In this 60-minute webinar workshop, Bluelock CTO Pat O’Day will use four real-life scenarios to help you modernize your approach to DR and backups. O’Day will showcase how you can leverage tools like continuous data protection, cloud elasticity and pay-as-you-go pricing to get better, more reliable protection for your application at a more compelling price point.
How to Implement Disaster Recovery in the CloudBluelock
Learn how disaster recovery in the cloud makes DR easy, efficient and affordable. Cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service is the latest in disaster recovery technology. Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) is the ideal on-ramp to cloud to solve your need to recover quickly, easily and efficiently after a disaster strikes.
Learn how four companies architected their RaaS solutions and protected entire applications in the cloud while reducing costs.
LEARN HOW TO:
- Protect and recover applications quickly
- Lower costs while improving RTO and RPOs
- Implement easy and affordable testing
- Recover into an enterprise-grade cloud environment
- Reduce downtime and business risk
http://www.bluelock.com/cloud-services/raas/
DR in the Cloud: Finding the Right Tool for the JobHostway|HOSTING
VM replication technologies like SRM or Zerto aren’t always the best way to replicate and protect all workloads. For example, most databases have native replication that’s more context-sensitive than hypervisor-based block-level replication. Join me, Darrell Hyde, HOSTING CTO, on November 12, 2015 for DR in the Cloud: Finding the Right Tool for the Job – an interactive webinar where I’ll discuss:
•Common use cases
•Different approaches to DR
•Pros and cons of each approach
5 Cloud Migration Experiences Not to Be RepeatedHostway|HOSTING
As a project manager at HOSTING, Kellen Amobi has assisted in many customer data migrations over the years. Kellen shares the top five migration mistakes that companies have made in the past and what experience has taught her about resolving the issues quickly, including:
-Developing realistic project scopes
-Managing timelines
-Avoiding security risks
Identifying Workloads to Move to the CloudRightScale
RightScale Webinar: Cloud infrastructure offers a new set of building blocks for cost effectively deploying and managing applications. One of the first questions encountered is often which application workloads present the best fit? We’ll start by profiling different environments (datacenter, hosted and public/private cloud) and highlight the application characteristics that align well for each. We’ll then discuss the most common use cases we encounter and the reference architectures we’ve used to deliver them. Along the way, we’ll work to provide guidance how to evaluate company workloads for public, private and hybrid cloud deployments and when it makes sense to re-architect applications.
Multi-Cloud Breaks IT Ops: Best Practices to De-Risk Your Cloud StrategyThousandEyes
Organizations are using multiple IaaS and SaaS providers today, yet traditional ITOps processes and tools are straining to cope with a vast new scope of challenges and risks. Recent research by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) shows that 74% of enterprise network teams had incumbent network monitoring tools failing to address cloud requirements. As IT business leaders responsible for delivering services in this new ecosystem, how do you equip yourself with the right visibility?
Shamus McGillicuddy, Research Director for EMA’s network management practice, and Archana Kesavan, Director of Product Marketing at ThousandEyes dive deep into the challenges of multi-cloud and how to rethink your monitoring strategy and operational delivery processes.
Uncover:
Five common IT operational challenges of multi-cloud identified in recent EMA research
The risks of not evolving ITOps for a managed cloud environment
Four monitoring best practices for a cloud-centric IT Operation
Tips For a Successful Cloud Proof-of-Concept - RightScale Compute 2013RightScale
Speaker: Vijay Tolani - Cloud Solutions Engineer, RightScale
Most enterprises see POC projects as an important step in their path to public, private, or hybrid cloud. RightScale cloud experts will share on-the-ground experience from a range of enterprise cloud POCs, including business and technical best practices. You will learn how to set your POC strategy, choose your POC clouds, navigate technical hurdles, and measure success.
Executive Briefing: What Is Fast Data And Why Is It ImportantLightbend
[About This Webinar]
Streaming data systems, so called Fast Data, promise accelerated access to information, leading to new innovations and competitive advantages. These systems, however, aren’t just faster versions of Big Data; they force architecture changes to meet new demands for reliability and dynamic scalability, more like microservices.
This means new challenges for your organization. Whereas a batch job might run for hours, a stream processing application might run for weeks or months. This raises the bar for making these systems resilient against traffic spikes, hardware and network failures, and so forth. The good news is that there is a strong history of facing these demands in the world of microservices.
In this webinar by Dr. Dean Wampler, VP of Fast Data Architecture at Lightbend, Inc., we will cut through the buzz around Fast Data and explore how to successfully exploit this new opportunity for innovation in how your organization leverages data. Specifically, Dean will review:
* The business justification for transitioning from batch-oriented big data to stream-oriented fast data
* The architectural and organizational changes that streaming systems require to meet their higher demands for reliability, resiliency, dynamic scalability, etc.
* How some of these requirements can be met by leveraging what your organization already knows about microservice architectures
Seeing RED: Monitoring and Observability in the Age of MicroservicesDave McAllister
Applications are changing. Clouds, Containers, Kubernetes all conspire to make life tougher. Modern Monitoring makes use of practices like USE and RED to tame those beasts. Find out what that means.
How to Implement Disaster Recovery in the CloudBluelock
Learn how disaster recovery in the cloud makes DR easy, efficient and affordable. Cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service is the latest in disaster recovery technology. Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) is the ideal on-ramp to cloud to solve your need to recover quickly, easily and efficiently after a disaster strikes.
Learn how four companies architected their RaaS solutions and protected entire applications in the cloud while reducing costs.
