CPUs speed things up, or does it slow things down? What is the right methodology to determine the correct number of virtual CPUs? How does this configuration align with the physical servers? From sampling and analyzing performance data, to “right-sizing’ your SQL Server virtual machine CPU count, to properly aligning the VM with the physical server NUMA topology, you will gain the understanding of how to properly manage and validate your virtual SQL Server vCPU configuration in this insightful session. Valuable tips and tricks will be shared that you can take back to your virtual SQL Servers and immediately apply to your own environments.
Dynamic Data Centers - Taking it to the next levelsanvmibj
Delivering on the Promise of a Virtualized Dynamic Data Center
-Maximize economic value with end-to-end virtualization
- Break down your silos (silos of virtualization are still silos)
- Explore the potential of cloud services
VMworld 2013: Three Advantages of Running Cloud Foundry in a VMware Private C...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Tarik Dwiek, EMC
Steve Flanders, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Dell Solutions Tour 2014
Jan Bjelde Manager, Enterprise Solution Group, Dell Norway
Arild Hansen System Enginer Server, Dell Norway
Løsninger for Software defined and konvergert datasenter
Gjennomgang av Dell VRTX som kan være verdens minste Konvergerte infrastruktur, et komplett konvergert og virtuelt datasenter ogkomponent i en Software Defined Storage løsning (SDS) “Softwared defined datasenter (SDDC) snur opp ned på tradisjonelle enterprise løsninger.Lagring lagres i server plattformer (SDS). Programvare i nettverket flyttes til virtuelle plattformer (SDN+NFV). Infrastruktur forenkles og enten leveres som stack’er i konvergert infrastruktur eller som standardiserte server plattformer (Hyper konvergens). Dell kommer med både moderniseringsstrategier og løsninger for det moderne datasenteret. Dell har mange nye produkter somoptimaliseres for det software definerte datasenter eller som konvergert infrastruktur for det virtuelle datasenter eller for SAP eller Oracle type workloads.»
Come sfruttare al meglio la sinergia tra Kemp LoadMaster e il prodotti VMware
http://vinfrastructure.it/it/2015/10/webinar-kemp-lm-e-vmware-vsphere-la-sinergia-perfetta/
Enterprise grade disaster recovery without breaking the bankactualtechmedia
Perform a cost comparison of 3 DR strategies
View a comprehensive breakdown of DR infrastructure costs
Address the benefits of cloud-based DR
Draw from use cases of enterprises who have reduced IT expenditures with cloud DR
http://www.actualtech.io/enterprise-grade-disaster-recovery/
Key data protection best practices for your virtual environmentactualtechmedia
Discover the distinctive requirements that define data protection in a virtualized environment. Learn how to set data protection policies on groups of virtual machines.
How to migrate workloads to the google cloud platformactualtechmedia
IT Organizations of all sizes are moving their workloads to the public cloud in order to gain business agility, unlimited workload scalability, and free their time to work on the projects that matter. One of the leaders in public cloud is the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Conquering Disaster Recovery Challenges and Out-of-Control Data with the Hybr...actualtechmedia
More and more companies are leveraging the cloud for disaster recovery. After all, the limitless compute resources of the cloud are perfectly suited for disaster recovery. Learn how to easily leverage the cloud for DR.
Server side caching for the vmware admin by David Davisactualtechmedia
The world’s top VMware Administrators are quietly boosting storage performance in unconventional (and surprisingly affordable) ways with the help of fresh strategies and tools. Obviously, storage performance can have a real impact on your IT costs and user experience, but could you be leaving easy storage performance gains on the table?
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.
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.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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/
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.
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
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.
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.
2. ABOUT US
Dave Demlow
VP of Product Management
David Davis
vExpert, VCP, CCIE, an
d Video Training Author
3. HEROIC DATACENTER ADMINS
Are you the heroic firefighter of the
datacenter?
