Skytap provides on-demand cloud environments to help enterprises deliver better software faster by removing inefficiencies in the product development lifecycle. Traditional on-premise environments cause delays, restrict parallel development, and lead to defects due to inconsistent environments. Skytap's self-service cloud environments eliminate these problems by providing on-demand, pre-configured environments that developers can access immediately, reducing the time spent on environment management and reproducing defects.
Creating Complete Test Environments in the Cloud: Skytap & Parasoft WebinarSkytap Cloud
By utilizing virtualization technology in the SDLC, specifically service virtualization and virtual dev/test labs, companies can increase test coverage in less time and ultimately produce better software faster.
Download this complimentary webinar from Skytap and Parasoft now and learn how to to combine service virtualization with cloud-based dev/test environments.
Skytap parasoft webinar new years resolution- accelerate sdlcSkytap Cloud
In this webinar, co-hosted by Parasoft and Skytap, find out how to get your software lifecycle in shape for the New Year. You'll learn strategies for helping DevOps and Test collaborate in ways that make your SDLC leaner and more scalable.
In this webinar, Skytap and Sky IT Group share tips and advanced technology for how to build better software faster using cloud-based dev/test environments.
Webinar On-Demand: Skytap & Jenkins
The Skytap CI plugin for Jenkins provides development and test teams with a powerful tool to rapidly deploy complex environments form template, run build/test workflows, and then tear down environments once builds/tests are complete. Watch this webinar that dives into how Skytap and Jenkins can help you build better software faster.
Webinar: Cloud Data Masking - Tips to Test Software Securely Skytap Cloud
Axis Technology and Skytap provide tips on how masked test data management eliminates the possibility of exposure of sensitive information to either hackers or malicious insiders, increases security and compliance, and allows dev/test teams to perform more complete and continuous testing in the cloud.
Creating Complete Test Environments in the Cloud: Skytap & Parasoft WebinarSkytap Cloud
By utilizing virtualization technology in the SDLC, specifically service virtualization and virtual dev/test labs, companies can increase test coverage in less time and ultimately produce better software faster.
Download this complimentary webinar from Skytap and Parasoft now and learn how to to combine service virtualization with cloud-based dev/test environments.
Skytap parasoft webinar new years resolution- accelerate sdlcSkytap Cloud
In this webinar, co-hosted by Parasoft and Skytap, find out how to get your software lifecycle in shape for the New Year. You'll learn strategies for helping DevOps and Test collaborate in ways that make your SDLC leaner and more scalable.
In this webinar, Skytap and Sky IT Group share tips and advanced technology for how to build better software faster using cloud-based dev/test environments.
Webinar On-Demand: Skytap & Jenkins
The Skytap CI plugin for Jenkins provides development and test teams with a powerful tool to rapidly deploy complex environments form template, run build/test workflows, and then tear down environments once builds/tests are complete. Watch this webinar that dives into how Skytap and Jenkins can help you build better software faster.
Webinar: Cloud Data Masking - Tips to Test Software Securely Skytap Cloud
Axis Technology and Skytap provide tips on how masked test data management eliminates the possibility of exposure of sensitive information to either hackers or malicious insiders, increases security and compliance, and allows dev/test teams to perform more complete and continuous testing in the cloud.
How do you grapple with a legacy portfolio? What strategies do you employ to get an application to cloud native?
How do you grapple with a legacy portfolio? What strategies do you employ to get an application to cloud native?
This talk will cover tools, process and techniques for decomposing monolithic applications to Cloud Native applications running on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF). The webinar will build on ideas from seminal works in this area: Working Effectively With Legacy Code and The Mikado Method. We will begin with an overview of the technology constraints of porting existing applications to the cloud, sharing approaches to migrate applications to PCF. Architects & Developers will come away from this webinar with prescriptive replatforming and decomposition techniques. These techniques offer a scientific approach for an application migration funnel and how to implement patterns like Anti-Corruption Layer, Strangler, Backends For Frontend, Seams etc., plus recipes and tools to refactor and replatform enterprise apps to the cloud. Go beyond the 12 factors and see WHY Cloud Foundry is the best place to run any app - cloud native or non-cloud native.
Speakers: Pieter Humphrey, Principal Product Manager; Pivotal
Rohit Kelapure, PCF Advisory Solutions Architect; Pivotal
Hungry for more? Check out this blog from Kenny Bastani:
http://www.kennybastani.com/2016/08/strangling-legacy-microservices-spring-cloud.html
InfoSec: Evolve Thyself to Keep Pace in the Age of DevOpsVMware Tanzu
Companies going through digital transformation initiatives need their IT organizations to support an increased business tempo. While DevOps practices have helped IT increase their pace to keep up with market dynamics, security teams still need to follow suit.
InfoSec practitioners must modernize their practices to realize efficiencies in some of their most burdensome processes, like patching, credential management, and compliance.
By embracing a ‘secure by default’ posture security teams can position themselves as enabling innovation rather than hindering it.
Join Pivotal’s Justin Smith and guest speaker, Fernando Montenegro from 451 Research, in a conversation about how security can enable innovation while maintaining best security practices. They will examine best practices and cultural shifts that are required to be secure by default, as well as the role processes and platforms play in this transition.
SPEAKERS:
Guest Speaker: Fernando Montenegro, Senior Analyst, Information Security, 451 Research
Justin Smith, Chief Security Officer for Product, Pivotal
Jared Ruckle, Product Marketing Manager, Pivotal
Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.4: A First LookVMware Tanzu
Join Dan Baskette and Jared Ruckle for a view into Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) 2.4 capabilities with demos and expert Q&A. We’ll review the latest features for Pivotal’s flagship app platform, including the following:
- Native zero downtime push and native zero downtime restarts
- Dynamic egress policies
- Operations Manager updates
- Zero downtime stack updates to cflinuxfs3
- Zero downtime OS updates
- New pathways protected by TLS
- New scanning tools to assist with compliance
Plus much more!
Presenters : Dan Baskette, Director, Technical Marketing, Jared Ruckle, Principal Product Marketing Manager
Accelerate Digital Transformation with Pivotal Cloud Foundry on AzureVMware Tanzu
Enterprises are looking to leverage the flexibility and elasticity of Azure Cloud to support their business critical applications.
Join us to understand how Pivotal Cloud Foundry running on Azure Cloud can dramatically improve developer productivity, accelerate time-to-market, provide feedback loops, and streamline Day 2 operations for improved efficiency and heightened platform security.