LEARN HOW TO:
- Protect and recover applications quickly
- Lower costs while improving RTO and RPOs
- Implement easy and affordable testing
- Recover into an enterprise-grade cloud environment
- Reduce downtime and business risk
http://www.bluelock.com/cloud-services/raas/
DR in the Cloud: Finding the Right Tool for the JobHostway|HOSTING
VM replication technologies like SRM or Zerto aren’t always the best way to replicate and protect all workloads. For example, most databases have native replication that’s more context-sensitive than hypervisor-based block-level replication. Join me, Darrell Hyde, HOSTING CTO, on November 12, 2015 for DR in the Cloud: Finding the Right Tool for the Job – an interactive webinar where I’ll discuss:
•Common use cases
•Different approaches to DR
•Pros and cons of each approach
5 Cloud Migration Experiences Not to Be RepeatedHostway|HOSTING
As a project manager at HOSTING, Kellen Amobi has assisted in many customer data migrations over the years. Kellen shares the top five migration mistakes that companies have made in the past and what experience has taught her about resolving the issues quickly, including:
-Developing realistic project scopes
-Managing timelines
-Avoiding security risks
Identifying Workloads to Move to the CloudRightScale
RightScale Webinar: Cloud infrastructure offers a new set of building blocks for cost effectively deploying and managing applications. One of the first questions encountered is often which application workloads present the best fit? We’ll start by profiling different environments (datacenter, hosted and public/private cloud) and highlight the application characteristics that align well for each. We’ll then discuss the most common use cases we encounter and the reference architectures we’ve used to deliver them. Along the way, we’ll work to provide guidance how to evaluate company workloads for public, private and hybrid cloud deployments and when it makes sense to re-architect applications.
Multi-Cloud Breaks IT Ops: Best Practices to De-Risk Your Cloud StrategyThousandEyes
Organizations are using multiple IaaS and SaaS providers today, yet traditional ITOps processes and tools are straining to cope with a vast new scope of challenges and risks. Recent research by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) shows that 74% of enterprise network teams had incumbent network monitoring tools failing to address cloud requirements. As IT business leaders responsible for delivering services in this new ecosystem, how do you equip yourself with the right visibility?
Shamus McGillicuddy, Research Director for EMA’s network management practice, and Archana Kesavan, Director of Product Marketing at ThousandEyes dive deep into the challenges of multi-cloud and how to rethink your monitoring strategy and operational delivery processes.
Uncover:
Five common IT operational challenges of multi-cloud identified in recent EMA research
The risks of not evolving ITOps for a managed cloud environment
Four monitoring best practices for a cloud-centric IT Operation
Tips For a Successful Cloud Proof-of-Concept - RightScale Compute 2013RightScale
Speaker: Vijay Tolani - Cloud Solutions Engineer, RightScale
Most enterprises see POC projects as an important step in their path to public, private, or hybrid cloud. RightScale cloud experts will share on-the-ground experience from a range of enterprise cloud POCs, including business and technical best practices. You will learn how to set your POC strategy, choose your POC clouds, navigate technical hurdles, and measure success.
Executive Briefing: What Is Fast Data And Why Is It ImportantLightbend
[About This Webinar]
Streaming data systems, so called Fast Data, promise accelerated access to information, leading to new innovations and competitive advantages. These systems, however, aren’t just faster versions of Big Data; they force architecture changes to meet new demands for reliability and dynamic scalability, more like microservices.
This means new challenges for your organization. Whereas a batch job might run for hours, a stream processing application might run for weeks or months. This raises the bar for making these systems resilient against traffic spikes, hardware and network failures, and so forth. The good news is that there is a strong history of facing these demands in the world of microservices.
In this webinar by Dr. Dean Wampler, VP of Fast Data Architecture at Lightbend, Inc., we will cut through the buzz around Fast Data and explore how to successfully exploit this new opportunity for innovation in how your organization leverages data. Specifically, Dean will review:
* The business justification for transitioning from batch-oriented big data to stream-oriented fast data
* The architectural and organizational changes that streaming systems require to meet their higher demands for reliability, resiliency, dynamic scalability, etc.
* How some of these requirements can be met by leveraging what your organization already knows about microservice architectures
Seeing RED: Monitoring and Observability in the Age of MicroservicesDave McAllister
Applications are changing. Clouds, Containers, Kubernetes all conspire to make life tougher. Modern Monitoring makes use of practices like USE and RED to tame those beasts. Find out what that means.
Lessons from an AWS outage and how to detect root cause of cloud service disr...ThousandEyes
Enterprise IT and Ops team are frequently challenged by complex cloud architectures that are continually evolving. As a result, your teams suffer from increased MTTI during fault diagnosis and are often left frustrated and helpless during a cloud outage.
Join this webinar to see an analysis of a recent AWS outage and the downstream implications a cloud outage can have on your service delivery and user experience. In this demonstration you will learn:
- Monitoring best practices to reduce MTTI during cloud outages
- Why APM and cloud-native tools like CloudWatch fall short
- How to hold cloud service providers accountable when something goes wrong
Five Steps to DevOps Success - Avoiding the High Cost of DowntimeAnand Akela
Presentation at Cloud Expo / DevOps Summit 2015
Provides an overview of the research and share five steps to DevOps success leveraging an application performance management solution. He will also discuss how BizDevOps takes the concept of DevOps to a new level – by bringing the business context and insights to day to day DevOps activities.
Plan Your IaaS Environment for Optimal PerformanceRISC Networks
In this presentation, it helps you establish a performance baseline that you can use to ensure that you select the appropriate server move groups and address any server or application dependencies in your strategy. Our goal is to give you best practices that you can use when planning and executing your move to Cloud IaaS and to get the best performance out of it.
To watch the live webinar for this presentation, please go to https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/10539/97643
Optimize your IT network infrastructure environment with the industry's leading business technology analytics platform from RISC Networks. IT HealthCheck is a turn-key, software-as-a-service (SaaS) business technology analytics platform that helps you significantly improve the efficiency, agility and resiliency of your IT network infrastructure.
Application Migration: How to Start, Scale and SucceedVMware Tanzu
Undergoing the application migration journey can be cumbersome and challenging, especially when you have a complex application portfolio that consists of both legacy and newer apps on outdated systems. You are hindered by managing and operating manual processes to address security concerns, regulatory change and policy compliance.
You know embarking on the cloud journey is inevitable and deciding where to start is overwhelming. Let us show you how.
