More at http://cloudify.co/webinars/open-vCPE-framework-webinar.html
Oded Nahum discusses the importance of the vCPE use case and why we need to make it more open. He also talks about why it makes financial sense for telcos to do this in the long term.
Implementing vCPE with OpenStack and Software Defined NetworksPLUMgrid
Service providers and the broader vendor community have made progress in virtualizing key vCPE network functions. Concurrently, there is a strong push to bring these functions to the cloud. This session will discuss how Openstack is enabling this transformation and the role played by technologies like SDN and NFV. It will also discuss the latest advances in the networking stack of the Linux kernel which further enable these network functions to run in a fully distributed architecture. Finally, it will tie all these concepts together proposing a model for implementing virtual CPE services.
V cpe deployment-best-practices-presentationNir Cohen
A review of the various vCPE implementation options available for service providers and the factors that should be considered to avoid pitfalls and ensure optimal results.
Five Ways Virtual CPE Reduces Costs and Enables Innovative Enterprise ServicesGCC Computers
How service providers can contain costs and complexity
by virtualizing CPE functions.
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Implementing vCPE with OpenStack and Software Defined NetworksPLUMgrid
Service providers and the broader vendor community have made progress in virtualizing key vCPE network functions. Concurrently, there is a strong push to bring these functions to the cloud. This session will discuss how Openstack is enabling this transformation and the role played by technologies like SDN and NFV. It will also discuss the latest advances in the networking stack of the Linux kernel which further enable these network functions to run in a fully distributed architecture. Finally, it will tie all these concepts together proposing a model for implementing virtual CPE services.
V cpe deployment-best-practices-presentationNir Cohen
A review of the various vCPE implementation options available for service providers and the factors that should be considered to avoid pitfalls and ensure optimal results.
Five Ways Virtual CPE Reduces Costs and Enables Innovative Enterprise ServicesGCC Computers
How service providers can contain costs and complexity
by virtualizing CPE functions.
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Kazuya Hashimoto
Executive Vice President
NEC Europe Ltd.
Plenaries Session
ONS2015: http://bit.ly/ons2015sd
ONS Inspire! Webinars: http://bit.ly/oiw-sd
Watch the talk (video) on ONS Content Archives: http://bit.ly/ons-archives-sd
Joint presentation on behalf of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) between Cox Communications (Mazen Khaddem) and Cisco Systems (Dr. Loukas Paraschis). Presentation covers different SDN categories, NFV examples in business services, and use cases for WAN SDN.
Alcatel-Lucent Cloud: Network Functions Virtualization - The New Virtual Real...Alcatel-Lucent Cloud
Companies are facing cloud challenges; capacity expansion, commoditization, network and data center merging, network becoming a programmable platform, transformation at web speed. The answer is parallel scaling and the creation of the NFV Industry Group. NFV will greatly enhance the ability of "network applications" to elastically scale to meet changing demand patterns. Alcatel-Lucent is leading the way in this new reality.
Multilayer optimization deals with projected traffic demands of each type of service traffic, by constructing and analyzing different combinations for handling traffic across the transport layers to end up with a whole that is much less than the sum of the parts.
Moreover, when combined with centralized SDN control it promises to be a platform for innovative services that generate new revenue streams. While the payoffs are huge, SDN-controlled multilayer-optimized networks are not trivial.
There is a rocket science element to the underlying algorithms, and this increases in complexity when combined with real time control.
The presentation will discuss the motivations, benefits, and approaches, for SDN-controlled, multilayer optimized networks.
Dell EMC - - OpenStack Summit 2016/Red Hat NFV Mini Summit kimw001
Dell EMC's carrier-grade open NFV solution - powered by Red Hat OpenStack Platform. Presented at Red Hat's NFV Mini Summit at OpenStack Summit 2016 in Barcelona.
