A look at some of the storage challenges that come with VDI, and some of the newer storage vendors in the marketplace that help address these challenges
Vdi storage challenges_presented at vmug_toronto 2014 by scalar decisionspatmisasi
Ian Forbes' presentation on the storage challenges and considerations of VDI deployments. The presentation was delivered at the VMUG Conference in Toronto, February 27, 2014.
Removing Storage Related Barriers to Server and Desktop VirtualizationDataCore Software
An IDC Viewpoint Paper: Virtualization is among the technologies that have become increasingly attractive in the current economic climate. Organizations are implementing virtualization solutions to obtain the following benefits: Focus on efficiency and cost reduction, Simplify management and maintenance, and Improve availability and disaster recovery.
VMworld 2013: Low-Cost, High-Performance Storage for VMware Horizon Desktops VMworld
VMworld 2013
Courtney Burry, VMware
Donal Geary, VMware
Tristan Todd, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Virtual SAN: It’s a SAN, it’s Virtual, but what is it really?DataCore Software
What do you think of when you hear the words “Virtual SAN”? For some, it may mean addressing application latency and infrastructure costs through consolidation. For others, it may be addressing potential single point of failures. Regardless of the use case, Virtual SANs are becoming one of the hottest software-defined storage solutions for IT organizations to maximize storage resources, lower overall TCO, and increase availability of critical applications and data.
This presentation introduces the concept of Virtual SAN and does a technical deep dive on the most common use cases and deployment models involved with a DataCore Virtual SAN solution.
DataCore has spent the last 17 years developing a hardware agnostic set of storage services. Some of these services are common among modern storage systems. Things like snapshots, thin provisioning and mirroring. No other vendor can offer this functionality in a universally compatible format. Our storage services can be found in our SANsymphony-V & DataCore Virtual SAN products.
DataCore has spent the last 17 years developing a hardware agnostic set of storage services. Some of these services are common among modern storage systems. Things like snapshots, thin provisioning and mirroring. No other vendor can offer this functionality in a universally compatible format. Our storage services can be found in our SANsymphony-V & DataCore Virtual SAN products.
Vdi storage challenges_presented at vmug_toronto 2014 by scalar decisionspatmisasi
Ian Forbes' presentation on the storage challenges and considerations of VDI deployments. The presentation was delivered at the VMUG Conference in Toronto, February 27, 2014.
Removing Storage Related Barriers to Server and Desktop VirtualizationDataCore Software
An IDC Viewpoint Paper: Virtualization is among the technologies that have become increasingly attractive in the current economic climate. Organizations are implementing virtualization solutions to obtain the following benefits: Focus on efficiency and cost reduction, Simplify management and maintenance, and Improve availability and disaster recovery.
VMworld 2013: Low-Cost, High-Performance Storage for VMware Horizon Desktops VMworld
VMworld 2013
Courtney Burry, VMware
Donal Geary, VMware
Tristan Todd, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Virtual SAN: It’s a SAN, it’s Virtual, but what is it really?DataCore Software
What do you think of when you hear the words “Virtual SAN”? For some, it may mean addressing application latency and infrastructure costs through consolidation. For others, it may be addressing potential single point of failures. Regardless of the use case, Virtual SANs are becoming one of the hottest software-defined storage solutions for IT organizations to maximize storage resources, lower overall TCO, and increase availability of critical applications and data.
This presentation introduces the concept of Virtual SAN and does a technical deep dive on the most common use cases and deployment models involved with a DataCore Virtual SAN solution.
DataCore has spent the last 17 years developing a hardware agnostic set of storage services. Some of these services are common among modern storage systems. Things like snapshots, thin provisioning and mirroring. No other vendor can offer this functionality in a universally compatible format. Our storage services can be found in our SANsymphony-V & DataCore Virtual SAN products.
DataCore has spent the last 17 years developing a hardware agnostic set of storage services. Some of these services are common among modern storage systems. Things like snapshots, thin provisioning and mirroring. No other vendor can offer this functionality in a universally compatible format. Our storage services can be found in our SANsymphony-V & DataCore Virtual SAN products.
MT48 A Flash into the future of storage…. Flash meets Persistent Memory: The...Dell EMC World
Several key technology trends are redefining the boundaries of the traditional storage infrastructure stack: In a rapidly changing world of system interconnects, emerging memory media, and storage semantics, Server Designers and Storage Architects are engaging and collaborating like never before to exploit breakthrough technology capabilities.