Join Matt Russell to hear how Pivotal helps large organizations plan and execute their application transformation initiatives by using a set of proven techniques and approaches that help you get started quickly and scale continuously.
We use simple tools and start small to redefine current systems, and achieve cloud-native speed and resiliency. Let us show you how Pivotal can help you navigate your journey while instilling confidence along the way.
Presenter : Matt Russell, Senior Director, Application Transformation at Pivotal
Tagging Best Practices for Cloud GovernanceRightScale
In the cloud, it’s critical to implement specific global tags across your organization that enable cloud governance and cost management. If, like most enterprises, you are using multiple clouds, you will want to ensure consistency across all of the clouds you use, despite varying tagging capabilities on each cloud.
Kubernetes and Terraform in the Cloud: How RightScale Does DevOpsRightScale
Kubernetes adoption is growing and more companies are leveraging Terraform. At RightScale, we combine Kubernetes, Terraform, RightScale, and cloud. In this webinar, find out how we are combining these solutions to create a fully automated DevOps process.
This presentation looks at the practical issues for moving applications to the cloud.
It addresses the need to choose the applications carefully and how to decide which type of cloud platform is suitable for delivering cloud benefits.
There are lots of reasons to decommission a data centre.
Perhaps you’re closing down an office? Or saving money by outsourcing your Disaster Recovery? Maybe your hardware is reaching end-of-life and you’re moving to the cloud?
But It’s not an easy project. It can take longer than expected, eating into cost-savings and brings an increased risk of service-interruption.
Key takeaways:
• A checklist for Discovery, Implementation and Disposal stages
• How to create an accurate budget and timetable
• Choosing between a phased or ‘big bang’ approach
Best Practices for Driving Software Quality through a Federated Application S...DevOps.com
For DevSecOps to become a reality there must be a fundamental shift in mindset and approach to application security (AppSec) – moving from ownership solely within corporate security to a federated, shared model of responsibility that spans both security and software engineering teams.
In this webinar, ZeroNorth’s Thaddeus Walsh and Joanne Godfrey will discuss some of the real-life challenges security teams face as they seek to implement a federated AppSec responsibility model and will offer some practical advice to help address these challenges.
This webinar will cover:
Why a centralized control model for AppSec no longer works in today’s software-defined world
The vision, core requirements and value of a federated responsibility model for AppSec
The challenges of implementing this model in real life
Architecting the model for a successful implementation
Best practice for empowering developers to implement security throughout the SDLC
Creating a friction free collaborative working relationship between security and engineering
5 Steps to Achieving the Single Pane of Glass Across DevOps -- APM, NPM, Metr...DevOps.com
There are many systems that need monitoring -- Applications, Infrastructure, Network, Servers all producing metrics, logs, events etc. There are also many vendors selling their APM, NPM, Tracing, monitoring and alerting tools. But how does an organization get to that mythical single pane of glass where there is one consolidated view across these systems?
This webinar will look at 5 practical steps that our customers have taken on this journey and what business results they have seen as they have moved to a centralized metric and event store while still leveraging their existing investments in specialized tooling and applications.
Why Integrating IBM Z into ServiceNow and Splunk Is So ImportantPrecisely
Organizations are investing in Splunk and ServiceNow for real-time enterprise-wide visibility for faster identification, mitigation and resolution of issues that can impact the business. However, without the mainframe, these solutions have a glaring blind spot.
Applications span multiple platforms and networks, requiring an enterprise-wide view of security, critical incidents and outages that can bring business to a halt. The costs incurred to troubleshoot and remediate performance issues and outages can quickly become a major expense.
Learn how leading IT organizations support critical security and operational enterprise initiatives by integrating important mainframe information with these platforms, without disrupting the mainframe, or the teams that support it.
Watch this on-demand webinar to discover:
· The benefits for including mainframe data in Splunk and ServiceNow
· What you can learn with a complete view of your entire IT environment
· Best practices for integrating mainframe data
Monitoring as a Self-Service in Atlassian DevOps ToolchainAndreas Grabner
As devs, testers and ops we must deal with monitoring data when analyzing test results, debugging problems or reporting on usage. But why stepping out of our Atlassian Tool Comfort Zone to get this data? We found new use cases on how to fully integrate monitoring as a self-service into Jira, Hipchat, Bamboo, Bitbucket & Confluence. This saves time in learning yet another tool and gives you the data when and where you need it: in your most favorite Atlassian Tool. Key Use Cases we discuss: Continuous Performance Analysis in Jira, Shift-Left in Bamboo / Bitbucket, ChatOps in Hipchat.
Observability - The good, the bad and the ugly Xp Days 2019 Kiev Ukraine Aleksandr Tavgen
Talk about approaches to an observability. Do we need millions of metrics? Anomalies vs regularities? Can Machine Learning help us? Some abilities of Flux language by InfluxData
Since the term “DevOps” was coined nearly a decade ago, organizations have strived to embrace the concept as a way to increase agility and speed. Yet, after years of experiments and pilots, DevOps has often failed to live up to grand expectations. For many organizations, the seemingly simple concepts of collaboration and transparency are challenging in practice.
In this webinar, Donnie Berkholz, DevOps Research Director at 451 Research, shared what successful DevOps looks like and how new collaboration models and technologies can aid in your efforts to adopt this software development methodology.
View the full webinar here: https://newrelic.com/resources/webinar/DevOps-101-170315
Lessons from an AWS outage and how to detect root cause of cloud service disr...ThousandEyes
Enterprise IT and Ops team are frequently challenged by complex cloud architectures that are continually evolving. As a result, your teams suffer from increased MTTI during fault diagnosis and are often left frustrated and helpless during a cloud outage.
Join this webinar to see an analysis of a recent AWS outage and the downstream implications a cloud outage can have on your service delivery and user experience. In this demonstration you will learn:
- Monitoring best practices to reduce MTTI during cloud outages
- Why APM and cloud-native tools like CloudWatch fall short
- How to hold cloud service providers accountable when something goes wrong
Five Steps to DevOps Success - Avoiding the High Cost of DowntimeAnand Akela
Presentation at Cloud Expo / DevOps Summit 2015
Provides an overview of the research and share five steps to DevOps success leveraging an application performance management solution. He will also discuss how BizDevOps takes the concept of DevOps to a new level – by bringing the business context and insights to day to day DevOps activities.