SoftCOM: Transforming Telco’s Infrastructure, Operation and Services in the N...Open Networking Summits
Sanqi Li
CTO, Carrier Network BG
Huawei
Plenaries Session
ONS2015: http://bit.ly/ons2015sd
ONS Inspire! Webinars: http://bit.ly/oiw-sd
Watch the talk (video) on ONS Content Archives: http://bit.ly/ons-archives-sd
CloudVPN – A Programmable Platform for Service Providers to evolve their VPN offerings with Cloud integration with a lower TCO (agility, automation, simplification) and low marginal cost achieved through Virtualization and SDN enablement.
Carrier Grade MANO for Service Agility - Presented at NFV World Congress 2015Sean Chen
In this presentation, Sean Chen shared Huawei's vision on NFV MANO products. As a result of years of telco experience, heavy R&D investment, as well as close collaborations with various customers, Huawei has strived to deliver an open platform that can be tailored to fit different customer's needs. Service agility recently has become the #1 driver for NFV adoption. Huawei's MANO products can help service providers to continue to deliver carrier-grade network services while enjoying the power of NFV.
Ahead of the NFV Curve with Truly Scale-out Network Function CloudificationMellanox Technologies
Presented at OpenStack Summit Vancouver by Chloe Jian Ma, Senior Director, Cloud Market Development (@chloe_ma)
Colin Tregenza Dancer, Director of Architecture
Learn more about how today's service provider's networks are built to deliver yesterday's services and how the Next generation service require a new approach with our Evolved Programmable Network's offerings will enable business transformation for new service deliveries.
Preso for Mike Abrams at TBD COnsulting at his Learning & innovation meetup in RL and in SL - covers our journey as Association of CPAs into the Virtual World of Second Life
Kazuya Hashimoto
Executive Vice President
NEC Europe Ltd.
Plenaries Session
ONS2015: http://bit.ly/ons2015sd
ONS Inspire! Webinars: http://bit.ly/oiw-sd
Watch the talk (video) on ONS Content Archives: http://bit.ly/ons-archives-sd
Joint presentation on behalf of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) between Cox Communications (Mazen Khaddem) and Cisco Systems (Dr. Loukas Paraschis). Presentation covers different SDN categories, NFV examples in business services, and use cases for WAN SDN.
Alcatel-Lucent Cloud: Network Functions Virtualization - The New Virtual Real...Alcatel-Lucent Cloud
Companies are facing cloud challenges; capacity expansion, commoditization, network and data center merging, network becoming a programmable platform, transformation at web speed. The answer is parallel scaling and the creation of the NFV Industry Group. NFV will greatly enhance the ability of "network applications" to elastically scale to meet changing demand patterns. Alcatel-Lucent is leading the way in this new reality.
Multilayer optimization deals with projected traffic demands of each type of service traffic, by constructing and analyzing different combinations for handling traffic across the transport layers to end up with a whole that is much less than the sum of the parts.
Moreover, when combined with centralized SDN control it promises to be a platform for innovative services that generate new revenue streams. While the payoffs are huge, SDN-controlled multilayer-optimized networks are not trivial.
There is a rocket science element to the underlying algorithms, and this increases in complexity when combined with real time control.
The presentation will discuss the motivations, benefits, and approaches, for SDN-controlled, multilayer optimized networks.
Dell EMC - - OpenStack Summit 2016/Red Hat NFV Mini Summit kimw001
Dell EMC's carrier-grade open NFV solution - powered by Red Hat OpenStack Platform. Presented at Red Hat's NFV Mini Summit at OpenStack Summit 2016 in Barcelona.
SoftCOM: Transforming Telco’s Infrastructure, Operation and Services in the N...Open Networking Summits
Sanqi Li
CTO, Carrier Network BG
Huawei
Plenaries Session
ONS2015: http://bit.ly/ons2015sd
ONS Inspire! Webinars: http://bit.ly/oiw-sd
Watch the talk (video) on ONS Content Archives: http://bit.ly/ons-archives-sd
CloudVPN – A Programmable Platform for Service Providers to evolve their VPN offerings with Cloud integration with a lower TCO (agility, automation, simplification) and low marginal cost achieved through Virtualization and SDN enablement.
