Great news for Systems Center 2012 customers. With the aim of making System Center more cloud-friendly, Microsoft has made changes to the way that the licensing model for this popular product works. What used to be an extremely complex licensing system has been made much easier for clients to understand and manage. This presentation provides a quick overview of what these key updates are and work with a Softchoice Microsoft specialist to understand your needs under this new model moving forward.
On May 22nd, C/D/H presented its Best of the Microsoft Management Summit 2012. Attendees learned all things MMS, like:
• MMS basics, including who, what, where, and why
• The evolution of the datacenter
• Private vs. public cloud
• All things System Center, including deep dives and demos on SCCM, SCOM, SCDPM, and SCSM
• New licensing details
• New Microsoft certifications
View C/D/H’s Best of MMS slide deck for all the conference highlights and big news about System Center 2012, and what it means for you.
And for more information on this or other topics, visit our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.
In June, C/D/H introduced virtual desktops and hosted a panel discussion at the Educational Technology Leadership Conference.
C/D/H discussed the benefits and drawbacks of VDI, deployment considerations and the key players in the space.
Check out our slide deck to find out more about virtual desktops and if they are right for you.
This is the first post in my series about the new features in Windows Server 2008 R2. As in my series about the new features of Windows 7, I will update the articles when I learn about new features. I will discuss some of the new features in more detail soon. Essentially, the term "virtualization" covers three different technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2: Server Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, and Presentation Virtualization. Server Virtualization is based on Hyper-V 2.0, which will get quite a few interesting new features. The virtualization technology ehind Desktop virtualization, i.e., Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), is also Hyper-V. This is probably the most important new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2. Presentation Virtualization is nothing but the good old Terminal Server. Technically, I find it a bit odd to use the term "virtualization" in this context, but from a marketer's point of view, it probably makes a lot of sense. Note that Microsoft renamed the "Terminal Services" as "Remote Desktop Services" in Windows Server 2008 R2.
Key Benefits of Virtualization:
*Recover quickly from disasters such as virus attacks, software bugs, and network outages
*Reduce management costs by up to 300%
*Save up to twice the cost of virtualization in power consumption savings alone
*Drasically reduce cooling and footprint needs
On May 22nd, C/D/H presented its Best of the Microsoft Management Summit 2012. Attendees learned all things MMS, like:
• MMS basics, including who, what, where, and why
• The evolution of the datacenter
• Private vs. public cloud
• All things System Center, including deep dives and demos on SCCM, SCOM, SCDPM, and SCSM
• New licensing details
• New Microsoft certifications
View C/D/H’s Best of MMS slide deck for all the conference highlights and big news about System Center 2012, and what it means for you.
And for more information on this or other topics, visit our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.
In June, C/D/H introduced virtual desktops and hosted a panel discussion at the Educational Technology Leadership Conference.
C/D/H discussed the benefits and drawbacks of VDI, deployment considerations and the key players in the space.
Check out our slide deck to find out more about virtual desktops and if they are right for you.
This is the first post in my series about the new features in Windows Server 2008 R2. As in my series about the new features of Windows 7, I will update the articles when I learn about new features. I will discuss some of the new features in more detail soon. Essentially, the term "virtualization" covers three different technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2: Server Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, and Presentation Virtualization. Server Virtualization is based on Hyper-V 2.0, which will get quite a few interesting new features. The virtualization technology ehind Desktop virtualization, i.e., Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), is also Hyper-V. This is probably the most important new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2. Presentation Virtualization is nothing but the good old Terminal Server. Technically, I find it a bit odd to use the term "virtualization" in this context, but from a marketer's point of view, it probably makes a lot of sense. Note that Microsoft renamed the "Terminal Services" as "Remote Desktop Services" in Windows Server 2008 R2.
Key Benefits of Virtualization:
*Recover quickly from disasters such as virus attacks, software bugs, and network outages
*Reduce management costs by up to 300%
*Save up to twice the cost of virtualization in power consumption savings alone
*Drasically reduce cooling and footprint needs
IBM Cloud software stack with self service, rapid provisioning and resource management, cataloging, image deployment and metering services. Starter kit for cloud provides key benefits sought by IT managers including responsive and reliable workload deployment and resources on demand to support Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)...
The cloud support the IT change. Virtualization, standardization and automation release precious resources that no more involved in the service management can be dedicate to study how to optimize processes and for evaluate and test new solutions.
VDI Choices - Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp or VDI in a Box?eG Innovations
A growing number of companies are virtualising desktop environments to reduce cost and boost flexibility. The dizzying array of available solutions can make the first step quite difficult - what virtualization technology is right for my organization? Citrix alone offers XenDesktop, XenApp and VDI in a box. While Citrix desktop virtualisation often seems like a simple project; user experience problems, delayed deployments, and cost overruns can quickly turn this project into a nightmare.
Join the webinar "Desktop Virtualisation Choices: Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp or VDI in a Box - How to Decide" and learn from UK Citrix desktop virtualization expert Andrew Wood (Gilwood CS Ltd) how to decide what virtualisation technology best fits your needs.