Plan Your IaaS Environment for Optimal PerformanceRISC Networks
In this presentation, it helps you establish a performance baseline that you can use to ensure that you select the appropriate server move groups and address any server or application dependencies in your strategy. Our goal is to give you best practices that you can use when planning and executing your move to Cloud IaaS and to get the best performance out of it.
To watch the live webinar for this presentation, please go to https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/10539/97643
Optimize your IT network infrastructure environment with the industry's leading business technology analytics platform from RISC Networks. IT HealthCheck is a turn-key, software-as-a-service (SaaS) business technology analytics platform that helps you significantly improve the efficiency, agility and resiliency of your IT network infrastructure.
Application Migration: How to Start, Scale and SucceedVMware Tanzu
Undergoing the application migration journey can be cumbersome and challenging, especially when you have a complex application portfolio that consists of both legacy and newer apps on outdated systems. You are hindered by managing and operating manual processes to address security concerns, regulatory change and policy compliance.
You know embarking on the cloud journey is inevitable and deciding where to start is overwhelming. Let us show you how.
Join Matt Russell to hear how Pivotal helps large organizations plan and execute their application transformation initiatives by using a set of proven techniques and approaches that help you get started quickly and scale continuously.
We use simple tools and start small to redefine current systems, and achieve cloud-native speed and resiliency. Let us show you how Pivotal can help you navigate your journey while instilling confidence along the way.
Presenter : Matt Russell, Senior Director, Application Transformation at Pivotal
Tagging Best Practices for Cloud GovernanceRightScale
In the cloud, it’s critical to implement specific global tags across your organization that enable cloud governance and cost management. If, like most enterprises, you are using multiple clouds, you will want to ensure consistency across all of the clouds you use, despite varying tagging capabilities on each cloud.
Kubernetes and Terraform in the Cloud: How RightScale Does DevOpsRightScale
Kubernetes adoption is growing and more companies are leveraging Terraform. At RightScale, we combine Kubernetes, Terraform, RightScale, and cloud. In this webinar, find out how we are combining these solutions to create a fully automated DevOps process.
This presentation looks at the practical issues for moving applications to the cloud.
It addresses the need to choose the applications carefully and how to decide which type of cloud platform is suitable for delivering cloud benefits.
There are lots of reasons to decommission a data centre.
Perhaps you’re closing down an office? Or saving money by outsourcing your Disaster Recovery? Maybe your hardware is reaching end-of-life and you’re moving to the cloud?
But It’s not an easy project. It can take longer than expected, eating into cost-savings and brings an increased risk of service-interruption.
Key takeaways:
• A checklist for Discovery, Implementation and Disposal stages
• How to create an accurate budget and timetable
• Choosing between a phased or ‘big bang’ approach
Best Practices for Driving Software Quality through a Federated Application S...DevOps.com
For DevSecOps to become a reality there must be a fundamental shift in mindset and approach to application security (AppSec) – moving from ownership solely within corporate security to a federated, shared model of responsibility that spans both security and software engineering teams.
In this webinar, ZeroNorth’s Thaddeus Walsh and Joanne Godfrey will discuss some of the real-life challenges security teams face as they seek to implement a federated AppSec responsibility model and will offer some practical advice to help address these challenges.
This webinar will cover:
Why a centralized control model for AppSec no longer works in today’s software-defined world
The vision, core requirements and value of a federated responsibility model for AppSec
The challenges of implementing this model in real life
Architecting the model for a successful implementation
Best practice for empowering developers to implement security throughout the SDLC
Creating a friction free collaborative working relationship between security and engineering
5 Steps to Achieving the Single Pane of Glass Across DevOps -- APM, NPM, Metr...DevOps.com
There are many systems that need monitoring -- Applications, Infrastructure, Network, Servers all producing metrics, logs, events etc. There are also many vendors selling their APM, NPM, Tracing, monitoring and alerting tools. But how does an organization get to that mythical single pane of glass where there is one consolidated view across these systems?
This webinar will look at 5 practical steps that our customers have taken on this journey and what business results they have seen as they have moved to a centralized metric and event store while still leveraging their existing investments in specialized tooling and applications.
Why Integrating IBM Z into ServiceNow and Splunk Is So ImportantPrecisely
Organizations are investing in Splunk and ServiceNow for real-time enterprise-wide visibility for faster identification, mitigation and resolution of issues that can impact the business. However, without the mainframe, these solutions have a glaring blind spot.
Applications span multiple platforms and networks, requiring an enterprise-wide view of security, critical incidents and outages that can bring business to a halt. The costs incurred to troubleshoot and remediate performance issues and outages can quickly become a major expense.
Learn how leading IT organizations support critical security and operational enterprise initiatives by integrating important mainframe information with these platforms, without disrupting the mainframe, or the teams that support it.
Watch this on-demand webinar to discover:
· The benefits for including mainframe data in Splunk and ServiceNow
· What you can learn with a complete view of your entire IT environment
· Best practices for integrating mainframe data
Monitoring as a Self-Service in Atlassian DevOps ToolchainAndreas Grabner
As devs, testers and ops we must deal with monitoring data when analyzing test results, debugging problems or reporting on usage. But why stepping out of our Atlassian Tool Comfort Zone to get this data? We found new use cases on how to fully integrate monitoring as a self-service into Jira, Hipchat, Bamboo, Bitbucket & Confluence. This saves time in learning yet another tool and gives you the data when and where you need it: in your most favorite Atlassian Tool. Key Use Cases we discuss: Continuous Performance Analysis in Jira, Shift-Left in Bamboo / Bitbucket, ChatOps in Hipchat.