With the backdrop of Big Data volume, Cloud Data ubiquity and IoT Data velocity, Application Developers are entering the Post-POSIX world of real-time, high-frequency, low latency data management frameworks.
This session will address key technology trends in Storage, Networking, and Compute, as they define the parameters of a Memory Centric Architecture (MCA) and the Next Generation Data Center.
A buyer's guide to Hyper-Converged infrastructureEric Van 't Hoff
A very comprehensive buyer's guide for anyone considering to use a Hyper-Converged Infrastructure to modernize his/her Data-Center. The report is published by Computer Weekly and covers solutions from Dell EMC VxRail or XC, Nutanix, VMware vSAN ReadyNodes, HPE SimpliVity and Pivot3 to name just a few HCI leaders.
VMworld 2013: Dell Solutions for VMware Virtual SAN VMworld
VMworld 2013
Sheetal Kochavara, VMware
Bryan Martin, Dell Inc.
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
All-Flash Versus Hybrid VMware Virtual SAN™: Performance vs. Price Western Digital
Learn how flash storage and VMware Virtual SAN 6 can help drive IT infrastructure consolidation for better business outcomes. Watch the full webinar here: http://bit.ly/1UbDNKF
Mission-critical databases and business applications serve as the lifeline of many organizations. Therefore, performance is tantamount. In this webinar we’ll review a recent ESG study that confirms running VMware Virtual SAN cluster with SanDisk SSDs easily accommodates the performance and cost requirements of an enterprise-class virtualized OLTP database environment and delivers a better price/performance at the same time. Join Patric Chang, SanDisk Technical Marketing Manager, Jack Poller, ESG Analyst and Jase McCarty vExpert from VMware to learn:
1. Key features, highlights and benefits of VMware Virtual SAN 6
2. Hybrid and All-Flash Virtual SAN Configurations with SanDisk SSDs
3. Performance results (NOPM) of Hybrid and All-Flash VSAN
4. Price/performance and comparisons between Hybrid and All-Flash Virtual SAN configurations
SDDC – a term that still dwells in the futuristic sense of things, is perhaps the next major milestone in a cloud-centric world that can entirely change the way data is stored and managed.
MT58 High performance graphics for VDI: A technical discussionDell EMC World
Hyper-converged infrastructure appliances can enable high end virtualized graphics for all of your users. With proper planning and configuring, the VxRail and Virtual SAN Ready Nodes with Horizon and GPU technology from NVIDIA provide enhanced user experiences. Even the most demanding CAD/CAM “power users” can realize multiple benefits from a virtualized desktop experience. Wyse endpoints complete the end-to-end environment with improved security and rich, rewarding user experiences. Learn best practices, planning, configuration and deployment recommendations to avoid implementation trials and tribulations in this technical session.
VMworld 2013: Re-imagining VDI Design: New Strategies for Solving VDI Challen...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Daniel Beveridge, VMware
John Dodge, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Defining the Value of a Modular, Scale out Storage ArchitectureNetApp
To date, the implementation of enterprise storage systems has evolved around traditional storage array architectures. There are many situations where having the option to scale the same enterprise storage system out, up or both is a better way forward than continuing to rely on the traditional scale up model. Here we compare the approaches, pointing out the significant operational and economic advantages of the new scale out paradigms.
Benchmarking a Scalable and Highly Available Architecture for Virtual DesktopsDataCore Software
This paper reports on a configuration for Virtual Desktops (VDs) which reduces the total hardware cost to approximately $32.41 per desktop, including the storage infrastructure. This number is achieved using a configuration with dual node, cross-mirrored, High Availability storage. In comparison to previously published reports, which tout the storage infrastructure costs alone of VDI at from fifty to several hundred dollars per virtual machine, the significance of the data becomes self evident. In this report, storage hardware costs become inconsequential.
MT46 Virtualization Integration with UnityDell EMC World
This session focuses on how virtualized application environments using Dell EMC Unity storage solutions are more agile, more efficient in their use of IT resources and lower costs. With over 90+ integration points with the major virtualization stacks (VMware, Microsoft and OpenStack) Unity is the ideal storage solution for your use. Our discussion will include how storage services are represented and policy based storage provisioning methods used.
