Network infrastructures are speeding up and your business needs to keep pace. You will not be able to test your network's high-speed performance if you keep hitting traffic jams. Access this white paper to learn how to reduce the limits on your infrastructure to increase overall performance and improve the quality of your storage infrastructure.
The document discusses how a large international reservation system deployed Terracotta's BigMemory to reduce mainframe usage and costs. As a result of the deployment, the system saw a 80% reduction in daily mainframe transactions, 50% faster response times, a 20x increase in capacity, and maintained 99.99% uptime. The system was facing challenges of expanding capacity to support growing traffic while reducing costs. BigMemory provided an in-memory data layer on commodity hardware that replaced the mainframe for over 99% of transactions.
Dedicated servers - is your project cracking under pressure?Orlaith Palmer
The document discusses the benefits of using dedicated servers over shared hosting or virtual private servers (VPS) as business needs increase. Dedicated servers provide exclusive access to CPU, RAM, storage and bandwidth resources without sharing physical infrastructure with other users. This improves application performance, provides greater control over the infrastructure, offers higher quality support, and better controls data sovereignty and future-proofing needs. The document also outlines several common uses for dedicated servers, such as high-traffic websites, ecommerce shops, business applications, and backup/storage servers.
Dozens of financial institutions — including 30% of Fortune 500 banks and credit card companies — already use Terracotta BigMemory Max to speed fraud detection, meet previously unthinkable service level agreements (SLAs), and revolutionize performance around risk analysis, portfolio tracking, and compliance. In this webcast, you'll learn how BigMemory Max can keep ALL of your data in machine memory for instant, anytime access.
Everyone's buzzing about the incredible performance gains from in-memory data management. But how do you move all of your data into RAM while still ensuring enterprise-grade availability, consistency, and control?
Join us as we highlight the benefits of a great in-memory architecture, the challenges of building one, and emerging best practices in the field.
Headquartered in Asia with coverage across the region and beyond, 1cloudstar is a pure-play Cloud Services Provider offering cloud-related consulting and professional services. 1cloudstar brings a deep understanding of what is possible when legacy systems and cloud solutions coexist and we have a clear vision of the digital future toward which this hybrid world is leading us. We combine those insights with our traditional Enterprise IT knowledge to drive innovation and transform complex environments into high-performance engines.
Whether you’re in the early stages of evaluating how the cloud can benefit your business, need guidance on developing a cloud strategy or how to integrate new cloud technology with their existing technology investments, 1cloudstar can leverage the skills and experience gained from many other enterprise cloud projects to ensure you achieve your business objectives.
1cloudstar’s unique strategic approach and engagement model ‘1cloudstar Engage’ combined with it’s cloud infrastructure and application integration skills sets the company apart from traditional technology system integrators. 1cloudstar’s team of consultants can leverage years of technology infrastructure and applications experience along with first hand experience of public, private and hybrid cloud projects to ensure your enterprise journey to cloud is a success.
1cloudstar accelerates the cloud-powered business, helping enterprises achieve real results from cloud applications and platforms.
Accelerate Your Signature Banking Applications with IBM Storage OfferingsPaula Koziol
Signature Users can cut application run and response times by as much as 50% by applying the latest IBM Storage offerings. Hear about an example Signature User’s experience and benefits with IBM Flash. Also, hear about IBM’s direction with the IBMi processor and answer questions you may have in upgrading your IT infrastructure. Current data growth, analytics, and real-time access needs have changed the storage landscape for our clients, particularly in banking. IBM’s multi-billion dollar investments in storage are making a significant impact on the speed, efficiency, and management of these needs. Offerings such as all-flash systems and software defined storage have especially become attractive to our banking clients who are both accelerating the speed of existing applications, such as core banking – or, creating new applications demanding real-time access, such as cybersecurity and cognitive in payments. Learn how others in the Financial Services industry are addressing core banking, payments, and risk & compliance applications using IBM Storage offerings. In addition to Signature, other core banking examples applying flash storage within Fiserv include: Premier, Precision, and XP2. Many of the same business benefits experienced within the banking industry could apply to you and your clients. Learn how you can easily implement these proven capabilities with your Signature application now.
This presentation discusses several high availability best practices from Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) team for minimizing planned and unplanned downtime. It provides examples of how features like Oracle Data Guard, database restore points, transportable tablespaces, and Real Application Clusters can be used to reduce downtime for maintenance activities like database upgrades and platform migrations. Specific tips are provided around tuning Data Guard configurations, using flashback technology to create database clones for testing, and leveraging SQL Apply to minimize downtime during upgrades. Real-world examples from Oracle customers like The Hartford are also presented.
Hadoop is sparking a Big Data analytics revolution. But all the Hadoop insights in the world are worth nothing unless they lead to new, profitable action. To translate Hadoop insights into action in real time, more and more enterprises are combining Hadoop with the power of in-memory computing.
Join us as we outline the tremendous benefits of merging Hadoop with in-memory data management, the challenges of doing so, and tips for getting started.
The document discusses how a large international reservation system deployed Terracotta's BigMemory to reduce mainframe usage and costs. As a result of the deployment, the system saw a 80% reduction in daily mainframe transactions, 50% faster response times, a 20x increase in capacity, and maintained 99.99% uptime. The system was facing challenges of expanding capacity to support growing traffic while reducing costs. BigMemory provided an in-memory data layer on commodity hardware that replaced the mainframe for over 99% of transactions.
Dedicated servers - is your project cracking under pressure?Orlaith Palmer
The document discusses the benefits of using dedicated servers over shared hosting or virtual private servers (VPS) as business needs increase. Dedicated servers provide exclusive access to CPU, RAM, storage and bandwidth resources without sharing physical infrastructure with other users. This improves application performance, provides greater control over the infrastructure, offers higher quality support, and better controls data sovereignty and future-proofing needs. The document also outlines several common uses for dedicated servers, such as high-traffic websites, ecommerce shops, business applications, and backup/storage servers.
Dozens of financial institutions — including 30% of Fortune 500 banks and credit card companies — already use Terracotta BigMemory Max to speed fraud detection, meet previously unthinkable service level agreements (SLAs), and revolutionize performance around risk analysis, portfolio tracking, and compliance. In this webcast, you'll learn how BigMemory Max can keep ALL of your data in machine memory for instant, anytime access.
Everyone's buzzing about the incredible performance gains from in-memory data management. But how do you move all of your data into RAM while still ensuring enterprise-grade availability, consistency, and control?
Join us as we highlight the benefits of a great in-memory architecture, the challenges of building one, and emerging best practices in the field.
Headquartered in Asia with coverage across the region and beyond, 1cloudstar is a pure-play Cloud Services Provider offering cloud-related consulting and professional services. 1cloudstar brings a deep understanding of what is possible when legacy systems and cloud solutions coexist and we have a clear vision of the digital future toward which this hybrid world is leading us. We combine those insights with our traditional Enterprise IT knowledge to drive innovation and transform complex environments into high-performance engines.
Whether you’re in the early stages of evaluating how the cloud can benefit your business, need guidance on developing a cloud strategy or how to integrate new cloud technology with their existing technology investments, 1cloudstar can leverage the skills and experience gained from many other enterprise cloud projects to ensure you achieve your business objectives.
1cloudstar’s unique strategic approach and engagement model ‘1cloudstar Engage’ combined with it’s cloud infrastructure and application integration skills sets the company apart from traditional technology system integrators. 1cloudstar’s team of consultants can leverage years of technology infrastructure and applications experience along with first hand experience of public, private and hybrid cloud projects to ensure your enterprise journey to cloud is a success.
1cloudstar accelerates the cloud-powered business, helping enterprises achieve real results from cloud applications and platforms.
