This document summarizes Rob Wood's presentation at the ScotCloud event. It discusses:
1) The evolution of cloud computing from the 1980s to today, highlighting key developments like the rise of the internet, web services, and modern cloud platforms.
2) How different types of workloads are suited to public vs private clouds, with around 75% being elastic workloads suited to public clouds and 25% being predictable workloads better suited to private clouds.
3) The future of hybrid cloud models that allow businesses to balance owning their own infrastructure with renting public cloud services, while gaining benefits like continuous innovation, instant delivery of resources, and frictionless operations.
The event had a choice of several relevant workshops ITIL & Service Delivery based. Typically each session was hosted by two expert IT Practitioners and with a class size of no more than 10 delegates for Workshops and 20 delegates for Master Classes. The class size was designed to allow engagement with both the experts and other delegates.
Request to Fulfill Presentation (IT4IT)Rob Akershoek
The Request to Fulfill (R2F) value stream presentation. R2F is one of the four value streams of the IT4IT Reference Architecture of The Open Group.
How to manage your IT organization as a professional IT shop? Provide a self service portal for end-users and IT staff to order IT services and IT resources. Automate the entire process from request to actual deployment and provisioning.
IT4IT and DevOps Tools Landscape (2020).Rob Akershoek
Complete overview of the IT management tooling landscape 2020. Key market players / vendors in the IT4IT and DevOps tooling ecosystem. Automate and streamline your end-to-end DevOps tool chain.
The event had a choice of several relevant workshops ITIL & Service Delivery based. Typically each session was hosted by two expert IT Practitioners and with a class size of no more than 10 delegates for Workshops and 20 delegates for Master Classes. The class size was designed to allow engagement with both the experts and other delegates.
Request to Fulfill Presentation (IT4IT)Rob Akershoek
The Request to Fulfill (R2F) value stream presentation. R2F is one of the four value streams of the IT4IT Reference Architecture of The Open Group.
How to manage your IT organization as a professional IT shop? Provide a self service portal for end-users and IT staff to order IT services and IT resources. Automate the entire process from request to actual deployment and provisioning.
IT4IT and DevOps Tools Landscape (2020).Rob Akershoek
Complete overview of the IT management tooling landscape 2020. Key market players / vendors in the IT4IT and DevOps tooling ecosystem. Automate and streamline your end-to-end DevOps tool chain.
Provide an introduction to some of the different the ideas around ICT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture
Take a look at a real-life example of building a Technology Architecture strategy
Understand the relationship between Business Strategy and Technology Strategy
Begin mapping your own Technology Strategy against the Business Strategy for your firm
ITIL 4 service value chain data flows (input and outputs)Rob Akershoek
High level overview of the Service value chain activities and information flows (input/outputs) based upon ITIL 4 from AXELOS (ITIL 4 Foundation).
Mapping of the ITIL value chain activities to the IT4IT value streams as defined by The Open Group IT4IT Standard.
How to leverage Enterprise Architecture in a regulated environmentLeanIX GmbH
In his presentation at EA Connect Days 2018 in Bonn, Andreas Weinberger, Head of IT & Head of IT Governance Committee at Bank Donner & Reuschel, explored how Enterprise Architecture can be used to support business departments in dealing with regulations regarding information and information technology. It helps in generating a common understanding and providing a central pool of information. As a means of communication it also enhances the learning process and capturing of new information. He also demonstrated a way of working with LeanIX in regard to regulations like GDPR and BAIT/VAIT (COBIT).
Ensure a Successful SAP Hybris Implementation – Part 2: Architecture and Buil...Kellton Tech Solutions Ltd
Robust, modular, and built on open standards, the SAP Hybris Commerce Cloud platform is designed to provide the best foundation for your business’ e-commerce needs. In this webinar, we will dive into the architecture of SAP Hybris—the simplest, cleanest, and most modern modular architecture available to date. Built on Spring Framework and Java, with a highly optimized SOLR integration, it offers comprehensive API that scales to any level, giving it the flexibility and power to meet any B2C, B2B, and marketplace business scenarios.
This presentation will cover first exam of SOA , by introducing terms related to Service oriented Computing umbrella to start your knowledge base about Service Orientation world.
The Government of New Brunswick Enterprise Architecture RoadmapTamim Rahman
This document can be downloaded as a PDF for a better viewing experience; click on "Save". This roadmap was shared in a Symposium held on September 25th. A summary of this event can be found on http://www.qrs3e.com/gnb_ocio_togaf/
IT Service Management tool architecture
Project set-up
Definition of requirements
Selection of tool and vendor
Proof of concept
Delivery model
Negotiation and acquisition
Configuration and customization
Establishing foundation data
Test
Training
Data migration
Go-live
Early life support
Post implementation review and improvement
Enterprise Architecture linking to Chess and Lego games , and main capabilities of EA framework , concentrating on Togaf as common Enterprise architecture framework.
Digital Transformation is all about looking at your business models and industries in fundamentally new ways of operating at higher levels of innovation in order to provide better business value for customers while lowering TCO. Whether you are born digital or analog, an effective DT strategy is essential to remain competitive in this new era of business, by using Multi-Speed IT architectures and the latest technologies enabling businesses to do more, thereby providing a better experience to partners and customers.
Blockchain is such a revolutionary technology and in this webinar, we'll explore the fundamentals of Blockchain, how IBM Blockchain works on IBM's Digital Innovation Platform: Bluemix and how it has the potential to increase trust, transparency, and efficiency in your business or industry.
Provide an introduction to some of the different the ideas around ICT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture
Take a look at a real-life example of building a Technology Architecture strategy
Understand the relationship between Business Strategy and Technology Strategy
Begin mapping your own Technology Strategy against the Business Strategy for your firm
ITIL 4 service value chain data flows (input and outputs)Rob Akershoek
High level overview of the Service value chain activities and information flows (input/outputs) based upon ITIL 4 from AXELOS (ITIL 4 Foundation).
Mapping of the ITIL value chain activities to the IT4IT value streams as defined by The Open Group IT4IT Standard.
How to leverage Enterprise Architecture in a regulated environmentLeanIX GmbH
In his presentation at EA Connect Days 2018 in Bonn, Andreas Weinberger, Head of IT & Head of IT Governance Committee at Bank Donner & Reuschel, explored how Enterprise Architecture can be used to support business departments in dealing with regulations regarding information and information technology. It helps in generating a common understanding and providing a central pool of information. As a means of communication it also enhances the learning process and capturing of new information. He also demonstrated a way of working with LeanIX in regard to regulations like GDPR and BAIT/VAIT (COBIT).
