ShadowProtect Server provides fast and reliable disaster recovery, data protection, and system migration for Windows servers. It allows rapid recovery from bare metal restores, migration to new hardware or virtual environments, and granular recovery of individual files. The software also enables simplified testing of disaster recovery plans and new applications through virtualization of backup images. Central management gives administrators control over deployment and monitoring of ShadowProtect across an enterprise environment.
12 best practices for virtualizing active directory DCsVeeam Software
Why consider virtualizing Active Directory domain controllers (AD DCs)?
The challenges of virtualized AD DCs
12 Expert’s Best Practices for smart AD DCs virtualization
http://www.veeam.com/whitepapers.html
VMworld 2013: Virtualize Active Directory ‒ The Right Way!VMworld
VMworld 2013
Deji Akomolafe, VMware
Alex Fontana, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Web Werks Cloud FAQs. Our expert answers all of your questions related to Web Werks Cloud Hosting in this document. Read further to know more about Web Werks Cloud Server Hosting plans, benefits and strategies.
12 best practices for virtualizing active directory DCsVeeam Software
Why consider virtualizing Active Directory domain controllers (AD DCs)?
The challenges of virtualized AD DCs
12 Expert’s Best Practices for smart AD DCs virtualization
http://www.veeam.com/whitepapers.html
VMworld 2013: Virtualize Active Directory ‒ The Right Way!VMworld
VMworld 2013
Deji Akomolafe, VMware
Alex Fontana, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Web Werks Cloud FAQs. Our expert answers all of your questions related to Web Werks Cloud Hosting in this document. Read further to know more about Web Werks Cloud Server Hosting plans, benefits and strategies.
VMworld 2013: vSphere Data Protection 5.5 Advanced VMware Backup and Recovery...VMworld
VMworld Europe 2013
Mauricio Barra, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Jeff Hunter, VMware
Proper resource allocation is critical to achieving top application performance in a virtualized environment. Resource contention degrades performance and underutilization can lead to costly server sprawl.
We found that adding VMTurbo to a VMware vSphere 5.5 cluster and following its reallocation recommendations gave our application performance a big boost. After reducing vCPU count, increasing memory allocation to active databases, and moving VMs to more responsive storage as VMTurbo directed, online transactions increased by 23.7 percent while latency dropped significantly. Avoid the pitfalls of poorly allocated VM resources and give your virtualized application every advantage by gaining control of your environment at every level.
This Blueprint is designed to help with customers who are utilising OST technology with Backup Exec’s deduplication Option to improve back end storage capabilities within a complex backup environment.
Relentless Information Growth
The data deduplication technology within Backup Exec 2014 breaks down streams of backup data into “blocks.” Each data block is identified as either unique or non-unique, and a tracking database is used to ensure that only a single copy of a data block is saved to storage by that Backup Exec server. For subsequent backups, the tracking database identifies which blocks have been protected and only stores the blocks that are new or unique. For example, if five different client systems are sending backup data to a Backup Exec server and a data block is found in backup streams from all five of those client systems, only a single copy of the data block is actually stored by the Backup Exec server. This process of reducing redundant data blocks that are saved to backup storage leads to significant reduction in storage space needed for backups.
Data has increased the necessity in making greater investments in IT infrastructure, with the increase in the duplication of data and Data protection processes, such as backup, has compound data growth creating multiple copies of primary data made for operational and disaster recovery. This has also made the Backup Infrastructure far more complex. Now that disk-based systems inherently offer faster restores, disk systems can also make backup environments more complex and difficult to manage. This creates a problem for many backup solutions to manage advanced storage device capabilities such as data deduplication, replication, and ability to write directly to tape.
Power of OpenStorage Technology (OST)
Symantec Backup Exec software and the OpenStorage technology (OST) have been designed to provide centrally managed, edge-to-core data protection in order to span multiple sites and provide disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) functionality and automate Data Movement. The OpenStorage API introduced in Backup Exec 2010 provides automated movement of data between sites and storage tiers and acts as a single Point of Management and Catalog for Backup Data, regardless of where it resides (remote office or corporate data center) or of what type of media it is stored on (disk or tape), or its age (recent backup or long term archive), providing better Control of Advanced Storage Devices.