Carrier Grade MANO for Service Agility - Presented at NFV World Congress 2015Sean Chen
In this presentation, Sean Chen shared Huawei's vision on NFV MANO products. As a result of years of telco experience, heavy R&D investment, as well as close collaborations with various customers, Huawei has strived to deliver an open platform that can be tailored to fit different customer's needs. Service agility recently has become the #1 driver for NFV adoption. Huawei's MANO products can help service providers to continue to deliver carrier-grade network services while enjoying the power of NFV.
Ahead of the NFV Curve with Truly Scale-out Network Function CloudificationMellanox Technologies
Presented at OpenStack Summit Vancouver by Chloe Jian Ma, Senior Director, Cloud Market Development (@chloe_ma)
Colin Tregenza Dancer, Director of Architecture
Learn more about how today's service provider's networks are built to deliver yesterday's services and how the Next generation service require a new approach with our Evolved Programmable Network's offerings will enable business transformation for new service deliveries.
Preso for Mike Abrams at TBD COnsulting at his Learning & innovation meetup in RL and in SL - covers our journey as Association of CPAs into the Virtual World of Second Life
Field-proven vCPE Framework can be used to develop scalable VNFs for enterprise and residential broadband
networks including vCPE, IPSec VPN Gateway, Tunneling Gateway, Virtual Service Edge Router, etc. that will be typically deployed by telco operators/ Communication service providers.
Presented by Eran Bello at the "NFV & SDN Summit" held March 2014 in Paris, France
Ideal for Cloud DataCenter, Data Processing Platforms and Network Functions Virtualization
Leading SerDes Technology: High Bandwidth – Advanced Process
10/40/56Gb VPI with PCIe 3.0 Interface
10/40/56Gb High Bandwidth Switch: 36 ports of 10/40/56Gb or 64 ports of 10Gb
RDMA/RoCE technology: Ultra Low Latency Data Transfer
Software Defined Networking: SDN Switch and Control End to End Solution
Cloud Management: OpenStack integration
Paving the way to 100Gb/s Interconnect
End to End Network Interconnect for Compute/Processing and Switching
Software Defined Networking
High Bandwidth, Low Latency and Lower TCO: $/Port/Gb
A Tale of Two OpenStack Contributors: A Newbie Developer and a Frustrated Ope...Cloud Native Day Tel Aviv
OpenStack is a community. It takes a community to develop such a massive ecosystem, but the sheer size of it also presents a barrier. This session will present two aspects of OpenStack Contributions.
From a Developer's perspective you will learn how to make your first OpenStack contribution, from your creating your account to identifying low hanging fruits, or even trying to push a new project to the ecosystem.
From the Operator's perspective, we have not yet reached the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Operators are still not yet accepted as equal members of the OpenStack community. We will go over some of the history, current issues, what is considered a contribution to OpenStack, and how this should, and can change.
OpenStack & OVS: From Love-Hate Relationship to Match Made in Heaven - Erez C...Cloud Native Day Tel Aviv
"Many developers building OpenStack clouds have “love-hate” relationship with OVS. They love flexibility and elasticity offered by OVS, but hate the network performance and scalability. As emerging technologies such as NFV keep pushing for higher network performance, it becomes critical to improve OVS performance without compromising flexibility, network programmability, and cost.
In this session, we will present an approach that Mellanox has devised with input from key partners and customers to accelerate Virtual Switch dataplane, using the embedded switch implemented in the server Network Interface Card (NIC)’s hardware. This approach supports both ParaVirt vNIC interfaces and SRIOV based vNICs interfaces"
Running a vCPE using OpenStack, OpenDaylight and SFCEttore Simone
Edge computing is increasing its utilization not only in Telcos, but is coming to be a challenge even for large Enterprises. OpenStack and the Edge/Fog computing, SDN and other technologies give us a strong opportunity to run Network Function Virtualization deployments full of innovative features.
