The document discusses how traditional financial services certification labs are inefficient and discusses how automation and a "lab-as-a-service" model using CloudShell can help address issues of complexity, cost, and lack of agility. It provides an example case study of a bank that used CloudShell to more quickly certify software and infrastructure changes. The presentation concludes with a demo of how CloudShell can be used to automate and orchestrate test environments for faster certification.
Show Me the Money: Connecting Performance Engineering to Real Business ResultsCorrelsense
Performance testing and optimization are often neglected parts of enterprise application roll out and upgrade initiatives.
The challenge for many IT managers is communicating the value of IT performance projects to business stakeholders who would benefit the most.
An interactive discussion with Walter Kuketz, CTO of Collaborative Consulting where he shares:
- How to align key business drivers with your performance engineering projects
- Ways to bridge the IT-business stakeholder communication gap
- A new approach to model business transactions and their IT dependencies
Host: Frank Days
Title: VP of Marketing, Correlsense
In this new area of digital transformations, testers are seeing a sea of changes on how they traditionally tests software in terms of skills, process and tools. Machine Learning/AI, devops, agile and continuous testing are disrupting the testing community, and forcing them to find ways to test faster and with excellence. In this lecture, Alan will share how to overcome the main challenges in automation and performance testing in this context, making the best use of technology such as bots and test tools.
Next generation software testing trendsArun Kulkarni
Over 2/3rd of software development projects using agile method to deliver software quickly. As software releases become more frequent, testing processes have to keep pace and adopt continuous QA.
Show Me the Money: Connecting Performance Engineering to Real Business ResultsCorrelsense
Performance testing and optimization are often neglected parts of enterprise application roll out and upgrade initiatives.
The challenge for many IT managers is communicating the value of IT performance projects to business stakeholders who would benefit the most.
An interactive discussion with Walter Kuketz, CTO of Collaborative Consulting where he shares:
- How to align key business drivers with your performance engineering projects
- Ways to bridge the IT-business stakeholder communication gap
- A new approach to model business transactions and their IT dependencies
Host: Frank Days
Title: VP of Marketing, Correlsense
In this new area of digital transformations, testers are seeing a sea of changes on how they traditionally tests software in terms of skills, process and tools. Machine Learning/AI, devops, agile and continuous testing are disrupting the testing community, and forcing them to find ways to test faster and with excellence. In this lecture, Alan will share how to overcome the main challenges in automation and performance testing in this context, making the best use of technology such as bots and test tools.
Next generation software testing trendsArun Kulkarni
Over 2/3rd of software development projects using agile method to deliver software quickly. As software releases become more frequent, testing processes have to keep pace and adopt continuous QA.
CAST Highlight is a SaaS platform for fast & code-level
Application Portfolio Analytics. Track software value &
risks to align IT decisions with your business strategy.
Rapid Portfolio Analysis powered by CAST HighlightCAST
Have you not seen any real benefits from your current Application Portfolio Management (APM) tools and services? Learn how CAST Rapid Portfolio Analysis (RPA), a low-cost, cloud-based solution, is helping organizations get the most out of their APM efforts by providing information required for objective portfolio-level decisions quickly, easily and inexpensively. RPA can deliver results on a large portfolio in a matter of hours, providing comprehensive quality, technical debt and size measures so you can make fact-based decisions on risks that drain budgets, increase production failures and affect responsiveness.
Static Application Security Testing Strategies for Automation and Continuous ...Kevin Fealey
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) introduces challenges with existing Software Development Lifecycle Configurations. Strategies at different points of the SDLC improve deployment time, while still improving the quality and security of the deliverable. This session will discuss the different strategies that can be implemented for SAST within SDLC—strategies catering to developers versus security analysts versus release engineers. The strategies consider the challenges each team may encounter, allowing them to incorporate security testing without jeopardizing deadlines or existing process.
Best Practices for Monitoring Your Cloud Environment and ApplicationsProlifics
Abstract: You have completed the heavy lifting of migrating applications to the cloud. But you are not done yet. What is your monitoring strategy for the cloud? What are the best practices to monitor the cloud infrastructure, deployed applications and end user experience? In this session, we will be answering these questions and explore the various IBM APM and Analytics offerings that will help you in your decision making process. Having a comprehensive monitoring strategy is critical as most customers use a combination of public and private cloud environments and being able to monitor these using a fully integrated and customizable solution is essential to the health, availability and performance of the cloud deployed applications and services.