Presenters : Martin McVay, Platform Architect EMEA, Pivotal & Ruediger Schickhaus, Global Black Belt, Microsoft
Cloud Foundry Platform Operations - CF Summit 2015cornelia davis
In this session Cornelia will share lessons learned from a month spent on a team that operates a production instance of Cloud Foundry. From her first morning addressing a prod incident, through building ops dashboards, documenting how a crashed micro-bosh is recovered, and prod deploys, she will share lessons on the value of declarative, immutable infrastructure, cloud-native application design and proper abstractions. Tried and true practices such as checklists and jumpboxes remain, while new ones such as primetime deploys and even live experimentation in prod emerge. The punchline? Even as an ops novice, she was immediately productive. In this session Cornelia will present specific techniques for using BOSH, system metrics and logging, dashboards, alerting systems and more to manage your CF deployment.
By talking about Microsoft's journey to Cloud cadence, this talk goes through all the DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Release Management and Hypothesis Driven Development.
It also introduces the impact of Docker and PaaS in DevOps.
Creating Complete Test Environments in the CloudErika Barron
Parasoft & Skytap explain how to combine service virtualization with cloud-based dev/test environments to empower teams to develop faster and improve software quality through increased test coverage.
Strangling the Monolith With a Data-Driven Approach: A Case StudyVMware Tanzu
SpringOne Platform 2017
David Julia, Pivotal; Simon P Duffy, Pivotal
"The scene: A complex procedure cost estimation system with hundreds of unknown business rules hidden in a monolithic application. A rewrite is started. If our system gives an incorrect result, the company is financially on the hook. A QA team demanding month-long feature freezes for testing. A looming deadline to cut over to the new system with severe financial penalties for missing the date. Tension is high. The business is nervous, and the team isn’t confident that it can replace the system without introducing costly bugs. Does that powder-keg of a project sound familiar?
Enter Project X: At a pivotal moment in the project, the team changed their approach. They’d implement a unique, data-driven variation of the strangler pattern. They’d run their system in production alongside the legacy system, while collecting data on their system’s accuracy, falling back to the legacy system when answers differed. True to Lean Software development, they would amplify learning and use data to drive their product decisions.
The end result: An outstanding success. Happy stakeholders, business buy-in to release at will, a vastly reduced QA budget, reusable microservices, and one heck of a Concourse continuous delivery pipeline. We achieved all of this, while providing a system that was provably better than the legacy subsystem we replaced.
This talk will appeal to engineers, managers, and product managers.
Join us for a 30 minute session where we review this case study and learn how you too can:
Build statistically significant confidence in your system with data-driven testing
Strangle the Monolith safely
Take a Lean approach to legacy rewrites
Validate your system’s accuracy when you don’t know the legacy business rules
Leverage Continuous Delivery in a Legacy Environment
Get Business and QA buy-in for Continuous Delivery
Articulate the business value of data-driven product decisions"
Troubleshooting App Health and Performance with PCF Metrics 1.2VMware Tanzu
Join Allen Duet and Pieter Humphrey from Pivotal, to learn how PCF Metrics enhances the developer experience on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, with a simple and powerful way to troubleshoot app health and performance issues. You will see how, with a single, unified interface for events, logs, and metrics, app devs can easily navigate graphs to identify problems and then view logs for that time slice.
The primary goals of this presentation are to:
- Show how to easily deploy Pivotal Cloud Foundry to CenturyLink Cloud with CenturyLink’s Blueprint technology
- Do a deep dive into the CF architecture via animated slides illustrating push, stage, deploy, scale and health management.
- Discuss in depth how Pivotal Cloud Foundry simplifies many traditional operator concerns such as managing application updates, availability, user/quota management and monitoring.
- Provide a brief introduction to BOSH, including why BOSH, what it is and animations of how it works.
- Discuss the value adds to CF BOSH OSS that Pivotal brings through the Pivotal Ops Manager product and our associated ecosystem of data and mobile services.
vCloud Automation Center and Pivotal Cloud Foundry – Better PaaS Solution (VM...VMware Tanzu
David Benedict - Member of Technical Staff, VMware
Cornelia Davis - Platform Engineer, Cloud Foundry, Pivotal
Vipul Shah - Director of Product Management, VMware
vCloud Automation Center provides powerful capabilities for policy-based orchestration of complex infrastructure and application deployments. A Platform as a Service (PaaS) such as Pivotal CF, built on the open-source Cloud Foundry, presents a set of abstractions and capabilities that focus on the application implementation and the run-time services it will leverage.
The value of a PaaS installation is equally driven by the set of application-centric capabilities provided, such as performance monitoring or logging, and by the set of services that can easily be integrated into an application; exposing the offerings in the vCloud Automation Center services catalog for leverage by apps deployed into Pivotal CF allows an enterprise faster time to value. And a vCloud Automation Center user can model system deployments, automating infrastructure provisioning and software deployments; this modeling is equally valuable even when the targets of the orchestrations are the PaaS abstractions of applications and services.
These products are very complementary and we’ll show you how. Understand how the combined vCloud Automation Center / Pivotal CF solutions provide the basis for a comprehensive PaaS solution. See a demo of and roadmap for the integrated solution. Learn how to use vCloud Automation Center to model applications for deployment into Pivotal CF and how to draw vCloud Automation Center services into Pivotal CF.
After a brief overview of both products, we will describe the capabilities and derived value of the joint solution that will have early access availability at the time of the conference.
Devops @ VMworld 2015 Presentation.
DevOps requires a separation of concerns between the application-focused teams and the platform-focused teams. While Platform and Application Operations have many similarities (monitor, logs, scale, upgrade, etc.) each is done with a different frame of reference. This workshop will provide an in-depth view into how a modern platform like Pivotal Cloud Foundry can eliminate the barriers between Development and Operations.
The workshop will showcase the difference in contexts for the application operations and platform operations teams, including monitoring, log analysis, capacity management, and upgrading. As well as show how separating the concerns of application operators (and application teams) from platform operators can remove the barriers between Dev and Ops. At this session we bring together both Dev and Ops with a combination of presentations and demos highlighting the capabilities of a modern platform. Monitor, log, scale, upgrade, and more, all with an integrated and auditable workflow for developers and operators.
Linux Collaboration Summit Keynote: Transformation: It Takes a Platformcornelia davis
The last decade has seen a revolution in the manner in which digital experiences are brought to consumers. The companies who are not just meeting increased consumer expectations, but are defining them, are operating within very different organizational structures than their predecessors, and are wrapping new processes around them. And they are using a fundamentally different toolset than before. In this talk we will cover a set of processes that serve this new paradigm and we’ll study the patterns that must be present in supporting software development and runtime platforms.
