According to research from EMA, 85% of enterprises view automation as strategic, and 84% are modernizing applications to support digital transformation.
Organizations continue to increase digitalization to provide self-service power to customers, employees, and trading partners, and to connect and manage devices from sophisticated industrial tools to ordinary household objects. Automation is critical to addressing waves of disruption brought on by hybrid, multi-cloud architectures, work-from-anywhere initiatives, and the Internet of Things.
These slides—based on the webinar featuring industry experts Dan Twing from EMA Research and Kaete Piccirilli from Red Hat—examine how automation can deliver several business benefits, spanning areas from attracting and retaining talent, improved speed in bringing innovations to market, and a solid return on investment (ROI).
These slides--based on the webinar hosted by leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and Digitate--provide insights into the impact of machine learning on managing workload automation.
An intelligent IT automation strategy starts with a new mindset about the role of automation in the organization. Automation should be coordinated with an overall view of automation functions that span operations, development, and business functions. Freed from repetitive manual tasks and empowered with visibility, IT and business staff can turn their attention to strategically applying digitalization to the business.
Are you ready to redefine how you think about IT automation? Join us for a webinar that will change how you think about automation.
Leveraging Applied AI to Accelerate Digital Transformation and Maximize Busin...Apttus
Enterprise business is taking a significant leap forward in its ability to maximize business outcomes using Applied AI – conversational and cognitive technologies. Leading organizations are accelerating digital transformation through machine learning, artificial intelligence and virtual assistants designed to streamline and accelerate revenue generation processes.
In this presentation for executives and decision makers, we’ll share insights from the soon-to-be-published Harvard Business Review study on using Applied AI to accelerate B2B Quote-to-Cash processes and commerce. We’ll examine Applied AI emerging trends, best practices, and barriers to adoption.
With recent dramatic changes in our global workforce, economy, and environment, the need for digital business transformation is now proven to be critical.
These slides—based on the webinar from leading IT research firm EMA and Redwood Software—explain why you should prioritize digital transformation in your organization and support those efforts with workload automation.
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Leveraging automation to meet today’s key business needs: agility, speed and ...Precisely
In today’s highly disruptive and competitive market, a company is only as good as its data. The foundation of business strategy and digital innovation, data integrity is vital to achieving operational excellence.
With this in mind, Andrew Hayden, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Precisely, will be hosting a webinar on how to automate critical SAP processes to ensure data integrity, drive digital transformation success and deliver tangible business results.
During this session we will discuss:
• The increasing importance of recognizing the interdependence of processes and the data they create and manage
• The role that automation plays in delivering agility and speed needed to gain a competitive advantage
• How citizen developers are essential to successfully implementing a hyper automation strategy
• What are the advantages to adopting a portfolio approach to automation technology
• The future of automation and how to prepare your IT organization for it
These slides discuss how to improve user experiences, boost IT efficiency, and drive business growth with modern ITSM.
The slides also dive into:
- Global forces—positive and adverse—impacting midsize organizations
- Top challenges to delivering high-quality services and effective strategies to overcome them
- The research-based case for ITSM modernization and practical ways to get started
These slides--based on the webinar hosted by leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and Digitate--provide insights into the impact of machine learning on managing workload automation.
An intelligent IT automation strategy starts with a new mindset about the role of automation in the organization. Automation should be coordinated with an overall view of automation functions that span operations, development, and business functions. Freed from repetitive manual tasks and empowered with visibility, IT and business staff can turn their attention to strategically applying digitalization to the business.
Are you ready to redefine how you think about IT automation? Join us for a webinar that will change how you think about automation.
Leveraging Applied AI to Accelerate Digital Transformation and Maximize Busin...Apttus
Enterprise business is taking a significant leap forward in its ability to maximize business outcomes using Applied AI – conversational and cognitive technologies. Leading organizations are accelerating digital transformation through machine learning, artificial intelligence and virtual assistants designed to streamline and accelerate revenue generation processes.
In this presentation for executives and decision makers, we’ll share insights from the soon-to-be-published Harvard Business Review study on using Applied AI to accelerate B2B Quote-to-Cash processes and commerce. We’ll examine Applied AI emerging trends, best practices, and barriers to adoption.
With recent dramatic changes in our global workforce, economy, and environment, the need for digital business transformation is now proven to be critical.