Ensure a Successful SAP Hybris Implementation – Part 2: Architecture and Buil...Kellton Tech Solutions Ltd
Robust, modular, and built on open standards, the SAP Hybris Commerce Cloud platform is designed to provide the best foundation for your business’ e-commerce needs. In this webinar, we will dive into the architecture of SAP Hybris—the simplest, cleanest, and most modern modular architecture available to date. Built on Spring Framework and Java, with a highly optimized SOLR integration, it offers comprehensive API that scales to any level, giving it the flexibility and power to meet any B2C, B2B, and marketplace business scenarios.
This presentation will cover first exam of SOA , by introducing terms related to Service oriented Computing umbrella to start your knowledge base about Service Orientation world.
The Government of New Brunswick Enterprise Architecture RoadmapTamim Rahman
This document can be downloaded as a PDF for a better viewing experience; click on "Save". This roadmap was shared in a Symposium held on September 25th. A summary of this event can be found on http://www.qrs3e.com/gnb_ocio_togaf/
IT Service Management tool architecture
Project set-up
Definition of requirements
Selection of tool and vendor
Proof of concept
Delivery model
Negotiation and acquisition
Configuration and customization
Establishing foundation data
Test
Training
Data migration
Go-live
Early life support
Post implementation review and improvement
Enterprise Architecture linking to Chess and Lego games , and main capabilities of EA framework , concentrating on Togaf as common Enterprise architecture framework.
Digital Transformation is all about looking at your business models and industries in fundamentally new ways of operating at higher levels of innovation in order to provide better business value for customers while lowering TCO. Whether you are born digital or analog, an effective DT strategy is essential to remain competitive in this new era of business, by using Multi-Speed IT architectures and the latest technologies enabling businesses to do more, thereby providing a better experience to partners and customers.
Blockchain is such a revolutionary technology and in this webinar, we'll explore the fundamentals of Blockchain, how IBM Blockchain works on IBM's Digital Innovation Platform: Bluemix and how it has the potential to increase trust, transparency, and efficiency in your business or industry.
CASO CLÍNICO: Sra. Margarita.
Esta es una tarea individual hecha a modo de recuperación del Seminario 6 en Enfermería del Envejecimiento.
Se trata de la valoración, Dx y Planificación del caso presentado, junto con una reflexión final escrita.
Autora: Lucía Mayo Garrucho.
Profesora: Chelo Escasua Vaca
3º Enfermería. Facultad de Enfermería, Fisioterapia y Podología. Macarena B, subgrupo 6. Universidad de Sevilla.
De visie van Berkvens Deursystemen (Someren, N-Br) op BIM in de bouw. Waarom BIM, welke oplossingen biedt het en wat zijn de mogelijkheden van Building Information Modelling op het gebied van binnendeuren en kozijnen in de woningbouw en utiliteitsbouw.
The business model is changing: transformed by technological advancement and fuelled by global competition. As the capabilities of digital technology have increased their influence has extended to reach every facet of operations. Expectations have also shifted, driven by the consumerisation of IT and changing customer demand; people expect a simplistic and rewarding user journey, delivered as a seamless cross-platform experience.
Event held 8th Dec 2016, Edinburgh. The evolution of Big Data analytics has been staggering: it has progressed from an underused asset to a vital source of intelligence and insight, driven by improved hardware, cloud technologies and a plethora of specialist software. These technological advances have pushed the boundaries of what is possible, driving new innovation and enabling huge strides forward in fields like AI and Cognitive Computing.
Cloud Services As An Enabler: the Strategic, Legal & Pragmatic ApproachSLA-Ready Network
Presentation held by Arthur van der Wees (Arthur's Legal) @ SLA-Ready workshop "Are you SLA-Ready? How to understand your cloud Service Level Agreement", on 15 December 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. http://bit.ly/2fVcCG7
How to maximize profit from IoT by using data platform - Albert Lewandowski, ...GetInData
Learn more about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mSg6ij0Fak
Albert presents how effectively gather functional requirements for sensor data analytics, which aspects are the most important for designing IoT data platform and which steps needs to be taken to implement such solution to gain great return on investment.
Watch our webinar about profit from IoT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mSg6ij0Fak&t=3s
If you would like to read something more about IoT, please do not hesitate to download our white paper "Data Analytics for Industrial Internet of Things": https://getindata.com/blog/white-paper-big-data-analytics-industrial-internet-things/
Speaker: Albert Lewandowski
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/albert-lewandowski/
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Getindata is a company founded in 2014 by ex-Spotify data engineers. From day one our focus has been on Big Data projects. We bring together a group of best and most experienced experts in Poland, working with cloud and open-source Big Data technologies to help companies build scalable data architectures and implement advanced analytics over large data sets.
Our experts have vast production experience in implementing Big Data projects for Polish as well as foreign companies including i.a. Spotify, Play, Truecaller, Kcell, Acast, Allegro, ING, Agora, Synerise, StepStone, iZettle and many others from the pharmaceutical, media, finance and FMCG industries.
https://getindata.com
Cisco IoT for Vietnam CIO Community - 2 Apr 2015 - splitSon Phan
Với tiến hóa của Internet sang Internet của sự vật- Internet of Thing cùng với các xu hướng Social, Mobility, Analytics/ Big Data, Cloud đang phát triển với tốc độ chưa từng có hướng đến viễn cảnh Internet of Everything cùng với các cơ hội lớn đối với cá nhân, doanh nghiệp, tổ chức, quốc gia, khu vực cũng như toàn cầu.
Không thể phủ nhận được rằng chuyển hóa sang Internet của Vạn vật đang thay đổi thế giới của chúng ta. Phương thức làm việc trong một vài năm tới rất khác so với cách chúng ta đang làm hôm nay. Tốc độ thay đổi cũng sẽ diễn ra nhanh hơn nhiều so với những gì chúng ta thấy trong hơn 15 năm vừa qua từ khi Internet bắt đầu xuất hiện tại Việt Nam. Hàng chục triệu người Việt Nam cùng nhiều dữ liệu, quá trình và sự vận vẫn chưa được kết nối. Chúng ta mới chỉ bắt đầu cuộc hành trình tiếp theo để kết nối những gì chưa được kết nối tại Việt Nam.Trong những thập kỷ tới đây, trên thế giới hàng tỷ người và sự vật sẽ tham gia vào Mạng Internet của Vạn vật. Nếu chúng ta hoạch định tốt ngay từ bậy giờ mọi thứ trong cuộc sống của chúng ta cũng sẽ thay đổi hướng đến những giá trị tốt đẹp và bền vững hơn với việc tận dụng tối đa các cơ hội của Internet của Vạn vật.Hiện nay thế giới mới chỉ có khoảng 13 tỷ sự vật được kết nối và dự kiến tới năm 2020 sẽ có 56 tỷ sự vật/ thiết bị sẽ kết nối tới mạng Internet. Khi đó:
- Điều gì xảy ra khi xe hơi được kết nối với Internet?
