As we step into the connected world, the demand for an omni-channel experience covering all the devices- mobile, tablets and smart watches, is increasing at an exponential trajectory. There is a growing need for developing web apps with intuitive customer centric interfaces, similar to the native apps or a desktop software.
Businesses need to adapt themselves to this rising consumerism and develop user-centric web applications with the following characteristics:
Seamless multi-platform experience
Robust architecture for future-proofing
High availability and scalability
Easy maintainability and security
The challenges faced while building a quality web app escalate further with the need to select the right set of technologies and development model to build your app. Additionally, the timelines available for development have become shorter, owing majorly to frequent changing business dynamics, adding more pressure on the development team to build the apps rapidly.
Harinbger systems hosted a webinar "Building Amazing Web Applications Rapidly with Emerging Tech" on October 21st, 2015. Attendees gained insights on how to leverage the emerging trends and technologies in web development to build a quality app rapidly.
Alta Product Brief - Cloud-based application delivery platform for web applic...Akamai Technologies
Alta is a cloud-based application delivery platform designed to enable enterprises to deliver all of their web-based applications in a fast, reliable, secure, and cost-effective way to any user on any device, anywhere in the world. Alta empowers enterprises to overcome the challenges related to delivering their applications over the Internet by placing all of the application delivery capabilities within the Akamai Intelligent Platform™, which means the optimizations are distributed globally and located closer to users and data centers, wherever they are. Akamai's unique cloud-based architecture also means that applications can be seamlessly migrated across data centers or clouds at will, and the application delivery optimizations will automatically move with the application.
Visit us to learn more: http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/application-delivery-platform.html
Making Sense Of Cloud Computing - by Mark RivingtonCA Nimsoft
1) The document summarizes key aspects of cloud computing including the 5-4-3 model of cloud characteristics, deployment models, and service offering models.
2) It discusses challenges of monitoring cloud environments due to their dynamic and elastic nature, and outlines different monitoring strategies for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
3) The presentation concludes by emphasizing that Nimsoft can help organizations manage services in the cloud.
The document discusses the commercial aspects of cloud computing. It describes how traditional systems involved high costs for hardware and underutilized capacity. Cloud computing provides software, platforms and infrastructure as on-demand services with scalability, reduced costs and increased reliability. Some examples given include Salesforce.com, ClickDesk and Amazon EC2. The document outlines advantages of cloud for situations with variable traffic loads and discusses barriers to cloud adoption like data security, legacy applications and internet connectivity requirements.
CloudOps evening presentation from Salesforce.comAlistair Croll
Peter Coffee, VP and Head of Platform Research at Salesforce, discussed building business apps on the Force.com platform. Force.com provides developers with tools to build scalable apps faster and at lower costs compared to traditional platforms. It offers capabilities such as visual process design, business rules, social business processes, and real-time device interactions. Force.com also enables secure communities and social business through its security and sharing models.
Organizations need a low-cost, low-risk entry point to cloud computing technology that achieves their business goals of agile service delivery, reducing costs, increasing performance and scalability of IT resources, and expanding capabilities. IBM SmartCloud Provisioning provides such a solution through its high scale, low touch architecture that allows rapid and scalable deployment of virtual machines, continuous operations with no downtime, fault tolerance, self-service provisioning, and hypervisor agnosticism.
Webinar to understand the process in developing an automation suite having a self maintaining automation mechanism and which would work for any customization and configuration.
Mobile exceeds desktop web usage! This was one landmark change which was documented in early 2014. Now, a year later, businesses are still trying to come to the grips with this tectonic plate-shifting change. According to Goldman Sachs, mobile commerce sales would hit $626 billion by 2018, and according to Forrester Research, 54% of the total e-commerce sales would be done on a mobile device in the next three years.
The ubiquitousness of the mobile devices accompanied by the ever improving infrastructure (speed, connectivity, etc) are the catalysts for this growth. But just as every coin has two sides, mobile poses a great challenge for many businesses which they are yet to tame.
One of the most common mistakes firms do, is to presume that users would be navigating through your app, or mobile site in the same manner as they do with a desktop. Simply having an app or a mobile web site should not be your Mobile First Strategy. Providing a good mobile user experience (UX) is indispensable in today’s business environment.
Thank you, for joining us for the webinar on “Mobile UX: Doing it the right way” on Wednesday, February 11, 2015. In this webinar attendees got insights on the various practices, processes and design strategies to create and deliver a rich mobile UX.
THE WEBINAR KEY TAKEAWAYS :
1- Designing an optimal, intuitive and rich UX with improved collaboration and consultative approach
2- Insights on user centric design strategies for mobile
3- Mitigate common challenges in app design and development
4- Enhance your mobile experience with the right balance between standards and creatives
As we step into the connected world, the demand for an omni-channel experience covering all the devices- mobile, tablets and smart watches, is increasing at an exponential trajectory. There is a growing need for developing web apps with intuitive customer centric interfaces, similar to the native apps or a desktop software.
Businesses need to adapt themselves to this rising consumerism and develop user-centric web applications with the following characteristics:
Seamless multi-platform experience
Robust architecture for future-proofing
High availability and scalability
Easy maintainability and security
The challenges faced while building a quality web app escalate further with the need to select the right set of technologies and development model to build your app. Additionally, the timelines available for development have become shorter, owing majorly to frequent changing business dynamics, adding more pressure on the development team to build the apps rapidly.
Harinbger systems hosted a webinar "Building Amazing Web Applications Rapidly with Emerging Tech" on October 21st, 2015. Attendees gained insights on how to leverage the emerging trends and technologies in web development to build a quality app rapidly.
