The document outlines a presentation on going green and becoming more environmentally friendly. It discusses measuring current energy usage, hardware, and travel. It then recommends starting with easy changes like turning off devices, cutting hardware usage, and installing software before making harder adjustments such as reducing travel, embracing flexible work arrangements, and consolidating equipment. The presentation provides an action plan around continuous monitoring, empowering employees, reducing waste, smarter purchasing, and long term infrastructure strategies to help businesses lower their environmental impact.
5 insider tips for using it audits to maximize securityNetIQ
Organizations like yours are under tremendous pressure to meet compliance directives from a growing number of regulatory and industry mandates, while maintaining a secure environment and staying in alignment with business objectives.
Too often, the audit is seen as a chore to be disposed of quickly. Such a "check-box" mentality can lead to costly breaches because compliance alone will not make your environment secure. By implementing sound security principles and controls compliance should become a natural by-product.
5 Insider Tips: Using IT Audits to Maximize Security with featured speaker Mike Chapple, who oversees information security at the University of Notre Dame, reveals how to:
- Understand your auditor
- Embrace audit findings
- Use an audit to your advantage
- Maximize the audit off-season
- Know when to bring in the auditors
On demand webcast also available at: http://bit.ly/jeBkYU
Sustainable Sourcing Workshop from Sally Taylor, Sustainable Procurement Advi...Go Green
Sally and Nina from the Environment Agency talk us through worked examples of how to assess your priority areas for addressing sustainable sourcing in your business using their experiences.
The new air conditioning systems have energy optimization systems designed to make consumption more efficient. It supposes a decrease in the cost of electricity, as well as a lower environmental impact. For example, teams of air conditioning from Intec air conditioner are market leaders in energy saving systems, and also for its silent technology.
A case study examining the actual impact of safety leadership on employee safety behavior in the OIl & Gas construction sector, over a two year period during the roll-out and execution of 'B-Safe', a behavioral safety process.
IEMA & Go Green South West Seminar: Sustainable Sourcing workshop with Enviro...Go Green
For the IEMA & Go Green South West Seminar: Innovation in 2015 European Green Capital, Melanie and Sally, sustainable procurement specialists from the Environment Agency delivered an informative workshop about the steps needed to take in order to improve your organisation''s sustainable procurement policies.
5 insider tips for using it audits to maximize securityNetIQ
Organizations like yours are under tremendous pressure to meet compliance directives from a growing number of regulatory and industry mandates, while maintaining a secure environment and staying in alignment with business objectives.
Too often, the audit is seen as a chore to be disposed of quickly. Such a "check-box" mentality can lead to costly breaches because compliance alone will not make your environment secure. By implementing sound security principles and controls compliance should become a natural by-product.
5 Insider Tips: Using IT Audits to Maximize Security with featured speaker Mike Chapple, who oversees information security at the University of Notre Dame, reveals how to:
- Understand your auditor
- Embrace audit findings
- Use an audit to your advantage
- Maximize the audit off-season
- Know when to bring in the auditors
On demand webcast also available at: http://bit.ly/jeBkYU
Sustainable Sourcing Workshop from Sally Taylor, Sustainable Procurement Advi...Go Green
Sally and Nina from the Environment Agency talk us through worked examples of how to assess your priority areas for addressing sustainable sourcing in your business using their experiences.
The new air conditioning systems have energy optimization systems designed to make consumption more efficient. It supposes a decrease in the cost of electricity, as well as a lower environmental impact. For example, teams of air conditioning from Intec air conditioner are market leaders in energy saving systems, and also for its silent technology.
A case study examining the actual impact of safety leadership on employee safety behavior in the OIl & Gas construction sector, over a two year period during the roll-out and execution of 'B-Safe', a behavioral safety process.
IEMA & Go Green South West Seminar: Sustainable Sourcing workshop with Enviro...Go Green
For the IEMA & Go Green South West Seminar: Innovation in 2015 European Green Capital, Melanie and Sally, sustainable procurement specialists from the Environment Agency delivered an informative workshop about the steps needed to take in order to improve your organisation''s sustainable procurement policies.
A Keynote speech by Dr Domininc Cooper CFIOSH C.Psychol examining the 'true' success factors of Behavior-Based Safety from the 1970's to the present day.