Driving Enterprise Architecture Redesign: Cloud-Native Platforms, APIs, and D...Chris Haddad
High performance architecture is rapidly changing due to three fundamental drivers:
Cloud-Native Platforms - change the way we think about operational infrastructure
DevOps - changes application lifecycle practices
APIs - change how we integrate and evolve infrastructure and applications, especially Mobile apps
In this session, Chris will illustrate:
Why you should consider Cloud-Native architecture components in your Enterprise Architecture
What is DevOps impact on App and API design guidelines
How API-centric focus revises Enterprise Architecture
Unlock your VMWare Investment with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (VMworld 2014)VMware Tanzu
Presented by Cornelia Davis - Platform Engineer, Cloud Foundry, Pivotal
You might have heard that software is eating the world; in every industry enterprises are being challenged to bring software to their consumers faster, more frequently and with insanely great user experiences. Pivotal Cloud Foundry, the leading enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) that is powered by Cloud Foundry, is designed to remove friction from the traditional application lifecycle, from dev all the way through production. At the core it exposes application and services “dial tone”, rather than infrastructure “dial tone”, scoping a broad set of capabilities such as autoscaling, dynamic routing, logging, monitoring, health management, and more, around the application. Pivotal Cloud Foundry itself depends on the infrastructure “dial tone” that is brilliantly provided by vSphere or vCHS.
In this session we’ll start with the industry drivers for PaaS, explain how it leverages your existing vSphere or vCHS investment, and then dive into the details of what Pivotal Cloud Foundry brings to the enterprise developer and operator. Light on slides and heavy on demo, you’ll come away with a solid understanding of how Pivotal CF can revolutionize they way your enterprise develops, delivers and manages software.
Maintaining SLOs of Cloud-native Applications via Self-Adaptive Resource SharingVladimir Podolskiy
Presentation at 13th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2019) by Panos Patros and Vladimir Podolskiy.
Link to the preprint of the paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332574597_Maintaining_SLOs_of_Cloud-native_Applications_via_Self-Adaptive_Resource_Sharing
Abstract of the talk: With changing workloads, cloud service providers can leverage vertical container scaling (adding/removing resources) so that Service Level Objective (SLO) violations are minimized and spare resources are maximized. In this paper, we investigate a solution to the self-adaptive problem of vertical elasticity for co-located containerized applications. First, the system learns performance models that relate SLOs to workload, resource limits and service level indicators. Second, it derives limits that meet SLOs and minimize resource consumption via a combination of optimization and restricted brute-force search. Third, it vertically scales containers based on the derived limits. We evaluated our technique on a Kubernetes private cloud of 8 nodes with three deployed applications. The results registered two SLO violations out of 16 validation tests; acceptably low derivation times facilitate realistic deployment. Violations are primarily attributed to application specifics, such as garbage collection, which require further research to be circumvented.
Tips to achieve continuous integration/delivery using HP ALM, Jenkins, and S...Skytap Cloud
To gain a competitive advantage in today's hyper competitive markets, businesses must constantly strive to develop, test, and release better software faster. This is made possible by means of continuously integrating, testing, and delivering new applications.
In this webinar, Skytap and Orasi will share tips to improve software quality and velocity with the automated creation and management of on-demand, scalable test environments. It will focus on best practices for continuous integration through the joint use of HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Jenkins and Skytap.
Specifically you learn how to:
-Integrate Jenkins with HP ALM
-Extend Dev/Test workloads to the cloud
-Integrate build automation with automated test management
How do you grapple with a legacy portfolio? What strategies do you employ to get an application to cloud native?
How do you grapple with a legacy portfolio? What strategies do you employ to get an application to cloud native?
This talk will cover tools, process and techniques for decomposing monolithic applications to Cloud Native applications running on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF). The webinar will build on ideas from seminal works in this area: Working Effectively With Legacy Code and The Mikado Method. We will begin with an overview of the technology constraints of porting existing applications to the cloud, sharing approaches to migrate applications to PCF. Architects & Developers will come away from this webinar with prescriptive replatforming and decomposition techniques. These techniques offer a scientific approach for an application migration funnel and how to implement patterns like Anti-Corruption Layer, Strangler, Backends For Frontend, Seams etc., plus recipes and tools to refactor and replatform enterprise apps to the cloud. Go beyond the 12 factors and see WHY Cloud Foundry is the best place to run any app - cloud native or non-cloud native.
Speakers: Pieter Humphrey, Principal Product Manager; Pivotal
Rohit Kelapure, PCF Advisory Solutions Architect; Pivotal
Hungry for more? Check out this blog from Kenny Bastani:
http://www.kennybastani.com/2016/08/strangling-legacy-microservices-spring-cloud.html
InfoSec: Evolve Thyself to Keep Pace in the Age of DevOpsVMware Tanzu
Companies going through digital transformation initiatives need their IT organizations to support an increased business tempo. While DevOps practices have helped IT increase their pace to keep up with market dynamics, security teams still need to follow suit.
InfoSec practitioners must modernize their practices to realize efficiencies in some of their most burdensome processes, like patching, credential management, and compliance.
By embracing a ‘secure by default’ posture security teams can position themselves as enabling innovation rather than hindering it.
Join Pivotal’s Justin Smith and guest speaker, Fernando Montenegro from 451 Research, in a conversation about how security can enable innovation while maintaining best security practices. They will examine best practices and cultural shifts that are required to be secure by default, as well as the role processes and platforms play in this transition.
SPEAKERS:
Guest Speaker: Fernando Montenegro, Senior Analyst, Information Security, 451 Research
Justin Smith, Chief Security Officer for Product, Pivotal
Jared Ruckle, Product Marketing Manager, Pivotal
Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.4: A First LookVMware Tanzu
Join Dan Baskette and Jared Ruckle for a view into Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) 2.4 capabilities with demos and expert Q&A. We’ll review the latest features for Pivotal’s flagship app platform, including the following:
- Native zero downtime push and native zero downtime restarts
- Dynamic egress policies
- Operations Manager updates
- Zero downtime stack updates to cflinuxfs3
- Zero downtime OS updates
- New pathways protected by TLS
- New scanning tools to assist with compliance
Plus much more!
Presenters : Dan Baskette, Director, Technical Marketing, Jared Ruckle, Principal Product Marketing Manager
Accelerate Digital Transformation with Pivotal Cloud Foundry on AzureVMware Tanzu
Enterprises are looking to leverage the flexibility and elasticity of Azure Cloud to support their business critical applications.