These slides—based on the webinar from leading IT research firm EMA and Redwood Software—explain why you should prioritize digital transformation in your organization and support those efforts with workload automation.
Leverage cutting edge cognitive automation ml and rpa to elevate business valueEclature
Automation is revolutionizing the way business functions are conducted. Together with artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, automating events, processes and tasks offer cross-enterprise IT visibility that results in improved productivity and superior user experiences.
Leveraging automation to meet today’s key business needs: agility, speed and ...Precisely
In today’s highly disruptive and competitive market, a company is only as good as its data. The foundation of business strategy and digital innovation, data integrity is vital to achieving operational excellence.
With this in mind, Andrew Hayden, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Precisely, will be hosting a webinar on how to automate critical SAP processes to ensure data integrity, drive digital transformation success and deliver tangible business results.
During this session we will discuss:
• The increasing importance of recognizing the interdependence of processes and the data they create and manage
• The role that automation plays in delivering agility and speed needed to gain a competitive advantage
• How citizen developers are essential to successfully implementing a hyper automation strategy
• What are the advantages to adopting a portfolio approach to automation technology
• The future of automation and how to prepare your IT organization for it
These slides discuss how to improve user experiences, boost IT efficiency, and drive business growth with modern ITSM.
The slides also dive into:
- Global forces—positive and adverse—impacting midsize organizations
- Top challenges to delivering high-quality services and effective strategies to overcome them
- The research-based case for ITSM modernization and practical ways to get started
Workload automation (WLA) software is one of the critical tools required to run an effective IT operation.
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In ancient times – February 2020 – EMA research found that more than 50% of IT leaders surveyed were considering new ITSM platforms in the near future. That future arrived with a bang as IT organizations turbo-pivoted to deliver and support unprecedented levels and types of services to a global workforce suddenly working from home.
These slides—based on the webinar from EMA Research and ServiceNow—provide an informed look at building ITSM initiatives that will support business at the speed of life.
Accenture makes major investments in IT automation capabilities to advance to more intelligent and touch less IT operations, and business efficiency. Read more.
Visionary IT - Perspectives on the Modern IT OrganizationAlastair Davies
Produced by the Management Events' Surveys team, this report is based on responses from more than 1,100 enterprise IT decision makers across Europe and SEA.
Find our full calendar of invitational IT-focused events here: bit.ly/ITz9by
Leading IT research firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) conducted in-depth research with a global panel of IT leaders to explore the changing requirements and roles of IT asset management in digitally transforming enterprises.
These slides provide insights into the research findings.
Integration allows rapid business reconfiguration to create new business models and ecosystems while continually optimizing customer experience and business operations.
System Integration is crucial for nowadays business management in evolving markets. Large companies with production chains need to make workflow as simple and as intuitive as possible. Every question has to have an easy answer.
How the Analytics Translator can make your organisation more AI drivenSteven Nooijen
Today, about 80% of companies considers data as an essential part of their strategy. However, although most of these companies are taking models into production, they still have trouble turning their data and insights into valuable AI solutions. With businesses heavily invested in data and AI, what is it that actually makes the difference for being successful with AI?
In this talk, I will argue that the extent to which AI is embedded in the organisation is crucial to success. Furthermore, I will show why the Analytics Translator is the designated person to drive AI adoption by the business and what his or her tasks should look like. The insights shared come from our own experience as consultants as well as interviews with top Dutch enterprises about their AI maturity.
AI Maturity Levels and the Analytics TranslatorGoDataDriven
Buzzwords like Big Data, Cloud, and AI have been out there now for a couple of years. But today, businesses have a clear focus on the application of data use cases and the challenges around that such as metadata management, governance, security, and maintainability in general. Everybody seems to have some version of a data lake and wants to consolidate it into something (more) useful, or move from an on-premise version to the cloud. There is a general need to streamline current practices while also attempting to give multiple segments of users (data scientists, analysts, marketeers, business people, and HR) access in a way that is tailored to their needs and skills. In other words: businesses today are heavily invested in data and AI, but many have a hard time knowing how to mature it to the next level.
This is exactly where a "maturity model" comes into play. The goal of a maturity model is to help businesses in understanding their current and target competencies. This helps organisations in defining a roadmap for improving their competency. A maturity model is therefore one way of structuring progression, whether the company already embraces data science as a core competency, or, if it is just getting started.