Alta Product Brief - Cloud-based application delivery platform for web applic...Akamai Technologies
Alta is a cloud-based application delivery platform designed to enable enterprises to deliver all of their web-based applications in a fast, reliable, secure, and cost-effective way to any user on any device, anywhere in the world. Alta empowers enterprises to overcome the challenges related to delivering their applications over the Internet by placing all of the application delivery capabilities within the Akamai Intelligent Platform™, which means the optimizations are distributed globally and located closer to users and data centers, wherever they are. Akamai's unique cloud-based architecture also means that applications can be seamlessly migrated across data centers or clouds at will, and the application delivery optimizations will automatically move with the application.
Visit us to learn more: http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/application-delivery-platform.html
Making Sense Of Cloud Computing - by Mark RivingtonCA Nimsoft
1) The document summarizes key aspects of cloud computing including the 5-4-3 model of cloud characteristics, deployment models, and service offering models.
2) It discusses challenges of monitoring cloud environments due to their dynamic and elastic nature, and outlines different monitoring strategies for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
3) The presentation concludes by emphasizing that Nimsoft can help organizations manage services in the cloud.
The document discusses the commercial aspects of cloud computing. It describes how traditional systems involved high costs for hardware and underutilized capacity. Cloud computing provides software, platforms and infrastructure as on-demand services with scalability, reduced costs and increased reliability. Some examples given include Salesforce.com, ClickDesk and Amazon EC2. The document outlines advantages of cloud for situations with variable traffic loads and discusses barriers to cloud adoption like data security, legacy applications and internet connectivity requirements.
CloudOps evening presentation from Salesforce.comAlistair Croll
Peter Coffee, VP and Head of Platform Research at Salesforce, discussed building business apps on the Force.com platform. Force.com provides developers with tools to build scalable apps faster and at lower costs compared to traditional platforms. It offers capabilities such as visual process design, business rules, social business processes, and real-time device interactions. Force.com also enables secure communities and social business through its security and sharing models.
Organizations need a low-cost, low-risk entry point to cloud computing technology that achieves their business goals of agile service delivery, reducing costs, increasing performance and scalability of IT resources, and expanding capabilities. IBM SmartCloud Provisioning provides such a solution through its high scale, low touch architecture that allows rapid and scalable deployment of virtual machines, continuous operations with no downtime, fault tolerance, self-service provisioning, and hypervisor agnosticism.
Webinar to understand the process in developing an automation suite having a self maintaining automation mechanism and which would work for any customization and configuration.
Mobile exceeds desktop web usage! This was one landmark change which was documented in early 2014. Now, a year later, businesses are still trying to come to the grips with this tectonic plate-shifting change. According to Goldman Sachs, mobile commerce sales would hit $626 billion by 2018, and according to Forrester Research, 54% of the total e-commerce sales would be done on a mobile device in the next three years.
The ubiquitousness of the mobile devices accompanied by the ever improving infrastructure (speed, connectivity, etc) are the catalysts for this growth. But just as every coin has two sides, mobile poses a great challenge for many businesses which they are yet to tame.
One of the most common mistakes firms do, is to presume that users would be navigating through your app, or mobile site in the same manner as they do with a desktop. Simply having an app or a mobile web site should not be your Mobile First Strategy. Providing a good mobile user experience (UX) is indispensable in today’s business environment.
Thank you, for joining us for the webinar on “Mobile UX: Doing it the right way” on Wednesday, February 11, 2015. In this webinar attendees got insights on the various practices, processes and design strategies to create and deliver a rich mobile UX.
THE WEBINAR KEY TAKEAWAYS :
1- Designing an optimal, intuitive and rich UX with improved collaboration and consultative approach
2- Insights on user centric design strategies for mobile
3- Mitigate common challenges in app design and development
4- Enhance your mobile experience with the right balance between standards and creatives
Software as a service (SaaS) is software provided through a subscription or pay-per-use model and accessed over the internet, allowing multiple customers to use a single platform simultaneously. SaaS has driven significant market growth due to advantages for both vendors and customers, including predictable revenue, lower upfront costs, faster deployment, and easier maintenance for customers, as well as shorter sales cycles and instant updates for vendors. Common SaaS applications include enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, human resource management, collaboration software, and consumer-oriented services.
2011.10.19 - Cloud Partner Day - Reseller BreakoutClub Alliances
This document summarizes IBM's cloud computing offerings for business partners. It provides an overview of IBM SmartCloud products like Entry, Provisioning, and Enterprise that offer infrastructure, platform and software as a service. It highlights new solutions in areas like social business, commerce, analytics and industry applications that partners can sell. The document also discusses services, training and incentives IBM offers partners to help them build cloud practices and drive new business.
The document discusses the IBM Worklight SDK for Xamarin. It allows developers to create rich native applications in C# using Xamarin Studio while leveraging enterprise-grade app services from Worklight, such as security, integration, notifications and app management. This speeds development and enhances app capabilities. Developers can integrate Worklight server functionality and consume backend systems via Worklight adapters directly from their Xamarin apps.
This document discusses automating big data with the Hadoop agent. It notes that huge amounts of data are being created every day from various sources. Big data represents a fast-growing market opportunity for companies. Hadoop is an open source software used for distributed computing on large datasets. Automic helps bridge the gap between data analysts and engineers who run Hadoop tools by automating workflows and simplifying the user experience. It discusses how Netflix and eBay rely on Automic to automate their Hadoop environments and deliver petabytes of data to power business intelligence and recommendations.