How can you shorten your lead time in a dynamic market? Ericsson NFVi solution presentation starts with an overview of the opportunities & challenges with the Internet of Things (IoT). Then, it presents the requirements on the network infrastructure to support key 5G use cases, based on network slicing. It continues showing how Ericsson NFVi solution – a pre-integrated, open and verified platform – can enable rapid time to market for virtualization projects. It follows by sharing how to leverage telco cloud strategy to create value and make your network more agile and your operations more efficient. It concludes with key learnings from projects with early adopters, using the Ericsson telco cloud Target Operating Model, that lead our customers to a successful cloud adoption. Let Ericsson empower your digital transformation!
Cloudify: Open vCPE Design Concepts and Multi-Cloud OrchestrationCloudify Community
See how open vCPE can be achieved in the real world and in action, while integrating other VNFs into the service chain, while easily instantiating and managing on any cloud, leveraging open orchestration design concepts. More and more vendors are looking to not only easily onboard their VNFs to the cloud, but also build a stack that is versatile and not locked into one cloud provider or vendor. Join this webinar and learn how Datavision and Cloudify are helping deliver this end-to-end solution across the globe
SDN and NFV Value in Business Services: Innovations in Network Monetization a...Cisco Service Provider
White paper submitted to the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) by Mazen Khaddem of Cox Communications and Dr. Loukas Paraschis of Cisco Systems. Paper covers technical reference design in SDN including the role of open source, orchestration and control, and the importance of a hybrid control plane for legacy, multivendor networks.
Build your virtualized telecommunications network with NetApp and you will gain a proven carrier-grade approach to data availability, performance, security, and management.
IT teams face unprecedented challenges to support dynamic application requirements on top of a rigid legacy infrastructure. A vendor-agnostic orchestration helps deliver rapid network
services for multi-vendor infrastructure. Anuta NCX platform with it’s layered, YANG model-driven and abstraction approach helps in delivering vendor neutral, extensible and maintainable
services for multiple domains such as Branch/CPE, Data Center, Cloud, and Carrier Core networks. The NCX platform enables customers and partners to develop their own Service and Device models for complete customization within few days. Many large enterprises and service providers have deployed NCX to orchestrate their brownfield and greenfield networks.
SDN and NFV Value in Business Services: Innovations in Network Monetization a...Alan Sardella
White paper submitted to the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) by Mazen Khaddem of Cox Communications and Dr. Loukas Paraschis of Cisco Systems. Paper covers technical reference design in SDN including the role of open source, orchestration and control, and the importance of a hybrid control plane for legacy, multivendor networks.
VMworld 2013: Cloud Service Automation with NSX and vCloud Automation Center VMworld
VMworld 2013
Gargi Keeling, VMware
Valentina Reutova, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
A Study on Replication and Failover Cluster to Maximize System UptimeYogeshIJTSRD
Different types of clients over the globe uses Cloud services because cloud computing involves various features and advantages such as building cost effectives solutions for business, scale resources up and down according to the current demand and many more. But from the cloud provider point of view, there are many challenges that need to be faced in order to ensure a hassle free service delivery to the clients. One such problem is to maintain high availability of services. This project aims at presenting a high available HA solution for business continuity and disaster recovery through configuration of various other services such as load balancing, elasticity and replication. Miss Pratiksha Bhagawati | Mrs. Priya N "A Study on Replication and Failover Cluster to Maximize System Uptime" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-4 , June 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.compapers/ijtsrd41249.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.comcomputer-science/other/41249/a-study-on-replication-and-failover-cluster-to-maximize-system-uptime/miss-pratiksha-bhagawati
IT Brand Pulse industry brief describing a new approach to configuring virtual networks for virtual machines...layering hypervisor-based virtual networking services on top of hardware based virtual networking services. The result is more efficient management and lower costs.