- Mạng Internet của vạn vật sẽ thay đổi chuỗi cung ứng như thế nào?
- Chúng ta có thể làm việc, sử dụng dịch vụ ngân hàng, mua sắm theo cách riêng của mình như thế nào khi được kết nối với Internet?
Cộng đồng CIO thân mời anh/ chị và các bạn tham dự Takshow lần thứ 46 với chủ đề “INTERNET OF EVERYTHING: CƠ HỘI, MÔ HÌNH KINH DOANH, ƯNG DỤNG, GIẢI PHÁP TRONG THỰC TẾ” xoay quanh các nội dung do Ông Phan Thanh Sơn- Chuyên gia CNTT-TT, người đã có 22 năm kinh nghiệm về Công nghệ thông tin- Truyền thông trong nhiều lĩnh vực như Ngân hàng, Chính phủ, Nhà cung cấp dịch vụ, Dầu khí, Sản xuất, Bất động sản/ Xây dựng, Quân sự.
- IoT đang phát triển và được ứng dụng mức nào trên thế giới và Việt nam?
- Giá trị IOT mang lại cũng như ứng dụng trong cuộc sống
- Một số thực tế triển khai IoT
Thời gian: 17h30 đến 19h30, thứ 5 ngày 2 tháng 4 năm 2015
Địa điểm: Ân Nam Restaurant & Cafe, 52A Trương Định, Phường 7, Qu
Privacy and the GDPR: How Cloud computing could be your failingIT Governance Ltd
This webinar covers:
- An overview of the GDPR
- Breach notification requirements under the GDPR and a showcase of recent data breaches and their costs
- Organisations' responsibilities when storing data in the Cloud, and the roles of controller and processor
- The outcome of subcontracting on Cloud service providers and notifications on activities in the Cloud
- The role and responsibilities of the Cloud adoption team
- ISO 27018 and implementing security controls for PII in the Cloud.
A recording of this webinar is available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcLPEEGqvr4
EMEA10: Trepidation in Moving to the CloudCompTIA UK
Today’s buzz centres on cloud computing. What is it exactly? Will it dent your revenues or does it have potential to add capabilities to your business? How do you deliver value when you don’t “install” anything? Learn how to use this new approach to delivering IT services in your business, what to consider and where it makes sense – and where it doesn’t! Dave Sobel, CEO of Evolve Technologies, talks to you about how to develop cloud offerings and how you position your business for growth around online services. Strategies come from real life experience, industry data, and collaboration with other solution providers to give you the best way to take on the big, bad cloud.
Privacy Regulations and Your Digital SetupPiwik PRO
How Will the New Privacy Regulations Affect Your Digital Set-up? In less than 2 years from now, Europe’s new data privacy law will come into effect, changing the way organizations handle information of their users. General Data Protection Regulation will heavily impact usage of digital tools for customer insights and analytics.
This presentation was created by the Piwik PRO Team for a webinar session with Aurelie Pols. Webinar recording is available on: https://youtu.be/dPOvbbZ3vdo
The presentation discusses and introduces cloud computing - its history and present challenges.
It also discusses topical cloud-computing related events.
Describing the computing revolution that is disputing business models. Why the elastic computing capabilities is the ultimate weapon to survive into the digital economy.
Digital Transformation and Innovation on http://denreymer.com
- Merging the Real World and the Virtual World
- Intelligence Everywhere
- The New IT Reality Emerges
http://www.gartner.com//it/content/2940400/2940420/january_15_top_10_technology_trends_2015_dcearley.pdf
Top Business Intelligence Trends for 2016 by Panorama SoftwarePanorama Software
10 top BI trends for 2016 – by Panorama
Its all about the insight
Visual perception rules
The learning suggestive system - AI gets real
The data product chain becomes democratized
Cloud (finally)
“Mobile”
Automated data integration
Interned of things data accelerating into reality
Hadoop accelerators are the last chance for Hadoop
Fading of the centralized on–premise DWH
The Summit will consider the role of leadership within the technology domain. Amidst a backdrop of uncertainty and disruption, the conference will discuss how you can help your organisation navigate change, overcome problems and accelerate innovation.
The programme will feature insights from an impressive array of technologists, founders, researchers and transformation specialists; contextualising the biggest challenges facing the industry and sharing practical advice, guidance and best-practice on how you can maximise your impact within your team.
Now in its seventh year, the Summit has established itself as the largest annual leadership event for Scotland’s Technology community, and an invaluable forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking.
Core themes:
Trends: Digitalisation, agility, disruption and hybrid teams
Evolution: The changing nature of technology as a discipline
Leadership: Strategy, empowerment, communication, motivation and empathy
Culture: Creating a culture of inclusion, innovation and exploration
Impact: Technology as a driver of growth, innovation and improvement
The North of Scotland is in the midst of a full-scale transformation. Building on a well-established reputation as a global energy hub, the North is fast becoming a key destination for emerging innovation across an increasing range of sectors.
The DIGIT North Summit is designed to bring IT and Digital leaders together and drive practical innovation through shared learning. The event will facilitate cross pollination between key industries, from traditional sectors like Oil & Gas and Agriculture to high-growth fields like: Life Sciences, Biotech, Gaming, Fintech and Space.
The programme will contextualise the key emerging technologies and industry disruptors, and consider the vital role that IT and Digital leaders will play in ensuring organisations can thrive amid a backdrop of market change and economic volatility.
Organisations are changing, the rapid pace of the digital world has necessitated a fundamental shift in mindset. Digital has disintermediated markets; disrupted organisational structures, created new risks and new revenue streams and fundamentally altered the way businesses engage with their customer.
The most influential companies of our age share a common ability to understand two things effectively: people and technology. In these turbulent times, success is increasingly defined by the ability to respond to the fast-changing landscape, and exceed the expectations of the people we serve.
DT 2021 will contextualise the key technology trends and industry disruption amidst a backdrop of significant socio-economic upheaval. The event will also consider the role of IT and Digital leaders in driving positive transformation, exploring how we can help support operations, drive innovation, overcome challenges, and deliver tangible business benefits.