Accelerate Your Signature Banking Applications with IBM Storage OfferingsPaula Koziol
Signature Users can cut application run and response times by as much as 50% by applying the latest IBM Storage offerings. Hear about an example Signature User’s experience and benefits with IBM Flash. Also, hear about IBM’s direction with the IBMi processor and answer questions you may have in upgrading your IT infrastructure. Current data growth, analytics, and real-time access needs have changed the storage landscape for our clients, particularly in banking. IBM’s multi-billion dollar investments in storage are making a significant impact on the speed, efficiency, and management of these needs. Offerings such as all-flash systems and software defined storage have especially become attractive to our banking clients who are both accelerating the speed of existing applications, such as core banking – or, creating new applications demanding real-time access, such as cybersecurity and cognitive in payments. Learn how others in the Financial Services industry are addressing core banking, payments, and risk & compliance applications using IBM Storage offerings. In addition to Signature, other core banking examples applying flash storage within Fiserv include: Premier, Precision, and XP2. Many of the same business benefits experienced within the banking industry could apply to you and your clients. Learn how you can easily implement these proven capabilities with your Signature application now.
This presentation discusses several high availability best practices from Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) team for minimizing planned and unplanned downtime. It provides examples of how features like Oracle Data Guard, database restore points, transportable tablespaces, and Real Application Clusters can be used to reduce downtime for maintenance activities like database upgrades and platform migrations. Specific tips are provided around tuning Data Guard configurations, using flashback technology to create database clones for testing, and leveraging SQL Apply to minimize downtime during upgrades. Real-world examples from Oracle customers like The Hartford are also presented.
Hadoop is sparking a Big Data analytics revolution. But all the Hadoop insights in the world are worth nothing unless they lead to new, profitable action. To translate Hadoop insights into action in real time, more and more enterprises are combining Hadoop with the power of in-memory computing.
Join us as we outline the tremendous benefits of merging Hadoop with in-memory data management, the challenges of doing so, and tips for getting started.
This document discusses the challenges that IT departments face with increasing data volumes and virtual machine sprawl, including shrinking backup windows and rising storage costs. It summarizes how the HPE StoreOnce Backup solution with Veeam software addresses these challenges by providing industry-leading backup performance, scalability to support data growth, and up to 95% reduction in backup storage footprint through deduplication. It also highlights benefits like improved reliability, flexibility in restore options, and using backup data for testing and disaster recovery.
Storage, San And Business Continuity OverviewAlan McSweeney
The document provides an overview of storage systems and business continuity options. It discusses various types of storage including DAS, NAS and SAN. It then covers business continuity and disaster recovery strategies like replication, snapshots and mirroring. It also discusses how server virtualization can help improve disaster recovery.
White paper whitewater-datastorageinthecloudAccenture
The document discusses the advantages of using cloud storage over traditional tape or disk storage methods. It outlines how Riverbed's Whitewater cloud storage gateway addresses key concerns with cloud storage like security, transmission speeds, and data availability. Customers that have implemented Whitewater report significant cost savings from eliminating tape infrastructure costs and storage array purchases and being able to back up more frequently due to increased speeds.
Veeam Availability for the Always-On EnterpriseArnaud PAIN
The document discusses the need for modern data centers to have always-available, reliable backup solutions due to 24/7 operations and no tolerance for downtime. It presents Veeam's availability suite as a solution that provides high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, leveraged backup data, and complete visibility compared to legacy backup systems. The document also summarizes new features in Veeam v9 including enhanced replication, automated recoverability testing, and integration with EMC storage.
10 Tricks to Ensure Your Oracle Coherence Cluster is Not a "Black Box" in Pro...SL Corporation
Tom Lubinski is the founder and CTO of SL Corporation, located near San Francisco. SL Corporation produces the RTView platform for application performance monitoring and operational visibility, including the Oracle Coherence Monitor (OCM) and Viewer (OCV). The document discusses why monitoring Coherence clusters is important, what typically happens with Coherence projects, and provides 10 things that can be done to better monitor and manage Coherence clusters, such as understanding network metrics, configuring services for monitoring, and instrumenting applications.
Josh Krischer - How to get more for less (4 november 2010 Storage Expo)VNU Exhibitions Europe
1. Storage procurement accounts for a large percentage of data center costs, and new technologies are emerging to help reduce costs through improved efficiency and functionality.
2. When negotiating storage contracts, it is important to avoid restrictive damage limitations and carefully consider maintenance costs, upgrade options, and future price projections to maximize savings over the lifespan of the system.
3. Adopting strategies like tiered storage, deduplication, thin provisioning, and virtualization can help lower total storage costs through improved utilization and reduced power consumption.
For the retail and hospitality industries, managing applications and infrastructure at remote sites is a tough job. Typically, these sites have applications that are run at the location and a few key applications that need to be always running. For a restaurant, it may be point-of-sale and order scheduling. For a hotel, it may be reservations and door lock systems. If applications like these have an outage, the
site is out of business leading to lost sales and poor customer satisfaction.
Companies have tried running key applications in the “cloud” or in corporate data centers, but if there is a problem at the data center or in the WAN connecting the remote sites
to the application, then a lot of sites are affected, instead of a few. So, companies in these industries are increasingly looking at keeping applications running on-site. DataCore Virtual SAN has an automated, turnkey deployment and provides centralized storage management for lots of remote sites. It is integrated with Microsoft System Center which means existing Microsoft management tools can be used to oversee and manage remote sites from a central location. DataCore Virtual SAN includes a comprehensive PowerShell
scripting interface with over 250 documented cmdlets and software deployment wizards to automate and deploy with little manual intervention. In addition, DataCore Virtual SAN has extensive instrumentation making it simple to centrally monitor system storage behavior and performance at remote sites.
Possibly the most important aspect for managing many
remote sites is the reliability of DataCore Virtual SAN. It
is based on a 10th generation Software-defined Storage
platform deployed at over 10,000 customer sites. It is a
proven product, which eliminate storage as a failure point.
A Time Traveller's Guide to DB2: Technology Themes for 2014 and BeyondLaura Hood
This document discusses technology themes for DB2 in 2014 and beyond, including cost reduction, high availability, in-memory computing, skills availability, database commoditization, and big data. It summarizes DB2's focus on these areas today and potential future directions, such as further optimization to reduce software licensing fees, expanded data sharing capabilities, increased memory capacities, evolving skills needs, and continued integration with big data platforms. The document aims to help DB2 professionals consider strategies for addressing these themes.
The Best Storage For V Mware Environments Customer Presentation Jul201Michael Hudak
Server virtualization is being widely adopted throughout the industry. Server virtualization places new demands on the storage infrastructure that should be considered early in the design process. NetApp provides storage and data management solutions that uniquely enable effective server virtualization environments, and which further extend the benefits of server virtualization. In this presentation, we’ll review why NetApp is the best storage solution for virtualized server environments.
VMworld 2014: Virtualize Active Directory, the Right Way!VMworld
Virtualizing Active Directory domain controllers can provide benefits like increased availability and scalability. However, there are some safety considerations to take into account, such as preventing "USN rollback" which occurs when a domain controller's state is reverted, like after restoring from a snapshot. New features in Windows Server 2012 and VMware vSphere help address this, such as the VM Generation ID which changes when the domain controller state is modified, triggering safety mechanisms to isolate changes. Proper configuration following best practices is important for successfully virtualizing Active Directory.