Container ecosystem based PaaS solution for Telco Cloud Analysis and ProposalKrishna-Kumar
In our lab setup, we have derived a cluster
container orchestration mechanism to handle the
Telco specific (NFV) capabilities on top of the
traditional containers.
Original document @ http://dl6.globalstf.org/index.php/joc/article/view/1641/1667
Presented at TM Forum Live ! on May 16th 2017
by Red Hat - François Duthilleul Telco Solutions Architect
For the past few decades, telecommunications networks have been built using closed-source monolithic products from network equipment vendors. Today, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) are disrupting the way telecommunications networks are being built and operated and are gradually becoming the foundation of modern networking. The introduction of virtualisation, automation and orchestration provides the basis from which the networks will evolve towards a Zero-touch Orchestration, Operations and Management (ZOOM) target.
This presentation highlights the prominent role of open source and Red Hat’s portfolio in the implementation of future networks.
Don't hesitate to contact me at: fduthill@redhat.com
cross cloud inter-operability with iPaaS and serverless for Telco cloud SDN/NFVKrishna-Kumar
An overview of how SDN/NFV can be orchestrated with serverless and iPaas environment typically in Hybrid Cloud world. Cross cloud inter-operability for Telco cloud.
CONTAINERIZED SERVICES ORCHESTRATION FOR EDGE COMPUTING IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED W...IJCNCJournal
As SD-WAN disrupts legacy WAN technologies and becomes the preferred WAN technology adopted by corporations, and Kubernetes becomes the de-facto container orchestration tool, the opportunities for deploying edge-computing containerized applications running over SD-WAN are vast. Service orchestration in SD-WAN has not been provided with enough attention, resulting in the lack of research focused on service discovery in these scenarios. In this article, an in-house service discovery solution that works alongside Kubernetes’ master node for allowing improved traffic handling and better user experience when running micro-services is developed. The service discovery solution was conceived following a design science research approach. Our research includes the implementation of a proof-ofconcept SD-WAN topology alongside a Kubernetes cluster that allows us to deploy custom services and delimit the necessary characteristics of our in-house solution. Also, the implementation's performance is tested based on the required times for updating the discovery solution according to service updates. Finally, some conclusions and modifications are pointed out based on the results, while also discussing possible enhancements.
Similar to vCPE 2.0 – the business case for an open vCPE framework (20)
Join our webinar on dealing with too many automation tools and platforms, and how the newest Cloudify 5.1 release brings in the Orchestrator of Orchestrators and how this helps.
Presenting the newest version of Cloudify - 4.6 including a orchestrated SD-WAN demo from MEF18 where Cloudify is used as the orchestration platform for uCPE based on containers.
Edge Computing: A Unified Infrastructure for all the Different PiecesCloudify Community
Edge Computing along with 5G promises to revolutionize customer experience with immersive applications that we can only imagine at this point. The edge will include PNFs, VNFs, and mobile-edge applications; requiring containers, virtual machines and bare-metal compute. But while edge computing promises numerous new revenue streams, managing and orchestrating these edge infrastructure environments is not going to be a seamless, instant process. In this webinar, experts in NFV orchestration discuss the concerns you must address in the transition to the edge, and show how you can use available open source tools to create a single management environment for PNFs, VNFs, and mobile-edge applications.
While the need for network automation is becoming a key part of the overall digital transformation agenda, the reality is that the success rate behind previous attempts to drive network automation (a.k.a NFV) is only at about 30%, where the statistics show that 70% of transformation projects fail!
Converting from a three tier or monolithic application to microservices can be daunting, and often comes at a non-trivial cost or effort. So why are organizations doing it, and how do they justify the expense? We will discuss some of the practices and migration strategies used by organizations who undergo this sort of transformation, such as extracting functions through refactoring and converting them to microservices. As the journey progresses, we learn that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to making applications cloud-native… so the real question needs to be ‘how do I find the right approach for me?’ We can help you begin to answer that question for yourself, by discussing the facets of consideration such as technical, procedural, and risk tolerance to name a few.