Core themes:
• Landscape: Uncertainty, Recovery, Sustainability, Remote Teams
• Process: Strategy, Structure, Optimisation, Agile, DevOps
• Design: Customer Centricity, UX, Functionality, Simplification
• Technology: Remote Tools, Data Analytics, AI, ML, RPA, Cloud
• People: Culture, Collaboration, Leadership, Diversity, Empowerment
The national Scot-Secure Summit is the largest annual Cyber Security event in Scotland: the event brings together senior IT leaders and Information Security personnel, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking.
The conference programme is focused on promoting best-practice cyber security; looking at the current trends, the key threats - and offering practical advice on improving resilience and implementing effective security measures.
The conference will contextualise the changing regulatory landscape, considering the business impact of the GDPR and DPA (2018) and how it is changing policy and process in practice.
When GDPR came into force in May 2018 it significantly raised the bar of obligation and accountability, ensuring that all organisations who handle personal data adhere to strict regulations around privacy, security and consent. 18 months on from implementation, the conference will consider how data protection procedure has moved on, with insight from frontline practitioners reflecting on how practices within their organisation have changed.
The event will also provide an update from the regulator; exploring regulatory action policy, decision making for fines and penalties, and clarifying some of the most prominent areas of misconception and non-compliance.
Core conference topics include:
• Key legal issues and obligations
• Data security and encryption
• Privacy Impact Assessments
• Databases, data mapping and classification
• Privacy by design
• Practical strategy implementation
SCOTLAND’S MUST-ATTEND IT & DIGITAL EVENT
The expo is the largest annual enterprise technology event run in Scotland, and a must-attend for senior technologists, digital innovators and IT leaders.
SCOTLAND’S LARGEST VENDOR SHOWCASE
DIGITExpo hosts Scotland’s largest exhibition of technology and solution providers, spanning: Cyber Security, Networking, Infrastructure, Cloud, Data & Analytics, Managed IT Services, Telecoms, Connectivity and much more.
TOP SPEAKERS AND INDUSTRY INSIGHT
Keynote and seminar theatres will host leading thinkers and innovators from some of the best known companies in the world. 2018 speakers include: Google, Twitter, Mclaren, RSB, Hill & Knowlton, CYBG, IBM, EasyJet and AmTrust.
SCOTLAND’S MUST-ATTEND IT & DIGITAL EVENT
The expo is the largest annual enterprise technology event run in Scotland, and a must-attend for senior technologists, digital innovators and IT leaders.
SCOTLAND’S LARGEST VENDOR SHOWCASE
DIGITExpo hosts Scotland’s largest exhibition of technology and solution providers, spanning: Cyber Security, Networking, Infrastructure, Cloud, Data & Analytics, Managed IT Services, Telecoms, Connectivity and much more.
TOP SPEAKERS AND INDUSTRY INSIGHT
Keynote and seminar theatres will host leading thinkers and innovators from some of the best known companies in the world. 2018 speakers included: Google, Twitter, Mclaren, RSB, Hill & Knowlton, CYBG, IBM, EasyJet and AmTrust.
Emerging technology is having a profound impact on the Financial Services sector; from mobile payments, APIs and Open Platforms to Machine Learning, Robo Investment and AI Chatbots.
The Summit will explore technological innovation across the financial services sector, from developments in established institutions to the disruptive innovators within the start-up community that are reshaping the FS market.
Core conference topics:
• Landscape: Trends, Culture, Trust, Transparency, Geo-political Climate
• Regulation: GDPR, MiFID II, PSD2, Open Banking, APIs
• Customer Strategy: Engagement, UX, Data Insight, Marketing & ML
• Emerging Tech: Blockchain, Analytics, AI, Payments, Automation
• National Strategy: Skills, Funding, Collaboration, Cyber Security
• Infrastructure: IT, Digital, Cloud, Mobile, XaaS
The modern enterprise is becoming an increasingly automated environment: technological advancements in AI, Machine Learning and RPA are allowing organisations to strip out layers of inefficiency, optimise process and enhance productivity. Right across the enterprise, operations are changing in line with new automation tools, from low-level administrative tasks to self-regulating Industrial IoT systems and customer service chatbots.
This conference will contextualise the role of intelligent automation within the enterprise, looking at how the increasing sophistication of AI, RPA and IoT technologies are transforming operations. The conference is geared towards senior IT and digital leaders, providing an insightful peer-led environment and a crucial forum for knowledge exchange, engagement and high-level networking
As technology has evolved IT has transitioned from a background support function to a core driver of value creation and competitive edge. This shift has placed senior technologists at the heart of the organisation where they are increasingly critical to decision making, strategy and leadership.
The DIGIT Leader Summit will explore the evolution of the IT & Digital profession, considering the key technology and business trends and the profound impact they are having on the role. The programme will also examine the crucial components of leadership, looking at culture; team building, upskilling and communication.
The Summit is geared for senior IT & Digital leaders, and designed to provide an opportune forum for practitioners to share their experiences, learn from their peers and discuss best-practice approaches to leadership.
Core topics
Trends: Key technology trends and business trends
IT Evolution: How the IT and Digital role is changing and evolving
Leadership: Empowering, engaging, motivating and inspiring teams
Culture: Creating a culture of inclusion, innovation and exploration
Impact: Technology as a driver of innovation, improvement and problem solving
IT Management: Investment, ITAM, cost control, vendor management
The Conference
The Energy sector is changing: the challenging economic landscape has forced businesses to scrutinise their operations in pursuit of greater productivity and asset efficiency. Meanwhile, the market is growing increasingly diverse as renewables mature and new entrants emerge.
Against this backdrop, digital is becoming increasingly pervasive as companies turn to technology to modernise processes and deliver competitive advantage; from remote monitoring and automation, to data analytics, Machine Learning, asset visualisation and HPC.
Now in its 6th year, the conference has established itself as the largest annual Digital Energy summit in the country: the event brings together senior IT, Digital and business leaders, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking. The programme will explore the use of Information Technology in driving tangible outcomes across the organisation, looking at key trends and providing practical insight from an array of industry leaders.
Core Themes
Landscape: maximising economic recovery and cross industry collaboration
IT & Digital as a driver of efficiency, business improvement and problem solving
Analytics, data-driven decision making and business intelligence
Asset visibility: performance, conditioning, remote monitoring
Digitising processes and innovating on top of legacy systems
Emerging technologies, AI, IoT, Robotics, Drones, Blockchain
Infrastructure: SCADA, Cloud, hybrid architecture, managed services
Cyber Security, information governance, GDPR
The national Scot-Secure Summit is the largest annual Cyber Security Conference in Scotland: the event brings together senior IT leaders and Information Security personnel, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking.
The conference programme is focussed on promoting best-practice cyber security; looking at the current trends, the key threats - and offering practical advice on improving resilience and implementing effective security measures.