Assessing your Application Portfolio (ENT202-R2) - AWS re:Invent 2018Amazon Web Services
The document discusses assessing a customer's application portfolio for migration to AWS. It recommends a six-step process: 1) document business and technical drivers, 2) collect necessary data, 3) evaluate applications against drivers, 4) build a migration backlog, 5) further analyze patterns, and 6) begin migrations. It also describes an MPA application that can help automate aspects of the assessment.
How They Did It and What You Can Learn From It: A Customer Case Study for Re...Amazon Web Services
Learn the objectives, approach, solution, lessons learned, and customer benefits Array Information Technology (ARRAY) realized by moving a mission-critical, Department of Defense mainframe to AWS. See why the customer decided on an automated COBOL-to-Java code refactoring solution and how this reduced risk, while applying a blended, agile, and traditional methodology.
On Wednesday September 24th, I hosted the first ever Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum at Orange Labs in South San Francisco. The event sponsored by Intel, Orange / France Telecom and Enomaly was a one-day meeting of major stakeholders active in cloud computing with an interest in the creation of cloud standardization and interoperability. The forum's goal was to define an organization that would enable interoperable enterprise-class cloud computing platforms through application integration and stakeholder cooperation.
This document provides guidance on developing a cloud migration strategy for typical large enterprise customers. It recommends starting with a cohesive approach involving sales, partners, solutions architects, and support teams. Key steps include obtaining executive sponsorship, identifying cloud champions, presenting integrated solutions, and thinking big. It also provides tips on assessing applications and prioritizing migrations, including focusing first on underutilized assets and those needing immediate scaling. Proof of concepts are recommended to build support and validate the approach before full migrations. Success criteria should go beyond just costs to include factors like agility, time to market, and new opportunities.
The document discusses EMC's hybrid cloud solution. It provides an overview of EMC and VMware's federated architecture and hybrid cloud approach. Key features of EMC Hybrid Cloud 2.5 are highlighted, including automated provisioning, monitoring, backup/recovery, and the ability to migrate workloads between private and public clouds.
Docker & aPaaS: Enterprise Innovation and Trends for 2015WaveMaker, Inc.
WaveMaker Webinar: Cloud-based App Development and Docker: Trends to watch out for in 2015 - http://www.wavemaker.com/news/webinar-cloud-app-development-and-docker-trends/
CIOs, IT planners and developers at a growing number of organizations are taking advantage of the simplicity and productivity benefits of cloud application development. With Docker technology, cloud-based app development or aPaaS (Application Platform as a Service) is only becoming more disruptive − forcing organizations to rethink how they handle innovation, time-to-market pressures, and IT workloads.
The document discusses different cloud computing models including Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It uses an online shop application example to illustrate how these different layers are built up. PaaS refers to the IT environment needed to deliver applications, such as load balancers, web servers, application servers, and databases, but does not include the hardware, virtualization or operating system. IaaS provides the infrastructure including the hardware, virtualization and operating system. SaaS refers to applications delivered as a multi-tenant service that many companies can sign up for and use.
In this session we will explain how to create a compelling business case for migration to AWS. We present a framework and tools for creating your business case, and guidelines for using AWS services to maximise value and optimise cost for migrations to the AWS Cloud. Gain a new perspective for business cases that includes factors such as automation, new technologies and organisational change.
Speaker: Andrew Boyd, Enterprise Account Manager, Amazon Web Services
Enterprise Management for the AWS Cloud (DMG209) | AWS re:Invent 2013Amazon Web Services
(Presented by 2nd Watch)
Enterprise IT professionals have unique challenges with cloud resources. Deploying and managing an enterprise application today requires a solution that ensures compliance with corporate IT governance requirements and has predictable and repeatable performance and costs. In addition business users also want solutions that can be deployed quickly. In this session 2nd Watch shows you how to deal with these enterprise class cloud deployment challenges. You see how AWS CloudFormation scripts can be extended to automate reference architecture design creation, deployment, and management. You also learn how to visually inventory deployed AWS reference architectures and monitor AWS usage, including how to budget for platform usage by project, department, or program, and track and allocate costs in a similar way.
The resurgence of event driven architectureKim Clark
Event driven architecture originally rose to popularity in the early 2000s, and it was far from new even then. However, topics described at the time such as event sourcing, complex event processing, and related concepts such as domain driven design have risen to the surface again. Cloud native principles, containerization, microservices, and the success of open source projects such as Apache Kafka have brought new relevance to these patterns. It is clear that RESTful APIs are not the only game in town for component interactions, but the interplay between APIs and events is subtle. We’ll explore the most common patterns in use today, their pros and cons, and consider what role events are likely to play in enterprise architecture in the future.
Migrating large fleets of legacy applications to AWS cloud infrastructure requires careful planning, since each phase needs to balance risk tolerance against the speed of migration.
Through participation in many large-scale migration engagements with customers, AWS Professional Services has developed a set of successful best practices, tools, and techniques that help migration factories optimize speed of delivery and success rate. In this session, we cover the complete lifecycle of an application portfolio migration with special emphasis on how to organize and conduct the assessment and how to identify elements that can benefit from cloud architecture.
This session provides an overview of how organizations can migrate workloads to the AWS cloud at scale. We will go through available migration frameworks and best practices with common use case examples during this session. After migrating the initial workloads, understand how to migrate at scale to the AWS cloud. Hear about real life experiences from the AWS Professional Services team and learn about common use case examples, frameworks, and best practices. Hear about what to avoid when migrating applications at scale to AWS and understand the tools and partner services that can assist you when migrating applications to AWS.