In this presentation on maturity models, we answer the following questions:
1. What exactly is a maturity model and why would you need it? We address this by sharing GoDataDriven's maturity model and describing the different phases we have identified based on our experience in the field.
2. How can you use a maturity model to advance your organisation? Having a maturity model alone is not enough, in order for it to be valuable you need to act upon it. This paper provides concrete examples on how to do act based on practical stories and experiences from our clients and ourselves.
The Future of Automation: Insights from IDC and Preciselyredmondpulver
Automation’s role in digital transformation is nothing new, but the disruptions of recent years have exposed the limitations of our efforts to this point. Does that feel familiar? If so, you’re not.
We’re seeing so many companies double down on the development and deployment of automation as quickly and broadly across their organizations as possible. In other words, hyperautomation.
These efforts include adopting automation platforms with flexible, contingent workflow solutions that drive efficiencies and greater data integrity across multiple complex, data-intensive processes.
To learn more, watch our webinar – featuring guest speaker Maureen Fleming, Program Vice President for IDC's Intelligent Process Automation research, and Andrew Hayden, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Precisely.
Maureen will share recent research and insights from IDC on the importance of process automation to digital transformation, along with predictions for the future. Andrew will then share some of the challenges we’re hearing from our customers around automating complex, data-intensive business processes, and the features you should look for in an automation platform.
You can expect to come away with insights into:
· How digital transformation and automation are evolving
· How to avoid the key challenges with automation that slow down transformation benefits
· Market perspective from the automation provider’s point of view
· How a complete automation platform supports hyperautomation success
Digital has brought about change in everything we do.
Your business needs to adapt to changing customer
dynamics and respond to competitive forces in real-time.
Your customers, partners, and suppliers are on their toes
and they expect you to be up and running too.
Thus, IT leaders have to imbibe the concept of the platform ecosystem and think in terms of creating the “platforms that cohesively work internally and externally to enable a
multimodal connect for delivering digital enterprise.”
Take following steps to Platformize:
1. Build Contextual Process
Platform
2. Integrate mobility and social in
process applications
3. Deliver Process Experience
4. Elevate Orchestration
5. Loosely Couple resources
6. Create and Carry Process
Context
7. Practice Platform Governance
8. Think Big, Start Small, Earn
quick wins, Expand
9. Leverage Agile Methodology
and Accelerators
For more information visit: http://www.newgensoft.com/
In order to acknowledge the constant efforts of these companies, Insights Success has shortlisted “Major League of IT Consulting and Staffing Solution Providers 2018”
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force for enterprises across various industries. By building effective enterprise AI solutions, organizations can streamline their operations, significantly enhance customer experiences, and unlock innovative pathways that were previously inaccessible.
Read full blog-https://aiveda.io/blog/how-to-build-enterprise-ai-solution
EMA research places AI and automation initiatives at the top of C-level technology priorities. But resistance to change, lack of experience, and the complexity of training models all hold back progress.
These slides, based on the webinar, address 5 common misconceptions about AI-powered ITSM automation and present a practical way to revolutionize IT support without changing platforms, processes, or user habits.
Leading IT research firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) conducted in-depth research with a global panel of IT leaders to explore how the interaction of automation, AI, and the demands of digitally transforming enterprises combine to pave the way for ServiceOps – a technology-enabled approach to high-efficiency collaboration between IT service and ITOps.
Check out these slides to get results from this research.
To keep up with today’s speed of business, organizations are pushing their integration, automation, and orchestration capabilities to the limit, often losing time building from scratch solutions that already exist.
Watch this on-demand webinar from leading IT research firm EMA and BMC to discover how to drive solution adoption within your teams, from Dev to Ops, to ensure consistency and value at speed.
The typical network operations teams use four to 15 tools to manage and monitor infrastructure. This fractured approach to operations often leads to inefficiencies and errors. With Cisco Prime exiting the industry, network managers should look for ways to consolidate and optimize their entire toolset.
Check out these slides from EMA Research and OpenText to discover:
- Why you need to take a new approach to network tools
- Insights from your network management peers who are planning a Cisco Prime replacement
- What features and functionality you should look for in your next network management solution
Discover the latest insights and trends shaping the landscape of workload automation and orchestration, featuring highlights from the latest "EMA Radar™ Report for Workload Automation and Orchestration."
You will learn more about:
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- Data Pipeline Orchestration – Learn more about WLA support for DataOps, including the integration of Apache Airflow.