The All-Flash SAP HANA Solution: Performance, Economics, and Reliability Western Digital
Watch the full webinar here: http://bit.ly/1UOoqbo
In this webinar members from Lenovo and SanDisk will introduce you to a high density SAP HANA solution. In this webinar you will learn how moving to an all-flash solution enables significant cost savings, efficiency gains, and removes complexity. Experts from Lenovo and SanDisk will show you how this solution delivers:
•82% reduction in overall sub-system power and cooling requirements
•20% reduction in hardware footprint
•Removal of multi-storage tier complexity
•Removal of cache tier and costly cache software licenses
•Elimination of wasted capacity
Learn how embracing an all-flash solution provides superior durability, better data protection, efficient use of existing capacity, and performance gains that will transform your business critical applications.
MT48 A Flash into the future of storage…. Flash meets Persistent Memory: The...Dell EMC World
Several key technology trends are redefining the boundaries of the traditional storage infrastructure stack: In a rapidly changing world of system interconnects, emerging memory media, and storage semantics, Server Designers and Storage Architects are engaging and collaborating like never before to exploit breakthrough technology capabilities.
With the backdrop of Big Data volume, Cloud Data ubiquity and IoT Data velocity, Application Developers are entering the Post-POSIX world of real-time, high-frequency, low latency data management frameworks.
This session will address key technology trends in Storage, Networking, and Compute, as they define the parameters of a Memory Centric Architecture (MCA) and the Next Generation Data Center.
A buyer's guide to Hyper-Converged infrastructureEric Van 't Hoff
A very comprehensive buyer's guide for anyone considering to use a Hyper-Converged Infrastructure to modernize his/her Data-Center. The report is published by Computer Weekly and covers solutions from Dell EMC VxRail or XC, Nutanix, VMware vSAN ReadyNodes, HPE SimpliVity and Pivot3 to name just a few HCI leaders.
VMworld 2013: Dell Solutions for VMware Virtual SAN VMworld
VMworld 2013
Sheetal Kochavara, VMware
Bryan Martin, Dell Inc.
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
All-Flash Versus Hybrid VMware Virtual SAN™: Performance vs. Price Western Digital
Learn how flash storage and VMware Virtual SAN 6 can help drive IT infrastructure consolidation for better business outcomes. Watch the full webinar here: http://bit.ly/1UbDNKF
Mission-critical databases and business applications serve as the lifeline of many organizations. Therefore, performance is tantamount. In this webinar we’ll review a recent ESG study that confirms running VMware Virtual SAN cluster with SanDisk SSDs easily accommodates the performance and cost requirements of an enterprise-class virtualized OLTP database environment and delivers a better price/performance at the same time. Join Patric Chang, SanDisk Technical Marketing Manager, Jack Poller, ESG Analyst and Jase McCarty vExpert from VMware to learn:
1. Key features, highlights and benefits of VMware Virtual SAN 6
2. Hybrid and All-Flash Virtual SAN Configurations with SanDisk SSDs
3. Performance results (NOPM) of Hybrid and All-Flash VSAN
4. Price/performance and comparisons between Hybrid and All-Flash Virtual SAN configurations
SDDC – a term that still dwells in the futuristic sense of things, is perhaps the next major milestone in a cloud-centric world that can entirely change the way data is stored and managed.
MT58 High performance graphics for VDI: A technical discussionDell EMC World
Hyper-converged infrastructure appliances can enable high end virtualized graphics for all of your users. With proper planning and configuring, the VxRail and Virtual SAN Ready Nodes with Horizon and GPU technology from NVIDIA provide enhanced user experiences. Even the most demanding CAD/CAM “power users” can realize multiple benefits from a virtualized desktop experience. Wyse endpoints complete the end-to-end environment with improved security and rich, rewarding user experiences. Learn best practices, planning, configuration and deployment recommendations to avoid implementation trials and tribulations in this technical session.
VMworld 2013: Re-imagining VDI Design: New Strategies for Solving VDI Challen...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Daniel Beveridge, VMware
John Dodge, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Defining the Value of a Modular, Scale out Storage ArchitectureNetApp
To date, the implementation of enterprise storage systems has evolved around traditional storage array architectures. There are many situations where having the option to scale the same enterprise storage system out, up or both is a better way forward than continuing to rely on the traditional scale up model. Here we compare the approaches, pointing out the significant operational and economic advantages of the new scale out paradigms.
Benchmarking a Scalable and Highly Available Architecture for Virtual DesktopsDataCore Software
This paper reports on a configuration for Virtual Desktops (VDs) which reduces the total hardware cost to approximately $32.41 per desktop, including the storage infrastructure. This number is achieved using a configuration with dual node, cross-mirrored, High Availability storage. In comparison to previously published reports, which tout the storage infrastructure costs alone of VDI at from fifty to several hundred dollars per virtual machine, the significance of the data becomes self evident. In this report, storage hardware costs become inconsequential.