The document discusses metering and billing for SaaS platforms. It describes how Apache Stratos and Apprenda both utilize logging to track resource usage for metering. Metering provides accurate tracking of customer usage and allows analysis of usage patterns to determine optimal pricing models. It also handles collecting payments from customers through various methods and providing tools for vendors to define pricing plans, analyze subscriptions, and manage revenue.
Re-Host or Re-Architect: Understanding the Why and How of Very Different Path...Amazon Web Services
Re-Host or Re-Architect: Understanding the Why and How of Very Different Paths to Cloud Success
This session provides a framework to evaluate the most commonly used migration approaches and helps your organisation choose the right path for each application. Explore the 6 Rs of application migration before diving into the benefits of re-architecting including: faster time to market, more resilient architecture, developing a flexible platform for future development, and innovation.
Greg Sporton, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Deliver Desktop Applications with Amazon AppStream and WorkspacesAmazon Web Services
Amazon AppStream & Amazon Workspaces provide users with instant access to their applications from anywhere, on any connected device. Delivering desktop apps from the cloud allows enterprises to manage user access easily and keep apps current; ISVs can reach more users across more devices. In this session, we cover best practices for creating SaaS-like delivery models in your oroganisation for traditional desktop applications.
Speakers:
David Manu, Head of Workspaces & Productivity, Amazon Web Services
Emma Whitty, Vice President of IT, Clough
VMTurbo's technology automates decisions about where and when to run virtual machines and applications to maximize ROI from virtualization and cloud computing. It solves problems like bottleneck prevention, workload balancing, continuous rightsizing and capacity management. Benefits include 50% increased compute resource utilization, scaling virtual infrastructure without adding staff, eliminating risk, and maximizing returns from resources and facilities.
Software as a service (SaaS) is software provided through a subscription or pay-per-use model and accessed over the internet, allowing multiple customers to use a single platform simultaneously. SaaS has driven significant market growth due to advantages for both vendors and customers, including predictable revenue, lower upfront costs, faster deployment, and easier maintenance for customers, as well as shorter sales cycles and instant updates for vendors. Common SaaS applications include enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, human resource management, collaboration software, and consumer-oriented services.
2011.10.19 - Cloud Partner Day - Reseller BreakoutClub Alliances
This document summarizes IBM's cloud computing offerings for business partners. It provides an overview of IBM SmartCloud products like Entry, Provisioning, and Enterprise that offer infrastructure, platform and software as a service. It highlights new solutions in areas like social business, commerce, analytics and industry applications that partners can sell. The document also discusses services, training and incentives IBM offers partners to help them build cloud practices and drive new business.
The document discusses the IBM Worklight SDK for Xamarin. It allows developers to create rich native applications in C# using Xamarin Studio while leveraging enterprise-grade app services from Worklight, such as security, integration, notifications and app management. This speeds development and enhances app capabilities. Developers can integrate Worklight server functionality and consume backend systems via Worklight adapters directly from their Xamarin apps.
This document discusses automating big data with the Hadoop agent. It notes that huge amounts of data are being created every day from various sources. Big data represents a fast-growing market opportunity for companies. Hadoop is an open source software used for distributed computing on large datasets. Automic helps bridge the gap between data analysts and engineers who run Hadoop tools by automating workflows and simplifying the user experience. It discusses how Netflix and eBay rely on Automic to automate their Hadoop environments and deliver petabytes of data to power business intelligence and recommendations.
Assessing your Application Portfolio (ENT202-R2) - AWS re:Invent 2018Amazon Web Services
The document discusses assessing a customer's application portfolio for migration to AWS. It recommends a six-step process: 1) document business and technical drivers, 2) collect necessary data, 3) evaluate applications against drivers, 4) build a migration backlog, 5) further analyze patterns, and 6) begin migrations. It also describes an MPA application that can help automate aspects of the assessment.
How They Did It and What You Can Learn From It: A Customer Case Study for Re...Amazon Web Services
Learn the objectives, approach, solution, lessons learned, and customer benefits Array Information Technology (ARRAY) realized by moving a mission-critical, Department of Defense mainframe to AWS. See why the customer decided on an automated COBOL-to-Java code refactoring solution and how this reduced risk, while applying a blended, agile, and traditional methodology.
On Wednesday September 24th, I hosted the first ever Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum at Orange Labs in South San Francisco. The event sponsored by Intel, Orange / France Telecom and Enomaly was a one-day meeting of major stakeholders active in cloud computing with an interest in the creation of cloud standardization and interoperability. The forum's goal was to define an organization that would enable interoperable enterprise-class cloud computing platforms through application integration and stakeholder cooperation.
This document provides guidance on developing a cloud migration strategy for typical large enterprise customers. It recommends starting with a cohesive approach involving sales, partners, solutions architects, and support teams. Key steps include obtaining executive sponsorship, identifying cloud champions, presenting integrated solutions, and thinking big. It also provides tips on assessing applications and prioritizing migrations, including focusing first on underutilized assets and those needing immediate scaling. Proof of concepts are recommended to build support and validate the approach before full migrations. Success criteria should go beyond just costs to include factors like agility, time to market, and new opportunities.
The document discusses EMC's hybrid cloud solution. It provides an overview of EMC and VMware's federated architecture and hybrid cloud approach. Key features of EMC Hybrid Cloud 2.5 are highlighted, including automated provisioning, monitoring, backup/recovery, and the ability to migrate workloads between private and public clouds.
Docker & aPaaS: Enterprise Innovation and Trends for 2015WaveMaker, Inc.