Multi-Cloud Orchestration for Kubernetes with CloudifyCloudify Community
This presentation details Cloudify's Kubernetes plugin as well as Kubernetes Provider, offering complete integration with K8s and delivering multi-cloud container-based orchestration.
Multi-Cloud Orchestration for Kubernetes with Cloudify - Webinar PresentationCloudify Community
Watch the webinar at:
http://cloudify.co/webinars/multi-cloud-orchestration-kubernetes
Tune in as we unveil the new capabilities for maximizing use of Kubernetes with the new Cloudify Kubernetes Plugin, and the new Cloudify Kubernetes provider. Using Kubernetes with Cloudify has never been easier or more powerful, as you can now easily provision workloads on both cloud based VM’s and containers, or have total control and flexibility by using Cloudify as a Kubernetes IaaS.
Deep Work For Programmers - Reversim Summit 2017 - Pavel BrodksyCloudify Community
What is Deep work? How do we pursue it? What benefits can we reap from following the sage advice of Cal Newport, the man who coined the term? In my talk, I will explain what separates deep work from shallow work, how can any of us, especially in this industry benefit from doing more of it, and give you some specific life hacks to increase the amount and quality of the deep work you do on a daily basis.
A David vs. Goliath Tale of Triumph - Reversim Summit 2017 - Nati ShalomCloudify Community
More about our Open vCPE solution: cloudify.co/product/open-vcpe-solution
Nati Shalom tells the story of how open source startup Cloudify took on the likes of Cisco, Ericsson, and other giants and beat them by developing a solution for open network orchestration for NFV that takes significantly less time than the big vendors to implement.
Read the blog post here: http://cloudify.co/2017/10/15/tosca-onap-service-orchestration-cloudify-aria/
This presentation dives into the different concepts in TOSCA for ONAP, including types, interfaces, relationships, service modeling, and more.
Managing the Fragmented Cloud World in 2017? Tune in and watch the webinar to hear key insights from leading cloud thought leaders about the state of enterprise cloud today.
More at http://cloudify.co/2017/08/31/overcoming-the-five-hybrid-cloud-adoption-challenges/
First, should your enterprises work with a single cloud provider? Most likely your answer will be “No!” And for good reason.
Second, will hybrid (not necessarily cloud) be part of your data center’s future in the next few years? Here the answer is not as clear-cut. And in the absence of an obvious answer, new questions come to mind – what should I do with my current data center and how might this public cloud environment be incorporated into the mix?
Aside from dealing with their current on-premises resources, there is at least one good reason for enterprises to want to keep resources on premises – vendor lock-in. As an IT leader, your responsibility for the data and for business continuity force you to think long term. You need to maintain control and be able to move your IT assets based on your business needs at any time.
This consideration, combined with the current reality of having an on-premises data center to take care of, in most cases will launch you on the hybrid cloud journey. Leaders that see the half-full glass of this change will also see how this move forces their team to learn and innovate.
There are other incentives for building a hybrid cloud. Some enterprises simply want to use the public cloud to accommodate bursty workloads, and may want to migrate everything except for mission-critical applications and sensitive data repositories. Regardless of your incentive, it’s important to be aware of potential challenges lurking ahead.
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/
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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.
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.
vCPE 2.0 – the business case for an open vCPE framework
1. vCPE 2.0 – The Business Case for An Open vCPE Framework
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Hi, Jeremy
2. Oded Nahum (https://www.sdxcentral.com/author/onahumgmail-com/)
January 27, 2017
8:00 am PT
Lots of virtual ink has been spilled describing the benefits of Virtual CPE (vCPE) (https://www.sdxcentral.com/products/virtual-cpe/). The thought of simplifying the complex
world of enterprise wide-area network (WAN) (https://www.sdxcentral.com/sd-wan/definitions/software-defined-sdn-wan/) has ignited the imagination of many network en‐
gineers and enterprise IT admins. The vision of being able to consume, configure, and manage the WAN and its services (https://www.sdxcentral.com/directory/nfv-
sdn/services/) through self-service portals and automation (https://www.sdxcentral.com/cloud/devops/) has made vCPE the most common network functions virtualization
(NFV) (https://www.sdxcentral.com/nfv/) use case.