Hear how to determine what technology is right for you based on:
• Your goals for desktop virtualisation
• Number of users, applications, and profiles
• Existing infrastructure issues
• Cost of ownership vs. cost savings
• Performance and scalability considerations
Windows Server 2012 Active Directory Domain and Trust (Forest Trust)Serhad MAKBULOĞLU, MBA
Serhad Makbuloğlu tarafından verilecek bu web seminerinde, Windows Server 2012 Active Directory Domain and Trust (Forest Trust) konusu anlatılacaktır. Bu web semineri teknik içeriğe sahiptir. Ayrıca Web seminer sonundaki soru&cevap bölümünde de bu ürünle ilgili merak ettiğiniz soruların cevaplarını bulabilirsiniz.
When a global Telecommunications firm's comprehensive virtualization strategy required visibility into thousands of virtual servers spread across 5 U.S. data centers, they turned to Net Optics and its Phantom solutions.The Telco faced the challenge of supporting numerous VoIP call centers for compliance, security and call quality. This virtualized architecture encompasses more than 150 VMware ESX servers and 1600+ virtual servers. The Telco chose Net Optics Phantom™ HD, working in conjunction with the Net Optics Phantom Virtual Tap, to fulfill this complex demand. Only the Phantom solution delivers the necessary robustness to process extremely high data bandwidths.
In this webinar from Net Optics you will learn:
Presented by Net Optics' Senior Solutions Engineer, David Pham, this webinar will walk through a specific deployment scenario of Net Optics' innovative Phantom Virtual Tap and the recently introduced Phantom HD High-Throughput Tunneling Appliance
Advantages of gaining visibility into your virtualized network infrastructure
How to eliminate visibility challenges in the virtual network
Financial benefits of traffic monitoring and inspection
On August 27th, VMware dropped some big announcements at VMworld 2012 – Specifically around the new vSphere 5.1 changes, and how they’ll impact you. View this presentation where our VMware team takes our customers through these important changes.
IBM Cloud software stack with self service, rapid provisioning and resource management, cataloging, image deployment and metering services. Starter kit for cloud provides key benefits sought by IT managers including responsive and reliable workload deployment and resources on demand to support Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)...
The cloud support the IT change. Virtualization, standardization and automation release precious resources that no more involved in the service management can be dedicate to study how to optimize processes and for evaluate and test new solutions.
VDI Choices - Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp or VDI in a Box?eG Innovations
A growing number of companies are virtualising desktop environments to reduce cost and boost flexibility. The dizzying array of available solutions can make the first step quite difficult - what virtualization technology is right for my organization? Citrix alone offers XenDesktop, XenApp and VDI in a box. While Citrix desktop virtualisation often seems like a simple project; user experience problems, delayed deployments, and cost overruns can quickly turn this project into a nightmare.
Join the webinar "Desktop Virtualisation Choices: Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp or VDI in a Box - How to Decide" and learn from UK Citrix desktop virtualization expert Andrew Wood (Gilwood CS Ltd) how to decide what virtualisation technology best fits your needs.
Hear how to determine what technology is right for you based on:
• Your goals for desktop virtualisation
• Number of users, applications, and profiles
• Existing infrastructure issues
• Cost of ownership vs. cost savings
• Performance and scalability considerations
Windows Server 2012 Active Directory Domain and Trust (Forest Trust)Serhad MAKBULOĞLU, MBA
Serhad Makbuloğlu tarafından verilecek bu web seminerinde, Windows Server 2012 Active Directory Domain and Trust (Forest Trust) konusu anlatılacaktır. Bu web semineri teknik içeriğe sahiptir. Ayrıca Web seminer sonundaki soru&cevap bölümünde de bu ürünle ilgili merak ettiğiniz soruların cevaplarını bulabilirsiniz.
When a global Telecommunications firm's comprehensive virtualization strategy required visibility into thousands of virtual servers spread across 5 U.S. data centers, they turned to Net Optics and its Phantom solutions.The Telco faced the challenge of supporting numerous VoIP call centers for compliance, security and call quality. This virtualized architecture encompasses more than 150 VMware ESX servers and 1600+ virtual servers. The Telco chose Net Optics Phantom™ HD, working in conjunction with the Net Optics Phantom Virtual Tap, to fulfill this complex demand. Only the Phantom solution delivers the necessary robustness to process extremely high data bandwidths.
In this webinar from Net Optics you will learn:
Presented by Net Optics' Senior Solutions Engineer, David Pham, this webinar will walk through a specific deployment scenario of Net Optics' innovative Phantom Virtual Tap and the recently introduced Phantom HD High-Throughput Tunneling Appliance
Advantages of gaining visibility into your virtualized network infrastructure
How to eliminate visibility challenges in the virtual network
Financial benefits of traffic monitoring and inspection
On August 27th, VMware dropped some big announcements at VMworld 2012 – Specifically around the new vSphere 5.1 changes, and how they’ll impact you. View this presentation where our VMware team takes our customers through these important changes.
VMUGIT Meeting Pisa 2015 - SDS secondo VMware: VSAN e VVOLgguglie
La mia presentazione al VMUG IT Meeting di Pisa (29/05/2015) - Il software Defined Storage secondo VMware: Storage Policy-Based Management, VSAN e VVOL.
Nota: per le demo durante la presentazione sono stati utilizzati gli HoL di VMware, disponibili gratuitamente per tutti :)
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Index Seek : PT Bitti mi?