Constantly beating down technology
problems as they pop up?
4. TOO MUCH COMPLEXITY
Server
Network
Storage
High Availability
Advanced features you can’t afford
5. INCREASING DEMANDS VS. DECREASING BUDGETS
“Do more with less”
vs.
Increased expectations
Increased demands
IT Budgets
Expectations and
Demand
6. ANSWER = DATACENTER SIMPLIFICATION
The datacenter MUST be simplified-
“do more with less”
Meet technology expectations (like
availability)
Provide for increased server and app
demands
Decrease the stress on admins
7. NEW TECH INNOVATIONS CAN HELP
• Virtualization
• Hardware commoditization & > Capacity Hardware
• Smarter software
• Scale out storage architecture
• Cloud ready/web scale
8. HOW IT’S HELPING THE “BIG BOYS”
How do they achieve?
Massive scale
Massive efficiency
Fractional cost
9. WHAT IS HYPERCONVERGENCE?
Leverage commodity hardware
Fold storage into compute
Use virtualization
Smart software with advanced features – data replication, high
availability, etc
All this = ease of management and ease of scalability
10. BENEFITS OF HYPERCONVERGENCE
• Storage becomes a building block resource, just like servers
• Less complexity in data center architecture
• Ease of scale and management
• Cost savings
• Quicker time to value in initial infrastructure
purchase
• No need to significantly overprovision resources
at initial buy
• Less cabling, less hardware, less
manpower, less cooling, less rack space
• Less need for POC
• Lower ongoing costs as new resources are
needed
11. FEWER VENDORS = SIMPLE SUPPORT MODEL
• Who do you call when something doesn’t work in the datacenter
today?
• What if you could have single
vendor support – one call to
make?
12. HOW TO SAVE TIME ON COMMON DC TASKS
• Add more memory or CPU to a hungry
server
• Add more storage capacity to a SAN
LUN
• Troubleshoot slow application
performance
13. HOW TO SAVE TIME ON COMMON DC TASKS
• Implement offsite data replication
• Implement high availability for critical
applications (server and storage)
• Implement a private cloud
14. Built for Midsize Companies
• Simplicity of a single
server
• Availability of a virtualized
server and SAN
• Scalability of a clustered
infrastructure
17. Configuration
# of VMs (Hardware)
2x VM Density Increase
20010050
Grow to 100 VMs
400
Grow to 200 VMs
Grow to 400 VMs
HC4000 - Limited Introduction
Entry
18. • ScaleCare Support
– First Year Included
• ScaleCare Remote Services
– Installation
– Switch Configuration
– VM Migration
– Remote VM Replication and Failover
"The tech was prompt and got things going very quickly. I’ve always had great
support.
I wish it was contagious and would spread to my other vendors.”
~MacAllister Machinery
21. THANKS FOR ATTENDING!
• To learn more about how
hyperconvergence can save
you time and simplify your
datacenter, visit
www.ScaleComputing.com
Editor's Notes
** slides full screen** make us all organizers** click SHOW MY SCREEN** Start broadcast** RECORDThanks everyone for joining us! We will being the webinar at 2 minutes after the hour to ensure that everyone who wants to join, is able to join the call. Please hang on for a couple more minutes and we’ll be right back!——[TITLE SLIDE]Hello and Welcome to The Time-Starved Administrator’s Guide to Simplifying the Server Room!In this webinar, we will cover…- The challenges that today’s mid-market administrators are facing- we’ll discuss new technology that can helpAnd, finally, we’ll have a live demo of the scale computing hyperconvergence solution in actionIf you have questions during the webinar, please use the gotomeeting question box to enter your question. During the webinar there will be one point where we ask you to answer 4 quick survey questions to ensure that we are connecting with your needs on this webinar and future webinars. And finally, the last point that I want to make is that, anyone who is attending this event live today will be entered to win your own drone quad copter, thanks to Scale Computing and VirtualizationSoftware.com.This webinar is dedicated to those admins out there who are the firefighters of technology, every day (and maybe every night) at their company. From this webinar we hope to help to make your life simpler and less stressful. We’ve got a lot to cover so Let’s get started!!