The OpenStorage initiative allows customers to better utilize advanced, disk-based storage solutions from qualified partners. It gives the ability to ensure tighter integration between the backup software and storage, greater efficiency and performance using an easy-to-deploy, purpose-built appliance that does not have the limitation of tape emulation devices: increasing Performance and Optimization, achieving faster backups to deduplication appliances via a third-party OST plug-in enabled by Backup Exec.
AWS EC2 M6i instances with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors accelerated...Principled Technologies
At multiple instance sizes, M6i instances classified more frames per second than M5n instances with previous-gen processors or M6a instances with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors
Consolidate SAS 9.4 workloads with Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 and Intel SSD t...Principled Technologies
A key to modernizing your data center is to consolidate your legacy workloads through virtualization, which can help reduce complexity for your business. Fewer servers require fewer physical resources, such as power, cabling, and switches, and reduce the burden on IT for ongoing management tasks such as updates. In addition, integrating newer hardware technology into your data center can provide new features that strengthen your infrastructure, such as RAS features on the processor and disk performance improvements. Finally, using SAS 9.4 ensures that you have the latest features and toolsets that SAS can offer.
Compared to a legacy server, we found that a modern four-socket server powered by Intel Xeon processors E7-8890 v3 with Intel SSD DC P3700 Series provided 12 times the amount of SAS work, nearly 14 times the relative performance, and a shorter average time to complete the SAS workload. Running 12 virtual SAS instances also left capacity on the server for additional work. Consolidating your SAS workloads from legacy servers onto servers powered by Intel Xeon processors E7 v3 and SAS 9.4 can provide your business with the latest hardware and software features, reduce complexity in your data center, and potentially reduce costs for your business.
Component upgrades from Intel and Dell can increase VM density and boost perf...Principled Technologies
As the needs of your business grow, so must the power of your server infrastructure. Rather than purchasing replacement servers with base configurations, consider upgrading key components to ensure you get the performance you need.
We found that upgrading to the Dell PowerEdge R730 with the Intel Xeon processor E5-2699 v3, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system, Intel SSD DC S3700 series drive, and Intel Ethernet CNA X520 series adapters supported an extra 16 VMs, 67 percent more VMs than the previous-generation Dell PowerEdge R720 solution.
When you purchase a server, wisely selecting these components offered by Dell and Intel can allow your business to hit the sweet spot of supporting all your users without breaking the bank. The option to upgrade server components can provide your infrastructure with room to grow in the future, as your business needs increase.
Finally, these select upgrades could translate to savings for your business—fewer servers you need to purchase now to meet performance demands and a longer lifespan for these servers as your business continues to grow.
NetScaler Deployment Guide for XenDesktop7Nuno Alves
This guide demonstrates how to deploy Citrix NetScaler in conjunction with Citrix XenDesktop 7 with a focus on both simplicity in configuration and advanced features not easily delivered with other products. This guide shows how to provision the XenDesktop 7 infrastructure, the NetScaler appliance and NetScaler Insight Center services to extend Citrix virtual desktop infrastructure and services to remote users in small to medium-size enterprises.
Start Counting: How We Unlocked Platform Efficiency and Reliability While Sav...VMware Tanzu
SpringOne 2021
Session Title: Start Counting: How We Unlocked Platform Efficiency and Reliability While Saving Over $730,000
Speakers: David Filippelli, Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Manulife; David Wu, Senior Staff Solutions Architect at VMware Tanzu Labs; Alvin Coch, Senior Platform Reliability Engineer at Manulife Financial
This webinar will cover the current state of MCS and PVS. We'll look at how MCS and PVS work differently on hypervisors like ESXi and Hyper-V. We will look at new target platforms such as Windows Server 2012 R2 to see if PVS or MCS behave differently.