Join us to understand how Pivotal Cloud Foundry running on Azure Cloud can dramatically improve developer productivity, accelerate time-to-market, provide feedback loops, and streamline Day 2 operations for improved efficiency and heightened platform security.
Presenters : Martin McVay, Platform Architect EMEA, Pivotal & Ruediger Schickhaus, Global Black Belt, Microsoft
Cloud Foundry Platform Operations - CF Summit 2015cornelia davis
In this session Cornelia will share lessons learned from a month spent on a team that operates a production instance of Cloud Foundry. From her first morning addressing a prod incident, through building ops dashboards, documenting how a crashed micro-bosh is recovered, and prod deploys, she will share lessons on the value of declarative, immutable infrastructure, cloud-native application design and proper abstractions. Tried and true practices such as checklists and jumpboxes remain, while new ones such as primetime deploys and even live experimentation in prod emerge. The punchline? Even as an ops novice, she was immediately productive. In this session Cornelia will present specific techniques for using BOSH, system metrics and logging, dashboards, alerting systems and more to manage your CF deployment.
By talking about Microsoft's journey to Cloud cadence, this talk goes through all the DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Release Management and Hypothesis Driven Development.
It also introduces the impact of Docker and PaaS in DevOps.
Creating Complete Test Environments in the CloudErika Barron
Parasoft & Skytap explain how to combine service virtualization with cloud-based dev/test environments to empower teams to develop faster and improve software quality through increased test coverage.
Strangling the Monolith With a Data-Driven Approach: A Case StudyVMware Tanzu
SpringOne Platform 2017
David Julia, Pivotal; Simon P Duffy, Pivotal
"The scene: A complex procedure cost estimation system with hundreds of unknown business rules hidden in a monolithic application. A rewrite is started. If our system gives an incorrect result, the company is financially on the hook. A QA team demanding month-long feature freezes for testing. A looming deadline to cut over to the new system with severe financial penalties for missing the date. Tension is high. The business is nervous, and the team isn’t confident that it can replace the system without introducing costly bugs. Does that powder-keg of a project sound familiar?
Enter Project X: At a pivotal moment in the project, the team changed their approach. They’d implement a unique, data-driven variation of the strangler pattern. They’d run their system in production alongside the legacy system, while collecting data on their system’s accuracy, falling back to the legacy system when answers differed. True to Lean Software development, they would amplify learning and use data to drive their product decisions.
The end result: An outstanding success. Happy stakeholders, business buy-in to release at will, a vastly reduced QA budget, reusable microservices, and one heck of a Concourse continuous delivery pipeline. We achieved all of this, while providing a system that was provably better than the legacy subsystem we replaced.
This talk will appeal to engineers, managers, and product managers.
Join us for a 30 minute session where we review this case study and learn how you too can:
Build statistically significant confidence in your system with data-driven testing
Strangle the Monolith safely
Take a Lean approach to legacy rewrites
Validate your system’s accuracy when you don’t know the legacy business rules
Leverage Continuous Delivery in a Legacy Environment
Get Business and QA buy-in for Continuous Delivery
Articulate the business value of data-driven product decisions"
Troubleshooting App Health and Performance with PCF Metrics 1.2VMware Tanzu
Join Allen Duet and Pieter Humphrey from Pivotal, to learn how PCF Metrics enhances the developer experience on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, with a simple and powerful way to troubleshoot app health and performance issues. You will see how, with a single, unified interface for events, logs, and metrics, app devs can easily navigate graphs to identify problems and then view logs for that time slice.
The primary goals of this presentation are to:
- Show how to easily deploy Pivotal Cloud Foundry to CenturyLink Cloud with CenturyLink’s Blueprint technology
- Do a deep dive into the CF architecture via animated slides illustrating push, stage, deploy, scale and health management.
- Discuss in depth how Pivotal Cloud Foundry simplifies many traditional operator concerns such as managing application updates, availability, user/quota management and monitoring.
- Provide a brief introduction to BOSH, including why BOSH, what it is and animations of how it works.
- Discuss the value adds to CF BOSH OSS that Pivotal brings through the Pivotal Ops Manager product and our associated ecosystem of data and mobile services.
vCloud Automation Center and Pivotal Cloud Foundry – Better PaaS Solution (VM...VMware Tanzu
David Benedict - Member of Technical Staff, VMware
Cornelia Davis - Platform Engineer, Cloud Foundry, Pivotal
Vipul Shah - Director of Product Management, VMware
vCloud Automation Center provides powerful capabilities for policy-based orchestration of complex infrastructure and application deployments. A Platform as a Service (PaaS) such as Pivotal CF, built on the open-source Cloud Foundry, presents a set of abstractions and capabilities that focus on the application implementation and the run-time services it will leverage.
The value of a PaaS installation is equally driven by the set of application-centric capabilities provided, such as performance monitoring or logging, and by the set of services that can easily be integrated into an application; exposing the offerings in the vCloud Automation Center services catalog for leverage by apps deployed into Pivotal CF allows an enterprise faster time to value. And a vCloud Automation Center user can model system deployments, automating infrastructure provisioning and software deployments; this modeling is equally valuable even when the targets of the orchestrations are the PaaS abstractions of applications and services.
These products are very complementary and we’ll show you how. Understand how the combined vCloud Automation Center / Pivotal CF solutions provide the basis for a comprehensive PaaS solution. See a demo of and roadmap for the integrated solution. Learn how to use vCloud Automation Center to model applications for deployment into Pivotal CF and how to draw vCloud Automation Center services into Pivotal CF.
After a brief overview of both products, we will describe the capabilities and derived value of the joint solution that will have early access availability at the time of the conference.
Devops @ VMworld 2015 Presentation.
DevOps requires a separation of concerns between the application-focused teams and the platform-focused teams. While Platform and Application Operations have many similarities (monitor, logs, scale, upgrade, etc.) each is done with a different frame of reference. This workshop will provide an in-depth view into how a modern platform like Pivotal Cloud Foundry can eliminate the barriers between Development and Operations.
The workshop will showcase the difference in contexts for the application operations and platform operations teams, including monitoring, log analysis, capacity management, and upgrading. As well as show how separating the concerns of application operators (and application teams) from platform operators can remove the barriers between Dev and Ops. At this session we bring together both Dev and Ops with a combination of presentations and demos highlighting the capabilities of a modern platform. Monitor, log, scale, upgrade, and more, all with an integrated and auditable workflow for developers and operators.