Observability - The good, the bad and the ugly Xp Days 2019 Kiev Ukraine Aleksandr Tavgen
Talk about approaches to an observability. Do we need millions of metrics? Anomalies vs regularities? Can Machine Learning help us? Some abilities of Flux language by InfluxData
Since the term “DevOps” was coined nearly a decade ago, organizations have strived to embrace the concept as a way to increase agility and speed. Yet, after years of experiments and pilots, DevOps has often failed to live up to grand expectations. For many organizations, the seemingly simple concepts of collaboration and transparency are challenging in practice.
In this webinar, Donnie Berkholz, DevOps Research Director at 451 Research, shared what successful DevOps looks like and how new collaboration models and technologies can aid in your efforts to adopt this software development methodology.
View the full webinar here: https://newrelic.com/resources/webinar/DevOps-101-170315
Microsoft Office has recently been updated for the Apple iPad and has consistently been one of the top downloads from the Apple App Store.
Office for the iPad includes Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. If you are an Office 365 E3, Midsize, or Small Business SKU customer you are entitled to Office on the iPad for free!
Learn how to use Microsoft Office for the iPhone and iPad.
Pat Podmore, Senior Vice President and Director of the Project Management Office at KeyBank, will share how he applied Expesite software in a wide range of complex challenges, including:
• Lack of scalable resources
• Minimal management of project milestones
• Limited financial visibility and integration
• Manual project tracking in spreadsheets
• Poor reporting
• Missed deadlines
• Cost overruns
Pat will be available to discuss how Skybank has achieved gains in:
• Efficiency
• Cost savings
• Personnel requirements
• Accuracy
• Productivity
Why Your Company MUST Upgrade Windows XP, Office 2003 & Small Business Serve...Chad Massaker
The world of technology is ever changing. Join us each month for real world updates, implementation strategies and KPI's on topics like search engine optimization, cloud computing, social media and more!
With less than a year left before Microsoft pulls the plug on its still-widely used operating system (OS) Windows XP, Windows 2003 Small Business Server and Office 2003, businesses must have a migration plan or risk facing compliance issues. Please join us as Chad Massaker, CEO, Carceron covers the following topics:
•The risks of of not upgrading systems running these obsolete platforms. Especially if your are in healthcare or take credit cards.
•The potential tax advantages of completing your upgrades by the end of 2013
•Should you stick with desktops? Or try something new? Like a tablet? or a Chromebook? Pros and Cons of Everything.
•Do I really need a need a server? Or can I just go all Cloud?
•Cloud alternatives to all of the above.
Call Management Services Should be Part of Every Business Telephone SystemMahindra Comviva
Today’s sophisticated call management systems integrate various other devices including mobiles and tabs so that an all inclusive call management can be achieved by the business.
Organizations need to follow a mobile-centric design paradigm to reach today’s customers. Responsive web design is just one element in today’s web designers’ toolbox. This presentation, given at IBM Smarter Commerce Conference 2014 by CoreMedia’s Jochen Toppe discusses the challenges today’s web designers and marketers face, and offers an in-depth look at real-world requirements, potential pain points, and solutions.
The complexity of Medical image reconstruction requires tens to hundreds of billions of computations per second. Until few years ago, special purpose processors designed especially for such applications were used. Such processors require significant design effort and are thus difficult to change as new algorithms in reconstructions evolve and have limited parallelism. Hence the demand for flexibility in medical applications motivated the use of stream processors with massively parallel architecture. Stream processing architectures offers data parallel kind of parallelism.
In this episode, Jeff Williams interviews Justin Somaini of Box.com. They discuss security implications from a consumer perspective, how security and the cloud environment work together, and revisit Bill Gates Trustworthy Computing memo from 2002.
Managing supplier content and product informationEnterworks Inc.
An overview of how Enterworks Enable helps suppliers better acquire and manage their product content, and publish it and share it with their dealers and distributors.
Digitale data zijn cruciaal voor de werking en het voorbestaan van uw organisatie. En meer van deze data, toepassingen en infrastructuur verhuizen naar de cloud. Ul eert hoe u anno 2015 de uptime van uw IT (en dus ook van uw bedrijf) kan optimaliseren. Uiteraard speelt de cloud hier een belangrijke rol. We laten u zien hoe cloud diensten in relatie kunnen staan tot de continuïteit van uw bedrijfsvoering en welke waarborgen zij eventueel kunnen garanderen.
Transitioning to the Cloud: Implications for Reliability, Redundancy & Recove...RightScale
RightScale Webinar: July 23, 2009 – Listen to a recorded live panel discussion moderated by Dave Nielsen, founder of CloudCamp and Principal Consultant at Platform D. Hear from leading experts in cloud computing to gain real-world insight into how their customers are using cloud computing and achieving new levels of backup, recovery and reliability. Learn how you can migrate your apps and data to the cloud in a way that's affordable and reliable. Watch video at http://vimeo.com/rightscale/transitioning-to-the-cloud.
Unravel for azure databricks overview 4 28-20 finalDevOps.com
Azure Databricks has become very popular as a computing framework for big data. However, customers are finding unexpected costs eating into their cloud budget. Furthermore, lack of visibility to root cause and general inefficiency is costing organizations thousands, if not millions in operating their Azure Databricks environment.
Join Unravel to discuss top 5 cost management techniques in Azure Databricks and new features to effectively help manage costs on Azure Databricks, including:
Cost analytics to provide assurance and forecasting for optimizing databricks workloads as they scale.
Accurate, detailed chargeback reporting of the cost of running data apps on Azure Databricks.
Rightscale Webinar: Plan for Failure: How to Avert Disaster With a Cloud Stra...RightScale
As AWS and Netflix learned this past Christmas Eve, outages happen. The question isn’t how to avoid outages, but rather how to recover quickly and effectively when they occur. One approach is to develop a multi-cloud strategy – utilizing either different providers or multiple regions from the same provider – to build in safeguards against anything from a natural disaster to the workman in the street who accidentally chops into a cable. But multi-cloud strategies carry their own challenges. Besides coping with architecture and resource allocation, businesses that leverage more than one cloud provider are faced with forecasting cloud costs that have suddenly become even more complex and managing a high availability architecture across multiple clouds.