MT46 Virtualization Integration with UnityDell EMC World
This session focuses on how virtualized application environments using Dell EMC Unity storage solutions are more agile, more efficient in their use of IT resources and lower costs. With over 90+ integration points with the major virtualization stacks (VMware, Microsoft and OpenStack) Unity is the ideal storage solution for your use. Our discussion will include how storage services are represented and policy based storage provisioning methods used.
The All-Flash SAP HANA Solution: Performance, Economics, and Reliability Western Digital
Watch the full webinar here: http://bit.ly/1UOoqbo
In this webinar members from Lenovo and SanDisk will introduce you to a high density SAP HANA solution. In this webinar you will learn how moving to an all-flash solution enables significant cost savings, efficiency gains, and removes complexity. Experts from Lenovo and SanDisk will show you how this solution delivers:
•82% reduction in overall sub-system power and cooling requirements
•20% reduction in hardware footprint
•Removal of multi-storage tier complexity
•Removal of cache tier and costly cache software licenses
•Elimination of wasted capacity
Learn how embracing an all-flash solution provides superior durability, better data protection, efficient use of existing capacity, and performance gains that will transform your business critical applications.
Scalar Customer Case Study: Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am GamesScalar Decisions
Toronto will soon host the largest international multi-sport Games in Canada, when more than 7,600 athletes from 41 countries across the Americas will compete at the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games. Understandably,
IT security is top of mind for the Organizing Committee (known as TO2015). The event will rely on a number of applications and web portals, which include an interactive volunteer portal, athlete accreditation management
tools and a travel logistics site. Securing the data centre where these applications reside is of critical importance, ensuring risks are mitigated, threats are prevented and regulatory requirements are met.
The Cyber Security Readiness of Canadian OrganizationsScalar Decisions
Highlights of the 2015 Scalar Security Study, The Cyber Security Readiness of Canadian Organizations, published February 2015. The full report can be downloaded at: http://hubs.ly/y0tFbr0
Scalar Security Roadshow - Vancouver PresentationScalar Decisions
Gartner recently released a report on IT security priorities for the remainder of 2014. Amongst respondents, network security, application security, endpoint security, and security services all ranked highly. In this quick-fire, half-day roadshow, Scalar brings you solutions to these problems from three of our most strategic security vendors, as well as a full presentation on our managed security services portfolio.
Gartner recently released a report on IT security priorities for the remainder of 2014. Amongst respondents, network security, application security, endpoint security, and security services all ranked highly.
Together with our event partners Cisco, F5, and Bromium, Scalar brings you solutions to these problems, as well as a full presentation on our managed security services portfolio.
Scalar Security Roadshow: Toronto Presentation - April 15, 2015Scalar Decisions
On April 15, 2015, Scalar hosted our Security Roadshow in Toronto where we'll be focused on defence in three key areas - endpoint, application, and network. Led by our team of experts, these quick-fire, interactive sessions will arm you with the knowledge you need to improve your cyber security posture in some of the most common areas of vulnerability.
Defend the Endpoint with Bromium
Bromium is a new security protection tool for the host that relies on task-based virtualization. In this demo we'll look at how Bromium runs and protects the endpoint. We'll invite 0days from the audience and bring our own to show how the system really works. Much like how each virtual server is contained in a hypervisor, with Bromium each individual task on a host is contained in its own task-based virtual container. If you’ve ever looked at the Windows Task Manager, or the output of a Unix ‘ps’ process list, imagine if each group of processes, that makes up the task, was contained in its own hypervisor. That can be 40-50 tasks or more, each isolated in its own little hypervisor with no real access to the host.
Why is task virtualization helpful? By keeping each task in its own hypervisor, Bromium gives you a bottoms-up view of each individual task’s behaviour – without impacting system performance. If each process is contained in its own hypervisor, it’s easy to see when a process begins spawning other activities or creating any unusual traffic. Basically, it can very easily identify anything shifty. This is the most granular level of inspection you can get at a host level – Bromium is there at the very beginning when the virus begins to execute.
Defend the Application with WhiteHat
In this session we will look at a newer approach to application security and penetration testing, which combines persistent and automated testing processes to continuously monitor applications for vulnerabilities, as well as deep inspection of the business logic by trained specialists. This approach exceeds newer PCI 3 requirements and provides ongoing assurance that web application vulnerabilities are quickly detected and tracked to remediation.