WaveMaker Webinar: Cloud-based App Development and Docker: Trends to watch out for in 2015 - http://www.wavemaker.com/news/webinar-cloud-app-development-and-docker-trends/
CIOs, IT planners and developers at a growing number of organizations are taking advantage of the simplicity and productivity benefits of cloud application development. With Docker technology, cloud-based app development or aPaaS (Application Platform as a Service) is only becoming more disruptive − forcing organizations to rethink how they handle innovation, time-to-market pressures, and IT workloads.
The document discusses different cloud computing models including Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It uses an online shop application example to illustrate how these different layers are built up. PaaS refers to the IT environment needed to deliver applications, such as load balancers, web servers, application servers, and databases, but does not include the hardware, virtualization or operating system. IaaS provides the infrastructure including the hardware, virtualization and operating system. SaaS refers to applications delivered as a multi-tenant service that many companies can sign up for and use.
In this session we will explain how to create a compelling business case for migration to AWS. We present a framework and tools for creating your business case, and guidelines for using AWS services to maximise value and optimise cost for migrations to the AWS Cloud. Gain a new perspective for business cases that includes factors such as automation, new technologies and organisational change.
Speaker: Andrew Boyd, Enterprise Account Manager, Amazon Web Services
Enterprise Management for the AWS Cloud (DMG209) | AWS re:Invent 2013Amazon Web Services
(Presented by 2nd Watch)
Enterprise IT professionals have unique challenges with cloud resources. Deploying and managing an enterprise application today requires a solution that ensures compliance with corporate IT governance requirements and has predictable and repeatable performance and costs. In addition business users also want solutions that can be deployed quickly. In this session 2nd Watch shows you how to deal with these enterprise class cloud deployment challenges. You see how AWS CloudFormation scripts can be extended to automate reference architecture design creation, deployment, and management. You also learn how to visually inventory deployed AWS reference architectures and monitor AWS usage, including how to budget for platform usage by project, department, or program, and track and allocate costs in a similar way.
The resurgence of event driven architectureKim Clark
Event driven architecture originally rose to popularity in the early 2000s, and it was far from new even then. However, topics described at the time such as event sourcing, complex event processing, and related concepts such as domain driven design have risen to the surface again. Cloud native principles, containerization, microservices, and the success of open source projects such as Apache Kafka have brought new relevance to these patterns. It is clear that RESTful APIs are not the only game in town for component interactions, but the interplay between APIs and events is subtle. We’ll explore the most common patterns in use today, their pros and cons, and consider what role events are likely to play in enterprise architecture in the future.
Migrating large fleets of legacy applications to AWS cloud infrastructure requires careful planning, since each phase needs to balance risk tolerance against the speed of migration.
Through participation in many large-scale migration engagements with customers, AWS Professional Services has developed a set of successful best practices, tools, and techniques that help migration factories optimize speed of delivery and success rate. In this session, we cover the complete lifecycle of an application portfolio migration with special emphasis on how to organize and conduct the assessment and how to identify elements that can benefit from cloud architecture.
This session provides an overview of how organizations can migrate workloads to the AWS cloud at scale. We will go through available migration frameworks and best practices with common use case examples during this session. After migrating the initial workloads, understand how to migrate at scale to the AWS cloud. Hear about real life experiences from the AWS Professional Services team and learn about common use case examples, frameworks, and best practices. Hear about what to avoid when migrating applications at scale to AWS and understand the tools and partner services that can assist you when migrating applications to AWS.
The document discusses metering and billing for SaaS platforms. It describes how Apache Stratos and Apprenda both utilize logging to track resource usage for metering. Metering provides accurate tracking of customer usage and allows analysis of usage patterns to determine optimal pricing models. It also handles collecting payments from customers through various methods and providing tools for vendors to define pricing plans, analyze subscriptions, and manage revenue.
Re-Host or Re-Architect: Understanding the Why and How of Very Different Path...Amazon Web Services
Re-Host or Re-Architect: Understanding the Why and How of Very Different Paths to Cloud Success
This session provides a framework to evaluate the most commonly used migration approaches and helps your organisation choose the right path for each application. Explore the 6 Rs of application migration before diving into the benefits of re-architecting including: faster time to market, more resilient architecture, developing a flexible platform for future development, and innovation.
Greg Sporton, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Deliver Desktop Applications with Amazon AppStream and WorkspacesAmazon Web Services
Amazon AppStream & Amazon Workspaces provide users with instant access to their applications from anywhere, on any connected device. Delivering desktop apps from the cloud allows enterprises to manage user access easily and keep apps current; ISVs can reach more users across more devices. In this session, we cover best practices for creating SaaS-like delivery models in your oroganisation for traditional desktop applications.
Speakers:
David Manu, Head of Workspaces & Productivity, Amazon Web Services
Emma Whitty, Vice President of IT, Clough
VMTurbo's technology automates decisions about where and when to run virtual machines and applications to maximize ROI from virtualization and cloud computing. It solves problems like bottleneck prevention, workload balancing, continuous rightsizing and capacity management. Benefits include 50% increased compute resource utilization, scaling virtual infrastructure without adding staff, eliminating risk, and maximizing returns from resources and facilities.
These are the slides from the January 22 and 24, 2013 Chef for OpenStack Hack Days in Boston and New York City. The slides were slightly updated between the 2 days, so I've only uploaded the more recent set.
VMTurbo provides demand driven control software for virtualized and cloud environments. Some key points about the company:
- Founded in 2009 and has grown to over 1200 customers and 450 employees.
- The software characterizes application workload demand and uses a supply-demand matching engine to ensure workloads get the resources needed while maximizing efficiency.