This article examines the emerging need for software assurance. As defense contractors continue to develop systems for the Department of Defense (DoD) those systems must meet stringent requirements for deployment. However as over half of the vulnerabilities are found at the application layer organizations must ensure that proper mechanisms are in place to ensure the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of the code is maintained. Download paper at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255965523_Integrating_Software_Assurance_into_the_Software_Development_Life_Cycle_(SDLC)
How temenos manages open source use, the easy way combinedWhiteSource
The extensive use of open source in commercial software requires engineering executives to set processes and measures that will enable their organization and their customers to make the most of what open source can offer without assuming the accompanying risks.
See how Temenos manages their open source components.
Webinar: Gaining Control and Visibility of Your Virtualized InfrastructurePepperweed Consulting
With additional point tools for managing virtual components and new groups responsible for managing virtualized deployments, virtualization raises the complexity of data centers as well as can cause splintered visibility and control. These have in cases increased IT operating costs and have stalled virtualization deployment to around 30% of the available infrstructure. In Part III of its five-part webinar series Managing IT Operations in a Virtualized World, Pepperweed Consulting will discuss HP Software Operations Center tools that will give you a single view for controlling, maintaining, and operating your physical and virtual infrastructure.
La sfida delle compliance e della riduzione dei costi applicando in modo sistematico l'efficacia della gestione del ciclo di vita del software
Fausto Wiget, HP Software Professional Services Consulting Manager ITSM
I created and delivered this presentation at the 2007 PLM World Conference. The topic was a client Teamcenter Community implementation project I managed.
Top 10 critical changes to audit in your it infrastructureNetwrix Corporation
Change auditing is one of the most important aspects of maintaining a secure and compliant IT infrastructure.
This webinar will help you understand why auditing is important, identify 10 most critical changes to audit and see how you can streamline your auditing using NetWrix Change Reporter Suite.
Non functional performance requirements v2.2Ian McDonald
How to write and structure non-functional requirements. Focusing upon performance requirements. This is a quick get you going guide in how to avoid writing untestable requirements and make sure what you want is delivered.
GDPR Compliance Countdown - Is your Application environment ready?QualiQuali
Is Your Application Environment Ready?
Data Privacy regulation is top of mind this semester with the GDPR enforcement in Europe coming into effect May 25th, 2018.
Most companies doing business with the EU have to perform an assessment of their current applications and data policies to make sure they are going to be compliant. This is a burdensome and tedious task if done manually. How do you use automation and maximize the efficiency of this process? This is what we discuss in this presentation.
(ENT210) Accelerating Business Innovation with DevOps on AWS | AWS re:Invent ...Amazon Web Services
IT must innovate at the speed of market change and many enterprises are realizing that DevOps and cloud computing are a means to this end. Cloud-based DevOps solutions that enforce fine-grain governance policies and automate software releases across the development tool chain can accelerate application time to market while also improving software quality. In this session, attendees learn the following:
- How cloud and DevOps together can significantly accelerate software release cycles, so you can speed business innovation and gain competitive advantage
- Best practices for leveraging CSC Agility Platform, AWS, and a hybrid IT strategy for DevOps
- How to eliminate software release bottlenecks via policy-based automation, orchestration, and governance of application deployment environments.
Sponsored by CSC.
CAST Highlight is a SaaS platform for fast & code-level
Application Portfolio Analytics. Track software value &
risks to align IT decisions with your business strategy.
Rapid Portfolio Analysis powered by CAST HighlightCAST
Have you not seen any real benefits from your current Application Portfolio Management (APM) tools and services? Learn how CAST Rapid Portfolio Analysis (RPA), a low-cost, cloud-based solution, is helping organizations get the most out of their APM efforts by providing information required for objective portfolio-level decisions quickly, easily and inexpensively. RPA can deliver results on a large portfolio in a matter of hours, providing comprehensive quality, technical debt and size measures so you can make fact-based decisions on risks that drain budgets, increase production failures and affect responsiveness.