And lastly we will dive into the new VHDX-based PVS wC option and why you should be using it for all your workloads.
The webinar will be presented by Nick Rintalan
The
This webinar will touch on the architectural changes in XenApp 7.5. The session will also cover the Citrix Consulting Methodology, which focuses on ensuring that projects are properly planned and designed before implementation begins.
Citrix TechEdge 2014 - Citrix Group Policy Troubleshooting for XenApp and Xen...David McGeough
Understanding the Citrix Group Policy architecture and how to troubleshoot is key to ensuring a stable environment. This session will provide an overview of the Citrix Group Policy architecture and troubleshooting tool and steps that can be leveraged in both XenApp and XenDesktop environments.
What you will learn
- General components and architecture of Citrix Group Policy
- Best practices and disaster recovery for Citrix Group Policy
- Troubleshooting Citrix Group Policy issues
VMworld 2013: vSphere Data Protection 5.5 Advanced VMware Backup and Recovery...VMworld
VMworld Europe 2013
Mauricio Barra, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Jeff Hunter, VMware
Proper resource allocation is critical to achieving top application performance in a virtualized environment. Resource contention degrades performance and underutilization can lead to costly server sprawl.
We found that adding VMTurbo to a VMware vSphere 5.5 cluster and following its reallocation recommendations gave our application performance a big boost. After reducing vCPU count, increasing memory allocation to active databases, and moving VMs to more responsive storage as VMTurbo directed, online transactions increased by 23.7 percent while latency dropped significantly. Avoid the pitfalls of poorly allocated VM resources and give your virtualized application every advantage by gaining control of your environment at every level.
This Blueprint is designed to help with customers who are utilising OST technology with Backup Exec’s deduplication Option to improve back end storage capabilities within a complex backup environment.
Relentless Information Growth
The data deduplication technology within Backup Exec 2014 breaks down streams of backup data into “blocks.” Each data block is identified as either unique or non-unique, and a tracking database is used to ensure that only a single copy of a data block is saved to storage by that Backup Exec server. For subsequent backups, the tracking database identifies which blocks have been protected and only stores the blocks that are new or unique. For example, if five different client systems are sending backup data to a Backup Exec server and a data block is found in backup streams from all five of those client systems, only a single copy of the data block is actually stored by the Backup Exec server. This process of reducing redundant data blocks that are saved to backup storage leads to significant reduction in storage space needed for backups.
Data has increased the necessity in making greater investments in IT infrastructure, with the increase in the duplication of data and Data protection processes, such as backup, has compound data growth creating multiple copies of primary data made for operational and disaster recovery. This has also made the Backup Infrastructure far more complex. Now that disk-based systems inherently offer faster restores, disk systems can also make backup environments more complex and difficult to manage. This creates a problem for many backup solutions to manage advanced storage device capabilities such as data deduplication, replication, and ability to write directly to tape.
Power of OpenStorage Technology (OST)
Symantec Backup Exec software and the OpenStorage technology (OST) have been designed to provide centrally managed, edge-to-core data protection in order to span multiple sites and provide disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) functionality and automate Data Movement. The OpenStorage API introduced in Backup Exec 2010 provides automated movement of data between sites and storage tiers and acts as a single Point of Management and Catalog for Backup Data, regardless of where it resides (remote office or corporate data center) or of what type of media it is stored on (disk or tape), or its age (recent backup or long term archive), providing better Control of Advanced Storage Devices.
The OpenStorage initiative allows customers to better utilize advanced, disk-based storage solutions from qualified partners. It gives the ability to ensure tighter integration between the backup software and storage, greater efficiency and performance using an easy-to-deploy, purpose-built appliance that does not have the limitation of tape emulation devices: increasing Performance and Optimization, achieving faster backups to deduplication appliances via a third-party OST plug-in enabled by Backup Exec.