Key Note Session IDUG DB2 Seminar, 16th April London - Julian Stuhler .Trito...Surekha Parekh
This document discusses technology themes for DB2 in 2014 and beyond, including cost reduction, high availability, in-memory computing, skills availability, database commoditization, and big data. It outlines current capabilities and future directions for DB2 on both z/OS and LUW platforms, emphasizing ongoing focus on reducing costs while improving availability, performance and analytics capabilities through techniques like in-memory computing and integration with big data technologies. The future of DB2 skills and the changing IT landscape are also addressed.
Learn how Penn State slashes backup time by 80 percent. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
This document summarizes a webinar about maximizing IT for business advantage. The webinar focuses on three key technologies: all-flash systems that accelerate access to information, unified storage solutions that enable processing more workloads in less time, and unified compute solutions that enhance productivity while avoiding over or underprovisioning. Upcoming webinars are listed on optimizing flash storage and unified storage performance, simplified VMware management, and deploying Microsoft private cloud with SQL Server data warehouse on Hitachi solutions.
Move your on-premises data today with BuurstMH Riad
Move your on-premises data today with Buurst and learn how to remove obstacles that prevent your organization from unlocking robust capabilities that position you for future growth.
Visit us at www.buurst.com
Improve Customer Experience with Multi CDN SolutionCloudxchange.io
1) Intelligently balancing content delivery among multiple clouds and CDNs using Cedexis' technology can help approach 100% availability by routing around outages.
2) Cedexis' real-user monitoring data and intelligent routing capabilities allow enterprises to control traffic across multiple CDNs and clouds to improve performance and reduce costs.
3) Cedexis helps customers implement hybrid CDN strategies using their own infrastructure like data centers combined with multiple third-party CDNs to gain control and performance benefits while reducing CDN spend.
In a complex database environment, keeping tabs on the health and stability of each system is critical to ensure data availability, accessibility, recoverability, and security. Through performing thousands of health checks for clients, Datavail has identified the top 10 issues affecting SQL Server performance.
From misconfigured memory settings to missing backups, Datavail has gathered evidence from client health check history that identifies the most common issues DBA managers must correct for optimal database performance. Datavail’s SQL Health Check is used not only as a diagnostic tool but also a road map of the work that needs to be performed. From there, routine health checks have proven to improve database performance. SQL Server Senior DBA for Datavail Andy McDermid will share the top 10 issues, the consequences of not taking action, and why consistent use of a SQL Server Health Check in conjunction with ongoing database management can lead to improved database environments and maximize the investment of time and resources.
The document discusses how a combination of DataCore storage virtualization software and Riverbed WAN optimization appliances can help organizations achieve stringent Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery without needing to upgrade to more expensive higher bandwidth internet connections between primary and backup sites. The solution uses DataCore's asynchronous replication to transmit disk block changes from the primary to backup site over an existing 2Mbps IP WAN, while Riverbed appliances compress, cache, and optimize the traffic in transit, significantly improving replication speeds and keeping the backup site constantly updated. Based on testing at a customer site, the solution was able to reduce replication times for virtual machines from over 42 hours to just 3
Configuration and Deployment Guide For Memcached on Intel® ArchitectureOdinot Stanislas
This Configuration and Deployment Guide explores designing and building a Memcached infrastructure that is scalable, reliable, manageable and secure. The guide uses experience with real-world deployments as well as data from benchmark tests. Configuration guidelines on clusters of Intel® Xeon®- and Atom™-based servers take into account differing business scenarios and inform the various tradeoffs to accommodate different Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) objectives.
This document discusses the challenges that IT departments face with increasing data volumes and virtual machine sprawl, including shrinking backup windows and rising storage costs. It summarizes how the HPE StoreOnce Backup solution with Veeam software addresses these challenges by providing industry-leading backup performance, scalability to support data growth, and up to 95% reduction in backup storage footprint through deduplication. It also highlights benefits like improved reliability, flexibility in restore options, and using backup data for testing and disaster recovery.
Storage, San And Business Continuity OverviewAlan McSweeney
The document provides an overview of storage systems and business continuity options. It discusses various types of storage including DAS, NAS and SAN. It then covers business continuity and disaster recovery strategies like replication, snapshots and mirroring. It also discusses how server virtualization can help improve disaster recovery.
White paper whitewater-datastorageinthecloudAccenture
The document discusses the advantages of using cloud storage over traditional tape or disk storage methods. It outlines how Riverbed's Whitewater cloud storage gateway addresses key concerns with cloud storage like security, transmission speeds, and data availability. Customers that have implemented Whitewater report significant cost savings from eliminating tape infrastructure costs and storage array purchases and being able to back up more frequently due to increased speeds.
Veeam Availability for the Always-On EnterpriseArnaud PAIN
The document discusses the need for modern data centers to have always-available, reliable backup solutions due to 24/7 operations and no tolerance for downtime. It presents Veeam's availability suite as a solution that provides high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, leveraged backup data, and complete visibility compared to legacy backup systems. The document also summarizes new features in Veeam v9 including enhanced replication, automated recoverability testing, and integration with EMC storage.
10 Tricks to Ensure Your Oracle Coherence Cluster is Not a "Black Box" in Pro...SL Corporation
Tom Lubinski is the founder and CTO of SL Corporation, located near San Francisco. SL Corporation produces the RTView platform for application performance monitoring and operational visibility, including the Oracle Coherence Monitor (OCM) and Viewer (OCV). The document discusses why monitoring Coherence clusters is important, what typically happens with Coherence projects, and provides 10 things that can be done to better monitor and manage Coherence clusters, such as understanding network metrics, configuring services for monitoring, and instrumenting applications.
Josh Krischer - How to get more for less (4 november 2010 Storage Expo)VNU Exhibitions Europe
1. Storage procurement accounts for a large percentage of data center costs, and new technologies are emerging to help reduce costs through improved efficiency and functionality.
2. When negotiating storage contracts, it is important to avoid restrictive damage limitations and carefully consider maintenance costs, upgrade options, and future price projections to maximize savings over the lifespan of the system.
3. Adopting strategies like tiered storage, deduplication, thin provisioning, and virtualization can help lower total storage costs through improved utilization and reduced power consumption.
For the retail and hospitality industries, managing applications and infrastructure at remote sites is a tough job. Typically, these sites have applications that are run at the location and a few key applications that need to be always running. For a restaurant, it may be point-of-sale and order scheduling. For a hotel, it may be reservations and door lock systems. If applications like these have an outage, the
site is out of business leading to lost sales and poor customer satisfaction.
Companies have tried running key applications in the “cloud” or in corporate data centers, but if there is a problem at the data center or in the WAN connecting the remote sites
to the application, then a lot of sites are affected, instead of a few. So, companies in these industries are increasingly looking at keeping applications running on-site. DataCore Virtual SAN has an automated, turnkey deployment and provides centralized storage management for lots of remote sites. It is integrated with Microsoft System Center which means existing Microsoft management tools can be used to oversee and manage remote sites from a central location. DataCore Virtual SAN includes a comprehensive PowerShell
scripting interface with over 250 documented cmdlets and software deployment wizards to automate and deploy with little manual intervention. In addition, DataCore Virtual SAN has extensive instrumentation making it simple to centrally monitor system storage behavior and performance at remote sites.
Possibly the most important aspect for managing many
remote sites is the reliability of DataCore Virtual SAN. It
is based on a 10th generation Software-defined Storage
platform deployed at over 10,000 customer sites. It is a
proven product, which eliminate storage as a failure point.
A Time Traveller's Guide to DB2: Technology Themes for 2014 and BeyondLaura Hood
This document discusses technology themes for DB2 in 2014 and beyond, including cost reduction, high availability, in-memory computing, skills availability, database commoditization, and big data. It summarizes DB2's focus on these areas today and potential future directions, such as further optimization to reduce software licensing fees, expanded data sharing capabilities, increased memory capacities, evolving skills needs, and continued integration with big data platforms. The document aims to help DB2 professionals consider strategies for addressing these themes.