Linux Collaboration Summit Keynote: Transformation: It Takes a Platformcornelia davis
The last decade has seen a revolution in the manner in which digital experiences are brought to consumers. The companies who are not just meeting increased consumer expectations, but are defining them, are operating within very different organizational structures than their predecessors, and are wrapping new processes around them. And they are using a fundamentally different toolset than before. In this talk we will cover a set of processes that serve this new paradigm and we’ll study the patterns that must be present in supporting software development and runtime platforms.
Driving Enterprise Architecture Redesign: Cloud-Native Platforms, APIs, and D...Chris Haddad
High performance architecture is rapidly changing due to three fundamental drivers:
Cloud-Native Platforms - change the way we think about operational infrastructure
DevOps - changes application lifecycle practices
APIs - change how we integrate and evolve infrastructure and applications, especially Mobile apps
In this session, Chris will illustrate:
Why you should consider Cloud-Native architecture components in your Enterprise Architecture
What is DevOps impact on App and API design guidelines
How API-centric focus revises Enterprise Architecture
Unlock your VMWare Investment with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (VMworld 2014)VMware Tanzu
Presented by Cornelia Davis - Platform Engineer, Cloud Foundry, Pivotal
You might have heard that software is eating the world; in every industry enterprises are being challenged to bring software to their consumers faster, more frequently and with insanely great user experiences. Pivotal Cloud Foundry, the leading enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) that is powered by Cloud Foundry, is designed to remove friction from the traditional application lifecycle, from dev all the way through production. At the core it exposes application and services “dial tone”, rather than infrastructure “dial tone”, scoping a broad set of capabilities such as autoscaling, dynamic routing, logging, monitoring, health management, and more, around the application. Pivotal Cloud Foundry itself depends on the infrastructure “dial tone” that is brilliantly provided by vSphere or vCHS.
In this session we’ll start with the industry drivers for PaaS, explain how it leverages your existing vSphere or vCHS investment, and then dive into the details of what Pivotal Cloud Foundry brings to the enterprise developer and operator. Light on slides and heavy on demo, you’ll come away with a solid understanding of how Pivotal CF can revolutionize they way your enterprise develops, delivers and manages software.
Maintaining SLOs of Cloud-native Applications via Self-Adaptive Resource SharingVladimir Podolskiy
Presentation at 13th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2019) by Panos Patros and Vladimir Podolskiy.
Link to the preprint of the paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332574597_Maintaining_SLOs_of_Cloud-native_Applications_via_Self-Adaptive_Resource_Sharing
Abstract of the talk: With changing workloads, cloud service providers can leverage vertical container scaling (adding/removing resources) so that Service Level Objective (SLO) violations are minimized and spare resources are maximized. In this paper, we investigate a solution to the self-adaptive problem of vertical elasticity for co-located containerized applications. First, the system learns performance models that relate SLOs to workload, resource limits and service level indicators. Second, it derives limits that meet SLOs and minimize resource consumption via a combination of optimization and restricted brute-force search. Third, it vertically scales containers based on the derived limits. We evaluated our technique on a Kubernetes private cloud of 8 nodes with three deployed applications. The results registered two SLO violations out of 16 validation tests; acceptably low derivation times facilitate realistic deployment. Violations are primarily attributed to application specifics, such as garbage collection, which require further research to be circumvented.
Tips to achieve continuous integration/delivery using HP ALM, Jenkins, and S...Skytap Cloud
To gain a competitive advantage in today's hyper competitive markets, businesses must constantly strive to develop, test, and release better software faster. This is made possible by means of continuously integrating, testing, and delivering new applications.
In this webinar, Skytap and Orasi will share tips to improve software quality and velocity with the automated creation and management of on-demand, scalable test environments. It will focus on best practices for continuous integration through the joint use of HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Jenkins and Skytap.
Specifically you learn how to:
-Integrate Jenkins with HP ALM
-Extend Dev/Test workloads to the cloud
-Integrate build automation with automated test management
A top focus for application development today is on acceleration, but faster is not always equal to better. The bigger challenge is to improve both the speed and quality of software releases. By utilizing virtualization technology, specifically service virtualization and virtual dev/test labs, in software development lifecycles, companies can increase test coverage in less time and ultimately produce better software faster.
HP Service Virtualization software allows development and testing teams to access limited or unavailable services in a simulated, virtual environment. This easy-to-use solution speeds application delivery, eliminates risks and reduces cost by virtualizing services within existing environments. By enabling parallel development and early functional testing, it eliminates wait times. HP Service Virtualization also reduces the use of high-cost, business-critical infrastructure or pay-per-use components for testing.
ALM 101: An introduction to application lifecycle managementnonlinear creations
Enabling faster, more efficient development of your technology solutions has broad implications for your entire organization. Incorporating application lifecycle management practices can help you achieve improved capability, faster deployment and happy developers.
ALM describes automated project management.
It includes
* Scrum based task management with issue tracking system.
* Contiguous Build
* Regression Test
* V-Model based Test process
* Defect management process
VMworld 2013: Moving Enterprise Application Dev/Test to VMware’s Internal Pri...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Thirumalesh Reddy, VMware
Padmaja Vrudhula, VMware
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Build & Deploy Scalable Cloud Applications in Record TimeRightScale
RightScale Webinar: August 11, 2009 - Watch this webinar to see a hands-on demonstration of WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio and Rapid Deployment Framework to illustrate how easy it is to build your app in Wavemaker. We demonstrate the one-button push from Wavemaker to deploying your application on the cloud with the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. From there we show you how easy it is to manage, automate and scale your application running on the cloud.
Managing IT environment complexity in a Multi-Cloud WorldShashi Kiran
IT environments are continuing to get complex. How do you better manage this to speed up digitization and application modernization efforts using environments-as-a-service
VMworld 2013: Practicing What We Preach: VMware IT on vCenter Operations Mana...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Shreekant Ankala, VMware
Sreekanth Indireddy, VMware
Prafull Kumar, VMware
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OOW16 - Deploying Oracle E-Business Suite for On-Premises Cloud and Oracle Cl...vasuballa
This Oracle Development session covers an overview of the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 architecture and configuration. It then dives into the latest updates for Oracle E-Business Suite installations and cloning. The session provides details on the latest automated features for provisioning a new Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 or 12.2 instance to Oracle Cloud. Learn how easy it is to lift and shift (migrate) your on-premises Oracle E-Business Suite instance to Oracle Cloud.