The national Scot-Secure Summit is the largest annual Cyber Security Conference in Scotland: the event brings together senior IT leaders and Information Security personnel, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking.
The conference programme is focused on promoting best-practice cyber security; looking at the current trends, the key threats - and offering practical advice on improving resilience and implementing effective security measures.
Business is changing: digital technology has permeated every facet of the enterprise, completely transforming the way we work. Digital has disintermediated markets, disrupted organisational structures, created new risks and new revenue streams, while fundamentally altering the way businesses engage with their customer.
There is no coincidence that the most influential companies of our age share a common ability to harness technology effectively. In these exciting and turbulent times, success is increasingly defined by the ability to respond to the fast changing digital landscape, it has become a key distinguisher between growth and obscurity.
DT 2019 contextualised key digital trends and explored the underlying process of organisational change. The conference was geared towards senior technologists and digital leaders, providing an insightful peer-led environment and a crucial forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking.
This is the largest annual Digital Transformation conference held in Scotland - with over 300 attendees in 2018. The event is supported by ScotlandIS and is free for qualifying delegates to attend.
The conference will contextualise the changing regulatory landscape, considering the business impact of the GDPR and DPA (2018) and how it is changing policy and process in practice.
When GDPR came into force in May it significantly raised the bar of obligation and accountability, ensuring that all organisations who handle personal data adhere to strict regulations around privacy, security and consent. 6 months on from implementation, the conference will consider how data protection procedure has moved on, with insight from frontline practitioners reflecting on how practices within their organisation have changed.
The event will also provide an update from the regulator; exploring regulatory action policy, decision making for fines and penalties, and clarifying some of the most prominent areas of misconception and non-compliance.
Core conference topics include:
• Key legal issues and obligations
• Data security and encryption
• Privacy Impact Assessments
• Databases, data mapping and classification
• Privacy by design
• Practical strategy implementation
Technology is completely changing the face of financial services, driving disruption, displacement and disintermediation within the sector. This has lowered the barriers to entry, opened the door to new market entrants and created fertile ground for innovation and growth.
These market disruptions have also forged new alliances between start-ups and incumbents, blurring the lines of distinction between finance and technology and creating a wave of cross-sector collaboration.
Fintech 2018 will explore technological innovation across the financial services sector, from developments in established tier-1 firms to the disruptive innovators within the start-up community that are reshaping the FS market.
Core conference topics will include:
• Landscape: Trends, Culture, Trust, Transparency, Geo-political Climate
• Regulation: GDPR, MiFID II, PSD2, Open Banking, APIs
• Customer Strategy: Engagement, UX, Data Insight, Marketing & ML
• Emerging Tech: Blockchain, Analytics, AI, Payments, Automation
• National Strategy: Skills, Funding, Collaboration, Cyber Security
• Infrastructure: IT, Digital, Cloud, Mobile, XaaS
This conference will contextualise the evolution of IT, examining the changing role of technology within the business and the inherent implications for IT personnel. The event is geared for senior IT, business and finance leaders, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking.
Core topics
• IT Evolution: the changing role of IT within the business
• Leadership: strategy, culture and collaboration
• XaaS: the shift from asset to service-based consumption
• ITAM: IT Asset Management and procurement
• Managed Services: vendor management and Service Level Agreements
• Governance: information security, GDPR and data protection
• DevOps: Agile process, faster delivery, greater collaboration
Now in its 5th year, the conference has established itself as the largest annual Digital Energy summit in the country: the event brought together senior IT, Digital and business leaders, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking. The programme explored the use of Information Technology in driving tangible outcomes across the organisation, looking at key trends and providing practical insight from an array of industry leaders.
Now in its 5th year, the conference has established itself as the largest annual Digital Energy summit in the country: the event brought together senior IT, Digital and business leaders, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking. The programme explored the use of Information Technology in driving tangible outcomes across the organisation, looking at key trends and providing practical insight from an array of industry leaders.
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
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/
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.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
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.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
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This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
5. The Cloud Landscape - My Background
ROB WOOD – CTO (contract to multi clients), CITY COUNCILLOR
• The Ask: “Can you speak as warm-up @ Scot-Cloud “ { me thinks “young gun go for it!” }
• Then: “as you’ve been around a while and know ‘the old stuff’!” { “ok – youngish old gun ramble on!” }
• Involved in IT and Software then Cloud developments since 1988 { “a personal view of that journey” }
Retailer
Developer
1980 1990 2000 2010
PrincipalTech
CityCouncillor
CTOcontractor
Director
The
“Cloud”
6. The Cloud Landscape - Past Popular Cultural View
“GREAT SCOTT MARTY! - Everything in the Future is CONNECTED to that Cloud !”
• The Cloud as a metaphor for being Connected
• Not the rise of Machine, Nor Machine induced Virtual Reality – BUT the rise of Social Media induced Reality!
Rise of Machine
vs
Induced Virtual Reality
Worse!
Rise of Social Media!
I’ll be back again and again unless
you like me
7. The Cloud Landscape - 1980s Cloud 0.01: Modem
RETAIL Commerce advantage was to connect your business Tech Infrastructure was poor!”
• Programmed ZX Spectrum to print POS receipts used Acoustic Modem to transfer stock position between branches
• Painfully slow but Business need was a Driver Technology was not there yet.
+
+
= POS Receipts
Stock Control
8. The Cloud Landscape - 2000s Cloud 1-2.0: The Web
RETAIL Commerce advantage to connect Customers and Businesses Real-Time !”
• Leasing companies phone around if vehicle not in stock – Complex, Inefficient, Poor Customer experience.
• LEASELINK put details in one place on the Cloud enabling simultaneous multiple views / tick box actions.
• Initially like watching paint dry. Consumers drove bandwidth. Now Europe’s No. 1 Vehicle Procurement Hub.
1. “Black only” No
2. “Not Leather” No
Ready?
“I’d like a RED Ferrari with white leather”
3. “Maserati only” Yes
1. “Black only” X
2. “Not Leather” X
Ready?
“I’d like a RED Ferrari with white leather”
3. “Maserati only”
Ready
OLD sequential and 1-on-1 NEW simultaneous and real-time
9. The Cloud Landscape - Today: The Cloud
NO BRAINERS One-Stop Services, Slick Business2Businesses APIs, Multi-Channels / Devices”
• Public Sector simplifying Web Access to Information & Services for Multi-channels, Self-Service help One-Stop Shop.
• Businesses simplifying Consumer experience of multiple products and services by joining them all up
• Still an issue around Data. Is it joined up, who owns it, where is it being stored. Blockchain may provide an answer.