Static Application Security Testing Strategies for Automation and Continuous ...Kevin Fealey
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) introduces challenges with existing Software Development Lifecycle Configurations. Strategies at different points of the SDLC improve deployment time, while still improving the quality and security of the deliverable. This session will discuss the different strategies that can be implemented for SAST within SDLC—strategies catering to developers versus security analysts versus release engineers. The strategies consider the challenges each team may encounter, allowing them to incorporate security testing without jeopardizing deadlines or existing process.
Best Practices for Monitoring Your Cloud Environment and ApplicationsProlifics
Abstract: You have completed the heavy lifting of migrating applications to the cloud. But you are not done yet. What is your monitoring strategy for the cloud? What are the best practices to monitor the cloud infrastructure, deployed applications and end user experience? In this session, we will be answering these questions and explore the various IBM APM and Analytics offerings that will help you in your decision making process. Having a comprehensive monitoring strategy is critical as most customers use a combination of public and private cloud environments and being able to monitor these using a fully integrated and customizable solution is essential to the health, availability and performance of the cloud deployed applications and services.
This article examines the emerging need for software assurance. As defense contractors continue to develop systems for the Department of Defense (DoD) those systems must meet stringent requirements for deployment. However as over half of the vulnerabilities are found at the application layer organizations must ensure that proper mechanisms are in place to ensure the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of the code is maintained. Download paper at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255965523_Integrating_Software_Assurance_into_the_Software_Development_Life_Cycle_(SDLC)
How temenos manages open source use, the easy way combinedWhiteSource
The extensive use of open source in commercial software requires engineering executives to set processes and measures that will enable their organization and their customers to make the most of what open source can offer without assuming the accompanying risks.
See how Temenos manages their open source components.
Webinar: Gaining Control and Visibility of Your Virtualized InfrastructurePepperweed Consulting
With additional point tools for managing virtual components and new groups responsible for managing virtualized deployments, virtualization raises the complexity of data centers as well as can cause splintered visibility and control. These have in cases increased IT operating costs and have stalled virtualization deployment to around 30% of the available infrstructure. In Part III of its five-part webinar series Managing IT Operations in a Virtualized World, Pepperweed Consulting will discuss HP Software Operations Center tools that will give you a single view for controlling, maintaining, and operating your physical and virtual infrastructure.
La sfida delle compliance e della riduzione dei costi applicando in modo sistematico l'efficacia della gestione del ciclo di vita del software
Fausto Wiget, HP Software Professional Services Consulting Manager ITSM
I created and delivered this presentation at the 2007 PLM World Conference. The topic was a client Teamcenter Community implementation project I managed.
Top 10 critical changes to audit in your it infrastructureNetwrix Corporation
Change auditing is one of the most important aspects of maintaining a secure and compliant IT infrastructure.
This webinar will help you understand why auditing is important, identify 10 most critical changes to audit and see how you can streamline your auditing using NetWrix Change Reporter Suite.
Non functional performance requirements v2.2Ian McDonald
How to write and structure non-functional requirements. Focusing upon performance requirements. This is a quick get you going guide in how to avoid writing untestable requirements and make sure what you want is delivered.
GDPR Compliance Countdown - Is your Application environment ready?QualiQuali
Is Your Application Environment Ready?
Data Privacy regulation is top of mind this semester with the GDPR enforcement in Europe coming into effect May 25th, 2018.
Most companies doing business with the EU have to perform an assessment of their current applications and data policies to make sure they are going to be compliant. This is a burdensome and tedious task if done manually. How do you use automation and maximize the efficiency of this process? This is what we discuss in this presentation.
(ENT210) Accelerating Business Innovation with DevOps on AWS | AWS re:Invent ...Amazon Web Services
IT must innovate at the speed of market change and many enterprises are realizing that DevOps and cloud computing are a means to this end. Cloud-based DevOps solutions that enforce fine-grain governance policies and automate software releases across the development tool chain can accelerate application time to market while also improving software quality. In this session, attendees learn the following:
- How cloud and DevOps together can significantly accelerate software release cycles, so you can speed business innovation and gain competitive advantage
- Best practices for leveraging CSC Agility Platform, AWS, and a hybrid IT strategy for DevOps
- How to eliminate software release bottlenecks via policy-based automation, orchestration, and governance of application deployment environments.