- It addresses the gap that native hypervisor schedulers have in managing application workload demand in real-time across complex virtualized environments.
- The control provided goes beyond real-time to also handle reservations, deployment planning, and projecting future workload pipelines.
TXLF: Chef- Software Defined Infrastructure Today & TomorrowMatt Ray
The open source configuration management and automation framework Chef is used to configure, deploy and manage infrastructure of every sort. In addition to managing Linux, Windows and many other operating systems; Chef may be used to manage network hardware and storage systems. This session will provide an overview of the concepts and capabilities of Chef and discuss upcoming projects and how they fit into the Chef ecosystem.
The WAN Automation Engine (WAE) is a software platform that provides multivendor and multilayer visibility and analysis for service provider and large enterprise networks. It plays a critical role in answering key questions of network resource availability, and when appropriate can automate and simplify Traffic Engineering mechanisms such as RSVP-TE and Segment Routing. This session will focus on use-cases and APIs for developers.
Watch the DevNet 2035 replay from the Cisco Live On-Demand Library at: https://www.ciscolive.com/online/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=92720&backBtn=true
Check out more and register for Cisco DevNet: http://ow.ly/jCNV3030OfS
This document summarizes a presentation about real-world uses of CA Workload Automation iDash. It discusses two customer cases who use iDash for extensive reporting, SLA tracking, and workload prediction. Both customers use iDash to generate automated reports on their CA AutoSys environments to ensure business processes meet critical SLAs and for audit compliance. The presentation provides an overview of iDash and tips for deploying and using it to maximize its benefits.
VMware vFabric - Webinar with CIO MagazineAl Sargent
VMware's vFabric Cloud Application Platform focuses on providing a flexible, scalable infrastructure for modern applications, an empowered and secure mobile workforce, and faster time-to-market. The vFabric Suite offers a lightweight Java application server, data caching, database, and messaging solutions with cloud-friendly licensing designed to meet the needs of developing applications for elastic cloud environments in a cost-effective manner. It aims to provide a modern approach to application infrastructure that allows for both modernizing existing applications and building new applications optimized for cloud delivery, developer productivity, and changing data and application trends.
This document discusses the transition from traditional datacenter models to cloud operating models. Some key points:
- Traditional models used dedicated infrastructure in on-premise datacenters while cloud models use dynamic, multi-cloud infrastructure provisioned on-demand.
- This transition requires changes to people, processes, and systems - moving from ticket-driven ITIL processes to API-driven DevOps.
- Technologies like infrastructure as code, service discovery, and container deployment tools can help operationalize the cloud operating model and empower self-service.
- A digital transformation impacts an organization's people, processes, and systems and requires investment in cloud native skills, redesigning processes for self-service, and adopting new
The document discusses Wavefront, a real-time analytics and metrics monitoring platform. It provides 3D visibility through metrics, histograms, and traces. It has over 200 integrations and provides observability across applications, containers, microservices, and any cloud. Examples of companies using Wavefront successfully are mentioned, including Reddit, Lyft, Box, and Space Ape Games. Wavefront aggregates data from multiple sources and allows for quick issue identification and resolution.
Migrating to VMware on AWS as the First Step Towards the AWS Cloud (GPSCT206)...Amazon Web Services
Moving out of the data center can be a very large undertaking, especially when you consider all those VMware enterprise licenses and the expertise gained by years of fine-tuning your virtual data centers. Come to this session and learn how painless, intuitive, and advantageous VMware on AWS can be. We show you how to leverage the skills that your teams already have and reduce the pressure that a migration can produce as you prepare and train your teams for the next phase of your organization’s journey to the cloud.
Building Real-Time Serverless Data Applications With Joseph Morais and Adam W...HostedbyConfluent
Building Real-Time Serverless Data Applications With Joseph Morais and Adam Wagner | Current 2022
Enterprises that are trying to accelerate development times for their digital native applications are defaulting to serverless architectures. And for good reasons too. With self-serve provisioning, elastic scaling, lower TCO, and industry standard security features, it makes it easy for developers to spend more time building and less time managing.
Join this session to see first hand how developers are pairing Confluent's cloud native, serverless Apache Kafka offering with AWS's serverless services to build data apps and platform that scale.
Christian's part of the AWS re:Invent 2015 talk shared with Sajee Mathew - ARC304 - Designing for SaaS: Next Generation Software Delivery Models on AWS. Full video of the 60 minute presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d16aUztH9hk&list=PLhr1KZpdzukdRxs_pGJm-qSy5LayL6W_Y
Keynote Gregor Hohpe - Serverless ArchitecturesBATbern
Serverless is much more than an abstraction over compute run-time. Serverless applications are inherently distributed, easily respond to incoming events, and change the role of cloud automation. This session reflects on how serverless influences our application delivery and takes a peek at recent trends like Event-driven Architectures and Infrastructure from Code.
Introduction to Hybrid Cloud on AWS - AWS Online Tech TalksAmazon Web Services
Learning Objectives:
- Understand Hybrid Cloud architecture options
- Understand AWS portfolio of capabilities to support Hybrid Cloud
- Understand AWS partnerships with VMWare, Microsoft and other key enterprise players help you execute your Hybrid Cloud strategy
Why and How to Monitor App Performance in AzureIan Downard
This presentation provides a brief overview of APM solutions for the Azure cloud computing platform. We discuss three challenges unique to cloud computing which APM can address, and we summarize which APM techniques can be applied in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS application architectures. To illustrate APM techniques for IaaS and PaaS we look at a variety APM offers in the Azure marketplace, including Riverbed AppInternals, Microsoft Application Insights, and New Relic. To illustrate APM techniques for SaaS, we look at how SharePoint Online can be instrumented using JavaScript injection. This presentation was prepared and delivered by Ian Downard to the Portland Azure User Group on March 28th, 2016, in Portland Oregon.