The Best Storage For V Mware Environments Customer Presentation Jul201Michael Hudak
Server virtualization is being widely adopted throughout the industry. Server virtualization places new demands on the storage infrastructure that should be considered early in the design process. NetApp provides storage and data management solutions that uniquely enable effective server virtualization environments, and which further extend the benefits of server virtualization. In this presentation, we’ll review why NetApp is the best storage solution for virtualized server environments.
VMworld 2014: Virtualize Active Directory, the Right Way!VMworld
Virtualizing Active Directory domain controllers can provide benefits like increased availability and scalability. However, there are some safety considerations to take into account, such as preventing "USN rollback" which occurs when a domain controller's state is reverted, like after restoring from a snapshot. New features in Windows Server 2012 and VMware vSphere help address this, such as the VM Generation ID which changes when the domain controller state is modified, triggering safety mechanisms to isolate changes. Proper configuration following best practices is important for successfully virtualizing Active Directory.
Key Note Session IDUG DB2 Seminar, 16th April London - Julian Stuhler .Trito...Surekha Parekh
This document discusses technology themes for DB2 in 2014 and beyond, including cost reduction, high availability, in-memory computing, skills availability, database commoditization, and big data. It outlines current capabilities and future directions for DB2 on both z/OS and LUW platforms, emphasizing ongoing focus on reducing costs while improving availability, performance and analytics capabilities through techniques like in-memory computing and integration with big data technologies. The future of DB2 skills and the changing IT landscape are also addressed.
Learn how Penn State slashes backup time by 80 percent. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
This document summarizes a webinar about maximizing IT for business advantage. The webinar focuses on three key technologies: all-flash systems that accelerate access to information, unified storage solutions that enable processing more workloads in less time, and unified compute solutions that enhance productivity while avoiding over or underprovisioning. Upcoming webinars are listed on optimizing flash storage and unified storage performance, simplified VMware management, and deploying Microsoft private cloud with SQL Server data warehouse on Hitachi solutions.
Move your on-premises data today with BuurstMH Riad
Move your on-premises data today with Buurst and learn how to remove obstacles that prevent your organization from unlocking robust capabilities that position you for future growth.
Visit us at www.buurst.com
Improve Customer Experience with Multi CDN SolutionCloudxchange.io
1) Intelligently balancing content delivery among multiple clouds and CDNs using Cedexis' technology can help approach 100% availability by routing around outages.
2) Cedexis' real-user monitoring data and intelligent routing capabilities allow enterprises to control traffic across multiple CDNs and clouds to improve performance and reduce costs.
3) Cedexis helps customers implement hybrid CDN strategies using their own infrastructure like data centers combined with multiple third-party CDNs to gain control and performance benefits while reducing CDN spend.
In a complex database environment, keeping tabs on the health and stability of each system is critical to ensure data availability, accessibility, recoverability, and security. Through performing thousands of health checks for clients, Datavail has identified the top 10 issues affecting SQL Server performance.
From misconfigured memory settings to missing backups, Datavail has gathered evidence from client health check history that identifies the most common issues DBA managers must correct for optimal database performance. Datavail’s SQL Health Check is used not only as a diagnostic tool but also a road map of the work that needs to be performed. From there, routine health checks have proven to improve database performance. SQL Server Senior DBA for Datavail Andy McDermid will share the top 10 issues, the consequences of not taking action, and why consistent use of a SQL Server Health Check in conjunction with ongoing database management can lead to improved database environments and maximize the investment of time and resources.
The document discusses how a combination of DataCore storage virtualization software and Riverbed WAN optimization appliances can help organizations achieve stringent Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for disaster recovery without needing to upgrade to more expensive higher bandwidth internet connections between primary and backup sites. The solution uses DataCore's asynchronous replication to transmit disk block changes from the primary to backup site over an existing 2Mbps IP WAN, while Riverbed appliances compress, cache, and optimize the traffic in transit, significantly improving replication speeds and keeping the backup site constantly updated. Based on testing at a customer site, the solution was able to reduce replication times for virtual machines from over 42 hours to just 3
Configuration and Deployment Guide For Memcached on Intel® ArchitectureOdinot Stanislas
This Configuration and Deployment Guide explores designing and building a Memcached infrastructure that is scalable, reliable, manageable and secure. The guide uses experience with real-world deployments as well as data from benchmark tests. Configuration guidelines on clusters of Intel® Xeon®- and Atom™-based servers take into account differing business scenarios and inform the various tradeoffs to accommodate different Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) objectives.
This document summarizes strategies for managing storage performance, including using disk arrays, caching, and solid state drives (SSDs). It discusses how storage performance is an important metric for evaluating IT efficiency and is leveraged by vendors. While SSDs provide much faster performance than disks, they have endurance limitations like wear from repeated writes. Storage virtualization has the potential to optimize performance without significant added costs.
Learn about Positioning IBM Flex System 16 Gb Fibre Channel Fabric for Storage-Intensive Enterprise Workloads. This IBM Redpaper discusses server performance imbalance that can be found in typical application environments and how to address this issue with the 16 Gb Fibre Channel technology to provide required levels of performance and availability for the storage-intensive applications. For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/18vDnp6.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
Dynamo Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store Giuseppe D.docxjacksnathalie
Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store
Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, Gunavardhan Kakulapati,
Avinash Lakshman, Alex Pilchin, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Peter Vosshall
and Werner Vogels
Amazon.com
ABSTRACT
Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we
face at Amazon.com, one of the largest e-commerce operations in
the world; even the slightest outage has significant financial
consequences and impacts customer trust. The Amazon.com
platform, which provides services for many web sites worldwide,
is implemented on top of an infrastructure of tens of thousands of
servers and network components located in many datacenters
around the world. At this scale, small and large components fail
continuously and the way persistent state is managed in the face
of these failures drives the reliability and scalability of the
software systems.
This paper presents the design and implementation of Dynamo, a
highly available key-value storage system that some of Amazon’s
core services use to provide an “always-on” experience. To
achieve this level of availability, Dynamo sacrifices consistency
under certain failure scenarios. It makes extensive use of object
versioning and application-assisted conflict resolution in a manner
that provides a novel interface for developers to use.
Categories and Subject Descriptors
D.4.2 [Operating Systems]: Storage Management; D.4.5
[Operating Systems]: Reliability; D.4.2 [Operating Systems]:
Performance;
General Terms
Algorithms, Management, Measurement, Performance, Design,
Reliability.
1. INTRODUCTION
Amazon runs a world-wide e-commerce platform that serves tens
of millions customers at peak times using tens of thousands of
servers located in many data centers around the world. There are
strict operational requirements on Amazon’s platform in terms of
performance, reliability and efficiency, and to support continuous
growth the platform needs to be highly scalable. Reliability is one
of the most important requirements because even the slightest
outage has significant financial consequences and impacts
customer trust. In addition, to support continuous growth, the
platform needs to be highly scalable.
One of the lessons our organization has learned from operating
Amazon’s platform is that the reliability and scalability of a
system is dependent on how its application state is managed.
Amazon uses a highly decentralized, loosely coupled, service
oriented architecture consisting of hundreds of services. In this
environment there is a particular need for storage technologies
that are always available. For example, customers should be able
to view and add items to their shopping cart even if disks are
failing, network routes are flapping, or data centers are being
destroyed by tornados. Therefore, the service responsible for
managing shopping carts requires that it can always write to and
read from its data store, and ...