AWS EC2 M6i instances with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors accelerated...Principled Technologies
At multiple instance sizes, M6i instances classified more frames per second than M5n instances with previous-gen processors or M6a instances with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors
Consolidate SAS 9.4 workloads with Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 and Intel SSD t...Principled Technologies
A key to modernizing your data center is to consolidate your legacy workloads through virtualization, which can help reduce complexity for your business. Fewer servers require fewer physical resources, such as power, cabling, and switches, and reduce the burden on IT for ongoing management tasks such as updates. In addition, integrating newer hardware technology into your data center can provide new features that strengthen your infrastructure, such as RAS features on the processor and disk performance improvements. Finally, using SAS 9.4 ensures that you have the latest features and toolsets that SAS can offer.
Compared to a legacy server, we found that a modern four-socket server powered by Intel Xeon processors E7-8890 v3 with Intel SSD DC P3700 Series provided 12 times the amount of SAS work, nearly 14 times the relative performance, and a shorter average time to complete the SAS workload. Running 12 virtual SAS instances also left capacity on the server for additional work. Consolidating your SAS workloads from legacy servers onto servers powered by Intel Xeon processors E7 v3 and SAS 9.4 can provide your business with the latest hardware and software features, reduce complexity in your data center, and potentially reduce costs for your business.
Component upgrades from Intel and Dell can increase VM density and boost perf...Principled Technologies
As the needs of your business grow, so must the power of your server infrastructure. Rather than purchasing replacement servers with base configurations, consider upgrading key components to ensure you get the performance you need.
We found that upgrading to the Dell PowerEdge R730 with the Intel Xeon processor E5-2699 v3, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system, Intel SSD DC S3700 series drive, and Intel Ethernet CNA X520 series adapters supported an extra 16 VMs, 67 percent more VMs than the previous-generation Dell PowerEdge R720 solution.
When you purchase a server, wisely selecting these components offered by Dell and Intel can allow your business to hit the sweet spot of supporting all your users without breaking the bank. The option to upgrade server components can provide your infrastructure with room to grow in the future, as your business needs increase.
Finally, these select upgrades could translate to savings for your business—fewer servers you need to purchase now to meet performance demands and a longer lifespan for these servers as your business continues to grow.
NetScaler Deployment Guide for XenDesktop7Nuno Alves
This guide demonstrates how to deploy Citrix NetScaler in conjunction with Citrix XenDesktop 7 with a focus on both simplicity in configuration and advanced features not easily delivered with other products. This guide shows how to provision the XenDesktop 7 infrastructure, the NetScaler appliance and NetScaler Insight Center services to extend Citrix virtual desktop infrastructure and services to remote users in small to medium-size enterprises.
Start Counting: How We Unlocked Platform Efficiency and Reliability While Sav...VMware Tanzu
SpringOne 2021
Session Title: Start Counting: How We Unlocked Platform Efficiency and Reliability While Saving Over $730,000
Speakers: David Filippelli, Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Manulife; David Wu, Senior Staff Solutions Architect at VMware Tanzu Labs; Alvin Coch, Senior Platform Reliability Engineer at Manulife Financial
This webinar will cover the current state of MCS and PVS. We'll look at how MCS and PVS work differently on hypervisors like ESXi and Hyper-V. We will look at new target platforms such as Windows Server 2012 R2 to see if PVS or MCS behave differently.
And lastly we will dive into the new VHDX-based PVS wC option and why you should be using it for all your workloads.
The webinar will be presented by Nick Rintalan
The
This webinar will touch on the architectural changes in XenApp 7.5. The session will also cover the Citrix Consulting Methodology, which focuses on ensuring that projects are properly planned and designed before implementation begins.
Citrix TechEdge 2014 - Citrix Group Policy Troubleshooting for XenApp and Xen...David McGeough
Understanding the Citrix Group Policy architecture and how to troubleshoot is key to ensuring a stable environment. This session will provide an overview of the Citrix Group Policy architecture and troubleshooting tool and steps that can be leveraged in both XenApp and XenDesktop environments.