Where Bloğunda Case Kullanımı
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Eksik Index (Missing Index) Analizi
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Optimize For Ad Hoc Workloads
Instant File Initialization
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Virtual Space Race: How IT with The Right Stuff Creates a Competitive AdvantageSoftchoice Corporation
The rise of mobile and cloud has empowered more front office workers to take control over their own IT destiny. This study answers the question “is IT equipped to handle the implications of this shift?”
Unified communications and collaboration tools have the power to accelerate productivity and bring people together, however, most UC implementations fail to live up to expectations. This study reveals where most organizations go wrong when it comes to UC and collaboration, and what they can do to boost user adoption, productivity, and work satisfaction.
Presentation of the paper "Creating 3rd Generation Web APIs with Hydra" at the 22nd Internation World Wide Web Conference (WWW2013) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Today, security is so much more than just a firewall. As we saw in our recent webinar, co-hosted with Microsoft to discuss their new Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite (EMS), breaches are resulting from weak end-user passwords or error, as well as a lax attitude toward SaaS and third party "Shadow IT." Add to that infrastructure complexity brought on by cloud and hybrid environments and everything you knew about security is changing.
Private cloud infrastructure configure and deploy
In collaboration with IEEE Computer Society, the Cloud Security Alliance and Dell, Microsoft is hosting a 24 Hours in a Private Cloud virtual event
You don’t have to embrace the Private Cloud to take advantage of the powerful tools in SC2012!
View C/D/H’s slide deck and learn how to enable an automated helpdesk solution with Service Manager, the Self-Service Portal, Orchestrator, Configuration Manager, and Operations Manager.
Let us help you automate simple, repetitive, but time consuming tasks so you can focus on strategic projects like operating system deployment, proactive monitoring, and standardization!
Infrastructure components configure and deploy 24 hiapc fabrizio volpeFabrizio Volpe
Infrastructure components configure and deploy
In collaboration with IEEE Computer Society, the Cloud Security Alliance and Dell, Microsoft is hosting a 24 Hours in a Private Cloud virtual event
A Practical Approach to Delivering Cloud Platforms Using Novell Solutions: Ho...Novell
n this session, you will see how Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) provides a client-directed cloud solution focused on what customers want to do today. ACS has created a private cloud-based service that offers many of the benefits of a public cloud computing environment. The difference is that in a private cloud-based service, data and processes are managed within an ACS trusted environment without the security exposures and legal requirements that come with using public cloud services across open, public networks. Additionally, private cloud services can offer the enterprise greater control, thus improving security and resiliency as user access and the networks are restricted and designated.
Novell and ACS teamed together to build the ACS Management Platform, which enables you to fully manage the cloud service offerings, from the core management services to distributed multiple clouds running in multiple data centers. Learn how the ACS Management Platform provides streamlined service provisioning of application tiers and performance levels in a multi-tenant, virtualized, cross-cloud computing platforms. Additionally, it provides ITIL 3.0, Pharma and SOX compliance to ensure you have high levels of services at a much lower price than traditional service providers.
Learn how Novell and ACS are working together to help customers with the creation of various business models, which include the integration of services from different providers (public and private) to support and drive business innovation and optimization. This session will demonstrate a multi-phase delivery engagement model to define, integrate, and implement the technologies and processes necessary to deliver cloud-based services.
IT leaders from across North America were invited to share their viewpoint and perspective on delivering Agile IT. The study reflects the responses and trends related to their ability to deliver on business demands and readiness of existing technology to support those needs. We aggregated the results into following major themes: Strategy vs Reality, Agility & Technology Readiness, and Culture, Structure & People.
Discover the benefits of the Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP) program and how it enables flexibility and value-added solutions for your O365 licenses.
Know how modern licensing programs are helping companies enable end users, increase IT agility, meet compliance requirements, increase time-to-value, and make IT buying fast and easy.
In our latest webinar presentation, we discuss the Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP) program and how it enables flexibility and value-added solutions for your Azure licensing needs.
The Softchoice Innovation Report 2018: Four New Roles For CIOS In The Modern ...Softchoice Corporation
In 2017, Softchoice’s Innovation Executive Forum (IEF) traveled across North America, taking the pulse of today’s front-line leaders of digital transformation. From St. John’s to Los Angeles, we visited 14 major cities, and met with over 120 top-level technology executives to discuss their priorities, challenges, and experiences pushing forward change. Online, we hosted quarterly conference calls with members and special guests, and published numerous whitepapers featuring insights from organizations big and small.
New on-demand Webinar
We used to just worry about the unlikely natural disaster and the odd communications breakdown when planning for backup and recovery. But these days, an entirely new breed of threats have emerged that promise to knock out your business applications and data the first chance they get. From cyber crime, to cyberterrorism and mobile and cloud computing complexities, handling these new threats with the same old tools simply isn’t possible. This was the topic that drove a recent Softchoice webinar, centered on how your business can more effectively, simply and securely provide a robust DR and BC strategy leveraging a suite of Azure based technologies from Microsoft.
Watch the latest on-demand webinar.