This session is for anyone interested in understanding the financial costs associated with migrating workloads to AWS. By presenting real cases from AWS Professional Services and directly from a customer, we explore how to measure value, improve the economics of a migration project, and manage migration costs and expectations through large-scale IT transformations. We’ll also look at automation tooling that can further assist and accelerate the migration process.
This document discusses five scenarios for using dynamic global load balancing in the cloud to improve performance and availability. It describes using real-time data to always direct traffic to the best-performing data center or content delivery network to enhance the user experience. It also explains how to avoid outages by diverting traffic away from data centers experiencing issues based on health monitoring data and network intelligence. The document promotes using a cloud-based traffic management solution that allows custom scripting for maximum flexibility and control over traffic routing.
2020 Cloud Data Lake Platforms Buyers Guide - White paper | QuboleVasu S
Qubole's buyer guide about how cloud data lake platform helps organizations to achieve efficiency & agility by adopting an open data lake platform and why data lakes are moving to the cloud
https://www.qubole.com/resources/white-papers/2020-cloud-data-lake-platforms-buyers-guide
The document discusses how the Jisto Elastic Workload Manager can help companies improve server utilization by running lower priority applications on servers dedicated to critical applications without compromising performance. It does this by using containers and dynamically allocating resources in response to application demand fluctuations. This allows companies to maximize ROI by reducing unused capacity and running more applications without adding new hardware. The solution works across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures, as well as hybrid environments.
This document discusses real-time issues in cloud computing and proposes a framework for real-time service-oriented cloud computing. It presents challenges at both the client-side and server-side. At the client-side, issues include efficient execution, caching, paging, stream filtering, runtime checking and environment-aware adaptation. At the server-side, major issues are customization to serve multiple tenants simultaneously, and scalability to provide additional resources proportional to customer demand while maintaining performance. The paper proposes a novel real-time architecture to address these new challenges in cloud computing.
The document provides tips for building a scalable and high-performance website, including using caching, load balancing, and monitoring. It discusses horizontal and vertical scalability, and recommends planning, testing, and version control. Specific techniques mentioned include static content caching, Memcached, and the YSlow performance tool.
Cloud Migration headache? Ease the pain with Data Virtualization! (EMEA)Denodo
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Moving data to the Cloud is a priority for many organizations. Benefits - in terms of flexibility, agility, and cost savings - are driving Cloud adoption. This journey to the Cloud is not easy: moving application(s) and data to the Cloud can be challenging and entails disruption of business, when not carefully managed.
When systems are being migrated, the resultant hybrid (or even multi-) Cloud architecture is, by definition, more complex AND making it harder/more costly to retrieve the data we need.
Data Virtualization can help organizations at all stages of a Cloud journey - during migration as well as in our “new hybrid multi-Cloud reality”
Watch on-demand this webinar to learn how Data Virtualization can:
- Help organizations manage risk and minimize the disruption caused as systems are moved to the Cloud
- Provide a single point of access for data that is both on-premise and in the Cloud, making it easier for users to find and access the data that they need
- Provide a secure layer to protect and manage data when it's distributed across hybrid or multi-Cloud architectures
… watch a live demo about how to ease the migration.
The document discusses challenges and best practices for building applications for the cloud. Traditional architectures are not well-suited for the cloud as they are bound to static resources, hard to maintain, insecure, and non-scalable. Applications need an elastic architecture that can grow and shrink based on demand, with no downtime and data or transaction loss. They also need to be memory-based and easy to operate on the cloud. GigaSpaces XAP provides a solution through application-level virtualization that is linearly scalable, secure, fast, and easy to deploy and monitor on the cloud.
Small and medium-sized businesses can reduce software licensing and other OPE...Principled Technologies
A cluster of these servers ran a mix of applications with up to 27 percent better application performance than a previous-generation cluster, which
could allow companies to do a given amount of work with fewer servers
Conclusion
As you do your best to balance timing, budget, IT resources, and your current and anticipated server needs, consider how opting for newer servers could help your business. As our testing showed, there are clear benefits to choosing servers that support such workload requirements as keeping databases running at a quick pace and delivering speedy hosting for your business’s website. Plus, a solution that offers the capacity and software features to perform well while natively supporting Kubernetes containers could add value in terms of setup, flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. And you can achieve all of this and possibly reduce OPEX in the process.
In our testing with a mixed workload that reflects some of the needs common to small and medium businesses, a cluster of 16G Dell PowerEdge R7615 single-socket servers powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors outperformed a cluster of previous-generation 15G Dell PowerEdge R7515 servers, with improvements of up to 27 percent and latency reduction of up to 50 percent. These results show that upgrading to the new Dell solution can be a smart step toward meeting the needs of your users now and in the years to come.
Case Study - Codelattice Master Pilot: Seamless Disaster Recovery leveraging AWS Cloud.
Leveraging AWS, Codelattice built a much reliable and faster Disaster Recovery solution. While the standby servers in different regions ensure business continuity, the impacted server recovery happens in less than 20 minutes (RTO). This is a remarkable achievement in terms of resilience and business continuity. The Codelattice solution ensured a 99.9% uptime, reliability, scalability, and flexibility without significantly increasing the costs. Also, we are able to maintain the application server as stateless as possible without any local storage. So far the solution has stood the test of time.
This document describes Dynamo, a highly available key-value storage system developed by Amazon to provide reliable data storage for some of its core services. Dynamo achieves high availability by allowing for some data inconsistency during failures. It uses techniques like data replication, versioning, and quorum-based consistency to maintain availability even when components fail. The document discusses Dynamo's design, implementation, and performance handling large volumes of requests during peak loads for services like shopping carts.
This document describes Dynamo, a highly available key-value storage system developed by Amazon to provide reliable data storage for some of its core services. Dynamo achieves high availability by allowing for some inconsistency under failure scenarios. It uses techniques like object versioning and application-assisted conflict resolution to maintain consistency among replicas. The system is decentralized and uses consistent hashing to partition and replicate data across nodes, with a quorum-based approach and decentralized synchronization protocol to maintain consistency during updates. Dynamo has proven able to scale efficiently to meet extreme peak loads for services like shopping carts without any downtime.
The simplest cloud migration in the world by WebscaleWebscale Networks
Cloud migration is the process of moving data, applications or other business elements from an organization’s onsite (server room, data center or other managed hosting facility) compute environment to the cloud. Webscale helps e-commerce stores to migrate to the cloud.
Overview of Cloud Computing from the CFO perspective. Focuses on business advantages, costs, risks, and organizational impact across a wide range of emerging platforms.
This document provides an overview of cloud monitoring and discusses several key topics:
- Interoperability between different cloud systems is challenging due to different technologies and lack of standards.
- Data migration between clouds needs to consider availability, costs and preventing vendor lock-in.
- Effective monitoring solutions are needed to avoid frustration from access issues and system outages.
- Management services for clouds include deployment, monitoring, billing and meeting service level agreements.
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Learn how a configurable, cloud-based web experience that supports single sign-on, common navigation, and a common look across application can streamline ERP for users.
Gain new visibility in your DevOps teamAbhishek Sood
DevOps implementation too often focuses only on communication between dev teams and their business counterparts, but fails to adequately loop in downstream testing and operations teams. A lack of visibility for operations teams leads to delaying rollouts and going live with buggy code.
Check this Forrester Consulting report to see what strategies DevOps teams are using to maximize visibility, speed, and agility.
Jacob Olcott of BitSight Technologies discusses how security leaders can better answer questions from boards about how secure an organization is. He notes that traditional metrics focus too much on compliance and auditing rather than operational effectiveness. Key metrics for boards are the detection deficit gap that measures how long it takes to detect and remove malware, and how an organization's security compares to industry peers which BitSight's ratings can provide. When presenting metrics, security leaders should limit the number presented and use visuals rather than text to avoid overwhelming boards with too much information.