Sponsored by CSC.
Enterprise DevOps is different then DevOps in startups and smaller companies. This session how AWS/CSC address this. How AWS IaaS level automation via CloudFormation, UserData, Console, APIS and some PaaS OpsWorks/Beanstalk is complimented by CSC Agility Platform. CSC Agility adds application compliance and security to the AWS infrastructure compliance and security. CSC Agility allows for the creation of architecture blueprints for predefined application offerings.
The slides from a recent webinar I had delivered regarding why IT Portfolio Modernization is important for a successful Business Process Transformation.
Running automated, unattended, end-to-end tests in parallel at scale is challenging. Fortunately, Lights Out Testing makes it possible to test any business process on demand. During this webinar we discuss how you can get started with automated test execution.
VMworld 2013: Moving Enterprise Application Dev/Test to VMware’s Internal Pri...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Thirumalesh Reddy, VMware
Padmaja Vrudhula, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
(SEC310) Keeping Developers and Auditors Happy in the CloudAmazon Web Services
Often times, developers and auditors can be at odds. The agile, fast-moving environments that developers enjoy will typically give auditors heartburn. The more controlled and stable environments that auditors prefer to demonstrate and maintain compliance are traditionally not friendly to developers or innovation. We'll walk through how Netflix moved its PCI and SOX environments to the cloud and how we were able to leverage the benefits of the cloud and agile development to satisfy both auditors and developers. Topics covered will include shared responsibility, using compartmentalization and microservices for scope control, immutable infrastructure, and continuous security testing.
Cloud Migration: Azure acceleration with CAST HighlightCAST
Learn how to accelerate your cloud migration: https://www.castsoftware.com/use-cases/cloud-readiness-and-migration
Cloud migration is table stakes for digital transformation initiatives. The driving factors to get to the cloud vary from organization to organization...for some, it's about cost savings and for others, it's about creating smarter apps that support continuous innovation.
IaaS – For organizations looking to reduce costs, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a great option. IaaS is sometimes described as "Lift and Shift" – when applications are moved from an existing infrastructure to a cloud infrastructure. This helps save money by reducing the hardware needed to run those applications and providing flexibility to adjust infrastructure requirements on-demand.
PaaS – For organizations looking for smarter deployments that facilitate digital transformation, streamline the delivery of new feature and support emerging technologies like IoT and Machine Learning, Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a more suitable option. While a considerable percentage of new application development is done with a cloud-first mentality, most legacy software is not optimized for a cloud environment.
So now the question becomes, how do I get my existing application portfolios ready for cloud migration so I can take full advantage of new technologies and processes
Software Intelligence-Based Cloud Readiness
So you’re ready for PaaS, but before you begin to assess the technical and structural requirements of the migration, you must also determine the business drivers for cloud and the desired outcomes. Setting a cloud migration roadmap that is based on comprehensive Software Intelligence that considers both business drivers and technical features of your applications is a critical first step.
Learn how to accelerate your cloud migration: https://www.castsoftware.com/use-cases/cloud-readiness-and-migration
IBM Solutions Connect 2013 - Increase Efficiency by Automating IT Asset & Ser...IBM Software India
More than investing, managing and controlling IT assets is critical in an organisation. Companies have a lot to gain by maintaining control of IT assets. They can avoid massive unplanned expenses, increase productivity and provide easy access to information for decision making. When designing an IT asset management (ITAM) program, organisations need to keep the above in mind so as to make the most of their investments. Go through the presentation to find out more how IBM SmartCloud suite of solutions can help you achieve the above.
From Continuous to Autonomous Testing with AICognizant
Continuous testing, or DevOps embedded with QA, helps organizations keep pace with market dynamics. Artificial intelligence can augment testing to be autonomous and zero touch.