- Mainframe Modernization - Gain a deeper understanding of how organizations are embracing modernization while still leveraging their mainframe investments.
- DevOps Support and Collaboration - Explore the pivotal role of workload automation in DevOps practices.
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Buzzwords like Big Data, Cloud, and AI have been out there now for a couple of years. But today, businesses have a clear focus on the application of data use cases and the challenges around that such as metadata management, governance, security, and maintainability in general. Everybody seems to have some version of a data lake and wants to consolidate it into something (more) useful, or move from an on-premise version to the cloud. There is a general need to streamline current practices while also attempting to give multiple segments of users (data scientists, analysts, marketeers, business people, and HR) access in a way that is tailored to their needs and skills. In other words: businesses today are heavily invested in data and AI, but many have a hard time knowing how to mature it to the next level.
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Digital has brought about change in everything we do.
Your business needs to adapt to changing customer
dynamics and respond to competitive forces in real-time.
Your customers, partners, and suppliers are on their toes
and they expect you to be up and running too.
Thus, IT leaders have to imbibe the concept of the platform ecosystem and think in terms of creating the “platforms that cohesively work internally and externally to enable a
multimodal connect for delivering digital enterprise.”
Take following steps to Platformize:
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Platform
2. Integrate mobility and social in
process applications
3. Deliver Process Experience
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5. Loosely Couple resources
6. Create and Carry Process
Context
7. Practice Platform Governance
8. Think Big, Start Small, Earn
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9. Leverage Agile Methodology
and Accelerators
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In order to acknowledge the constant efforts of these companies, Insights Success has shortlisted “Major League of IT Consulting and Staffing Solution Providers 2018”
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Check out these research slides featuring Christopher Steffen, CISSP, CISA, and vice president of research at EMA, to discover the definition and get results from this research.
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research reveals that companies are more successful with SD-WAN transformation when they consume the technology as a managed service. How can an IT organization know if it is choosing the right managed service, though?
Check out these slides to discover the five things you need to know about the power of a managed SD-WAN solution. You will also learn more about:
- Why so many enterprises are choosing managed SD-WAN over DIY deployments
- What to look for in an SD-WAN provider
- Tips for optimizing Day 2 operations with managed SD-WAN
- Charting a path to the future, including secure access service edge
With users working remotely and data now housed in multiple cloud applications, securing access to data is essential to a modern digital infrastructure. The rise of hybrid work has challenged the scalability of traditional VPNs, and hybrid multi-cloud architectures have made legacy centralized VPN concentrators impractical.
Zero trust network access (ZTNA) is an emerging class of technology that addresses these new remote access requirements and challenges.
Check out these slides to discover why it’s time to transition from legacy VPNs to ZTNA solutions. You will also learn more about:
- Why legacy VPN technologies cannot address the needs of modern enterprises
- How ZTNA helps secure remote access in the era of hybrid work and multi-cloud architectures
- The best way to transition to a next-generation solution
Enterprises have been trying to automate their networks for decades, but manual tasks continue to dominate operations. According to Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research, only 34% of IT organizations have been able to automate more than half of their network provisioning and change management tasks. With so many commercial and open source network automation tools available, why aren’t organizations doing better?
These slides—based on the webinar featuring Shamus McGillicuddy (EMA Vice President of Research) and Jason Edelman (Founder and CTO of network automation solution provider Network to Code) —provide guidance on how to set a network automation strategy. You will also get insights on:
- Whether a network team should use open source, homegrown, or commercial network automation solutions
- How to establish a data-driven source of truth for your network
- How to build the right team for enabling your network automation strategy
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
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!
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.
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.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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/
Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZGlobus
ESnet has led the way in helping national facilities—and many other institutions in the research community—configure Science DMZs and troubleshoot network issues to maximize data transfer performance. In this talk we will present a summary of approaches and tips for getting the most out of your network infrastructure using Globus Connect Server.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
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.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Elizabeth Buie - Older adults: Are we really designing for our future selves?
The IT Automation Imperative: Keeping Pace with the Speed of Business
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The IT Automation Imperative:
Keeping Pace with the
Speed of Business
Dan Twing
President and COO
EMA
Kaete Piccirilli
Director, Product Marketing,
Ansible Automation
Red Hat
2. | @ema_research
Watch the On-Demand Webinar
• The IT Automation Imperative: Keeping Pace with the Speed of
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https://www.enterprisemanagement.com/freeResearch
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The role IT automation can
play in retaining and
attracting talent
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The IT Automation Imperative
The great resignation is impacting companies across
industries, making the job market a hot one for talent.