Cette étude de Softchoice porte sur les tendances en matière de rendement et de collaboration au travail. Elle s’est notamment intéressée à l’automatisation des outils de bureautique, à l’accès au télétravail et aux efforts consentis pour bien outiller les travailleurs. Softchoice a interrogé 1000 employés de bureau nord-américains qui travaillent essentiellement avec un ordinateur ou un appareil mobile.
In this Softchoice research study, we explore trends in employee productivity and collaboration, including the use of office automation tools, remote work flexibility, and how well organizations equip their people with the technology they need to be productive. Softchoice surveyed 1,000 full-time North American office workers who use a computer or mobile device for the majority of their work day.
Legacy PBX technologies are fast becoming obsolete. And, downtime is expensive. PBX industry is changing and many are considering a collaboration solution that leverages your existing on-premise infrastructure and marries it with a cloud platform.
About the Event:
Find out in our webinar, led by our Microsoft experts, what your options are for developing a truly integrated collaboration environment.
This session is designed for IT leaders with aging on-premise PBX systems, or those who want to understand what the Microsoft Cloud PBX solution offers. Most importantly, our presenters will provide insights into how to drive up collaboration by improving end user productivity through a cohesive Office 365 experience.
There is often confusion about what cloud vendors like Microsoft make secure and what falls to you in ensuring your data is safe. An effective strategy requires a deeper understanding of vendor security, your own responsibilities and how to incorporate the two to protect your business.
In our session you will learn about:
- Key trends driving change in IT and cloud security
- Examples of how your peers are addressing their organization's cloud security responsibilities
- Best practices for designing your cloud security plan
Our Microsoft Cloud Adoption Champion, Ruth Morton, will provide you with the strategies you need to ensure your Office 365 deployment is not only a technical success, but improves business processes, stakeholder satisfaction, and your bottom line.
You'll leave armed with a completed self-assessment designed to give you insights into your potential gaps and risks, and how to overcome them.
What You'll Learn:
• Business drivers, pitfalls and success criteria gathered from hundreds of successful projects
• Creating alignment with your lines of business to ensure a requirements-driven project
• Methods for developing a successful adoption plan and why this is so important
• How to set yourself up to execute with confidence.
For many organizations, a move to Azure creates issues with managing costs and resource ownership. Why? Cloud-based technologies rely on a different cost model - one based on usage consumption, rather than purchasing hardware and software.
Watch our team of Azure experts and learn how to effectively plan and manage the costs associated with your Azure investment. In this webinar, you'll learn how to:
- Build an Azure cost model based on best practices
- Use chargebacks to assign and track IT usage to specific business units
- Avoid unexpected consumption expenses by seeing what - and who - is consuming data
Our team will also demo the Softchoice Azure Dashboard, a proprietary tool providing our clients with the visibility they need to align resource spend, and control their azure costs.
Étude Softchoice. Favoriser l’innovation : les actes en disent plus long que ...Softchoice Corporation
Softchoice, chef de file nord-américain en solutions et services impartis informatiques, a sondé 250 responsables des TI et 1 000 employés d’autres services travaillant à temps plein aux États-Unis et au Canada pour déterminer combien d’entreprises adoptent effectivement les processus, la culture et la technologie et le leadership adéquats pour favoriser l’innovation.
Watch our recent webinar on the real life gotchas and missteps related to Hybrid IT transformation that we've seen as we've helped hundreds of customers like you implement the Hybrid IT journey.
You will come out with some salient advice on what you need to consider for 2017 to avoid derailing your business goals across the Public Cloud, Data Center and Network as you seek out more agility in IT.
Watch Aaron Brooks, Practice Director, Hybrid IT and the other members of the Softchoice practice leadership in this interactive webinar. Here’s a sample of the discussion:
• Why Hybrid IT isn’t just about where you’ll put your workloads
• Common barriers to integrating public cloud into IT operations
• How the modern data center will need to mirror the public cloud
• Why overlooking the impact of network traffic might be your Achilles heel
Softchoice, a leading North American provider of IT solutions and managed services, surveyed 1,000 full- time line-of-business (LOB) employees and 250 IT decision-makers across the U.S. and Canada to uncover how many workplaces actually walk the walk when it comes to having the right processes, leadership, culture and technology to drive innovation.
Effective Management of Azure through Operations Management Suite (OMS) WebinarSoftchoice Corporation
If you are looking to simplify IT management in your organization, then enterprise Operations Management Suite (OMS) is for you.
With OMS you will gain control over your Azure hybrid cloud with this cost-effective, all-in-one cloud IT management solution.
It delivers you:
Operational insights into your on premise and cloud applications and infrastructure
Solid Backup and Disaster recovery solution that is automated and easy to test
Compliant infrastructure with the latest industry security standards, update levels, and configuration best practices
In the webinar you will learn about:
Log Analytics and what it can accomplish
Backup and Automated Site Recovery
Identifying, assessing and mitigating security risks
What' coming next with the Solutions Gallery
Softchoice - Microsoft Office 365 - Discussing legal concerns and informatio...Softchoice Corporation
While security and legal fears have gone down, they still account for 5% of enterprises not planning a migration to Office 365, according to Gartner.
This is a real shame, because as you know, O365 can drive considerable business productivity, employee engagement and can enable digital workforce greatness.
Moreover, O365 has 70 million commercial active users per month and according to Gartner, controls over 80% of the email share.