Related topics we’ll discuss:
- How to translate an old IT budget into accurate costs for the new world of cloud
- Is outage-proofing possible?
- Using a global hybrid approach to cope with regional compliance regulations
- Managing multiple private and public clouds from a single dashboard
Who should attend:
- CIOs
- Data managers/developers
- IT decision makers
- Business strategists and decision makers
- Cloud platform providers
The Most Compelling Event in Human History is: Event DrivenHostedbyConfluent
"Climate change and the actions humanity is taking to counter it, is one of the most compelling events in human history. Renewable energy plays an important role in that effort but will most likely not be sufficient to reach our goals for a net zero greenhouse gas economy in 2050. To reach those goals we also must think about any greenhouse gas that we still produce and, for that matter have produced in the past.
CCUS or Carbon Capturing, Utilization and Sequestration plays an important role.
The technology is there and in may sound easy to start capturing and processing. But collecting these huge amounts of CO2 can pose quite a big risk as well.
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List of Cases by ChapterChapter 1Development ProjectDioneWang844
List of Cases by Chapter
Chapter 1
Development Projects in Lagos, Nigeria 2
“Throwing Good Money after Bad”: the BBC’s
Digital Media Initiative 10
MegaTech, Inc. 29
The IT Department at Hamelin Hospital 30
Disney’s Expedition Everest 31
Rescue of Chilean Miners 32
Chapter 2
Tesla’s $5 Billion Gamble 37
Electronic Arts and the Power of Strong Culture
in Design Teams 64
Rolls-Royce Corporation 67
Classic Case: Paradise Lost—The Xerox Alto 68
Project Task Estimation and the Culture of “Gotcha!” 69
Widgets ’R Us 70
Chapter 3
Project Selection Procedures: A Cross-Industry
Sampler 77
Project Selection and Screening at GE: The Tollgate
Process 97
Keflavik Paper Company 111
Project Selection at Nova Western, Inc. 112
Chapter 4
Leading by Example for the London Olympics—
Sir John Armitt 116
Dr. Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, India’s Project
Management Guru 126
The Challenge of Managing Internationally 133
In Search of Effective Project Managers 137
Finding the Emotional Intelligence to Be a Real Leader 137
Problems with John 138
Chapter 5
“We look like fools.”—Oregon’s Failed Rollout
of Its ObamacareWeb Site 145
Statements of Work: Then and Now 151
Defining a Project Work Package 163
Boeing’s Virtual Fence 172
California’s High-Speed Rail Project 173
Project Management at Dotcom.com 175
The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle 176
Chapter 6
Engineers Without Borders: Project Teams Impacting
Lives 187
Tele-Immersion Technology Eases the Use of Virtual
Teams 203
Columbus Instruments 215
The Bean Counter and the Cowboy 216
Johnson & Rogers Software Engineering, Inc. 217
Chapter 7
The Building that Melted Cars 224
Bank of America Completely Misjudges Its Customers 230
Collapse of Shanghai Apartment Building 239
Classic Case: de Havilland’s Falling Comet 245
The Spanish Navy Pays Nearly $3 Billion for a Submarine
That Will Sink Like a Stone 248
Classic Case: Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge 249
Chapter 8
Sochi Olympics—What’s the Cost of National
Prestige? 257
The Hidden Costs of Infrastructure Projects—The Case
of Building Dams 286
Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel Project 288
Chapter 9
After 20 Years and More Than $50 Billion, Oil is No Closer
to the Surface: The Caspian Kashagan Project 297
Chapter 10
Enlarging the Panama Canal 331
Project Scheduling at Blanque Cheque Construction (A) 360
Project Scheduling at Blanque Cheque Construction (B) 360
Chapter 11
Developing Projects Through Kickstarter—Do Delivery
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Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals and Its Commitment to Critical
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It’s an Agile World 396
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Hong Kong Connects to the World’s Longest Natural
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The Problems of Multitasking 427
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New York City’s CityTime Project 432
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The IT Department at Kimble College 463
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Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner: Failure to Launch 465
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List of Cases by ChapterChapter 1Development Project.docxwashingtonrosy
List of Cases by Chapter
Chapter 1
Development Projects in Lagos, Nigeria 2
“Throwing Good Money after Bad”: the BBC’s
Digital Media Initiative 10
MegaTech, Inc. 29
The IT Department at Hamelin Hospital 30
Disney’s Expedition Everest 31
Rescue of Chilean Miners 32
Chapter 2
Tesla’s $5 Billion Gamble 37
Electronic Arts and the Power of Strong Culture
in Design Teams 64
Rolls-Royce Corporation 67
Classic Case: Paradise Lost—The Xerox Alto 68
Project Task Estimation and the Culture of “Gotcha!” 69
Widgets ’R Us 70
Chapter 3
Project Selection Procedures: A Cross-Industry
Sampler 77
Project Selection and Screening at GE: The Tollgate
Process 97
Keflavik Paper Company 111
Project Selection at Nova Western, Inc. 112
Chapter 4
Leading by Example for the London Olympics—
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Dr. Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, India’s Project
Management Guru 126
The Challenge of Managing Internationally 133
In Search of Effective Project Managers 137
Finding the Emotional Intelligence to Be a Real Leader 137
Problems with John 138
Chapter 5
“We look like fools.”—Oregon’s Failed Rollout
of Its ObamacareWeb Site 145
Statements of Work: Then and Now 151
Defining a Project Work Package 163
Boeing’s Virtual Fence 172
California’s High-Speed Rail Project 173
Project Management at Dotcom.com 175
The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle 176
Chapter 6
Engineers Without Borders: Project Teams Impacting
Lives 187
Tele-Immersion Technology Eases the Use of Virtual
Teams 203
Columbus Instruments 215
The Bean Counter and the Cowboy 216
Johnson & Rogers Software Engineering, Inc. 217
Chapter 7
The Building that Melted Cars 224
Bank of America Completely Misjudges Its Customers 230
Collapse of Shanghai Apartment Building 239
Classic Case: de Havilland’s Falling Comet 245
The Spanish Navy Pays Nearly $3 Billion for a Submarine
That Will Sink Like a Stone 248
Classic Case: Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge 249
Chapter 8
Sochi Olympics—What’s the Cost of National
Prestige? 257
The Hidden Costs of Infrastructure Projects—The Case
of Building Dams 286
Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel Project 288
Chapter 9
After 20 Years and More Than $50 Billion, Oil is No Closer
to the Surface: The Caspian Kashagan Project 297
Chapter 10
Enlarging the Panama Canal 331
Project Scheduling at Blanque Cheque Construction (A) 360
Project Scheduling at Blanque Cheque Construction (B) 360
Chapter 11
Developing Projects Through Kickstarter—Do Delivery
Dates Mean Anything? 367
Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals and Its Commitment to Critical
Chain Project Management 385
It’s an Agile World 396
Ramstein Products, Inc. 397
Chapter 12
Hong Kong Connects to the World’s Longest Natural
Gas Pipeline 401
The Problems of Multitasking 427
Chapter 13
New York City’s CityTime Project 432
Earned Value at Northrop Grumman 451
The IT Department at Kimble College 463
The Superconducting Supercollider 464
Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner: Failure to Launch 465
Chapter 14
Duke Energy and Its .