Service Virtualization: What Testers Need to KnowTechWell
Unrestrained access to a trustworthy and realistic test environment—including the application under test and all of its dependent components—is essential for achieving “quality @ speed” with agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery. Service virtualization is an emerging technology that provides teams access to a complete test environment by simulating the dependent components that are beyond their control, still evolving, or too complex to configure in a test lab. Arthur Hicken covers the ABCs of service virtualization—what it is and how it impacts Access, Behavior, Cost, and Speed. Learn how it can help you test more rigorously, avoid parallel development bottlenecks, and isolate application layers for debugging and performance testing in two ways—first, by providing access to dependent system components that would otherwise delay development and testing tasks; and second, by allowing you to alter the behavior of those dependent components in ways that would be impossible with a staged test environment.
Webinar: Removing Barriers to Continuous Delivery of Business ValueSkytap Cloud
Many organizations are recognizing that faster application delivery leads to better business results, but they struggle with how to overcome their barriers to faster delivery. In this webinar, guest speaker Kurt Bittner, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., discusses the most common barriers to faster delivery and how organizations work to remove those barriers.
Enable SAP Agility & Get the Most Out of the CloudSkytap Cloud
Emergys and Skytap are partnering together to ensure that customers are getting the most out of the cloud—particularly as it pertains to their business critical, enterprise applications like SAP.
This webinar reviews how these two companies leverage the cloud to empower your business to:
-Rapidly enable optimized business processes and applications without capital expenditure
-Enable significant TCO benefits by performing development, testing and training in the cloud
-Accelerate business innovation and embrace consumer experience in your business through cloud-delivered platform as a service
With the growth of cloud computing, technical managers are looking for ways to leverage this emerging platform to improve performance, reduce costs, and better serve their users. Due to the complexity of enterprise applications and their dependence legacy systems, some managers have concluded that making use of the cloud to power these applications is impossible, or prohibitively difficult.
This webinar will focus on the concept of “Hybrid Applications”; applications that take advantage of the latest cloud technologies while still retaining on-premise legacy systems. Specific examples of hybrid applications will be presented and discussed in order to show how development and IT managers can begin migration to the cloud.
Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid Cloud ComputingSkytap Cloud
Choosing Public vs. Private vs. Hybrid Cloud Computing, presented by Brett Goodwin, VP Marketing & Business Development at Skytap, Inc. at CAMP IT, 4.5.2013.
How To Leverage Cloud Computing for Business & Operational Benefit - CAMP ITSkytap Cloud
CAMP IT Presentation by Brett Goodwin, VP Marketing & Business Development at Skytap, Inc. Presented 2.22.2013. Focus: How To Leverage Cloud Computing for Business & Operational Benefit
Gamify Your Mind; The Secret Sauce to Delivering Success, Continuously Improv...Shahin Sheidaei
Games are powerful teaching tools, fostering hands-on engagement and fun. But they require careful consideration to succeed. Join me to explore factors in running and selecting games, ensuring they serve as effective teaching tools. Learn to maintain focus on learning objectives while playing, and how to measure the ROI of gaming in education. Discover strategies for pitching gaming to leadership. This session offers insights, tips, and examples for coaches, team leads, and enterprise leaders seeking to teach from simple to complex concepts.
Multiple Your Crypto Portfolio with the Innovative Features of Advanced Crypt...Hivelance Technology
Cryptocurrency trading bots are computer programs designed to automate buying, selling, and managing cryptocurrency transactions. These bots utilize advanced algorithms and machine learning techniques to analyze market data, identify trading opportunities, and execute trades on behalf of their users. By automating the decision-making process, crypto trading bots can react to market changes faster than human traders
Hivelance, a leading provider of cryptocurrency trading bot development services, stands out as the premier choice for crypto traders and developers. Hivelance boasts a team of seasoned cryptocurrency experts and software engineers who deeply understand the crypto market and the latest trends in automated trading, Hivelance leverages the latest technologies and tools in the industry, including advanced AI and machine learning algorithms, to create highly efficient and adaptable crypto trading bots
Designing for Privacy in Amazon Web ServicesKrzysztofKkol1
Data privacy is one of the most critical issues that businesses face. This presentation shares insights on the principles and best practices for ensuring the resilience and security of your workload.
Drawing on a real-life project from the HR industry, the various challenges will be demonstrated: data protection, self-healing, business continuity, security, and transparency of data processing. This systematized approach allowed to create a secure AWS cloud infrastructure that not only met strict compliance rules but also exceeded the client's expectations.
How to Position Your Globus Data Portal for Success Ten Good PracticesGlobus
Science gateways allow science and engineering communities to access shared data, software, computing services, and instruments. Science gateways have gained a lot of traction in the last twenty years, as evidenced by projects such as the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) and the Center of Excellence on Science Gateways (SGX3) in the US, The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and its platforms in Australia, and the projects around Virtual Research Environments in Europe. A few mature frameworks have evolved with their different strengths and foci and have been taken up by a larger community such as the Globus Data Portal, Hubzero, Tapis, and Galaxy. However, even when gateways are built on successful frameworks, they continue to face the challenges of ongoing maintenance costs and how to meet the ever-expanding needs of the community they serve with enhanced features. It is not uncommon that gateways with compelling use cases are nonetheless unable to get past the prototype phase and become a full production service, or if they do, they don't survive more than a couple of years. While there is no guaranteed pathway to success, it seems likely that for any gateway there is a need for a strong community and/or solid funding streams to create and sustain its success. With over twenty years of examples to draw from, this presentation goes into detail for ten factors common to successful and enduring gateways that effectively serve as best practices for any new or developing gateway.
How Recreation Management Software Can Streamline Your Operations.pptxwottaspaceseo
Recreation management software streamlines operations by automating key tasks such as scheduling, registration, and payment processing, reducing manual workload and errors. It provides centralized management of facilities, classes, and events, ensuring efficient resource allocation and facility usage. The software offers user-friendly online portals for easy access to bookings and program information, enhancing customer experience. Real-time reporting and data analytics deliver insights into attendance and preferences, aiding in strategic decision-making. Additionally, effective communication tools keep participants and staff informed with timely updates. Overall, recreation management software enhances efficiency, improves service delivery, and boosts customer satisfaction.
We describe the deployment and use of Globus Compute for remote computation. This content is aimed at researchers who wish to compute on remote resources using a unified programming interface, as well as system administrators who will deploy and operate Globus Compute services on their research computing infrastructure.
Cyaniclab : Software Development Agency Portfolio.pdfCyanic lab
CyanicLab, an offshore custom software development company based in Sweden,India, Finland, is your go-to partner for startup development and innovative web design solutions. Our expert team specializes in crafting cutting-edge software tailored to meet the unique needs of startups and established enterprises alike. From conceptualization to execution, we offer comprehensive services including web and mobile app development, UI/UX design, and ongoing software maintenance. Ready to elevate your business? Contact CyanicLab today and let us propel your vision to success with our top-notch IT solutions.