VMworld 2013: VMware and Puppet: How to Plan, Deploy & Manage Modern Applicat...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Nigel Kersten, Puppet Labs
Becky Smith, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Managing IT environment complexity in a Multi-Cloud WorldShashi Kiran
IT environments are continuing to get complex. How do you better manage this to speed up digitization and application modernization efforts using environments-as-a-service
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
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/
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
7. Every Company is a Technology Company
Software is the “new normal”
Over Budget Cost to Fix Failure Rate
21%
3-
25X
50%
Software Projects
Over Cost
Cost difference to fix
software in
production vs. testing
Software Projects that
fail, are over budget or
require rework
* Source: IDG Research
8. Crossing the Certification Hurdle
Agility vs. Certification and Compliance
It is not just the best software or the
Highest performing infrastructure, but
rather how quickly changes can be
certified that determines speed.
11. Pace of Exponential Change
Lack of Automation
Software-defined Everything
Legacy Methodologies (Eg. Testing)
12. How do certify, deploy, then test new code?
How can WWT replicate environments in the Advanced Technology Center?
How can lab automation help to compress time to certify?
How do we evaluate solutions faster?
Global FSI Customers – Certification Asks
13. Challenges in Certification and Compliance
COMPLEXITY
Legacy Lab environments cause
bottlenecks in evaluations and
testing
COST
Certifying Infrastructure and
updates to Applications are
costly and time consuming
CHANGE
Testing, validating and
rapid change management
14. Not Cloud
Friendly
Not DevOps
Enabled
Limited
Visibility
Difficult to share
equipment
Only 15% utilization of
costly Infrastructure
Duplicate
labs
Long setup time =
productivity loss
Inefficient remote
user access
Increasing CAPEX
EFFICIENCY
COST
AGILITY
Traditional Compliance Testing in Labs
15. CERTIFICATION
LAB
1
2
3
4
Better resource and asset utilization
Save and restore environments for Day-2
support/troubleshooting
Lab-as-a-Service: On-demand, Self-service
access to resources, assets and testing tools to
provision environments quickly
Remote access to lab environments – global
reach
Expectations for the Cloud-Era:
Self-Service Environments – “Lab-as-a-cloud”
17. ACME BANK – Process Loan Applications Faster
CXO – “No Compromise to Security and Compliance”
Applications IT Infrastructure
Enterprise Data Center
Financial
Application
End User Internet
ACME BANK
1 2
Application Requirements
• Interest Rate Changes
• Competitive Offers
• Loan Application Updates
IT Infrastructure Needs
• Maintenance Updates
• Cybersecurity Updates
• Compliance Updates
19. IT InfrastructureApplication
Enterprise Data Center
ACME BANK
Cybersecurity: Vulnerability in TLS could
allow an unauthenticated remote attack
Compliance: Configuration updates are
required to meet Financial regulations
Loan application: Requires additional
fields to address the new business needs
Application Server: Operating system
requires the latest version of software
Step 1: Discovery
21. IT InfrastructureApplication
Enterprise Data Center
ACME BANK
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Programming Language
Configuration
Virtualization
Containers
User Interface
Dashboards
Operating Systems
Databases API’s
Analytics
Switches
Security Gateways
RoutersSDN / NFV
Proxies
Firewalls
Wireless
Hyper-Converged
Application Delivery Controllers
Load Balancers
Step 3: Focus on Impacted Infrastructure
Components
22. Firmware Update 15.4 15.5 6.5 6.6
Configuration Update 7.0 8.0 11.0 12.0
IT Network Infrastructure
Net Load
Balancer
Network
Proxy
Network
Router
Network
Firewall
IT InfrastructureApplication
Enterprise Data Center
ACME BANK
Test Use-cases: Software Updates on Products
23. IT InfrastructureApplication
Enterprise Data Center
ACME BANK
Solution
Test Environment
Environment 1: Dev Test / Lab PASS
Environment 2: Quality Assurance PASS
Environment 3: Security Operations PASS
Environment 4: Staging / Pre-Production PASS
Net Load
Balancer
Network
Proxy
Network
Router
Network
Firewall
Achieving Seamless Interoperability
24. Not Cloud
Friendly
Not DevOps
Enabled
Limited
Visibility
Difficult to share
equipment
Only 15% utilization of
costly Infrastructure
Duplicate
labs
Long setup time =
productivity loss
Inefficient remote
user access
Increasing CAPEX
EFFICIENCY
COST
AGILITY
Recap Challenges
33. ATC Vision
To create a collaborative ecosystem to
design, build, educate, demonstrate and
deploy innovative technology products
and integrated architectural solutions for
our customers, partners and employees
around the globe.