Azure IaaS: Cost savings, new revenue opportunities, and business benefits Abhishek Sood
By now, it is well known that moving to the cloud saves on various costs, but exactly how much benefit can you expect to realize? How do the experts evaluate platforms and what do they see as the key challenges a platform will need to overcome? This paper answers all this and demonstrates how to evaluate an IaaS service for you.
3-part approach to turning IoT data into business powerAbhishek Sood
There will be 44 zettabytes of data produced by IoT alone by 2020, according to IDC. That’s a little more than the cumulative size of 44 trillion feature films.
Data from IoT devices will soon be table stakes in your industry, if it isn’t already. Turning that data into quick and actionable insights is the race for all businesses who are investing in IoT devices.
Learn about a 3-pronged approach that can turn your IoT data into business actions:
Business-wide analytics revolution
Connected relationships with customers
Intelligent innovation based on data
Chances are if someone were to ask you to choose a department in your company where you could save close to $9 million as part of a 3-year ROI, HR wouldn’t make the top-of-the-mind list. Years past would suggest something closely related to HR - like layoffs - as holding the answer, but that’s not where the dollars could be saved as one large American healthcare provider found out.
The undisclosed, $4 billion organization was unfortunately riddled with inconsistencies and redundancies throughout their HR department that were ultimately draining massive amounts of resources. After much thought, the provider turned to ServiceNow for advice - and a new solution.
In this exclusive Forrester Research report, see how this healthcare provider was able to consumerize their employee service experience, which led them to unlock benefits like:
Benefits approaching $10 million in savings
30% improved efficiency in servicing HR cases
50% reduction in audit and compliance costs
And more
Big news coming for DevOps: What you need to knowAbhishek Sood
VMware acquired Wavefront, a startup that provides monitoring and analytics capabilities for microservices and DevOps environments. This positions VMware to better support customers' shift towards microservices and DevOps practices. However, some customers are choosing competitors' tools over VMware's due to lack of clarity in VMware's strategy and capabilities not keeping pace with modern infrastructures. The Wavefront acquisition aims to help VMware strengthen its role in analytics for hybrid cloud environments.
Microservices best practices: Integration platforms, APIs, and moreAbhishek Sood
Your business’s ability to adapt quickly, drive innovation, and meet new competition wherever it arises is a strategic necessity in today’s world of constant change and disruption.
This paper explores how many organizations are laying a foundation for continuous innovation and agility by adopting microservice architectures.
Discover how to build a highly productive, unified integration framework for microservices that creates a seamless app network with API-led connectivity.
How to measure your cybersecurity performanceAbhishek Sood
This document discusses the challenges of cybersecurity benchmarking for CIOs and introduces Security Ratings as a solution. Some of the key challenges of benchmarking include: the difficulty gathering accurate metrics over time to compare performance to peers; clearly communicating benchmarking results to boards; and identifying security issues affecting competitors. Security Ratings provide an objective, quantitative method to continuously monitor an organization's cybersecurity performance and compare to others in the same industry through daily analysis of external network data, helping CIOs address these challenges.
Organizations have been putting the cloud to use for years, but recently the trickle of workloads being moved from on-premises to public cloud environments has grown into a tidal wave.
But just what public cloud infrastructure strategies are being used, in terms of the number of providers with which they partner, and do they see these services simply augmenting existing on-premises environments or as a means of revolutionizing them?
Read this ESG research brief to get the answer to these questions and more.
Gartner predicts that nearly 40% of enterprise IT application spend will be shifted to cloud versus on-premise by 2020.
However, most IT departments evaluate and select cloud-based apps based on their many business productivity benefits but a number of critical security and performance issues need to be considered at the same time.
This white paper details some of the major considerations you will need to focus on when looking for cloud app security. You will also learn about:
Limitations of existing products
Integrated cloud security gateway approach
Malware and data security challenges
And much, much more
How to integrate risk into your compliance-only approachAbhishek Sood
Information security policies and standards can oftentimes cause confusion and even liability within an organization.
This resource details 4 pitfalls of a compliance-only approach and offers a secure method to complying with policies and standards through a risk-integrated approach.
Uncover 4 Benefits of integrating risk into your compliance approach, including:
Reduced risk
Reduced deployment time
And 2 more
DLP 101: Help identify and plug information leaksAbhishek Sood
DLP tools can help organizations prevent data loss by monitoring data as it is used, transmitted, and stored. Standalone DLP products specialize in data loss prevention, while integrated DLP features are included in other cybersecurity products. Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages. Effective DLP requires customizing pre-defined policies to an organization's specific data types and formats, which has a learning curve. Organizations must also consider their existing security tools and budget to determine the best DLP strategy.
IoT: 3 keys to handling the oncoming barrage of use casesAbhishek Sood
74.5 billion devices will be connected to the internet by 2025. The Internet of Things (IoT) is going to impact every industry around the world, if it hasn't already.
Of course, something as significant as the IoT will present a number of challenges as it is introduced to traditional operations environments.
Access this infographic to prepare for an onslaught of IoT use cases and refocus your strategy to focus on scale, complexity, and security.
How 3 trends are shaping analytics and data management Abhishek Sood
The document discusses 3 major shifts in the modern data environment that IT leaders need to understand:
1. Thinking in terms of data pipelines rather than single data buckets, as data now resides in multiple systems and needs to be integrated and accessed across these systems.
2. Using need-based data landing zones where cloud application data is integrated based on what is necessary to make the data useful, rather than automatically integrating all cloud data into the data warehouse.
3. Transforming the IT role from data protector to data mentor by embracing self-service analytics and redefining governance to be more open, while educating business users on analysis and effective data use.
API-led connectivity: How to leverage reusable microservicesAbhishek Sood
Government agencies across the globe – whether they be state, local, central, or federal – face a digital transformation imperative to adopt cloud, IoT, and mobile technologies that legacy systems often struggle to keep up with.
This white paper explores how to take an architectural approach centered around APIs and microservices to unlock monolithic legacy systems for digital transformation.
Find out how to build up your API management strategy, and learn how you can:
Accelerate project delivery driven by reusable microservices
Secure data exchange within and outside agencies
Use API-led connectivity to modernize legacy systems
And more
How to create a secure high performance storage and compute infrastructureAbhishek Sood
Creating a secure, high-performance enterprise storage system presents a number of challenges.
Without a high throughput, low latency connection between your SAN and your cloud compute infrastructure, your business will struggle to extract actionable insights in time to make the best decisions.
Download this white paper to discover technology designed to deliver maximum storage and compute capacity for enterprises, with massive data stores, that need to solve business problems fast without compromising the security of user information.
Enterprise software usability and digital transformationAbhishek Sood
The document discusses key findings from a study on how enterprise software usability impacts readiness for digital transformation. It found that software usability and perceived readiness for digital transformation were closely linked. Respondents who said their software prepared them well for transformation rated usability higher than those who said it did not. Poor usability often led users to abandon enterprise software like ERP in favor of spreadsheets. The document also discusses how poor usability can affect personnel retention, with middle-aged employees most likely to change jobs due to usability issues that impede digital transformation goals.
Transforming for digital customers across 6 key industriesAbhishek Sood
While many industries recognize the value of digital transformation and the role it plays in meeting increasingly high customer expectations, digital transformation maturity is lagging behind in several industries.
To learn more, Forrester Consulting conducted a study to evaluate the state of digital transformation across 6 industries, including retail, banking, healthcare, insurance, telco, and media.