TROUBLESHOOTING 9 TYPES OF OUTOFMEMORYERRORTier1 app
Even though at surface level ‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError’ appears as one single error; underlyingly there are 9 types of OutOfMemoryError. Each type of OutOfMemoryError has different causes, diagnosis approaches and solutions. This session equips you with the knowledge, tools, and techniques needed to troubleshoot and conquer OutOfMemoryError in all its forms, ensuring smoother, more efficient Java applications.
Your Digital Assistant.
Making complex approach simple. Straightforward process saves time. No more waiting to connect with people that matter to you. Safety first is not a cliché - Securely protect information in cloud storage to prevent any third party from accessing data.
Would you rather make your visitors feel burdened by making them wait? Or choose VizMan for a stress-free experience? VizMan is an automated visitor management system that works for any industries not limited to factories, societies, government institutes, and warehouses. A new age contactless way of logging information of visitors, employees, packages, and vehicles. VizMan is a digital logbook so it deters unnecessary use of paper or space since there is no requirement of bundles of registers that is left to collect dust in a corner of a room. Visitor’s essential details, helps in scheduling meetings for visitors and employees, and assists in supervising the attendance of the employees. With VizMan, visitors don’t need to wait for hours in long queues. VizMan handles visitors with the value they deserve because we know time is important to you.
Feasible Features
One Subscription, Four Modules – Admin, Employee, Receptionist, and Gatekeeper ensures confidentiality and prevents data from being manipulated
User Friendly – can be easily used on Android, iOS, and Web Interface
Multiple Accessibility – Log in through any device from any place at any time
One app for all industries – a Visitor Management System that works for any organisation.
Stress-free Sign-up
Visitor is registered and checked-in by the Receptionist
Host gets a notification, where they opt to Approve the meeting
Host notifies the Receptionist of the end of the meeting
Visitor is checked-out by the Receptionist
Host enters notes and remarks of the meeting
Customizable Components
Scheduling Meetings – Host can invite visitors for meetings and also approve, reject and reschedule meetings
Single/Bulk invites – Invitations can be sent individually to a visitor or collectively to many visitors
VIP Visitors – Additional security of data for VIP visitors to avoid misuse of information
Courier Management – Keeps a check on deliveries like commodities being delivered in and out of establishments
Alerts & Notifications – Get notified on SMS, email, and application
Parking Management – Manage availability of parking space
Individual log-in – Every user has their own log-in id
Visitor/Meeting Analytics – Evaluate notes and remarks of the meeting stored in the system
Visitor Management System is a secure and user friendly database manager that records, filters, tracks the visitors to your organization.
"Secure Your Premises with VizMan (VMS) – Get It Now"
First Steps with Globus Compute Multi-User EndpointsGlobus
In this presentation we will share our experiences around getting started with the Globus Compute multi-user endpoint. Working with the Pharmacology group at the University of Auckland, we have previously written an application using Globus Compute that can offload computationally expensive steps in the researcher's workflows, which they wish to manage from their familiar Windows environments, onto the NeSI (New Zealand eScience Infrastructure) cluster. Some of the challenges we have encountered were that each researcher had to set up and manage their own single-user globus compute endpoint and that the workloads had varying resource requirements (CPUs, memory and wall time) between different runs. We hope that the multi-user endpoint will help to address these challenges and share an update on our progress here.
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Keep tabs on your field staff effortlessly with Informap Technology Centre LLC. Real-time tracking, task assignment, and smart features for efficient management. Request a live demo today!
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Software Engineering, Software Consulting, Tech Lead.
Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Core, Spring JDBC, Spring Security,
Spring Transaction, Spring MVC,
Log4j, REST/SOAP WEB-SERVICES.
Innovating Inference - Remote Triggering of Large Language Models on HPC Clus...Globus
Large Language Models (LLMs) are currently the center of attention in the tech world, particularly for their potential to advance research. In this presentation, we'll explore a straightforward and effective method for quickly initiating inference runs on supercomputers using the vLLM tool with Globus Compute, specifically on the Polaris system at ALCF. We'll begin by briefly discussing the popularity and applications of LLMs in various fields. Following this, we will introduce the vLLM tool, and explain how it integrates with Globus Compute to efficiently manage LLM operations on Polaris. Attendees will learn the practical aspects of setting up and remotely triggering LLMs from local machines, focusing on ease of use and efficiency. This talk is ideal for researchers and practitioners looking to leverage the power of LLMs in their work, offering a clear guide to harnessing supercomputing resources for quick and effective LLM inference.
Accelerate Enterprise Software Engineering with PlatformlessWSO2
Key takeaways:
Challenges of building platforms and the benefits of platformless.
Key principles of platformless, including API-first, cloud-native middleware, platform engineering, and developer experience.
How Choreo enables the platformless experience.
How key concepts like application architecture, domain-driven design, zero trust, and cell-based architecture are inherently a part of Choreo.
Demo of an end-to-end app built and deployed on Choreo.
SOCRadar Research Team: Latest Activities of IntelBrokerSOCRadar
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) has suffered an alleged data breach after a notorious threat actor claimed to have exfiltrated data from its systems. Infamous data leaker IntelBroker posted on the even more infamous BreachForums hacking forum, saying that Europol suffered a data breach this month.
The alleged breach affected Europol agencies CCSE, EC3, Europol Platform for Experts, Law Enforcement Forum, and SIRIUS. Infiltration of these entities can disrupt ongoing investigations and compromise sensitive intelligence shared among international law enforcement agencies.
However, this is neither the first nor the last activity of IntekBroker. We have compiled for you what happened in the last few days. To track such hacker activities on dark web sources like hacker forums, private Telegram channels, and other hidden platforms where cyber threats often originate, you can check SOCRadar’s Dark Web News.
Stay Informed on Threat Actors’ Activity on the Dark Web with SOCRadar!
Globus Compute wth IRI Workflows - GlobusWorld 2024Globus
As part of the DOE Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) program, NERSC at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and ALCF at Argonne National Lab are working closely with General Atomics on accelerating the computing requirements of the DIII-D experiment. As part of the work the team is investigating ways to speedup the time to solution for many different parts of the DIII-D workflow including how they run jobs on HPC systems. One of these routes is looking at Globus Compute as a way to replace the current method for managing tasks and we describe a brief proof of concept showing how Globus Compute could help to schedule jobs and be a tool to connect compute at different facilities.