Well, have no fear (literally). Our experts have put together an insightful hour to explore, discuss and appease any fears you may have around compliance, security and data control in the Microsoft cloud.
Hosted jointly by Microsoft and Softchoice Office 365 pros, you will learn about:
- Keeping privacy and control of your data on Office 365
- Overcoming legal and compliance concerns
- The advantages of cloud security versus on-premise, and much more
Application development and deployment in the traditional datacenter has been a challenge for many organizations primarily due to resource constraints. This has historically led to unfortunate compromises between functionality and security for business applications.
With public cloud providers, we have seen the limitations to technical capabilities fall away; the attainable to the Fortune 500 has become available to organizations of any size.
This yields some exciting new options for the development, deployment and operation of secure applications. Here you will find the presentation deck and recording of webinar.
En 2014, les entreprises en étaient encore au stade du passage à l’infonuagique. À l’époque, Softchoice a commandé une étude qui a révélé que les utilisateurs nord-américains étaient imprudents. On découvrait notamment que les travailleurs nord-américains utilisant des applications infonuagiques se comportaient de façon nettement plus imprudente et faisaient courir davantage de risques aux réseaux et aux données de leurs employeurs que ceux qui n'en utilisaient pas.
Deux ans plus tard, la plupart des entreprises ne se contentent plus de « flirter » avec l’infonuagique, mais l’ont adoptée sans réserve. Toutefois, malgré cette transition, peu de choses ont changé! Tant par leur négligence à l’égard de la protection de leurs mots de passe que par leurs comportements indésirables à l’égard des TI, les travailleurs nord-américains sont (encore) imprudents lorsqu’ils utilisent l’infonuagique.
Avoiding the unexpected costs of cloud computing. Without proper planning and governance, spending on cloud services can easily get out of control, putting your organization at risk of not realizing the benefits of moving to the cloud in the first place. This presentation helps you understand the frameworks and tools available to effectively manage and optimize cloud costs.
You’ll Learn how to: (1) develop and manage optimal cloud budgets (2) assign accountabilities and track usage (3) continuously improve cost performance.
In 2014, cloud computing was still shifting into the enterprise mainstream. Back then, Softchoice commissioned a study that discovered North American workers who use cloud apps displayed markedly more reckless technology habits and were more likely to put their employers’ networks and corporate data at risk.
Two years later, most organizations have gone from flirting with the cloud to wholesale adoption, yet despite their new level of cloud sophistication – not much has else changed! From lax password security to rogue IT behavior, North American workers are (Still) Careless Users in the Cloud.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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.
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.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
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.
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
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
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System Center 2012 - January Licensing Update
1. System Center 2012 Licensing Update
Presented By Luke Black & Greg Zamzow
January 2012
2. Agenda
Introduction to Softchoice
System Center 2012 Overview
System Center 2012 Licensing Update
Next Steps
Q&A Session
Enrollment for Core Infrastructure
3. • US$1.18 billion in Gross Revenue (2010) • Canada’s Top Solution Provider (6 years in a
row) from CDN Magazine
• #1 Microsoft EA Advisor in North America
• Traded on TSX Symbol: SO
• 68th ranked VAR on CRN 500 - Highest earnings ever in 2009
• Awarded Best Workplace in Canada and US
From the client to the cloud, from coast to coast –
with Softchoice, the future is unlimited
6. System Center 2012
• Heterogeneous • Deep application • Flexibility with
support monitoring and delegation and control
diagnosis
• Process automation • Application self-
Self-service • Comprehensive service across clouds
application
• infrastructure manageability • Physical, virtual, and
cloud management
• Service-centric
approach
10. Licensing Transition Plan
Grant Conversion Rate
2 to 1*
1 to 2
1 to 1
1 to 1
* SC 2012 Datacenter covers up to 2 processors per license
whereas SMSD only covers 1 processor per license.
11. ECI improves how infrastructure Server products are sold!
Enterprise Agreement
Desktop Enrollment
Enrollment for Application Platform
Enrollment for Core Infrastructure
• Purchasing technology becomes easier – how to sell matches how customers want
to buy
• Customers receive cost savings in return for an increased customer commitment
• No dependencies between enrollments; you can have an EA with just one of the
enrollments
12. Simplified licensing
Simplifies virtualization
Per Device Subscription
licensing
Per Processor Per Server
Simplifies Core
Per Operating System Environment Infrastructure server
product licensing to per-
Per Processor Per Server
processor
Core Infrastructure
Server Suites Simplifies management and
security licensing for
Per Processor customers
Can reduce cost and
overhead of license
management
Note: ECI customers can continue buying
server infrastructure software outside of ECI
13. ECI Flexibility
Purchase the capabilities needed for your organization when it’s needed
through the ECI.