Behavio-Based Safety is still evolving to the point where it is effective in all workplaces, all of the time. Many implementations have been successful, but many have failed or faded away over the years. What can we learn from the past and the present to optimize future BBS implementations for the good of all? This tour of BBS examines the evolution of BBS, implementation strategies, and remaining challenges. Issues to be addressed include (but are not limited to):
[1 Where BBS fits in an organizations Safety Culture
[2] Who owns BBS?
[3] The role of employees and managers
[4] BBS design Issues
[5] Integrating BBS into mainstream safety management systems
[D.O.W.N.L.O.A.D] Business Continuity Management System: A Complete Guide to ...rojejo121
A Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) is a management framework that creates controls to address risks and measure an organization's ability to manage disruptions. The International Standard, ISO 22301, helps protect against the threats, including natural disaster, IT failure, staff illness, terrorist threat or a disruption in the supply chain. It provides a framework for assessing critical suppliers and their associated risks, assessing current business practices and planning contingency measures, so when disruptions happen, businesses are prepared and able to respond effectively.Business Continuity Management System offers a complete guide to implementing a fit-for-purpose resilience capability in any organization. Structured in line with ISO 22301 and with a focus on performance improvement throughout, chapters cover developing, establishing and operating a BCMS initiative. Built upon the principles of the International Standard and current best practice, with a practical focus on theories and models, this book offers an objective, thorough solution for the practitioner.
Presents the core features of how to create a Behavioral Safety process. The process is customizable to suit any type of industry / location and is based on a 20 year track record of success on 5 continents.
Learn how to implement Behavioral Based Safety system (BBS) at your workplace; what are the benefits of BBS, what are the roles of the employees and more.
Technology needed within the distribution industry is ever changing and growing more complex. At The TNS Group we. strive to provide you with the right solutions for your business.
The role we play as creators - A designer's take on AIGiuseppe de Cesare
There is a growing interest in AI, but the field is understood only by a few, often by technicians. What’s our involvement as designers? What do we know about these new disruptive technologies? Often we know little. This talk will unveil benefits and pitfalls of AI through concrete cases offering designers a framework for understanding. It will introduce a toolkit of ethical principles, that will make you reflect upon the potential of AI to change what is our conventional understanding of a product or a service. Design is about developing a higher awareness of the role we play as creators and builders.
Intelligent compliance and risk management solutions.
First, we understand ‘compliance’ can have different meanings to various teams across enterprise. Compliance is an outcome of continuous risk management, involving compliance, risk, legal, privacy, security, IT and often even HR and finance teams which requires integrated approach to manage risk.
Let's start with the base pillar Compliance Management: compliance management is all about simplify risk assessment and mitigation in more automated way, providing visibility and insights to help meet compliance requirements.
Information Protection and Governance: we believe there is a huge opportunity for Microsoft to help our customers to know their data better, protect and govern data throughout its lifecycle in heterogenous environment. This is often the key starting point for many of our customers in their modern compliance journey – knowing what sensitive data they have, putting flexible, end-user friendly policies for both security and compliance outcomes, using more automation and intelligence.
Internal Risk Management: Internal risks are often what keeps business leaders up at night – regardless of negligent or malicious, identifying and being able to take action on internal risks are critical. The ability to quickly identify and manage risks from insiders (employees or contractors with corporate access) and minimize the negative impact on corporate compliance, competitive business position and brand reputation is a priority for organizations worldwide.
Last but not least, Discover and Respond: being able to discover relevant data for internal investigations, litigation, or regulatory requests and respond to them efficiently, and doing so without having to use multiple solutions and moving data in and out of systems to increase risk – is critical.
This presentation was discussed in a Webinar with MetricStream in September 2016. It is applicable for small, medium and large businesses when considering information and cyber security risk.
A Keynote speech by Dr Domininc Cooper CFIOSH C.Psychol examining the 'true' success factors of Behavior-Based Safety from the 1970's to the present day.
Behavio-Based Safety is still evolving to the point where it is effective in all workplaces, all of the time. Many implementations have been successful, but many have failed or faded away over the years. What can we learn from the past and the present to optimize future BBS implementations for the good of all? This tour of BBS examines the evolution of BBS, implementation strategies, and remaining challenges. Issues to be addressed include (but are not limited to):
[1 Where BBS fits in an organizations Safety Culture
[2] Who owns BBS?