This presentation provides a brief overview of APM solutions for the Azure cloud computing platform. We identify three challenges unique to cloud computing which APM can address, and we summarize which APM techniques can be applied in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS application architectures. To illustrate APM techniques for IaaS and PaaS we look at a variety APM offers in the Azure marketplace, including Riverbed AppInternals, Microsoft Application Insights, and NewRelic. To illustrate APM techniques for SaaS, we look at how SharePoint Online can be instrumented using JavaScript injection. This presentation was prepared and delivered by Ian Downard to the Portland Azure User Group on March 28th, 2016.
This document provides an overview of hybrid cloud solutions on AWS. It discusses key hybrid cloud use cases like integrated identity and access, data integration, and cloud bursting. It also describes AWS services that support hybrid architectures, like VPC, Direct Connect, Storage Gateway and EC2 Systems Manager. Finally, it presents examples of how large customers like John Deere and Kellogg's implement hybrid solutions with AWS.
This document discusses modern application architectures on AWS. It covers key concepts like containers, serverless computing using AWS Lambda, and managed Kubernetes with Amazon EKS. Specific services are highlighted, like Amazon ECS for container orchestration and Amazon Fargate for serverless containers without managing infrastructure. Case studies are presented on companies like FINRA and McDonald's using these architectures on AWS for speed, scale, and cost efficiency. The principles of cloud native applications are also summarized, focusing on pay-as-you-go models, self-service, elasticity, and other advantages over traditional data center architectures.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Fueling Migration: Shortcutting your Application Portfoli...Amazon Web Services
For many large enterprises, gathering data on your applications and developing a detailed business case for an all-in migration to AWS can be a time consuming activity. Instead of waiting on a full analysis to be completed, a global healthcare company decided to take a shortcut by reinventing the portfolio assessment process in a brilliantly simple manner. This new streamlined approach enabled them to immediately take advantage of the increased speed and innovative capabilities of AWS. In this session, IT directors and enterprise architects can learn these techniques to quickly identify which of their own applications fit cloud-friendly patterns; including, how to build a prioritized and multi-threaded migration queue that maximizes velocity and business value.
In early March, Harbour IT hosted a breakfast session in conjunction with VMware – “vForum Wrap – All the best bits from VMware’s vForum 2010”.
Held in both the Norwest and Sydney offices, local customers were given a VMware update from guest speaker, Bo Leksono. The presentation covered the latest VMware technology and the steps to follow on your journey to the cloud
This document discusses migrating IT policies to the cloud. It begins by describing pre-cloud realities like limited hardware and budgets that required strict IT policies. It then explains how the cloud enables greater automation, scalability, and usage-based costs. The document provides examples of how policies can be rethought for the cloud, such as managing infrastructure sprawl through budget caps instead of instance limits. It also discusses rearchitecting applications and infrastructure tiers to fully leverage cloud capabilities. Finally, it addresses how pre-cloud IT teams can continue adding value through cloud migrations.
Presentation on 'ERP in the cloud for public sector' by James Norman, EMC UK, at the Local Digital Futures - Working as One: Platforms & Sharing event held on 4 March 2016 in London.
Discussing strategies for building the next gen data centreICT-Partners
Maak kennis met onze visie op de transformatie van het datacenter. BigTec helpt u met een eigen referentiearchitectuur: een 'solution stack’ met 'best-of-breed’ oplossingen, gebruikmakend van Software Defined Webscale technologieën. Door in deze referentiearchitectuur oplossingen van o.a. Nutanix, Rubrik, VMTurbo en AVI Networks toe te passen, ontstaat een fundamentele basis voor het Software Defined Data Centre.
Presentatie 9 juni 2016
The document discusses how businesses can compose their digital enterprises by taking a composable business approach. It describes shifts in the market towards mobile, cloud services, and killer apps transforming industries. It advocates for a composable approach using building blocks to assemble new capabilities quickly. It outlines three steps to make the composable business a reality: 1) making IT cloud-ready, 2) strategically using SaaS applications, and 3) building next-gen engaging applications on platforms like Bluemix. It discusses various IBM offerings that can help like middleware, API management, mobile and integration technologies.
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This document summarizes an automatic server deployment workflow that deploys either a Windows Server 2008 or RHEL6 virtual machine depending on user input. The workflow accepts input for the guest operating system type and VM name, and contains decision logic and tasks to clone the appropriate virtual machine template.
Joe Graziano – Challenge 2 Design Solution V dm2 datacenter3tovmug
This document outlines the network and server infrastructure for a datacenter. It includes:
- 3 server racks that can hold 10 servers each for a total of 30 servers, with 10 servers needed currently for 500 VMs and extra racks for growth.
- Dell PowerEdge R905 servers with 256GB RAM and AMD Opteron processors.
- A Cisco Nexus 7000 switch with 7 modules for 48 ports each.
- A Cisco ASR 1002 router and 2 Cisco PIX 515e firewalls.
- A Pillar Axiom 500 SAN with 2 managers, 12 bricks with 18TB storage each, and a 48 port patch panel for iSCSI connections.
Joe Graziano – Challenge 2 Design Solution - V dm2 datacenter2tovmug
The document outlines the network and server infrastructure for a datacenter including 5 server racks that can hold 10 servers each for a total of 50 servers needed to support 1000 VMs. An additional 2 racks are included for future growth. Key equipment includes Cisco routers, firewalls, switches and a Pillar Axiom 500 SAN storage array.