Determine your IT requirements
Select the suites with the capabilities to meet your requirements
Select the quantity of each suite needed to meet the scale required
Start an ECI and purchase the suites needed today, while…
Securing the rights to upgrade to new versions of the product released
under Software Assurance
Securing today’s suite prices for future purchases made during the 3 year
term
Having the ability to migrate existing Windows Servers with SA to Core
Infrastructure Server Suites
Upgrade your Core Infrastructure Server Suites at any time
14. What’s new in System Center Service Manager 2012?
• Self-Service Portal
SharePoint based
Customization out-of-box web parts
• Service Requests &
Incidents SLA
• Release Management
• Data Warehouse/Reporting
Pull from SM, OM & CM
Publish to external warehouses (SAP, HR…)
• Orchestrator/VMM Integration
15. What’s new in System Center Configuration Manager 2012?
• User Centric Software Delivery
• User Identity
• More primary devices
• Defining working hours
• New intuitive ribbon console
• Role based administration
• Mobile management & support
• List devices + ActiveSync from SCCM
• Application Model
• Self-Service Portal
• DCM – now Enforcing configuration & policies
• Simplified hierarchical infrastructure
16. What’s new in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012?
Deployment Fabric Cloud Services
Fabric Service
Management
Management
Hyper-V Bare Service
Update
Metal Templates
Management
Provisioning
Hyper-V,
Dynamic Application
VMware, Citrix
Optimization Deployment
XenServer
Network Power Custom
Management Management Command
Execution
Storage Cluster
Management Management Image Based
Servicing
17. What’s new in System Center Operations Manager 2012?
• Removal of Root Management Server
• Overrides moved out of default management pack
• Resource pools for distributed health and group calculations
• Agents can report to multiple monitoring servers (easily configured)
• Redesigned console with more consistency with the suite
• Network discovery and monitorong (routers/switches/vLANs)
• SharePoint integration for dashboards
• Powershell module
18. What’s new in System Center Orchestrator 2012?
• Rewritten into .Net/Silverlight services and consoles
• Updated activities (formerly Foundation Objects)
• Runbook based approach (opposed to difficult policies)
• Revamped consoles
• ReST Web services (WDSL is gone)
• Tighter security for centralized management
19. What’s new in System Center Data Protection Manager 2012?
• Centralized management and console
• Media Co-location
• Manage 2010 and 2012 from a single console
• Integrate with ticketing systems, workflows and team structures
• Improved fault tolerance and reliability
• Enterprise scale
• Remote administration
• Certificate based protection
• SLA based alerting with alert categories
• Role based administration
• Item level recovery – even with DPM running as VM
20. Follow the Softchoice Microsoft team on twitter
@SCMSNavigator
Visit our Microsoft blog @
http://blogs.softchoice.com/microsoftnavigator/
Don’t know your Softchoice Account Manager?
Email: Sales@softchoice.com
Call: 800.268.7638
Editor's Notes
Key Points:Several key drivers to cloud adoption Top three: Agility, Focus & EconomicsThese benefits accrue to all types of clouds – private and public – although certain drivers realize greater benefits in one type of cloud over anotherTalk Track:What are the top drivers of cloud adoption? After looking at research by industry analysts and studies we've done ourselves, turns out it’s also about agility, focus and economics. Let’s start with agility, which has several facets. Everything moves more quickly in the cloud – and that’s true of course since cloud computing makes faster delivery of applications to users and customers possible. But, at the same time, cloud also speeds up your ability to respond to changes in business demand and direction. All of the IT infrastructure you need to deliver apps or scale-up to meet demand is essentially ready for you at the “flip of a switch.” So, the next time the marketing department launches a campaign and doesn't tell anybody, your public Website won’t be under water. It's very easy to scale up and down quickly to meet demand. Cloud also makes it easy to deliver agile solutions to your end users… making it possible for your people to work from nearly anywhere, at any time, across devices – securely and efficiently. On to our second cloud driver, the one we call "focus”… Say normally you commute to the city every day, but your car is in the shop, and you decide to take light rail instead for the rest of the week. Light rail has wi-fi, so you’re able to catch up on work instead of focusing on maneuvering through traffic jams. When cloud computing takes the underlying IT infrastructure off your plate, you no longer have to worry about it. Your IT staff is able to focus on higher-level parts of the stack, managing those applications SLAs, rolling out new applications, adding value rather than running engines. And finally, there’s economics. This is really about lowering delivery costs and increasing hardware utilization/efficiencies. Cloud pools together resources – hardware, facilities, operations and power – so you can buy broader sets of them on YOUR schedule – at a lower overall cost. As you get more and more servers in your cloud, you gain various economies of scale for both public and private clouds. We're going to talk more about types of cloud environments, but keep in mind that the cost for public cloud computing is less than private cloud for all points relative to economy of scale. That's because of additional utilization that you can get on public cloud. You can get utilization across multiple sectors, across multiple time zones, and so you can drive your utilization up, which fundamentally drives your costs down.So, agility, focus and economics are key motivating factors for companies to tap into cloud computing , and those benefits accrue to all types of clouds – public, private, etc
Key Points:Now let’s talk about the private cloud – the cloud computing model that we expect most enterprise customers will seriously adopt first. Different vendors have different ideas of what private cloud is, but only Microsoft offers a private cloud that delivers real value today AND positions a business to take advantage of greater public cloud benefits in the future. The Microsoft Private Cloud is a unique and comprehensive offering, built on four key “pillars”:All About the App- You can deploy both new and legacy applications on a self-service basis, and manage them across private cloud and public cloud environments. You can even virtualize server applications to simplify deployment and upgrading. And with a new way to see what’s happening inside the performance of your applications, you can remediate issues faster – before they become show-stoppers. The result is better SLAs, better customer satisfaction, and a new level of agility Cross-Platform From the Metal Up-architected from the raw metal up to enable process automation and configuration across platforms and environments. You can