Knowing that it’s invariably less expensive to retain current
talent than recruit, hire, and train new employees, it’s
imperative for organizations to keep the IT staff they have.
Automation can play a critical part in this retention.
The great reprioritization is
coming - and automation will
be essential to keep
employees happy and
engaged in their work
Use automation to help retain IT talent
"
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David Egts, "How automation strategy
can help your retain IT talent" article in
The Enterprisers Project.
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4 ways automation strategy can help leaders retain IT talent
Automation is an effective way to help businesses become more resilient,
retain key talent and attract new talent.
Turnover is a fact of life, but automationcan blunt its
negative effects
Use automation to codify processes to deliver objective
consistency that humans simply cannot.
1
.
Anautomation community of practice lets everyone
share their best ideas andbuildon each other’s work
Introduceautomation across an organization so
processes belong to the community of practice, not just
to individual employees. This can providea sense of
belonging within an organization.
2.
Automationleads tomeaning and purpose
Use automation to codify processes to deliver objective
consistency that humans simply cannot.
.
3.
Automationintegrationwithworkflowtools
turbocharges meaning
Integrateautomated tasks with workflow tools so
employees are reprioritizing based on meaning and
purpose. This is critical to retain top talent.
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4.
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The need for upskilling your
teams to maintain business
resiliency
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▸ EstablishedDevOps culture
focused on learning new skills and
collaboratingacross teams
▸ Teams now work more efficiently
to create new, valuablefeatures
and services, while maintaining
productionperformance
▸ Saved thousands of work hours by
mitigating network downtime and
reducing productioncode defects
Think like a software developer
“We had to change our mindset in
how we’re managing and deploying
our global network, which included
not only modernizing our platforms
but modernizing our skill sets.”
Principal Software EngineeringGroup Manager
Fortune 15 technology company
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▸ Enabledstaff to focus on higher-
value work
▸ Saved around 400,000 hours in
three years by automating200
manualprocess
▸ Increased ROI by applying
repeatable solutions to more use
cases
An automation first cultural mindset
“We used to do things in silos;
now we're pushing Extreme
Automation as a whole, and
driving towards the same
mission.”
Director
FinancialServices customer
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Leverage and share individuals’ skills and experience
▸ 7,000 employees part of internal
Ansible Community of Practice
▸ 50,000 uniquely entitled IDs that
can run playbooksin 22 different
countries
▸ Over 10,000 Ansible playbooks
developed and implemented by
internal teams
An internal open source model:
▸ Team manages infrastructure
▸ Anyone can build playbooks:
500
playbook contributors sharing code
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Five best practices for a successful automation rollout
Align to business objectives
Be a champion of the technology, rather than a sponsor
Support change, collaboration, and accountability
Encourage adoption by investing in people
Transform by shifting to an automation-first culture
23. An integrated solution for the enterprise
Content creationtools
Business Tools andAnalytics
Operational tools
Execution
environments
Automation controller
Automation content navigator
Execution environmentbuilder
PlatformOperators
Ansible content tools Private automation hub
Automation services catalog
Automation mesh
Red Hat Insights for Ansible
Ansible Content Collections
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24. Architects
Flexible container-native
architecture
Real-time analytics and reporting
Scale globally with distributed
execution across regions
Content Creators
Content creation tooling
Portable distribution and
reliable execution
Large ecosystemof certified
automation
Operators
Enterprise features - WebUI,
API, RBAC, Auditing and
workflows for managing at
scale.
Hosted and private content
management solutions
Integrates with your
environment
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Content Creator
Operator
Architect
A platform for the entire automation team
The IT Automation Imperative
25. Network Security
Infrastructure Cloud
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Supported and certified content you can trust
Edge
120+
Certified Content Collections
55+
Certified technology partners
5x
Amount of supported content
delivered in 2021
The IT Automation Imperative
26. Extend use-cases and secure enterprise automation end-to-end
Ansible Automation Platform 2.3
November 2022
Event Driven Automation
Integrate with common eventbus and tooling to seamlessly
react to events
Secure Compliant Execution
Continued enhancements to secure supply chain of Ansible
content
Differentiated Automation Experience
Solution Framework delivery of opinionated content
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