Joe Graziano – Challenge 2 Design Solution V dm2 datacenter1tovmug
The document outlines the infrastructure requirements for a datacenter to support 5000 virtual machines. It will require 12 server racks with 10 servers per rack to host 100 servers total. There will be extra racks for growth. The racks will include servers, networking equipment, storage arrays, and telecommunications infrastructure. Key equipment includes Dell PowerEdge R905 servers, a Cisco Nexus switch, a Pillar Axiom SAN array, Cisco routers and firewalls, and fiber optic networking.
Joe Graziano – Challenge 2 Design Solution Maxrep data-sheet-1727271tovmug
Pillar Axiom MaxRep Replication for SAN 2.0 provides flexible data replication options to improve application availability and disaster recovery. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous replication locally and remotely. This allows data to be replicated across multiple sites for maximum protection. The software also enables application-aware recovery to consistent points in time and rollback flexibility to avoid data corruption. It offloads replication processing to optimize storage system performance.
Syncsort DPX is data protection software that combines with NetApp storage. Version 4.1.1 includes new features such as support for additional operating systems like Windows 2012 and applications like SQL Server 2012. It also features improvements to virtual machine recovery, tape support, NetApp platform support, backup throttling and security.
Joe Graziano – Challenge 2 Design Solution (Part 1)tovmug
The disaster recovery plan outlines strategies and procedures for recovering operations across three data centers in the event of a disruption or data center failure caused by zombies or other threats. The plan details response, resumption, and restoration phases and identifies dependencies and teams responsible for network, server, storage, backup software and systems. Appendices provide contact details, document maintenance procedures, data center diagrams, and a glossary.
This document describes the network infrastructure for three datacenters. Datacenter 1 has 12 server racks holding 100 servers to support 5000 VMs. Datacenter 2 has 5 racks holding 20 servers for 1000 VMs. Datacenter 3 has 3 racks holding 10 servers for 500 VMs. Each datacenter has Cisco networking equipment including routers, switches, and firewalls. They are connected by a 100 Mbps MPLS network and have internet connections. Remote users connect via 1 Mbps DSL with a Cisco VPN.
The first Technology driven reality competition showcasing the incredible virtualization community members and their talents. Virtually Everywhere · virtualdesignmaster.com
The first Technology driven reality competition showcasing the incredible virtualization community members and their talents. Virtually Everywhere · virtualdesignmaster.com
The first Technology driven reality competition showcasing the incredible virtualization community members and their talents. Virtually Everywhere · virtualdesignmaster.com
Virtualization Security: Physical. Virtual. Cloud.
This document discusses securing virtualized environments including physical, virtual, and cloud platforms. It identifies key security challenges in virtual/cloud environments like resource contention from antivirus scans, instant-on gaps when cloning VMs, and inter-VM attacks. The document promotes Trend Micro's Deep Security 8 product as a server security platform that can address these challenges across physical, virtual, and cloud platforms.
The document discusses virtualization networking and security solutions from Cisco, including the Nexus 1000V virtual switch. It provides an overview of the Nexus 1000V, explaining how it virtualizes traditional physical network components like supervisor modules and linecards/Ethernet modules. The purpose is to extend networking and network services to virtualized environments and workloads in a way that is agile, policy-driven, and multitenant.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMsSease
This talk draws on experimentation to enable AI applications with Solr. One important use case is to use AI for better accessibility and discoverability of the data: while User eXperience techniques, lexical search improvements, and data harmonization can take organizations to a good level of accessibility, a structural (or “cognitive” gap) remains between the data user needs and the data producer constraints.
That is where AI – and most importantly, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model techniques – could make a difference. This natural language, conversational engine could facilitate access and usage of the data leveraging the semantics of any data source.
The objective of the presentation is to propose a technical approach and a way forward to achieve this goal.
The key concept is to enable users to express their search queries in natural language, which the LLM then enriches, interprets, and translates into structured queries based on the Solr index’s metadata.
This approach leverages the LLM’s ability to understand the nuances of natural language and the structure of documents within Apache Solr.
The LLM acts as an intermediary agent, offering a transparent experience to users automatically and potentially uncovering relevant documents that conventional search methods might overlook. The presentation will include the results of this experimental work, lessons learned, best practices, and the scope of future work that should improve the approach and make it production-ready.
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What is an RPA CoE? Session 2 – CoE RolesDianaGray10
In this session, we will review the players involved in the CoE and how each role impacts opportunities.
Topics covered:
• What roles are essential?
• What place in the automation journey does each role play?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024Vadym Kazulkin
Java is for many years one of the most popular programming languages, but it used to have hard times in the Serverless community. Java is known for its high cold start times and high memory footprint, comparing to other programming languages like Node.js and Python. In this talk I'll look at the general best practices and techniques we can use to decrease memory consumption, cold start times for Java Serverless development on AWS including GraalVM (Native Image) and AWS own offering SnapStart based on Firecracker microVM snapshot and restore and CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) runtime hooks. I'll also provide a lot of benchmarking on Lambda functions trying out various deployment package sizes, Lambda memory settings, Java compilation options and HTTP (a)synchronous clients and measure their impact on cold and warm start times.
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
This talk will cover ScyllaDB Architecture from the cluster-level view and zoom in on data distribution and internal node architecture. In the process, we will learn the secret sauce used to get ScyllaDB's high availability and superior performance. We will also touch on the upcoming changes to ScyllaDB architecture, moving to strongly consistent metadata and tablets.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.