Find out how each of these industries is faring in a digital-first world, and uncover the report’s key findings about:
The role of digital technologies in shaping customer relationships
Areas of improvement: From operations to digital marketing
Recommendations for the next steps in digital transformation
And more
Authentication best practices: Experts weigh inAbhishek Sood
A 2017 Aite Group survey of 1,095 U.S. consumers who use online and/or mobile banking revealsusers’ perceptions of various forms of authentication.
Access this report now to uncover key findings from this study and expert recommendations to improve authentication security and user experience.
Inside, learn about:
•Notable 2016 data breaches
•Market trends and implications
•Consumers’ attitudes toward passwords
•Pros and cons of authentication methods
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Digital Marketing Trends in 2024 | Guide for Staying AheadWask
https://www.wask.co/ebooks/digital-marketing-trends-in-2024
Feeling lost in the digital marketing whirlwind of 2024? Technology is changing, consumer habits are evolving, and staying ahead of the curve feels like a never-ending pursuit. This e-book is your compass. Dive into actionable insights to handle the complexities of modern marketing. From hyper-personalization to the power of user-generated content, learn how to build long-term relationships with your audience and unlock the secrets to success in the ever-shifting digital landscape.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
leewayhertz.com-AI in predictive maintenance Use cases technologies benefits ...alexjohnson7307
Predictive maintenance is a proactive approach that anticipates equipment failures before they happen. At the forefront of this innovative strategy is Artificial Intelligence (AI), which brings unprecedented precision and efficiency. AI in predictive maintenance is transforming industries by reducing downtime, minimizing costs, and enhancing productivity.
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
A Comprehensive Guide to DeFi Development Services in 2024Intelisync
DeFi represents a paradigm shift in the financial industry. Instead of relying on traditional, centralized institutions like banks, DeFi leverages blockchain technology to create a decentralized network of financial services. This means that financial transactions can occur directly between parties, without intermediaries, using smart contracts on platforms like Ethereum.
In 2024, we are witnessing an explosion of new DeFi projects and protocols, each pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in finance.
In summary, DeFi in 2024 is not just a trend; it’s a revolution that democratizes finance, enhances security and transparency, and fosters continuous innovation. As we proceed through this presentation, we'll explore the various components and services of DeFi in detail, shedding light on how they are transforming the financial landscape.
At Intelisync, we specialize in providing comprehensive DeFi development services tailored to meet the unique needs of our clients. From smart contract development to dApp creation and security audits, we ensure that your DeFi project is built with innovation, security, and scalability in mind. Trust Intelisync to guide you through the intricate landscape of decentralized finance and unlock the full potential of blockchain technology.
Ready to take your DeFi project to the next level? Partner with Intelisync for expert DeFi development services today!
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
Skybuffer AI: Advanced Conversational and Generative AI Solution on SAP Busin...Tatiana Kojar
Skybuffer AI, built on the robust SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), is the latest and most advanced version of our AI development, reaffirming our commitment to delivering top-tier AI solutions. Skybuffer AI harnesses all the innovative capabilities of the SAP BTP in the AI domain, from Conversational AI to cutting-edge Generative AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). It also helps SAP customers safeguard their investments into SAP Conversational AI and ensure a seamless, one-click transition to SAP Business AI.
With Skybuffer AI, various AI models can be integrated into a single communication channel such as Microsoft Teams. This integration empowers business users with insights drawn from SAP backend systems, enterprise documents, and the expansive knowledge of Generative AI. And the best part of it is that it is all managed through our intuitive no-code Action Server interface, requiring no extensive coding knowledge and making the advanced AI accessible to more users.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
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Business today depends upon its network infrastructure. Network availability
and performance can have a meaningful impact on the business’ success,
and businesses know it. Underscoring the importance of information
technology (IT) to business, industry analyst firm, Gartner, expects
worldwide IT spending to reach over $3.5 trillion in 2017, up 2.7 percent from
2016. With that kind of investment, optimizing resources is critical.
In today’s economy, one of the most important aspects of business
operations is management of the IT infrastructure. Ensuring applications
run with optimal performance is a crucial task, but fast, dependable
performance doesn’t necessarily come easy. Even with dedicated host
servers, all-flash storage, lots of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM)
and storage host bus adapter (HBAs) ports, the fastest available switches,
and essentially infinite funding, there can be other reasons for a lack of
performance, such as access contention. Imagine you’re driving a premium
sports car on a 10-lane super highway with no speed limits. You aren’t going
to be able to test its high-speed performance if you keep hitting traffic jams.
When production storage must be migrated while the production
workload is still active (what is generally called “online storage migration”),
traffic jams on the storage networking highway will happen, inevitably
impacting application performance. These input/output (I/O) traffic
slowdowns occur because the client hosts’ application processes
are writing to and reading from the disks of the production storage
simultaneously as the migration process performs heavy reads from the
same disks. This adds a significant amount of input/output operations
per second (IOPS) to the workload of the storage controller, consumes/
disrupts the limited amount of cache, and increases the randomness of
access. Simply put, an online storage migration process can consume a
large amount of available storage bandwidth, very similar to rush hour
traffic that can paralyze a 10-lane highway. Unfortunately, host-based
migration tools such as built-in logical volume manager (LVM) mirroring,
3rd party disaster recovery (DR) tools, and VMware’s Storage vMotion can
all have a significant, negative impact to application storage performance.
This is especially true when these tools are used to perform large scale
migrations of 100 terabytes (TB) or more.
Imagine you’re driving a
premium sports car on
a 10-lane super highway
with no speed limits. You
aren’t going to be able
to test its high-speed
performance if you keep
hitting traffic jams.
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The performance of the storage, as experienced by the host application, is
called the Quality of Service (QoS) of the storage. The actual measurement
is represented in units of either IOPS for small blocks of data such as
database transactions, and/or Megabytes Per Second (MB/s) for large
blocks, such as streaming video. Obviously, on a well-tuned system where
IOPS and MB/s are optimized for a particular application, adding a lot of
reads on the production storage during migration can push the storage
beyond its limit, resulting in a severe drop in the amount of IOPS and/
or MB/s available to the host application. This leads to traffic jams on the
storage path, and the end result is a frustrated user experience.
It can seem that guaranteed application storage QoS and the fast, effective
migration of online storage are mutually exclusive goals. Artificially
throttling down the migration process can help with the storage QoS,
but also reduces the migration performance and slows the overall data
migration. With these competing priorities in mind, Cirrus Data Solutions’
Data Migration Server (DMS) was designed to deliver QoS during a 24x7
online data migration. This intelligent QoS (iQoS) mechanism provides the
best of both worlds: guaranteed application QoS for storage, as well as the
ability to maximize storage bandwidth utilization by the migration process.
In an attempt to preserve the QoS, businesses sometimes introduce an
arbitrary limit on the amount of migration traffic. This is NOT iQoS. While
setting a limit on the maximum amount of migration MB/s (or IOPS) can
alleviate impact to storage QoS, it also creates new problems. Referring
back to our car analogy, it is similar to the highway entrance ramp traffic
light that is set to allow only one car to enter the highway every 10 seconds.
There are multiple problems with this rate limiting approach. How do you
determine the appropriate rate limit? What if you want to change the rate
during the migration? To really protect the client host application QoS,
the limit must be set extremely low – the equivalent to the traffic light only
allowing one car a minute onto the highway. This very conservative rate
limit creates another problem – the never-ending data migration.
Cirrus Data Solutions’
Data Migration Server
(DMS) was designed
to deliver QoS during
a 24x7 online data
migration. This intelligent
QoS (iQoS) mechanism
provides the best of
both worlds: guaranteed
application QoS for
storage, as well as the
ability to maximize
storage bandwidth
utilization by the
migration process.