What you will learn
- General components and architecture of Citrix Group Policy
- Best practices and disaster recovery for Citrix Group Policy
- Troubleshooting Citrix Group Policy issues
Back up and restore data faster with a Dell PowerProtect Data Manager AppliancePrincipled Technologies
Compared to a competitor, the faster Dell Technologies solution also consumed significantly less power during backup and restore processes
Conclusion
Safeguarding your data isn’t just a business necessity; it’s the turbocharger propelling you towards unwavering business continuity. When you choose a speedy backup and recovery solution, you could slash downtime and narrow backup windows while enabling data protection teams to schedule more frequent backups. This approach can help you bounce back quickly from a disruptive event, getting closer to the pre-corruption point in time with more precision.
The Dell PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance with Transparent Snapshots delivered a faster initial backup of 500 VMs than the Vendor X solution, backing up the VMs within an overnight backup window—something the Vendor X solution could not do. The PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance also delivered faster incremental backups and a faster VM restore than the solution from Vendor X, which used a traditional transport mode (NBD). The Dell solution consumed less power, too, during both backup and restore scenarios. Our results show that the Dell PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance with Transparent Snapshots backs up and restores data while also helping your bottom line and carbon footprint by consuming less power, making it a good solution for your data protection needs.
Backup exec 2014 deduplication option white paperSymantec
This white paper is intended to assist technical personnel as they design and implement Backup Exec™ 2014 and the Deduplication Option and make related decisions.
The attached white paper includes the following topics:
● Business Value
● Exchange Protection Methods and Technology
● Backup Exec & Exchange High Availability Configurations
● Exchange Recovery Methods & Technology
● Managing Backup Exec Rights and Permissions in Exchange Environments
● Example Backup Exec Configurations for Protecting ● Exchange
● Exchange Protection Notes and Best Practices
● Additional Resources
Modern Data Management and Protection Challenges
Customers of all types and sizes are seeking new and innovative ways to overcome challenges associated with data growth and storage management. While these challenges are not necessarily new, they continue to become more complex and more difficult to overcome due to the following:
Pace of data growth has accelerated
Location of data has become more disperse
Linkages between data sets have become more complex
Data and storage management challenges are compounded by the need for companies to protect critical data assets against disaster through backup and recovery solutions. In order to maintain backups of critical data assets, additional secondary storage resources are required. This additional layer of backup storage must be implemented wherever backups occur, including central data centers and remote offices.
CloudStack - Top 5 Technical Issues and TroubleshootingShapeBlue
Cloudstack Top 5 technical issues and troubleshooting. Cloudstack is a mature product in use by companies world-wide. While being associated with CloudStack development for over 5 years, Abhi has come across some technical issues that once in a while affect the CloudStack deployment. This presentation is an effort to put together top 5 such issues, analyze their symptoms, see them from CloudStack architecture perspective and from the distributed nature of cloud orchestration, then look at ways to avoid them and finally be able to troubleshoot if they occur.
Save time completing backups and restores with a Dell PowerProtect Data Manag...Principled Technologies
The Dell Technologies solution also had the fastest time to day one activities among five data protection solutions
In our testing, we saw the Dell PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance achieve the fastest deployment time to day 1 activities among five data protection solutions, with Vendor X also achieving that fastest time. The
Dell Technologies solution with Transparent Snapshots also delivered a faster initial backup of 500 VMs than the Vendor X solution, and backed up the VMs within an overnight backup window—something the Vendor X
solution did not do. The PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance also delivered faster incremental backups and a faster VM restore than the solution from Vendor X using a traditional transport mode (NBD). In an ideal world, you’d never have to rely on your backups—but if you do, these results indicate that the Dell PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance with Transparent Snapshots could help your business recover more quickly.