Core App
uses
APIs
Post-Code
Lookup
HPI
Registaration
Lookup
Credit Ratings
Online Policy
Registrations
Online Policy
Contracts
Online Product
Selections
Online Money
Transactions
Online e-
signatures via
email
BLOCKCHAIN?
10. The Cloud Landscape - The Future Cloud
EVERYTHING GETS MORE CONNECTED As infrastructure allows perfect storm Consumer Technology”
• Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual and Enhanced Technology, Blockchain on Improved Infrastructure .
• Businesses need to be ready for Consumer experience of their products and services or fall by the way.
• Security and Privacy of data will be an issue.
Give me
my
sausages!
I wouldn’t
cook them as
Fridge says No!
I can give you
a virtual eating
experience?
I have some in
stock I can sell
You can only
afford them
next week
No! They’re
out of date
11. Paul Donnelly & Christopher Wroath
NHS Education for Scotland
@pcdonnelly77 @cwroath
#scotcloud
12.
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26. Bruce Catto -Craig Group
Presentation can be found at http://goo.gl/eqSNui
@brucecatto
#scotcloud
32. The Cloud Era Is Well Underway
“I deployed my application
in five minutes.”
Rapid Time to Market
“No more time spent on low-level
infrastructure management.”
One-Click Simplicity
“I use and pay for just what I
need only when I need it.”
Fractional IT Consumption
“New capabilities are available
on a regular basis.”
Continuous Innovation
33. Is The Public Cloud For All Workloads?
Predictable Workloads
Elastic Workloads
25%
75%
Balance Owning and Renting For
Today’s Enterprise Workloads
Spin up and down resources on
the public cloud
Lower costs with private cloud
infrastructure
34. Bringing The Cloud To The Enterprise Datacenter
Fractional
Consumption
Invisible
Operations
Instant
Delivery
Frictionless
Tailored SLAs for
Every App
Balance Owning and
Renting
Data Access and
Governance
Choice and Freedom
from Lock-in
Control
Continuous
Innovation
55. 55 COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE
We now build Data Centres anywhere in minutes not months or years
Building secure cloud apps in hours not months
Firewalls+Switches+Routers+Load Balancers+ DNS+PROXY+NTP+Storage+ServersL2 L7
56. 56 COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE
So, we built an Application that saves
millions in 72 clicks and in under an hour….
SaaS
Building secure cloud apps in hours not months
57. 57 COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE
So we built an Application that saves me millions in 72 clicks and in under an hour….
What if we had traditionally built this ?
Building secure cloud apps in hours not months
58. 58 COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE
- Obtain Orchestration & Service teams in minutes not months / years
Building secure cloud apps in hours not months
* Security Incident & Event Management & Service Integration & Management
- Take advantage of automation in *SIEM & *SIAM
- Let the Cloud providers do the heavy lifting in ISO*, patch,
security tracking and protection
59. 59 COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE
MCaaS
"Move Country as a Service"
A not so extreme use case for Cloud
Protecting Data in the Cloud
60. 60 COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE
What is Estonia Famous for……?
By becoming one of the most advanced Internet enabled
countries on the planet …..?
Free Wifi & public transport?
Inventing Skype?
Famously failing to turn up for an international
game of football against Scotland allowing
Scotland to kick off against a missing team and
win by default?
Protecting Data in the Cloud
E-Beer
61. 61 COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE
What happens when a massive Cyber attack hit’s such a
technologically advanced country….
Source Ben Hammersley – Wired
A Global Bot-Net attack brought down e-estonia via DDoS
How do you protect a whole Country ?
Protecting Data in the Cloud
62. 62 COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE
MCaaS Powered by Cloud Data Fabric
"Move Country as a Service”
Create “Data Embassies” across Global Cloud Centers
A government can then continue to operate from abroad
People Systems, Telephony (VOIP), even banking can move and continue to operate
63. 63
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief…
Charles Dickens “A Tale of Two Cities”
Cloud Lock-in and Shadow IT
64. 64 COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE
Cloud Lock-in and Shadow IT
64
Login
Microsoft Azure & Amazon /AWS = ~120+ Services
(each)
You have picked your Cloud vendors…now what ?
500+New releases in the last 12 months
66. 66 COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE
Human Centric Innovation
Cognitive: The mental action of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
69. The impact of Cloud on
business culture
Pete Wilcock
DevOps Engineer
Adobe
@petewilcock
70. Technology & Job Roles
Search Trends: CloudSearch Trends: Internet of Things
71. Changing trends in career roles and
requirements: Job Titles
• Cloud Automation Engineer
• Cloud Systems Engineer
• Cloud Systems Analyst
• DevOps Engineer
• Infrastructure Architect
• Solutions Architect
• Java Developer
• PHP Developer
• Ruby Developer
• Sales Consultant
72. Changing trends in career roles and
requirements: Job Description
• ‘Cloud’ experience (AWS 1st , Azure 2nd)
• APIs
• Big Data handling
• Large server estates and automation/scaling awareness
• Logging, logging, logging
• Personal Ownership
• High availability
73. Problems of modern recruitment
• Struggle for qualified candidates
• Jobs advertised more than once/open ended
• Talent retention
• Catch-22 of skills development
• Career transition path
• Opening offices out of necessity
74. Addressing the skills gap from both sides
• Employees
• Stretch your current role where possible.
• Learn outside of job. Courses, certifications, open source contributing, home
projects. It’s not expensive!
• Passion & emersion in technology even if you don’t currently use it in work.
• Attend conferences, meet-ups, hackathons, workshops.
• Learn ‘one of’ every essential tool.
• Practice best practice (Git workflow, Kanban, even by yourself).
• Be honest and acknowledge skill gaps.
• Be realistic on salary & benefits.
75. Addressing the skills gap from both sides
• Employers
• Recognise potential and take more chances
• Scrap technical tests from your interview process
• Masters of all rarely exist, don’t advertise for them
• Be realistic on salary & benefits
• Pay what someone is worth, not just a little more than their last job
• Recognise development and promote accordingly
• Provide meaningful feedback to the candidate
76. Other ways?
• Government-supported initiatives
• CodeClan(.com)
• “All you need is a willingness to learn, a passion for technology and to think like a
problem solver.”
• Any age, new student or career pivot
• 16-week intensive course resulting in Professional Development Award.
• Self-funded
• Traditional Universities?
• Cost vs. Reward
• Traditional Computer Science vs. Cloud Computing
• AWS can’t keep their own certification tests up to date!