[3] The role of employees and managers
[4] BBS design Issues
[5] Integrating BBS into mainstream safety management systems
[D.O.W.N.L.O.A.D] Business Continuity Management System: A Complete Guide to ...rojejo121
A Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) is a management framework that creates controls to address risks and measure an organization's ability to manage disruptions. The International Standard, ISO 22301, helps protect against the threats, including natural disaster, IT failure, staff illness, terrorist threat or a disruption in the supply chain. It provides a framework for assessing critical suppliers and their associated risks, assessing current business practices and planning contingency measures, so when disruptions happen, businesses are prepared and able to respond effectively.Business Continuity Management System offers a complete guide to implementing a fit-for-purpose resilience capability in any organization. Structured in line with ISO 22301 and with a focus on performance improvement throughout, chapters cover developing, establishing and operating a BCMS initiative. Built upon the principles of the International Standard and current best practice, with a practical focus on theories and models, this book offers an objective, thorough solution for the practitioner.
Presents the core features of how to create a Behavioral Safety process. The process is customizable to suit any type of industry / location and is based on a 20 year track record of success on 5 continents.
Learn how to implement Behavioral Based Safety system (BBS) at your workplace; what are the benefits of BBS, what are the roles of the employees and more.
Technology needed within the distribution industry is ever changing and growing more complex. At The TNS Group we. strive to provide you with the right solutions for your business.
The role we play as creators - A designer's take on AIGiuseppe de Cesare
There is a growing interest in AI, but the field is understood only by a few, often by technicians. What’s our involvement as designers? What do we know about these new disruptive technologies? Often we know little. This talk will unveil benefits and pitfalls of AI through concrete cases offering designers a framework for understanding. It will introduce a toolkit of ethical principles, that will make you reflect upon the potential of AI to change what is our conventional understanding of a product or a service. Design is about developing a higher awareness of the role we play as creators and builders.
Intelligent compliance and risk management solutions.
First, we understand ‘compliance’ can have different meanings to various teams across enterprise. Compliance is an outcome of continuous risk management, involving compliance, risk, legal, privacy, security, IT and often even HR and finance teams which requires integrated approach to manage risk.
Let's start with the base pillar Compliance Management: compliance management is all about simplify risk assessment and mitigation in more automated way, providing visibility and insights to help meet compliance requirements.
Information Protection and Governance: we believe there is a huge opportunity for Microsoft to help our customers to know their data better, protect and govern data throughout its lifecycle in heterogenous environment. This is often the key starting point for many of our customers in their modern compliance journey – knowing what sensitive data they have, putting flexible, end-user friendly policies for both security and compliance outcomes, using more automation and intelligence.
Internal Risk Management: Internal risks are often what keeps business leaders up at night – regardless of negligent or malicious, identifying and being able to take action on internal risks are critical. The ability to quickly identify and manage risks from insiders (employees or contractors with corporate access) and minimize the negative impact on corporate compliance, competitive business position and brand reputation is a priority for organizations worldwide.
Last but not least, Discover and Respond: being able to discover relevant data for internal investigations, litigation, or regulatory requests and respond to them efficiently, and doing so without having to use multiple solutions and moving data in and out of systems to increase risk – is critical.
This presentation was discussed in a Webinar with MetricStream in September 2016. It is applicable for small, medium and large businesses when considering information and cyber security risk.
Do you wish to know how important is data protection and how to train your employees on the data security measures? Then download this presentation now.
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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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.
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After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
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
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.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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2. Who we are
We partner with growing businesses to make sure they have the
right technology now, tomorrow and for the future.
3. Who you are
Business Owners
Marketing Departments
IT Managers
HR Departments
Health & Safety Officers
Office Managers
Operations Managers
4. What our customers say
We want to be green, but….
Complicated
Expensive
Disruptive
Insecure
Long term problem
This is the moment for your Melissa-style elevator pitch about Stripe OLT
I want to be green, but it sounds complicated, we don’t have the time & resources
It’s hard enough running my business without worrying about the environment
Changing all my IT will be expensive and disruptive
People say the cloud is more efficient but I have concerns about data security – mention Ian’s part about dirty cloud providers
Yes of course long term we need to do something, but there’s nothing I can do right now
It can save you money, either in direct costs or in efficiency and productivity gains – or both
And the road to green tech doesn’t have to be disruptive/difficult/time-consuming to implement: there are a number of things you can do in the short term which will make a difference, while planning for the long term.