Check out the webinar slides to learn more about how XfilesPro transforms Salesforce document management by leveraging its world-class applications. For more details, please connect with sales@xfilespro.com
If you want to watch the on-demand webinar, please click here: https://www.xfilespro.com/webinars/salesforce-document-management-2-0-smarter-faster-better/
In 2015, I used to write extensions for Joomla, WordPress, phpBB3, etc and I ...Juraj Vysvader
In 2015, I used to write extensions for Joomla, WordPress, phpBB3, etc and I didn't get rich from it but it did have 63K downloads (powered possible tens of thousands of websites).
How Does XfilesPro Ensure Security While Sharing Documents in Salesforce?XfilesPro
Worried about document security while sharing them in Salesforce? Fret no more! Here are the top-notch security standards XfilesPro upholds to ensure strong security for your Salesforce documents while sharing with internal or external people.
To learn more, read the blog: https://www.xfilespro.com/how-does-xfilespro-make-document-sharing-secure-and-seamless-in-salesforce/
A Comprehensive Look at Generative AI in Retail App Testing.pdfkalichargn70th171
Traditional software testing methods are being challenged in retail, where customer expectations and technological advancements continually shape the landscape. Enter generative AI—a transformative subset of artificial intelligence technologies poised to revolutionize software testing.
2. Skytap provides Environments
as a Service to the enterprise.
Our solution removes the
inefficiencies and constraints
that companies have within the
product lifecycle.
As a result, our customers
deliver better software faster.
2008
Product Launched
275+
Enterprise Customers
More than 3 Million
Environments Provisioned
120+
Employees in the Seattle Cloud Hub
7 Patents
+ Additional 9 Pending
Headquarters
Downtown Seattle
4 Global Data Centers
+ Amazon Web Services & SoftLayer
4. Environment:
Storefront2-0D
Web/Application
Server 1
(WebSphere)
Web/Application
Server 2
(WebSphere)
Load Balancer
(F5 Big IP VE)
External
OpenFiler
(Virtual SAN)
Oracle RAC
Database Server
(Linux)
Oracle RAC
Database Server
(Linux)
Domain Controller
(Windows)
Reporting Server
(Windows)
DMZ RAC
Private
InternalWeb UI
Reporting SQL
Server
(Windows)
RAC
Public
Ecommerce Example Environment
Corporate
Headquarters
On-Premise
Datacenter
SAP via
Service
Virtualization
6. For Technology Companies
Skytap provides environments for the full product lifecycle
Product Lifecycle
Development Marketing Training Support
Continuous
Integration
Self-Paced
Training
Instructor-Led
Training
Sales DemoDev/Test
Labs
Upgrade
Testing
Issue
Reproduction
7. Environment Scarcity
Causes IT Inefficiencies in the Product Lifecycle
50% 10%
Of all data center infrastructure
is devoted to pre-production
SDLC.
Average utilization of
pre-production
infrastructure.
And demand for pre-production
environments is still not met.
On-average, each enterprise
software release cycle loses 18
days waiting for access to an
environment.
8. Manual Labor & Defects
Causes Dev/Test Inefficiencies in the SDLC
Shared environments restrict parallel workstreams,
restrict innovation and prevent exploratory dev/test
Environments must be reset after each test run
30-50% of QA time is spent on environ mgmt.
Preproduction environments are not at parity
40-50% defects due to inconsistent environments
Limited access to pre-production environments
25% of developer time spent reproducing defects
Wk1 Wk2 Wk3 Wk4 Wk5 Wk6 Wk7 Wk8 Data Load Config Mgmt. Deployment
Integration Acceptance Production QA finds defect Defect Report Logged Developer reproduces in own environment
9. Cloud Environments as a Service
Removes product lifecycle inefficiencies
Self-service access to as many as needed,
whenever needed, on-demand
Eliminates teams waiting for access & enables
parallel workstreams
restrict innovation and prevent exploratory dev/test
Pre-provisioned, networked, configured & data-
loaded multi-server environments
Reduces time spent on environment management
Environments are predictable & identical clones
Catch defects sooner to reduce costs & downtime
Clone environments including data & memory state
Developers have immediate access to the defect
Wk1 Wk2 Wk3 Wk4 Wk5 Wk6 Wk7 Wk8
Pre-Loaded Pre-Configured Automated
Integration Acceptance Production QA finds defect Defect Report Logged Developer accesses identical clone w/ defect
10. The Skytap Solution
Web
Client
SKYTAP
CLOUD IaaS
SOFTLAYER
CLOUD IaaS
REST
API
CMD
Line
ALM/CI
Tools
E N V I R O N M E N T S - A S - A - S E R V I C E
IT/Ops
Network/IP &
Security settings
Dev
Access Controls
Manage Environments
Utilization/Quotas
TestSelf-Service Access
Save & Reproduce Defects
Copy/Share Environments
Build & Deploy
automation
Projects &
templates
Environment
management
Mobile
Admin
11. Integrating with Skytap
• REST based API
Comprehensive coverage of Skytap capabilities
• Fully documented (help.skytap.com)
• Secure
• Allows for custom integrations into the SDLC
An Environment in Skytap contains everything the team needs to build and test our multi-tier Storefront application. It has the following components:
An internet-facing web application.
J2EE application running on WebSphere running on two Linux based systems sitting behind an F5 Big IP load balancer
It uses Oracle 11g RAC for database. Its uses an OpenFiler for storage
There is also a Business Intelligence Server using SQL Server as a backend
Notice the numerous networks that are required for this application, as there are networks for each logical component.
We have also connected this Environment to our On-Premise datacenter using Skytap's VPN capability as well as connecting it to another Environment that is shared by others in Skytap that we have utilized to virtualize some of the services that our application is dependent on. In this example, our application does have a dependency to call out to a Credit Card service such as American Express, as well as a legacy component that runs on a Midrange UNIX platform. We have encapsulated those two components with a virtual service that runs in this shared Environment.
Skytap offers the world’s most advanced solution for delivering software development and test environments on cloud infrastructure.
Our patented Environments-as-a-Service solution was purpose-built to allow enterprise dev and test teams self-service access to environments that mirror production, so they can work in parallel, test earlier and collaborate. Skytap automates the provisioning, copying, sharing and tear down of these complex environment configurations in seconds or minutes, not days or weeks.
Skytap offers an IT Ops view for management, as well as supporting API and REST-based service calls and build commands, with integration to leading continuous integration solutions.
Customers can run on Skytap’s own global cloud infrastructure, as well as leveraging leading cloud infrastructures such as Softlayer.