Reduce time to complete backups and restores with Transparent Snapshots with ...Principled Technologies
Compared to a competitor solution, Transparent Snapshots Data Mover (TSDM) took less time to perform incremental backups and restore data from a backup on VMware VMs
Physical to Virtual (P2V) & Backup to Virtual (B2V) Conversions with Backup E...Symantec
Convert-to-Virtual, Backup-to-Virtual, and Point-in-Time Conversions with Backup Exec 2014
Backup Exec 2014 continues to invest in virtualization technology. Features included in the Backup Exec 2014 product help administrators solve the problem of moving physical servers to a virtual environment and also give administrators unique tools for leveraging virtualization technology for disaster recovery. These features are the ability to perform automated conversions of physical servers to a virtual machine replica, perform automated conversions of physical servers – using existing backup sets – to a virtual machine replica, and perform “ad hoc” or on-demand conversions of physical server backups to a virtual machine replica.
Convert to Virtual (P2V)
The Backup Exec 2014 P2V feature allows administrators to configure backup definitions for physical servers that protect the server by both storing backup data to the Backup Exec server and creating a virtual machine replica of the server on an available VMware or Hyper-V host.
For backup definitions configured with a P2V task, the backup operation and the virtual machine replica operation occur in parallel.
Backup to Virtual (B2V)
A Backup Exec 2014 backup definition configured with a B2V task is similar to a backup definition configured with a P2V task; however, B2V jobs run the backup and virtual machine replica operations serially, meaning the backup operation runs first, and the virtual replica portion runs immediately afterwards or on a different schedule.
Point-in-Time Virtual Conversions
Another method of creating a virtual machine replica of physical servers using Backup Exec 2014 is the ad hoc or Point-in-Time method. This method is not scheduled, and is not directly associated with any particular backup definition. It simply enables an administrator to create a virtual machine replica, on demand, of any physical machine that has been backed up to a Backup Exec server using an SDR-enabled backup.
The P2V, B2V, and Point-in-Time conversion features of Backup Exec 2014 can be used by administrators to move physical servers to a virtual environment permanently for migration purposes, or temporarily for testing or quick failover.
Are your backups are too big, and do they take too long? Are you worried you won’t get all of your data back? Do you waste hours managing complicated, temperamental backup implementations? Join is as we discuss innovative ways to improve your backups, make them more predictable, shrink backup windows, over-perform on SLAs, and reliably recover your data—every time, on time. Hear how other organizations are developing smarter backup strategies that align their recovery requirements to their business objectives, reduce stored data by up to 95% while boosting backup speeds as much as 200%.
What is NetBackup appliance? Is it just NetBackup pre-installed on hardware?
The answer is both yes and no.
Yes, NetBackup appliance is simply backup in a box if you are looking for a solution for your data protection and disaster recovery readiness. That is the business problem you are solving with this turnkey appliance that installs in minutes and reduce your operational costs.
No, NetBackup appliance is more than a backup in box if you are comparing it with rolling your own hardware for NetBackup or if you are comparing it with third party deduplication appliances. Here is why I say this…
NetBackup appliance comes with redundant storage in RAID6 for storing your backups
Symantec worked with Intel to design the hardware for running NetBackup optimally for predictable and consistent performance. Eliminates the guesswork while designing the solution.
Many vendors will talk about various processes running on their devices to perform integrity checks, some solutions even need blackout windows to do those operations. NetBackup appliances include Storage Foundation at no additional cost. The storage is managed by Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and presented to operating system through Veritas File System. Why is this important? SF is industry-leading storage management infrastructure that powers the most mission-critical applications in the enterprise space. It is built for high-performance and resiliency. NetBackup appliance provides 24/7 protection with data integrity on storage provided by the industry leading technology.
The Linux based operating system, optimized for NetBackup, harden by Symantec eliminates the cost of deploying and maintaining general purpose operating system and associated IT applications.
NetBackup appliances include built-on WAN Optimization driver. Replicate to appliances on remote sites or to the cloud up to 10 times faster on across high latency links.
Your backups need to be protected. Symantec Critical System Protection provides non-signature based Host Intrusion Prevention protection. It protects against zero-day attacks using granular OS hardening policies along with application, user and device controls, all pre-defined for you in NetBackup appliance so that you don’t need to worry about configuring it.