Your IT provider should help you think about how to approach this now and in the future, so you have a clear path to follow.
Audit your meetings – how many of them involve travel? Do they need to?
Audit your hardware – make a list of every server, every monitor, every computer, every printer. Find out what date it was bought, and whether it is energy efficient [HOW?]
If you are a large company, you should have this information already in your IT department - if you are small, you may never have done this.
Start monitoring your energy consumption [HOW?]
You can measure your energy consumption in a number of ways:
At the plug, for individual appliances. This is great for keeping an eye on particularly energy hungry appliances, or to monitor things that are used infrequently. This costs £9.99 from Maplins and you just plug and play.
At the network level, via your UPS. You should have a uninterruptible power supply on your network to ensure you’re protected against power failures – it will also record the power consumption of your IT network so you can use it as a monitoring device (IS THIS RIGHT?)
At the mains, using an energy monitor. These are becoming ever more sophisticated and will allow you to download data wirelessly so you can monitor trends, peaks and troughs.
When we started monitoring ours, we noticed a sudden peak in our consumption. In our case there was an obvious cause – we had been flooded and had dehumidifiers running all day to dry out the office – but there may be much less visible things on your IT network draining power, and you won’t know unless you monitior.
Turning things off – make it easy
Rationalise hardware – do you need two printers?
Power management software – Night Watchman
Plugwise
Staff education, empowering your team, appointing a Green Champion
I’ll go through each of these in more detail in a second, but some broad headlines:
Technology now allows us to travel a lot less, while still achieving the same amount of work – or more, because you’re not wasting time sitting in cars or getting to stations.
The Carbon Trust estimates that home working could cut costs by £3bn a year, and save 3million tonnes of carbon.
So how do you make it work? The answer is slick communications: messaging and audio video conferencing.
We’ve all sat through painful stilted teleconferences, but video technology now makes it much easier to have a natural conversation. As an example, we planned this presentation via conference with Barney, Tiina and Ian.
Lots of basic providers such as Skype and Slack (Slack has just announced it’s bringing in video conferencing as well as messaging and filesharing).
But there are business grade solutions coming out now that give you much more sophisticated features, including screen sharing, meeting recording, analytics so you can see how much it’s being used (and what you’re saving), and you can use it across different devices and platforms.
Little features make meetings much slicker - like flicking the screen to whoever is speaking, so you are always looking at the right person
Ubiquitous & cost-effective
Faster internet speeds mean no more clunky connections and dropped conferences
Sharing screens allows for much closer collaboration
Look at your meeting policy – you can reduce your travel costs and wasted time and effort very quickly
Mention the fact that we planned this talk on BlueJeans with Ian and Barney
Replacing it with up to date equipment could actually save you money fairly quickly in energy costs
Newer equipment can be lower voltage and considerably more energy efficient than older hardware – smarter & greener!
A 6 year old server costs around £1,000 per year more to run than a new one
Slower equipment also slows down your people, making them less productive
Virtualisation means using one server to do the work that used to be done by two or more - Energy costs are much lower
The server is compartmentalised so that systems can still be kept and maintained separately
Do more with less!
Make sure you dispose of old equipment properly!
We know that cloud isn’t for everyone
But some services can be better dealt with in the cloud, even if you don’t want to move all your processes to it – the answer can be a hybrid cloud set up so that you get the best of both worlds
Email is a good example – costs are low enough that you would reduce your energy costs by removing your email server and still come out on top
Clean cloud vs Dirty Cloud
Build sustainable sourcing into all your purchasing policies, from the tiniest to the largest items
Make sure you continually monitor your systems, so you can identify any issues and see if what you’re doing is helping
Plan a proper infrastructure strategy, including maintenance, support and planning to align your infrastructure with your business need
Measure and monitor – so you know what’s going on
Empower your staff to take action and to work smarter through flexible working, video conferencing and collaboration tools
Reduce – your hardware, your travel, your local infrastructure
Make sure green considerations are built into every single purchasing policy
And make a long term strategic plan for your technology that reflects your business ambitions and direction.