We'll walk through the WhiteHat Security client management portal and discuss the WhiteHat methodology that can now be used, by you, to leverage the 150+ application specialists at WhiteHat to build a continuous application assessment process for your company's active web applications and software development teams.
Defend the Network with LogRhythm
As the security landscape changes, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools that detect and investigate security breaches and threats have become increasingly complex to implement, integrate, and support. Inefficient solutions leave organizations slow to defend against and respond to complex attacks.
LogRhythm’s Security Intelligence Platform has removed the complexity from SIEM, while leveraging real-time threat intelligence with behavioural an
Gartner recently released a report on IT security priorities for the remainder of 2014. Amongst respondents, network security, application security, endpoint security, and security services all ranked highly. In this quick-fire, half-day roadshow, Scalar brings you solutions to these problems from three of our most strategic security vendors, as well as a full presentation on our managed security services portfolio.
Controlling performance in the cloud: taking charge of your hosting environmentDatabarracks
Q&A with Stuart Oliver from SolidFire, explaining why SSD is heralding the next phase of cloud computing.
Recording at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6da08PK1YP8
Webinar: Achieving VDI Success Without All-Flash ProblemsStorage Switzerland
Join Storage Switzerland and Cloudistics for an informative webinar that will provide an alternative approach that meets user’s performance expectations while leveraging existing – and often already paid for – storage hardware and does not introduce new silos of storage.
Provisioning server high_availability_considerations2Nuno Alves
The purpose of this document is to give the target audience an overview about the critical components of a Citrix
Provisioning Server infrastructure with regards to a high availability implementation. These considerations focus on the
following areas:
• Virtual Disk (vDisk) Storage
• Write Cache Placement
• SQL Database
• TFTP Service
• DHCP Service
Virtual SAN vs Good Old SANs: Can't they just get along?DataCore Software
Dark forces in the IT industry like to polarize popular opinion; most recently they argue for keeping all the storage in the servers using Virtual SANs, leaving nothing external. These sudden mood swings, while attracting a young cult following, lose sight of lessons learned over the past 20 years.
Truth is, a blend of internal storage close to the apps with good old fashioned external secondary storage out on the network makes a heck of a lot of sense.
In this presentation, Senior Analyst Jim Bagley from SSG-NOW, shows the not so black-and-white considerations driving customers to tap into the internal storage resources of clustered servers. Also, it provides some practical guidance on how to incorporate existing storage arrays and even public cloud capacity into your Virtual SAN rollout
Hyperscale Nightmare-Potential Consequences of using Consumer SSDs in DatacenterStorage Switzerland
Hyper-scale data centers (and many enterprises as well) face relentless pressure to contain costs. One way to lower those costs is to use consumer-grade solid-state drives in their scale-out server architectures, instead of the enterprise-class SSDs that are routinely used in these environments. This strategy can lower the initial cost for flash drives, but can have other undesirable consequences that cause real, long-term problems. In these high drive-count infrastructures, deploying the wrong flash can cause a nightmare scenario of:
• Inconsistent Performance of non-enterprise drives
• Poor Reliability of non-enterprise drives
• Replacement of failed drives - adds cost, disruption
• Management of mixed drive environment - can be complex
• High Cost - of abandoning alternative SSDs altogether
Protect yourself and register for our live webinar “Hyper-scale Nightmare: 5 Ways Flash can Cripple your Data Center” featuring Storage Switzerland Founder, George Crump and Shawn Worsell, Director of Product Management at OCZ/Toshiba.
PHD Virtual: Optimizing Backups for Any StorageMark McHenry
Learn about the differences between virtual full, and traditional full and incremental backup modes, and which mode works best depending on the type of storage.
Transforming Desktop Virtualization with Citrix XenDesktop and EMC XtremIOEMC
With EMC XtremIO all-flash array, improve
1) your competitive agility with real-time analytics & development
2) your infrastructure agility with elastic provisioning for performance & capacity
3) your TCO with 50% lower capex and opex and double the storage lifecycle.
• Citrix & EMC XtremIO: Better Together
• XtremIO Design Fundamentals for VDI
• Citrix XenDesktop & XtremIO
-- Image Management & Storage
-- Demonstrations
-- XtremIO XenDesktop Integration
Finding it difficult to contemplate managed VDI cost? Read out to know the components that impact VDI pricing including configuration, plans, and more.