Another major driver is the cost savings from using low cost CPE devices and network services delivered over the top. For CSPs, it’s also about eliminating site visits, creat‐
ing flexible service options, automating service creation, and virtualizing assets.
On paper this plan looked perfect. However, when we started deploying these solutions we realized that reality is more complex. Additionally, the vCPE services failed to de‐
liver promised savings, and in some cases they were more expensive and lower quality.
In this post, I will try to demystify the vCPE cost model and offer an alternative way of building a vCPE solution that’s more cost effective and innovative, future proof, and
provides the flexibility and adaptability that CSPs need in order to remain relevant.
Show Me the Money
To better understand the CPE cost model and the evolution to virtual CPE, let’s look at how WAN services have traditionally been delivered. WAN services are built around
three elements; the CPE, the network, and the telco delivering the service. Price was based on the functionality, value, and reliability of the services built into the CPE device
and the associated network connectivity, bandwidth, and service offering. Therefore, enterprises wanting reliable services had to invest in expensive CPE boxes and reliable
network services (MPLS).
Here’s the math: Service (CPE + Network*) x Number of sites = Total cost per site/month.
*Network refers to type (e.g., MPLS), bandwidth, and service (e.g., MPLS VPN)
The architecture looked something like this:
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Back in 2012, NFV (https://www.sdxcentral.com/nfv/definitions/whats-network-functions-virtualization-nfv/) surfaced and the evolution to vCPE started. The idea was bril‐
liant and simple: shift the functionality, value, and cost…
…from the network edges to a centralized cloud (https://www.sdxcentral.com/cloud/)
…from hardware to software-based functions
…from MPLS to over-the-top (OTT) networking and direct Internet access
…from labor-intensive delivery to self-service and automation
The new architecture looked like this:
Photo Source: Gigaspaces
So, Why Didn’t We Get the Expected Results?
Let’s explore what happened to our three main solution elements during this evolution.
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4. The CPE
Prices dropped and market commoditization is underway. However, we cannot yet deliver functionality similar to a traditional CPE with a $50 white-label box. Major network
vendors have no incentive to support this evolution, and in fact, are making it difficult by bundling the service with a specific, proprietary CPE device.
The Network
Most vCPE solutions leverage OTT networking like software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) which—in theory—drive down the cost of bandwidth. As Enterprises
are offered OTT networking solutions from non-traditional service providers and networking vendors, traditional CSPs will be forced to adopt this technology and cannibalize
existing WAN revenue streams.
The Cloud / VNFs
This is a challenging and misunderstood problem. It’s expensive and complex to run virtual network functions (VNFs) (https://www.sdxcentral.com/nfv/definitions/virtual-net‐
work-function/) while delivering a positive service experience.
Let’s take a deeper look at this. There are a variety of network functions needed to build an enterprise WAN Service offering:
Routing Stacks
Security and unified threat management
Quality of service
Application visibility
Content management
And more….
Legacy networking vendors that built their solutions on dedicated hardware are being forced to quickly adopt a software model. Most vendors took the easy way by simply
offering a “virtual appliance.” This takes the same code base as the hardware solution and runs it in software on a hypervisor. Most of these virtual appliances inherit the
same behavior as their hardware ancestors, those being:
Closed or proprietary management interface
Lack of service and capacity elasticity
Legacy cost model and licensing
Heavy virtualization footprint
Let’s put these elements in our cost formula again: Service (CPE + network + VNF) x Number of sites = Total cost per site/month.