Best of all, reduce your operational expenditure and eliminate complexity! One patch updates everything in this stack! The most holistic data protection solution with the least number of knobs to operate.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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.
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.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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
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.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
2. Introduction
Fast and Reliable Disaster Recovery, Data Protection and System Migration
for Windows Servers
StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server™ and ShadowProtect Small Business Server™ provide fast and
reliable disaster recovery, data protection and system migration to get servers online as quickly as
possible.
ShadowProtect Server provides the following benefits:
- Rapid recovery from bare metal, to dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual environments.
- Granular recovery of individual files and folders in moments.
- Automatic backup of SQL, Exchange and other critical applications.
- Simplified migration to new Windows servers.
- Scheduler for automatic full and incremental backups.
- Integrated backup administration from a management console.
- ShadowProtect ImageManager to automatically consolidate backup image files.
- Verification and re-verification of backup images.
- VirtualBoot technology for quick failover to a virtual server.
- Converter tool to convert to .VHD or .VMDK.
The flexible recovery options in ShadowProtect Server allow you to improve your Recovery Time
Objective (RTO) by reducing the time your systems and data are off-line. Minimizing your RTO helps you
avoid the consequences of a break in business continuity, which in turn, helps you to maximize profits.
The following scenarios will show you how ShadowProtect Server can help you in various situations.
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3. Use Case 1 – Bare Metal Recovery
Scenario: A massive storm wipes out the power at your headquarters for 36 hours. Your backup
generator is supposed to provide power to keep critical systems going – like your Web,
Exchange and file servers. But there was a lag before the generator kicked in and all of the
systems shut down. You’re able to get most of the servers back up, but as always seems to
happen in emergencies like this, one of your file servers crashed.
Desired Solution: Recover the entire server with minimal downtime.
How ShadowProtect Server can help: With ShadowProtect Server, you can restore the entire
server quickly and easily, rather than taking many hours or even days to get things up and
running again. Simply load the bootable recovery CD, run the StorageCraft Recovery
Environment, locate your point-in-time backup image file and restore your server – operating
system, applications and data. Restoring from disk-based media is much faster than restoring
from tape. Plus, you don’t have any additional steps loading the operating system and
applications before you add your data. It’s all right there in your backup image file.
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4. Use Case 2 – Disaster Recovery
Scenario: A flood wipes out your main offices.
Desired Solution: Recover your servers and get them running again following a catastrophic
failure.
How ShadowProtect Server can help: With ShadowProtect Server, you can restore all of your
Windows servers, even if your hardware is damaged beyond repair. That’s because
ShadowProtect’s Hardware Independent Restore™ (HIR) technology makes it possible to restore
your server backup images to brand new hardware, even virtual servers. Plus because
ShadowProtect Server can take backup images up to every 15 minutes throughout the day, your
Recovery Point Objective (RPO) – the age of data you could restore when the disaster happens –
could be less than 15 minutes. Now you can get your business running again, and have your
RPO at 15 minutes or less, even if your offices are temporarily closed.
Use Case 3 – Granular Recovery of Files and Folders
Scenario: The boss accidently deletes an important document from the file server and needs it
in 10 minutes.
Desired Solution: Recover the missing document quickly and easily.
How ShadowProtect Server can help: ShadowProtect Server allows you to perform granular
recovery of individual files and folders – there’s no need for a separate data backup of your
server. You simply right click on the point-in-time ShadowProtect backup image file (the last
backup taken before the boss deleted the file), mount the image as a drive letter on the
network, browse to the missing folder and file, and then drag and drop it to the production
server. Or you can mount the backup image file as a network share and tell the user where to
find it.
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5. Use Case 4 – Migrate to a New Server or a New Virtual Environment
Scenario: It’s time to upgrade to new server hardware.
Scenario: The boss decides to migrate to a virtual server environment.
Desired Solution: Migrate to new hardware or a virtual machine with as little downtime as
possible.