103. | FanDuel Product Development 2016103
Building platform capabilities
for future business needs
Eileen McLaren
VP Engineering
104. | FanDuel Product Development 2016
Our story…..the history
We are a daily fantasy sports game originally targeting the US market
We began in 2009 as a small tech start up with 5 co-founders
Met at networking event in 2007 in Edinburgh
Launched Hubdub in 2008 – an online prediction game whereby users could
make predictions on popular events eg next US president
In 2009 FanDuel was born after brainstorming session with Hubdub users at
SXSW in Texas
105. | FanDuel Product Development 2016
Our story…..cont’d
Our mission is to make sports more exciting
We have experienced exponential growth, in the last few years
107. | FanDuel Product Development 2016
Our story…..cont’d
Completed 5 rounds of funding - $363 million in total – most recently series E
round of $275m in July 2015
In 2015 employee numbers grew from around 100 at start of year to about 400
by end, in offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, New York, Orlando and LA
Completed a number of acquisitions, including Edinburgh app developer Kotikan
and US sports analysts numberFire
Have partnered with the NBA, 16 NBA teams and 15 NFL teams
109. | FanDuel Product Development 2016
Growth and the business
As the popularity of DFS has grown in the US, so has the company and the
volume of transactions we process
We utilise Amazon Web Services to help rapid scaling and traffic peaks
We have over 6 million registered users, and still growing
During live games we process scoring updates at a rate of over 250,000 per
second
At peak times transactions are processed at rates equivalent to selling out
Wembley Stadium in minutes
110. | FanDuel : Idiot’s guide to the platform 2016
History ….
Sport Data
Feeds
HDProd
PHP
Fro
nt
End
111. | FanDuel Product Development 2016
Our platform is multi-tier, multi-client
Data layer - All user, game data etc. is stored and read
from here
Infrastructure - eg: 500+ Servers and Network
Infrastructure
Java services - The heavy lifting business logic
API - Exposes capabilities in a consistent way to
multiple clients
Web Application Native clients
fanduel.c
om
iOS Androi
d
112. | FanDuel Product Development 2016
Capability-based planning
PLATFORM
API
F1
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A
T
U
R
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C
A
P
A
B
I
L
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T
Y
1. Reserve seat without line-
up
2. Create line-up without
entry
3. More flexible ticketing
experience
Time or
Sequence
F2 F3
WEB
MOBI
LE
● Using a capability-based planning approach,
change activities can be sequenced and
grouped in order to provide optimum feature
development throughput
● Capability-first approach facilitates the
construction of an architectural runway
. .
.
✤De-coupling line-ups &
entries
113. | FanDuel
How we use AWS
11
CloudFormation.
Multi-AZ, Multi-Region
Managed Services
Enterprise Support
114. | FanDuel
Our relationship with AWS
11
Our Infrastructure team is hundreds of people, but only 12 work for FanDuel
We spin up dozens of mini-FanDuels a week for testing releases and
experiments
The managed technology available, such as ElastiCache, Aurora and Kinesis
materially impacts our business
The AWS management team is always helping us improve our architecture and
reduce our costs in the process
115. | FanDuel
And some of what we get….
11
Capacity planning can happen just in time - great for a business with seasonal
spikes
We can scale up in real time if we need to
Scale for 3-10x growth EVERY YEAR
100% uptime
Thursday
Sunday
116. | FanDuel
And some of what we get….
11
Kinesis - we are using to experiment with event driven architecture
ElastiCache - gives us low recovery time for Redis
DynamoDB - used for historical, a continually growing datastore but not highly
transactional
Aurora - ACID compliance, full transactional integrity
117. | FanDuel Product Development 2016
Our platform is multi-tier, multi-client (and now multi-
product)
Data layer - All user, game data etc. is stored and read
from here
Infrastructure - eg: 500+ Servers and Network
Infrastructure
Java services - The heavy lifting business logic
API - Exposes capabilities in a consistent way to
multiple clients
Web Application Native clients
fanduel.c
om
iOS Androi
d
fanduel.co.
uk
iOS,
Android
118. | FanDuel Product Development 2016
The future...
Launching in the UK for EPL in August
One-day fantasy football product created by UK engineering team
Utilises the existing US DFS platform capabilities but expanded and with
new web and mobile clients
Beta testing is happening right now for the Euros
158. • Disaster recovery (DR) involves a set of policies and procedures to
enable the recovery or continuation of vital technology infrastructure
and systems following a natural or human-induced disaster.
• Disaster recovery focuses on the IT or technology systems supporting
critical business functions, as opposed to business continuity, which
involves keeping all essential aspects of a business functioning
despite significant disruptive events.
• Disaster recovery is therefore a subset of business continuity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_recovery
Are we sure we know what DR is?
159. Disaster recovery plans are put in place for natural disasters, as well as
disasters caused by human and technical error. The solutions are a set
of processes, policies and procedures that handle the preparation for
recovery or continuation of critical technological infrastructure during
and after the occurrence of disasters.
Jennifer Klostermann, CloudTweaks
The key point here is that you can’t always avoid a disaster. By
definition almost they are things you cannot control.
Okay, so what if I just avoid having disasters?
160. • Peter de Tender, Microsoft Infrastructure Expert, discusses the impact
of disasters on businesses, leveraging statistics from formal sources:
• More than 70% of businesses affected by a major disaster are either unable
to reopen their business, or close within 18 months of the disaster.
• 80% of businesses without a disaster recovery plan that suffer a data center
disaster go out of business.
• Gartner Inc. found that within two years of experiencing data loss, 90% of
companies go out of business.
• These dire figures make the necessity of a disaster recovery plan for
every business certain.
So that’s what it is, why should I care?
161. Its important to make sure we acknowledge what DR “isn’t”. You’ll
often hear:
• We Backup!
• Backup isn’t DR in itself but forms part of a DR plan
• We replicate!
• This is great but again isn’t DR but forms part of a DR plan
• “I have a spare box in the office where I copy stuff to which I could use in a
pinch if my £1.2million IT environment falls through a hole in the earth”
• Well ok this isn’t DR but… you get the idea.
The pattern is obvious: DR often needs to be a whole kitbag of tools to
be successful.
Okay, so now I’m scared. But I have backup!
162. Any DR plan needs to form part of your overall Business Continuity (BC)
Planning. DR planning and execution can’t be done in isolation but does form
one of the cornerstones of your BC plan. There are four pillars holding up the
plan:
• Identify and catalogue the IT services you provide to your customers (both
internal and external)
• Understand the risk to your business of those services becoming
unavailable for any reason
• Understand your RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time
Objective)
• Choose the right technologies
So how do I create THE PLAN?
163. Organisations have had decades of experience in planning for disaster
recovery.
• We know where the tapes are kept.
• We have spare server hardware on hand.
• We’ve protected installation media in a fire safe.