manage multiple hypervisors, including VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft offerings. You can run and monitor all major operating systems. And you can develop new applications using multiple toolsets. Foundation For the Future-Microsoft workloads (including SharePoint, Exchange, and SQL Server) work best on the Microsoft Private Cloud. But the story is much bigger than that. We’ve architected our platform and our management approach to be comprehensive and deeply integrated, spanning private and public cloud scenarios. Our goal is to take our customers beyond virtualization – and unnecessary per-VM licensing – and proceed with confidence in building a secure and manageable private cloud that delivers great performance and compelling economics. Cloud on Your Terms-you have the freedom to choose. Because Microsoft solutions share a common set of management, identity, virtualization, and development technologies, you can distribute IT across physical, virtual, and cloud computing models. Our solutions are built to give you the power to construct and manage clouds across multiple datacenters, infrastructures, and service providers – on terms that you control. That means you can keep a handle on compliance, security, and costs. And you can let your business needs drive your IT strategy, instead of having IT limit your options. System Center 2012 is a foundational component of the Microsoft private cloud and an important milestone in our private cloud roadmap. We’ll go into more detail later, but you can see from looking at just a few of the new capabilities that this product was designed to enable you to take full advantage of the cloud.If customer wants to drill into some of the top features:#1 - Hybrid IT Management is all about enabling customers to realize our vision of seamless infrastructure that spans both public and private deployments. A key enabler of this in 2012 is new component called App Controller which provides a single pane of glass for your private clouds as well as Azure subscriptions.#3 - Multi-Hypervisor Support is without a doubt one of the most popular features in System Center 2012 and is unique to Microsoft. We’ve found that many customers are open to a multi-hypervisor environment and the fact that we will integrate with their VMware investment is welcome news from Microsoft. This approach is also obviously a big differentiator for us when compared to VMware’s approach#7 - Deep Application Insight is another feature that is really resonating with customers, because it really is “all about the app”. The only reason customers deploy all of this infrastructure is to run their applications and this feature is a great differentiator. This is the result of our AVIcode acquisition which is now fully integrated into the Operations Manager component and allows application inspection down to the specific lines of code to determine performance issues. This is hugely helpful to customers as it allows them to stop the debate over whether the code is the problem or if it’s the deployment, which is something every customer faces.
Key Points:So at it’s heart, System Center 2012 delivers three core promises for datacenter and cloud management that differentiate us from VMware. What we’ve done with System Center 2012 is move away from a set of component products into a single, comprehensive management solution that provides unique capabilities that help you confidently deliver IT as a Service for your business.Talking PointsSystem Center 2012 cloud and data center management solutions empower you with a common management toolset for your private and public cloud applications and services. System Center helps you confidently deliver IT as a Service for your business by enabling productive infrastructure, predictable applications, and cloud on your terms. System Center 2012 helps you to deliver flexible and cost-effective private-cloud infrastructure to your business units in a self-service model, while carrying forward your existing data center investments. Recognizing that applications are where core business value resides, System Center 2012 offers deep application insight, which, combined with a “service-centric” approach, helps you deliver predictable application-service levels. Finally, System Center 2012 empowers you to deliver and consume private and public cloud computing on your terms with common management experiences across your hybrid environments. These capabilities are made possible by having System Center 2012 be a single product so that you no longer have to worry about getting silo’d solutions working together or wasting precious resources on integration.Productive Infrastructure System Center 2012 helps you deliver flexible and cost-effective infrastructure with what you already know and own. System Center 2012 helps you integrate heterogeneous data center investments, including multi-hypervisor environments. You can pool and abstract your data center resources and deliver self-service infrastructure to your business units in a flexible, yet controlled, manner.Heterogeneous supportSystem Center 2012 offers integrated management for your heterogeneous data center environments. For example, it offers multi-hypervisor management for Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere/ESX, and Citrix XenServer(something no other vendor can do); cross-platform monitoring of Linux/Unix/Sun Solaris guests; cross-platform configuration management for Linux and Unix servers; and integrated automation across management toolsets from vendors like HP, CA, BMC, EMC, and even VMware.Process automation System Center 2012 helps you simplify and standardize your data center with a flexible process automation platform. By automating repetitive tasks, you can lower your costs and improve service reliability. Self-service infrastructure With the provisioning capability of SC2012, you can pool and abstract your data center resources (such as compute, network, and storage) into a private cloud infrastructure fabric, which can then be easily maintained. You can allocate and delegate this pooled fabric to your business unit IT organizations in a flexible, yet controlled, manner. Application owners can consume capacity (and request additional capacity) in a self-service mode with requests for capacity fulfilled using the built in process automation and provisioning capabilities of System Center 2012.Predictable ApplicationsApps power your business. System Center 2012 helps you deliver predictable application service levels with deep application insight, and holistically manage your application services, which is where your core business value resides.Deep application monitoring and diagnosisOperations Manager offers deep application and transaction monitoring insight for .NET applications (and J2EE application server health) to maximize application availability and performance. Easy-to-use reporting and dashboarding allows you to track and communicate your SLAs more effectively.Comprehensive application manageability Microsoft Server Application Virtualization (SAV), optimizes your modern and existing applications for