So that you have a little background on who is presenting today, let me first tell you about myself.My name is David Davis and I’m a VMwarevExpert, VCP, CCIE, and a video training author, on the topic of virtualization, for pluralsight.com. I started my career in IT as a server and network admin, working in the datacenter. Later I was an IT manager at medium enterprise where we had a very successful server consolidation project, consolidating roughly 80% of our servers. It was then that I learned about the great power and efficiency that virtualization could provide. Since then, I’ve been writing, speaking, and creating video training around virtualization. I’ve spoke at VMware user groups and Vmworld in the US, Canada, and Europe. I’m the co-owner of actualtechmedia.com where we create technical marketing content and demand generation for companies in virtualization, storage, and cloud computing. My blog isvirtualizaitonsoftware.comand you can find me on Twitter as @DavidMDavis.Also on the call is Dave Demlow from Scale Computing. Davejoined Scale Computing in 2010 and is responsible for all aspects of Product Management, Technical Support and Services. Dave brings over 20 years of storage and software product management experience having previously served as CTO and VP of Product Management for Double-Take Software and leading their product, technology and M&A strategy over the course of 13 years. In addition to the release of many innovative products and patented technologies, Dave was a key contributor to Double-Take’s overall business plan which lead to key partnerships, multiple rounds of venture funding, IPO and multiple M&A transactions. Prior to Double-Take, Dave held product management and systems engineering roles with Seagate Software and the LAN Dealers Association (LANDA). Dave holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing from the University of Illinois, Chicago.Now that you know who we are, let’s start this webinar off by talking about some of the ongoing challenges we are facing in IT.
I want to start this webinar off by giving a special thanks to those heros of the datacenter – the people (many of you on the call today) who work hard every day to put out the never ending number of problems that pop up in the datacenter.Hopefully you never have a real fire in the datacenter and likely you know the types of problems I’m talking about-New applications demands and servers to run themSlow application performance complaintsOut of disk space issuesRemote user access issuesTroubleshooting backup and restore And trying to find time tp plan for disaster recoveryYou might feel like you are constantly playing the “whack a mole game”Trust me, I have been there. I’ve been responsible for over 2500 end users, spread across 80 locations, using 1500 devices to access the datacenter with about a 100 servers. I dealt with a number ending support requests queue and felt that I would never find the time to just slow down and do those things that I should be doing to PREVENT fires instead of constantly fighting them.
I blame many of the problems in the datacenter on the technology we use. When we bought it, a few years back, it was touted as the greatest thing ever invented BUT, today, we are left with the headaches of too many physical servers that are too hard to manage, complex network configurations, storage arrays that need full time babysitters, high availability systems that are too costly and complex to put in for more than a couple of your most critical applications, and simply too many vendors to call when something breaks.Surely you have heard of all the advanced features offered in the high end virtualization platforms that are used by the largest enterpriises. Unfornatuely, most mid- market companies struggle to pay for the advanced features that they could benefit from – things like HA, load balancing, replication, automated disaster recovery systems, and advanced virtualization backup application.
I worked for a private mid-market company where every dollar we spent came right out of the owners checkbook and IT was seen as an expense that needed to be reduced as much as possible. At the same time, the same company executives would stop by with a weekly pet technology project that they wanted help with and would drop off approvals for new applications and end user devices, left and right.Likely, your in a similar boat – increasing expectations on IT – where they want more functionality and more end users with access while, at the same time, an ever decreasing IT budget.The expectations are always “do more with less” and it can be a frustrating place to be.Before we talk about what the answer is to this problem, at least in my opinion, …
Back to the problems that we are facing … let’s talk about what I see as the answer to help you save time in the datacenter, help you be more productive, and help your company save money.The datacenter must be simplified! Those complex systems must be consolidated, physically, and managed from a single interface.Only with simplification can you be able to “do more with less”, meet those expectations, provide for the increased demands, and decrease the stress that you are under.What if you could get to a single “monolithic” datacenter where, in a single cluster of a handful of servers, you were able to meet your application needs and manage it from a single interface?