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List of Cases by Chapter
Chapter 1
Development Projects in Lagos, Nigeria 2
“Throwing Good Money after Bad”: the BBC’s
Digital Media Initiative 10
MegaTech, Inc. 29
The IT Department at Hamelin Hospital 30
Disney’s Expedition Everest 31
Rescue of Chilean Miners 32
Chapter 2
Tesla’s $5 Billion Gamble 37
Electronic Arts and the Power of Strong Culture
in Design Teams 64
Rolls-Royce Corporation 67
Classic Case: Paradise Lost—The Xerox Alto 68
Project Task Estimation and the Culture of “Gotcha!” 69
Widgets ’R Us 70
Chapter 3
Project Selection Procedures: A Cross-Industry
Sampler 77
Project Selection and Screening at GE: The Tollgate
Process 97
Keflavik Paper Company 111
Project Selection at Nova Western, Inc. 112
Chapter 4
Leading by Example for the London Olympics—
Sir John Armitt 116
Dr. Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, India’s Project
Management Guru 126
The Challenge of Managing Internationally 133
In Search of Effective Project Managers 137
Finding the Emotional Intelligence to Be a Real Leader 137
Problems with John 138
Chapter 5
“We look like fools.”—Oregon’s Failed Rollout
of Its ObamacareWeb Site 145
Statements of Work: Then and Now 151
Defining a Project Work Package 163
Boeing’s Virtual Fence 172
California’s High-Speed Rail Project 173
Project Management at Dotcom.com 175
The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle 176
Chapter 6
Engineers Without Borders: Project Teams Impacting
Lives 187
Tele-Immersion Technology Eases the Use of Virtual
Teams 203
Columbus Instruments 215
The Bean Counter and the Cowboy 216
Johnson & Rogers Software Engineering, Inc. 217
Chapter 7
The Building that Melted Cars 224
Bank of America Completely Misjudges Its Customers 230
Collapse of Shanghai Apartment Building 239
Classic Case: de Havilland’s Falling Comet 245
The Spanish Navy Pays Nearly $3 Billion for a Submarine
That Will Sink Like a Stone 248
Classic Case: Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge 249
Chapter 8
Sochi Olympics—What’s the Cost of National
Prestige? 257
The Hidden Costs of Infrastructure Projects—The Case
of Building Dams 286
Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel Project 288
Chapter 9
After 20 Years and More Than $50 Billion, Oil is No Closer
to the Surface: The Caspian Kashagan Project 297
Chapter 10
Enlarging the Panama Canal 331
Project Scheduling at Blanque Cheque Construction (A) 360
Project Scheduling at Blanque Cheque Construction (B) 360
Chapter 11
Developing Projects Through Kickstarter—Do Delivery
Dates Mean Anything? 367
Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals and Its Commitment to Critical
Chain Project Management 385
It’s an Agile World 396
Ramstein Products, Inc. 397
Chapter 12
Hong Kong Connects to the World’s Longest Natural
Gas Pipeline 401
The Problems of Multitasking 427
Chapter 13
New York City’s CityTime Project 432
Earned Value at Northrop Grumman 451
The IT Department at Kimble College 463
The Superconducting Supercollider 464
Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner: Failure to Launch 465
Chapter 14
Duke Energy and Its ...
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Welcome
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Pat O’Day
• Chat your questions to Anne
and we’ll answer the majority
at the end, during Q&A. We’ll
answer a few throughout the
presentation as well.
• This webinar is being
recorded. We will email you
the recorded presentation
and slides in a few days.
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IT Challenges and Opportunities
Top 5 Challenges Facing IT1 Opportunity for Success
Developing a cloud strategy Faster transition and migration to cloud
with tailored application approach
Modernizing legacy applications Insightful tools and experienced staff
lower complex application hosting risks
Finding and retaining IT talent Work with providers who can deepen
your team bench strength and expertise
Datacenter space, power and cooling On-demand resources avoid stair step
purchasing and long time to value
Modernizing backup and recovery Access to new, modern capabilities
increase reliability of recovery
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1 Gartner Cloud, Modernization and Staffing Challenges Top I&O Leader Concerns, Mike Chuba and Dave
Russell, 20 February 2014.