The addition of a VNF element to the cost formula is challenging and largely misunderstood. To find out the real cost of the VNFs we need to include costs for:
VNF licensing
Virtual infrastructure (CPU, RAM, storage)
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5. Management and orchestration
First-generation vCPE solutions are driven by legacy networking vendors promoting a turnkey solution. Their solution provides the CPE with the network gear, the VNFs,
and the orchestration framework. These solutions promise:
Faster time to market
Lower up front costs
Open application program interfaces (APIs)
Turnkey integration
Turnkey = Lock-in
These first-generation solutions have a dark side: lock-in. Turnkey vCPE solutions are just another kind of “networking box” that is closed, expensive, and tightly locked into
the vendor’s revenue model. We end up with a solution in which the savings of CPE commoditization and OTT networking are outweighed by the cost increase of legacy
VNFs and the infrastructure needed to run them.
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Forward Thinking
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6. As Nati Shalom wrote in a previous SDxCentral (https://www.sdxcentral.com/cloud/definitions/software-defined-everything-sdx-part-1-definition/) contributed article, Open‐
ness is the way forward (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/contributed/openness-true-path-nfv/2017/01/) — I still believe that the logic of centralizing net‐
work functionality and value is the right way to build vCPE models and achieve the promised cost model. But the only way to get there is by opening up the model to use
innovative, cloud native functions. This next-generation vCPE will be built on network functions adhering to the following principles:
Standard based and model driven
Simplified and streamlined on-boarding
Service and capacity elasticity
API Driven
Open and extensible
Use a cloud economics cost model
An Early Open Source Option
The vCPE framework powered by open source cloudify is an open NFV orchestration platform enabling CSPs to deliver next-generation vCPE solutions based on these
principles. CSPs can build vCPE solutions leveraging any CPE device, use any network service and facilitate on-boarding of any VNF. The next-generation, cloud-native net‐
work functions (http://getcloudify.org/from-virtual-appliance-to-cloud-native-vnf-whitepaper.html) market is growing fast. We’re already using functions that deliver enhanced
services at a fraction of legacy infrastructure and licensing costs. Rapid development is also happening in the adoption of container technologies for network functions
(http://getcloudify.org/2016/12/06/hybrid-vnf-container-orchestration-kubernetes-docker-swarm-using-cloudify.html).
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Future Proofing vCPE Models
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7. The open vCPE framework emphasizes orchestration and model-driven service design. This is radically different than turnkey solutions designed “bottom up,” which start
with stack components and build an orchestration framework designed to work only with these components. Cloudify model-driven, topology and orchestration specifica‐
tion for cloud applications (TOSCA)-based orchestration takes a “top down” approach. It assumes the components of a service will change over time but the service and
the way it’s orchestrated don’t.
This philosophy has several advantages:
Easily adopt new technologies (VNFs)
Service agility
CSP service differentiation
Enhanced user experience
CSP solution ownership
Why Operators Need an Open vCPE Framework
Commercially, successful models must adopt a framework that drives cost reduction of all solution elements—from the CPEs, the network, and the VNFs. They must em‐
brace fast technological innovation to unlock new opportunities, capabilities, and models that CSPs can benefit from. The only way to build the network of the future is to
keep it open.
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About Oded Nahum
Oded Nahum is the Director of Customer Solutions for Cloudify in EMEA & APAC. For the last 20 years he have been busy challenging status quo, pushing bound‐
aries, expanding horizons, and achieving improbable outcomes. Having worked as a Solution Architect at Cisco, Systems Engineer at PLUMgrid, Product Specialist at
Citrix, and Technology Evangelist, Oded's has a proven track record in Networking and Cloud Technologies. His specialties include Cloud Computing, IaaS, SaaS,
NFV, SD-WAN, vCPE, Automation and Orchestration, MANO, CloudStack, OpenStack, LBaaS, WAN Optimization, SDN, Layer 2-7, Traffic Engineering, QoS, Applica‐
tion Delivery, Virtualization, and Application Monitoring.
Oded is also a frequent speaker at various technology events and meetups.
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