This Software as a Service (SaaS) presentation by InTechnology's Stefan Haase, looks at InTechnology’s best-in-class SaaS solutions and how these highly secure, scalable and reliable Cloud services provide your business with the infrastructure, software and expertise to free up your IT team, increase business performance and reduce total cost of ownership. http://www.intechnology.co.uk/resource-centre/webcast-software-as-a-service.aspx
Webinar: Don't believe the hype, you don't need dedicated storage for VDI NetApp
This webinar covers how the combination of SolidFire and Citrix XenDesktop enables customers to confidently support the storage demands of a virtual desktop environment in a multi-tenant or multi-application environment.
DDN GS7K - Easy-to-deploy, High Performance Scale-Out Parallel File System Ap...inside-BigData.com
In this deckt, Uday Mohan from DataDirect Networks presents: DDN GS7K - Easy-to-deploy, High Performance Scale-Out Parallel File System Appliance.
High performance computing is critical in commercial markets, spanning a wide range of applications across multiple industries, and this trend is only growing. The GS7K from DDN will help bring the latest high-performance storage technologies to more of these markets, connecting companies to their next innovations faster while satisfying their enterprise standards.”
Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-d99
Companies realize, to be successful, they must transform and deliver an enriched and full experience for both customers and the employees by:
• Integrating the entire business to deliver the results the customer and employee want, at every touch point.
• Establishing a frictionless enterprise platform, governed by a new, flexible operating model with adaptive and easily configurable processes and systems.
Digital Transformation: Enriching the user experience through strategy, process, people, and technology.
Highlights of the 2017 Scalar Security Study – The Cyber Security Readiness of Canadian Organizations. The third annual Scalar Security Study examines the cyber security readiness of Canadian organizations and the trends in dealing with growing cyber threats.
Presentation from the 2016 Scalar Security Study Roadshow, highlighting the findings from the second annual Scalar Security Study, The Cyber Security Readiness of Canadian Organizations, which examines trends among Canadian organizations in dealing with growing cyber threats.
Executive Summary of the 2016 Scalar Security StudyScalar Decisions
Executive Summary of the 2016 Scalar Security Study, The Cyber Security Readiness of Canadian Organizations, published February 2016. The full report can be downloaded at: scalar.ca/security-study-2016/
2016 Scalar Security Study: The Cyber Security Readiness of Canadian Organiza...Scalar Decisions
Highlights of the 2016 Scalar Security Study, The Cyber Security Readiness of Canadian Organizations, published February 2016. The full report can be downloaded at: scalar.ca/security-study-2016
EMC XtremIO and EMC Isilon scale-out architectures make them an ideal fit to handle the demanding Splunk requirements around intensive workloads. EMC brings the same enterprise-class data services to Splunk that earned them best of breed status across the board in area such Scale-Out NAS storage, data protection, compliance and performance tiering.
Disrupting the Malware Kill Chain - What's New from Palo Alto Networks.Scalar Decisions
Simon Wong and Chris Cram, Scalar security experts, discuss how Palo Alto Networks technology disrupts the entire malware kill chain. Attendees will also gain insight on flexible deployment options to better serve their mobile users, and how to get the most out of their Palo Alto Networks deployment.
CloudForms is a comprehensive IaaS cloud management platform that improves your virtual and cloud infrastructures with advanced capacity planning and resource management features.
Scalar & RedHat present a technical session to learn about CloudForms as the experts in cloud management!
Discussion Topics:
Red Hat and the Open Hybrid Cloud
Cloud Management & Orchestration using Cloud Forms
XtremIO finally delivers the breakthrough scale-out architecture, consistent performance, data reduction, thin provisioning, and manageability you’ve been waiting for in an enterprise flash array.
Hyperconverged Infrastructure: The Leading Edge of VirtualizationScalar Decisions
Hyper-convergence is today's leading edge of virtualization. Technologies have entered the market that have greatly simplified the deployment and maintenance of virtualized workloads. In this session, we will discuss the complexity associated with these types of highly virtualized environments and the modern approaches to reducing it.
Presentation from Scalar and NetApp discussing why CDOT is the promised land of storage and the future of NetApp, followed by a walk-through of the path to CDOT by one of Scalar's technical thought leaders.
Where Technology Meets Medicine: SickKids High Performance Computing Data CentreScalar Decisions
Case study look at the work Scalar conducted on the High-Performance Computing Data Centre at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). The system is able to do 107 trillion calculations per second - one of the largest systems dedicated to health research.
Large-scale virtual desktop infrastructure for Sheridan College addresses multiple use cases, and contributes to College's goal to reduce energy consumption by 50% over the next 5 years.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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
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
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.
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.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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.