ATC Ecosystem
34. The ATC Labs have the following capabilities to help customers
explore, evaluate, architect and implement new technology.
CUSTOMIZERESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
EDUCATIONHANDS-ON EXPERIENCE
WORKSHOPS
PROOFS OF
CONCEPT (POCs)
INTEGRATED PRODUCT
AND SOLUTION DEMOS
PRODUCT TESTING
AND BENCHMARKING
TECH BRIEFINGS
EARLY FIELD
TRIALS
SANDBOX
ENVIRONMENTS
PILOTS AND
INTEGRATION
TRAINING
LAB AS A
SERVICE (LaaS)
35. The ATC Advantage
ACCESS
24/7 virtual access
via the ATC Gateway
TESTING
Best-of-breed testing
tools to simulate any
type of customer
workload
SPEED
Deliver results in a
fraction of the time it
would take at a
customer site
PROCESS
We have perfected
the Lab process
EXPERTISE
Best-in Industry
experts across every
Enterprise IT
technology
AUTOMATION
Large investment in
automation between
physical and virtual
environments
39. Upcoming Educational Webinars
“Cyber Ranges: Because you don’t
#wannacry”
(Quali, Ixia and the NewStack)
– June 6th, 2017 Click to
Register here, or at
www.quali.com
Whether it's spending, saving, borrowing, or investing your money, the recent impact of technology is dramatic.
Start with the most basic functions of banking -- deposits and withdrawals. Just as the automated teller machine revolutionized the bank branch by introducing the ability to conduct banking transactions at any time, mobile banking technology now provides access to banking services virtually anywhere. Depositing a check no longer even requires a trip to the bank; simply take a picture with your phone via a banking app. Need access to your funds? NFC payment systems turn your phone into a wallet that can pay for your transaction with just a touch.
New payment technologies from companies like Square are reducing costs for merchants and enabling anyone from established retailers to the lemonade stand to accept multiple forms of payment. Now even the smallest business has more tools to grow, regardless of their transaction volume and without the need for costly equipment. Despite the tremendous penetration of credit and debit cards, the creation of low cost, easy-to-use technology is opening up new markets to the 50-year-old payment processing industry.
Renaud Laplanche
Technology is helping to democratize the world of investments, enhancing access to markets that have been closed to those without substantial wealth or connections and providing increased liquidity for thinly traded assets. Companies like SecondMarket and Sharespost are creating efficient markets for otherwise illiquid assets such as private company stock, bankruptcy claims and esoteric securities. Meanwhile, BATS bet that superior technology would enable it to compete effectively with the more established NYSE and NASDAQ; that bet is paying off as 11% of all U.S. equity trading on a daily basis now passes through BATS Exchanges.
Lending Club is using technology to disrupt consumer lending, a core function of banks that is little changed over the past several decades. Our platform uses technology to connect borrowers with investors to originate loans, reducing costs for borrowers and boosting returns for investors by disintermediating banks. Smart use of technology and re-engineering of many banking processes also enables Lending Club to operate with dramatically lower costs than banks: our platform has already facilitated nearly 20,000 consumer loans so far this year, with a staff of fewer than 100 employees.
Technology drives an unrelenting pace of change. Smart financial services firms are taking advantage of it to revolutionize entire markets, putting those companies that are slow to adopt at risk of being left far behind.
1: FinTech will drive the new business model
For a long time, new market entrants found it difficult to break into the financial services industry.
Well, not any more. FinTech disruptors have been finding a way in. Disruptors are fast-moving companies, often start-ups, focused on a particular innovative technology or process in everything from mobile payments to insurance. And, they have been attacking some of the most profitable elements of the financial services value chain. This has been particularly damaging to the incumbents who have historically subsidized important but less profitable service offerings. In our recent PwC Global FinTech Survey, industry respondents told us that a quarter of their business, or more, could be at risk of being lost to standalone FinTech companies within 5 years.
Global investments in FinTech more than tripled in 2014, reaching more than $12 billion. In comparison, banks spent an estimated $215 billion on IT worldwide in 2014, including hardware, software, and internal and external services. This is a material number, and because it is so highly targeted, the FinTech spending will really make an impact
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