• We have off-site copies of key backups.
• And – if we’re smart – we’ve made plans with an alternate facility to host
services after a loss.
But there’s a problem here: These are the decades-old plans of a
decades-old IT industry.
Okay, but we’ve got a traditional DR plan in place
164. • The public cloud provides a great opportunity for IT departments to
implement a business continuity/disaster recovery, or BC/DR, plan
without having to go to the expense of building out a dedicated data
center. The cloud can be used as a basic data repository or even as
the location to run applications when primary systems go down.
• More than this of course is the realisation that by moving your
primary apps to the cloud, DR can be the responsibility of someone
else.
• There are a range of approaches and toolsets which can help your DR
planning.
How can the Cloud help?
165. • There are multiple service offerings available in the market today for
implementing cloud DR.
• These range from pure replication tools that get the data or VM
image into the cloud, through to fully managed DR as a service
(DRaaS) capabilities.
• Points to consider:
• Location: Where will my data be? Is there a latency issue or a sovereignty
issue here?
• Networking: Latency to a remote DR location or service can be an issue for
some businesses
• Failover/Failback considerations: How easy is it for me to have a disaster and
fix it at the push of a button?
Choosing the right service
166. • A full DR solution requires everything you have in your IT
environment to be replicated physically and logically. This is expensive
and can be wasteful where there are a range of workloads being
protected.
• If your planning for DR has shown a sliding scale of criticality you’ll
often be able to choose a range of tools to fit each step on the scale
which allow you to focus on the most critical services first.
• Adopting Cloud services for DR can be a gradual process starting at
any point in your journey to DR.
• You don’t have to move everything to the Cloud to enhance your
service availability
How far do I go?
167. • The easiest first step there are a range of Cloud backup tools which can
integrate into your on-premise or hosted solution
• Immediate benefits are many:
• More complex and resilient back-end architecture is in place with Cloud backup
solutions
• No requirement for discrete backup systems
• Cloud backup services still agent based but come with full, centralised control panel
automation
• No hardware required – you often only pay for the storage costs with the software
costs embedded
• No growth limits – you can retain that data longer where required
• Storage Tiering – the implications of long term storage are often addressed by Cloud
backup vendors
Cloud Backup
168. • There are a range of tools with varying degrees of complexity and
value to the customer
• Modern Cloud DRaaS solutions are vendor agnostic allowing you to replicate
multiple Operating Systems and workload
• Many replication tools allow you to replicate to any target of your choice
meaning you don’t need multiple solutions to complete the same task
• Can be passive but many Cloud replication tools allow the replicated targets
to become LIVE instances in the event of a major failure event
• A mix of source machines can exist under the same replication system –
physical and virtual
• Some replication products have very aggressive replication scheduling
allowing for a much smaller RPO
Replication to the Cloud
169. • The most exciting trends for using Cloud for DR is the ability to truly
hybridise your on-premise solution with a public Cloud solution
• Key technologies include:
• Microsoft Azure Site Recovery or ASR
• Automated protection and replication of existing Microsoft based environments
• Replicate and Recover directly into Azure
• Customisable recovery plans
• No downtime recovery testing
• Replication to AWS
• Starts with storage and backup
• Expands to allow interaction with all AWS services
• Needs Pilot Light environment to bring the appropriate levels of failover speed
• Can fully integrate with your own orchestration tools and methodologies
Environment Hybridisation
170. • One of the areas of greatest growth currently with Application
vendors is the growth in SaaS solutions and versions of their software
being provided as full SaaS or at least Platform as a Service with some
massive benefits
• No architecture requirement onsite to be part of your DR plan
• Existing tools your teams use daily
• Resilience and DR built into the platform
• Cost often simpler and easier to define than under traditional IT builds
• Often certified above the levels of your own IT environments
• Can be issues with where the data is at rest
• Removes vendor lock in after initial investment
Software as a Service
171. • Its complicated, isn’t it?
• But Cloud can give you a range of options to enhance your DR plan
• Cloud can make DR cheaper and more efficient
• Cloud can keep your business running no matter what happens
Conclusion
175. The next 20 minutes
How DDoS Attacks are Evolving
What this means for your bottom
line
The impact of Cloud, how it can
hinder, and how it can help
189. 189Information Classification: Open All Rights recognised
So how much?
$200m of revenue = $3m / year
(median business impact)
…with a 5% chance of exceeding $50m
Source: Understanding Your Risk (For Real) From
Distributed Denial Of Service Attacks, Aberdeen Group.
202. Our Journey
• Stockport Council’s Challenges
• Budget reductions
– Budget reduced by £54m by 2014. A further £65m required by
2018.
– Reduced staff
– Reduced CAPEX and OPEX
• Loss of specialist skills
– Storage
– Server
– Virtualisation
– Application
• Government Initiatives
– DbD, HSCI
203. Our Journey
• What We Needed to Achieve
– To provide a scalable, easy to manage IT Infrastructure
– Reduced CAPEX
• Hardware, Software and support
– Reduced ongoing OPEX
• Software licensing and support
• People
• Power
• Cooling
• Space
204. How we met our goals
• Embrace a “WebScale” methodology
– Hyperconvergence
• Software defined Data Center
• Introduction of generalists
– Reduced Footprint
• Smaller Data Center
• Reduced costs - Power, Cooling, Space
– Simplified Management
• Unified “Single Pane of Glass”
• High levels of Automation
– Benefits of cloud with enterprise IT assurance
205. Biggest Challenges
• Change
– Re deployment of staff
– Focus on delivering business change benefits
• Justification
– IT as a service
– Reduced OPEX
• Physical Workloads
– Transition toward 100% virtualisation
• Measurable TCO
– How do you show ongoing operational budget savings
206. Outcomes
• Reduced our live footprint from 9 racks to 1 half height rack
• OPEX budgets reducing by 50%
• DR, Production and Backup in a 2 site deployment
– RTO down from 5 days to 2 hours
– RPO down from 1 day to 30 mins
– Tapeless data backup and recovery
• Breaking existing knowledge silos (3 FTE)
– Redeployed staff to focus on delivering against business needs
– High levels of automation
• Deployed in hours not months
– Time to value accelerated
207.
208. Outcomes
• Reduced our live footprint from 9 racks to 1 half height rack
• OPEX budgets reducing by 50%
• DR, Production and Backup in a 2 site deployment
– RTO down from days to 2 hours
– RPO down from 1 day to 30 mins
– Tapeless data backup and recovery
• Breaking existing knowledge silos (3 FTE)
– Redeployed staff to focus on delivering against business needs
– High levels of automation
• Deployed in hours not months
– Time to value accelerated