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Insights from the field
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loss is real and growing
• Lesson 2 – Traditional methods are not
effective for modern businesses
• Lesson 3 - IT disaster risk is still hard to
explain to the business
• Lesson 4 - DR projects are hard to prioritize
(relative to KTLO)
5
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Disasters on the Rise
• Disasters (natural and man-made) are increasing
• Businesses are becoming more reliant on
technology, making IT more important than ever
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Flood Hail
Thunderstorm
High Winds
Ice Storms
Philadelphia 1086 674 2641 Ice:5
Cincinnati 869 957 2352 Ice:31
Nashville 545 963 2330 Ice:9
Louisville 582 827 2106 Ice:11
New York 1281 561 2027 Ice:9
Kansas City 1869 8179 6045 Ice:63
Dallas 871 2660 2657 Drought:52
Atlanta 236 1970 2204 Tropical:14
Seattle 34 11 11 Earthquake:41
Portland 61 34 35 Volcanos:10
Vegas 108 51 121 0
Indy 481 1269 2562 11/0/0
Source: USA.com Natural Disasters and Weather Extremes by City
Natural Disasters and Weather Extremes
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Human Error is the Biggest Cause
of IT Disasters
Survey analysis of
key factors that
cause major SME
IT incidents and
service failures
Continuitycentral.com; 17, November 2011. http://www.continuitycentral.com/news06032.html
Power/Commun
ication Failure
15%
Fire/Flood,
"Acts of God"
9%
Human
Error
47%
Server
Failure
29%
KEY FACTORS CAUSING FAILURE
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How effective is DR today?
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Do Not Have a Full DR Plan Don’t Test their DR Plan
DR Plan didn’t work Don’t Pass their DR Tests
60% 23%
40% 65%
All statistics courtesy of: “The State of Global Disaster Recovery Preparedness: Annual Report 2014.”
Published by the Disaster Recovery Preparedness Council, 2014.
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Cold SitePrimary Location
Traditional Approach 1 – Cold site
Data backed up
infrequently
May take days to re-
assemble applications
(if it works at all)
Recovery LocationPrimary Location
Traditional Approach 2 – Frugal warm site
Insufficient or
depreciated resources
provide only partial
return to service
Additional resources
can take days or
weeks to arrive
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Building 3Building 1
One event may impact
both datacenters
Traditional Approach 3 – Local hot site
Far awayBuilding 1
Very expensive use of
capital and talent
Traditional Approach 4 – Hot site (Expensive)
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“Rockstar” a DR simulator
• For each round:
oDefine the situation:
Draw One Event Card
Draw One Downtime Card
Draw One Impact Card
o Try to recover from the event:
Draw Two Asset Cards, discard
Draw Two Challenge Cards, discard
• Victory conditions:
o Reduce the downtime to zero or less
oReduce the downtime enough to
meet the business requirements
stated on the impact card
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F5 Networks
Solution: Two production Bluelock VDC5125 (East/West)
o Data is replicated in real time using SQL replication from the F5
Vegas 5125VDC to a second VDC5125 hosted in Indy
o Application recovery time is estimated to be less than one minute
leveraging F5 Application Traffic Management solutions
o Failover is fully automated
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Solution: tw telecom eLynk & Bluelock RaaS VDC4004
• Data is replicated in near real time from the Goodwill Indy colo
facility in Indianapolis to Bluelock Vegas
• Application recovery time is estimated to be less than one hour
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Continuing Education
If you aren’t familiar with RaaS, we recommend the
following introductory webcasts for the basics:
View at: http://www.bluelock.com/resources/webcasts/
IT’s Challenges:
- Today IT is like this, tomorrow it can be better with modern technologies
Today your budget is fixed and talent is scarce and vulnerable. Business demand is increasing and your team isn’t growing.
As the world changes with a greater emphasis on mobile, SaaS and cloud, your team won’t be able to stay put where they are. You’ll need help to build what you need and serve your customers.
Market Landscape
Instead of throwing product slides at you or asking you a hundred questions and not offering any value in return, we’ve found that the most helpful approach is to create a dialog that can help dial in the most important capabilities you would like to add or grow, and canvasing any obstacles or barriers that might existing in your current approach making it challenging to get there. One tool that we’ve found useful is this overview of the current market landscape for cloud computing. In it we attempt to provide some education and contrast based on almost a decades worth of experience working with companies like yours to try and highlight some of the key strengths and weaknesses for each of the most common approaches to cloud in play today.
Transition 1: DIY/VAR (Click)
With the help of value added resellers, traditional companies could afford the luxury of building out their own datacenters and in some cases entire cloud service platforms. Building from scratch allowed for nearly limitless design possibilities. Making capital investments based on a five year plan allowed for a nearly unmatched TCO, and as long as you could acquire and maintain proper talent internal security and expertise was extremely strong. However, some companies have requirements where economies of scale and time to value are emerging priorities. These are elusive in a DIY approach due to the stair step nature procurement and sole proprietor nature of this approach. With the economy coming back and the rush for talent more competitive than ever, some companies are challenged to maintain their IT staffing and expertise levels. This has increased their dependency on reseller partners who commonly punch out at 5pm and don’t work nights and weekends often leaving internal IT on their own in an increasingly 24/7 non-stop business climate.
Transition 2: Megacloud (Click)
Looking at the challenges with DIY, there is growing interest for in many legitimate IT organizations to drive some uses cases to the mega cloud.
This interest is often spurred by workloads requiring high degrees of elasticity that can only be practically achieved in a truly multitenant large scale environment.
This economy of scale supported by a highly standardized approach often comes at the sacrifice of application or business requirements like compliance requiring you to fit the platform.
It may be easy to start, but difficult to master. There’s a low barrier to entry, but a high barrier to mature applciations. And those mature applications often suffer from platform lock-in and rigid, fixed preset options. Data auditing can be a problem as well.
Transition 3: Managed hosting (Click)
One compromise is the use of managed hosting.
Managed hosting affords a trusted provider to operate the infrastructure for you, so you can have your hands off. They offer highly leveraged access to expensive and valuable compliance, people, resources and the bets hardware in an application focused environment so you don’t have to worry about managing the infrastructure behind the applciaiton. And, because they have bench strength, there’s more diversity in skill sets and multiple people who can be experts at the same topic on staff. Challenges arise with partial self-service because you can’t turn everythign off, there may be friction between the engineer and the architect. There are few, if any, developer-oriented services.