How ShadowProtect Server can help: ShadowProtect Server is a phenomenal tool for Windows
server migration. First, you take a rapid point-in-time backup of everything on your server
before you begin the migration process. Now you not only have a complete backup of your
server, you also have an image to migrate to your new server hardware or virtual machine.
Using the HIR technology in ShadowProtect Server, you restore your backup image to new
server hardware or to a virtual machine and your migration is complete. The whole process
takes a couple of hours, rather than a couple of days.
Use Case 5 – Testing Your Disaster Recovery Plan, New Applications
Scenarios: You want to test your disaster recovery plan and ensure that your server data is
recoverable. You want to test whether a new application is compatible with your server
environment.
Desired Solution: Routinely check the viability of data recovery on your server. Easily check
whether new applications are compatible.
How ShadowProtect Server can help: A new feature in ShadowProtect Server is VirtualBoot™.
VirtualBoot technology allows you to right click on any ShadowProtect backup image file and
boot it into a virtual environment using Oracle VirtualBox technology.
To verify the integrity of your disaster recovery plan and ensure that all your data is available in
the event of a catastrophic failure, simply VirtualBoot any ShadowProtect point-in-time backup
image This ShadowProtect feature allows you to verify that your server backups are in a good
state should a disaster occur and you need to complete a recovery of your server and data. It
only takes a few minutes to VirtualBoot a server, even a multi-terabyte volume, so you can
perform this check quickly and easily.
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6. When you want to test a new application, simply virtual boot a recent ShadowProtect backup
image file and install the application on the new virtual machine, replicating your production
environment. This way you can test new applications without introducing them into your
production server environment and without the need to shell out hundreds or thousands of
dollars for a test lab.
Use Case 6 – Consolidate and Verify Backups
Scenarios: You want to simplify the management of your backups automatically, while
maintaining the integrity of your disaster recovery plan.
Desired Solution: Minimize the number of point-in-time backup images you need to manage,
while controlling the amount of disk space used for your backups.
How ShadowProtect Server can help: ShadowProtect Server includes a program called
ShadowProtect ImageManager™ which allows you to manage and maintain the integrity of your
backup image chains. Once you’ve set up your backup schedule in ShadowProtect Server, open
ShadowProtect ImageManager and set it up to collapse your backup image files into daily,
weekly and monthly files. These consolidated files are easier to maintain, and in the event of a
catastrophic failure, ShadowProtect Server does all the work for you, allowing you to easily
access the correct point-in-time where you’d like to restore your data.
In addition, ShadowProtect ImageManager will automatically verify and re-verify the backup
images to ensure they’re still in a good state. If there is ever a problem, such as hard drive
failure or a missing image file, ShadowProtect ImageManager will alert you to the problem. You
can even set up notifications so that ShadowProtect ImageManager will send you an e-mail
when there is a problem.
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7. Use Case 7 – Centrally Manage ShadowProtect Deployment
Scenarios: After testing backup solutions, you’ve determined ShadowProtect is the fastest,
most reliable backup solution to protect your server environment. Now you need to install the
ShadowProtect agent on each of your servers across your entire network environment.
Desired Solution: Install the ShadowProtect agent to each server silently while maintaining
ongoing management capabilities, without having to visit each machine individually.
How ShadowProtect Server can help: The management console in ShadowProtect Server now
includes a Management View. This allows you to have a single view of all of the machines in
your environment that are running ShadowProtect, as well as the ability to push install the
ShadowProtect agent to your Windows servers. With this new install option, you can
simultaneously install to multiple machines without ever having to leave your workstation. In
addition, ShadowProtect allows you to check the status of all of your system backups plus
create different groups so you can simplify your backup management processes.
StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides innovative disaster recovery, system migration, data
protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops. StorageCraft delivers software
products that reduce downtime, improve security and stability for systems and data and lower the total
cost of ownership for servers, desktops and laptops.
StorageCraft UK Ltd StorageCraft Europe
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