private cloud deployments. with sequenced state separation between the application and underlying infrastructure. By decoupling your applications from the infrastructure, SAV helps unlock application portability as appropriate to your business needs. Service-centric approachIn a cloud computing model, a service is a deployed instance of an application along with its associated configuration and virtual infrastructure. System Center 2012 offers a service-centric approach to help you manage your application components in the context of the holistic service that it represents to the business. From provisioning services (visualization, design, composition, deployment, and configuration) to operating them (monitoring, remediation, and upgrades), we help you manage the full lifecycle. Your CloudPrivate and public cloud computing on your terms managed with a common toolset. System Center 2012 empowers you to deliver and consume private and public cloud computing on your terms, with common management experiences across your hybrid environments.Flexibility with delegation and controlConstruct and manage clouds across multiple data centers, multiple infrastructures (such as Microsoft and VMware), and service providers (Windows Azure). Provide delegated authority and tools to enable self-service flexibility across your environments. You retain control across your private and public cloud environments, which is important for enterprise security and compliance requirements while ensuring your IT pros have a key role even as your organization adopts cloud-computing models.Applications self-service across clouds System Center 2012 empowers your application and service owners with a common self-service experience across private-cloud and public-cloud computing models. With App Controller, you can experience full visibility and control of your private and public cloud applications and services, so you can confidently adopt Windows Azure as your enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) choice.Physical, virtual, and cloud managementSystem Center has historically been known for physical and virtual management in the data center. You can also use your familiar on-premises Operations Manager to monitor your Windows Azure applications (using the Monitoring Pack for Windows Azure Applications)—thus extending your common management experience to the cloud. App Controller provides you a single pane of glass with self-service flexibility and control for your application owners to manage their applications and services across private and public clouds, including Windows Azure. Hybrid environments will be the corporate standard for many years; a common management toolset with integrated physical, virtual, IaaS, and PaaS management will help you increase efficiency and optimize ROI.
Key Points:We realize that customers are wrestling with a number of challenges as they look to navigate the transition between the traditional physical world and the new world of the cloud. It is more important than ever to reduce unnecessary complexity and expense, and enable a world of predictability and reliability.Microsoft has taken an industry leading approach to simplifying private cloud licensing and enabling customers to capture the compelling economics of the cloud. We have 3 core tenets to our approach to our private cloud licensing:1.)Allow customers to capture the compelling economics of the cloud by providing unlimited virtualization rights to decrease costs as density grows2.)Make it much more simple to add or shift private cloud capacity, or well managed server capacity, and to manage that capacity over time3.)Ensuring consistent capabilities so that the customer is in charge-with the flexibility of taking advantage of these capabilities when needed in a dynamic fashion
Key Points:You can see our approach to private cloud licensing reflected in the new licensing model for System Center 2012. We have moved to 2 editions of the product, with comprehensive, integrated and consistent capabilities that are only differentiated by virtualization rights, so that you have maximum flexibility to choose the edition(s) that best meet your needs. Talk Track:Two Editions: System Center 2012 SMLs will be released in two editions differentiated by virtualization rights only: Datacenter: Maximizes cloud capacity with unlimited virtualization for high density private clouds. Datacenter provides use rights for management of an unlimited number of VMs per license. Standard: For lightly or non-virtualized private cloud workloads. Standard Edition provides use rights for managing up to two VMs per license. All the features all the time. Each edition contains all the System Center 2012 components (i.e. OpsMgr, ConfigMgr, etc). No additional licenses are needed for management servers or SQL Server technology. There is no workload restriction on the licenses. Consistent licensing model across editions. Each edition license is Processor-based. The license covers up to two physical processors.
Key PointsCustomers who have invested in System Center with Software Assurance will have a terrific opportunity to transition into the new System Center 2012 product. Our approach to licensing transition was to ensure that our customers had equivalent or better capability coverage than with their current license position. For most customers, this will be the equivalent of finding out that your car has been upgraded to a high performance model, with the gas mileage of a hybrid.Talk TrackCustomers with existing licenses under Software Assurance (SA) can upgrade to System Center 2012 at no additional cost. At the date of General Availability, existing licenses will be exchanged for processor based licenses. Customers can then renew their SA on processor licenses at time of renewal. System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise Edition under SA will be exchanged for a minimum of 2 System Center 2012 Standard Edition licenses per server or for the actual number of processors in use. Standalone Standard or Enterprise Server Management Licenses will be exchanged for a minimum of 1 System Center 2012 Standard Edition licenses per server or for the actual number of processors in use.At the end of the current agreement term, customers should do a self-inventory, documenting the number of processors in each server in use with System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise Edition or standalone Server Management Licenses covered with Software Assurance. This will enable customers to receive the appropriate number of processor licenses based on System Center 2012 to continue their current deployments. Customers should do this self-inventory using the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit or other inventory tools and processes to accurately archive a time/date stamped inventory of hardware tied to System Center installations. If customers do not perform the self-inventory, they will receive two System Center 2012 licenses for each System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise Edition and one license for each standalone Server Management License.