I believe that, through some of the latest innovations in technology – this more simple datacenter concept – could be a reality.…At the top of the list is virtualization. Virtualization isn’t totally new but so many companies still haven’t taken full advantage of it. Virtualization personally saved me and my datacenter team a tremendous amount of time. It made our life so much more efficient and allowed us to do things we never dreamed possible (and especially not on a relatively low budget) – moving running VMs from one host to another, cloning VMs, high availability, and simplified disaster recovery.Some companies still need to virtualize while other companies stated virtualization and stalled out. To help you save time in the datacenter, I encourage you to push forward with virtualization to 100% virtualization in your datacenter.[POLL QUESTION -- what % virtualized are you?][POLL QUESTION – how many people in IT?]…Something else that has changed over the past few years is that server hardware has increased in scalability, with the ability to run so many more VMs than ever before. A the same time, that hardware has become more commoditized where, with the virtualization layer applied, on top, one mid-grade server is just as good as another.…At the same time, Virtualization software has gotten smarter and more feature rich. Additionally, the virtualization ecosystem has matured with virtualization specific backup software, disaster recovery software, management software, and more – that make these common datacenter tasks – tremendously more efficient.…Another new advent in smarter software is accomplished with scale out storage architecture.Now I want to bring in Dave Demlow to talk about what scale out storage is and how it helps datacenter admins……Thanks Dave, finally, cloud ready and web scale applications and infrastructure are changing the way that we think about datacenter infrastructure. Dave, how does Sclae computing use web scale?
Graph from - http://www.ofthat.com/2013/01/enterprise-scale-is-not-web-scale.htmlSpeaking of web scale, this is how the amazons, googles, and facebooks of the world achieve massive scale, massive efficiency, at a fraction of the cost that the typical enterprise spends. If you look at the graph on the right, you can see how, the cost of web scale is relatively flat vs the typical enterprise – scale where the cost (and the complexity) skyrockets as the number of users grows.
Now let’s talk about a, potentially, new term for many of you and that is hyper convergence.. Web scale typically uses hyper convergence.With hyper convergence
Let me stop and ask you a question to think about..Who do you call in the data center when something doesn’t work?Like darthvader here, do you have just one proverbial “throat to choke”?Likely you have a call list of about 10 vendors – one or multiple vendors for storage, one or multiple vendors for network, one or multiple vendors for servers, perhaps some specialized hardware, and specialized software. This increases complexity and induces that horrible finger pointing syndrome between vendors – which increases frustration, on your side, and lengthens the outage time or slow performance time for your end users.Back when I had a IBM RS 6000 mini computer, attached IBM storage, and IBM AIX OS in the datacenter, one of the benefits was that I just had a single call.Now, I’m not saying that anyone should move to IBM – what I’m saying is that I appreciated the support model of having just a single vendor to call.With hyperconvergence plays, like scale computing, you will finally be able to get to that “single vendor support” model that, the next time there’s a problem, I know you’ll appreciate!
[ bring in Dave here ]
[ bring in Dave here ][POLL QUESTION – how long would it take to recover key apps after server failure?][POLL QUESTION – what is your primary hypervisor?]
DEMO hereKey points – Availability with Simplicity
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Dave – I’d like to give you the final word here on the webinar by asking you –If I were the typical midmarket datacenter admin out there – what action should I take today to see if a web-scale hyperconverged infrastructure might be a fit for my company?THANKS for all the time starved admins who took time out of their day to attend the webinar today!Have a great day!