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On the other hand, if the limit is set high (enabling a faster migration),
the application could be severely impacted, which will result in angry calls
from the application manager. In fact, this is one of the biggest headaches
of storage migration professionals – once you get a call to pause the
migration due to unacceptable impact to production, you may not be able
to track down the application owner again to get permission to resume the
migration, and now your project is in a state of limbo with no ending date
in sight. Additionally, many of the host based migration products require
you to restart a migration session from the beginning if it is paused. CDS
DMS allows you to pause a migration session for any reason and resume
the session from the point where it was paused. No need to restart the
migration session from the beginning thereby eliminating false starts and a
significant amount of wasted time.
With these considerations in mind, those responsible for migration tend
to set very low limits on data migration throughput to avoid the negative
impact on the applications’ operating performance. It explains why most
migrations are conducted at only a fraction of the maximum possible
rate and usually during off peak hours such as nights and weekends.
Unfortunately, this also means even when there are blocks of time where
production applications are hardly accessing the disks, the migration
process is still running slowly due to throttling, resulting in unnecessarily
prolonged migration projects and additional overtime labor costs.
Cirrus Data Solutions’ iQoS is designed to eliminate the above dilemma.
Rather than using a rate-based limit, iQoS from CDS provides the
equivalent of “automatic pause and resume” capability, based on the actual
I/O conditions of each disk being migrated. DMS monitors the read or
write commands that are queued up on each disk, pending execution by
the storage controller. The number of outstanding commands provides an
accurate calculation of the specific disk’s activity level or “busy-ness.” Based
on this calculation, an “intelligent” limit is set on the activity level, above
which the disk is considered “busy.”
CDS DMS allows you
to pause a migration
session for any reason
and resume the session
from the point where
it was paused. No
need to restart the
migration session from
the beginning thereby
eliminating false starts
and a significant amount
of wasted time.
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CDS’s iQoS algorithm also determines, within a measurement window,
what percentage of time the disk is busy. With this data, it is now possible
for the migration process to define how much impact is acceptable to the
application storage traffic, enabling the business to maintain true “Quality
of Service” within the production environment. When the migration
process uses low impact settings, the iQoS algorithm will yield to the
application storage traffic even if the “busy” percentage is low (by assigning
5 percent as the impact setting value). On the other hand, if there is a
pressing need to complete the migration quickly and the application owner
agrees ahead of time, the impact setting can be set to 95 percent. In this
scenario, the migration will continue as long as the percentage of time
that the disk is “busy” stays below 95 percent. When DMS is set in this
aggressive mode, it will migrate between 8TBs to 12TBs per hour.
What’s the difference between iQoS and rate-based QoS? Let’s look at one
straightforward example.
• Rate-based QoS methodology:
o Maximum Migration Rate = 200MB/s
o Potential Migration Rate = 1000MB/s
o Total Usage = 10 percent
• iQoS methodology:
o Maximum Migration Rate = 1000MB/s
o Activity Threshold = 5 percent
In the rate-based QoS model, regardless of the business activity level
the data migration will never exceed 200MB/s. Only 20 percent of the
available storage bandwidth will ever be used, including those periods of
time that the production disks (the source) are totally idle with zero I/O
from the application.
Harnessing the CDS iQoS functionality, when the product disks are idle,
data migration will increase to 1000MB/s. If activity increases, the data
migration will reduce to a very low impact level of 5 percent.
CDS’s iQoS algorithm
also determines, within
a measurement window,
what percentage of time
the disk is busy. With this
data, it is now possible
for the migration process
to define how much
impact is acceptable to
the application storage
traffic, enabling the
business to maintain
true “Quality of Service”
within the production
environment.
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DMS iQoS actually monitors the number of commands outstanding on
each of the LUNs being migrated and uses this information to gauge
impact. For easy comparison, let’s assume that a “Minimum Impact”
setting on iQoS translates to approximately 200MB/s of threshold on the
average. The dramatically better use of available bandwidth for migration
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With iQoS, the
production I/O is
protected. iQoS yields
to the production I/O
when it arrives, yet takes
full advantage of the
periods of time where
production I/O is low
for full speed migration.
Everybody is happy.
The improvements to the data migration with iQoS are unquestionable.
iQoS enables the business to better utilize the available storage bandwidth
for migration, while at the same time assuring the precise amount of QoS
for the application. Without iQoS, the steady rate limit results in a prolonged
migration time and still does not totally eliminate impact to production.
With iQoS, the production I/O is protected. iQoS yields to the production
I/O when it arrives, yet takes full advantage of the periods of time where
production I/O is low for full speed migration. Everybody is happy.
The iQoS feature of DMS takes intelligence to the next level. This feature
provides three adjustable migration impact settings of “low,” “moderate,”
and “aggressive” for each set of disks. In addition to these three adjustable
migration modes, iQoS also allows you to establish different impact
settings for different dates and time periods via an iQoS calendar. The
calendar is provided because in the real world, an application owner’s
tolerance for impact is different at different times of the day, as well as for
different days of the week, month, quarter end, and year end.
For example, a business with traditional 9am – 5pm, Monday – Friday hours
might configure a reasonable impact setting as follows:
• Monday-Thursday:
o Low Impact migration from 9:00am – 5:00pm;
o Aggressive migration from 5:00pm – 8:00am
• Saturday-Sunday and Holidays:
o Moderate migration: 12:00am – 12:00pm;
o Aggressive migration from 12:01pm – 11:59pm
• Fridays and day-before-holidays:
o Low Impact migration from 9:00am – 3:00pm;
o Aggressive migration from 3:01pm – 8:00am
In this example, there is heavy activity on the production storage during
business hours (9-5) on normal workdays (Monday to Thursday). At these
times, migration should proceed in the Low Impact mode where the iQoS
is set by default to yield whenever the storage is more than 5 percent busy.
For weekends or holidays, migration is set to moderate during the 1st half
of the day and set to aggressive during the 2nd half of the day. These
recommended settings will accommodate backup jobs running during
the slower business activity level and then maximize the time when the
network is quiet. The business is even able to define its own holiday or
special days in a custom calendar.
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For days before a holiday – like New Year’s Eve or Fridays before a holiday
weekend – businesses often have employees leave work early, which results
in a much quieter network activity level. The migration mode can then be
set to aggressive starting at 3PM (1500H) instead of 5PM. The three modes
of migration, combined with a customizable calendar, makes it possible to
negotiate with each of the application owners ahead of time to define the
impact control based on the calendar and their level of business activity.
Once the settings are confirmed, the migration server will know exactly
how aggressively it can migrate data at different times and on different
days. With iQoS, you will never get an angry phone call because the
storage QoS is being brought to its knees by migration traffic.
Having an intelligent mechanism to guarantee QoS for applications is a
good thing. It’s like implementing a sensor on the highway entrance ramp
that enables better control of onramp traffic, thereby ensuring better
utilization of the highway bandwidth.
Additionally, if there could be a way to redirect all the rush-hour (i.e.
migration) traffic onto additional reserved lanes so that the extra traffic
volume is redirected to by-pass the highway system, that would even be
better. For some busy highway intersections and tunnels/bridges, one
or two lanes from the opposite traffic direction are often repurposed to
allow for extra traffic in the congested direction. In the IT world, the rough
equivalence of adding extra lanes is “offloaded copying.” A good example is
VMware’s Storage vMotion.
For a local Storage vMotion, where the source and destination storage
LUNs (logical disks) are both on the same physical storage frame (i.e.,
managed by the same storage controller), vMotion makes use of XCOPY so
that the storage controller will perform the block copy from source LUN to
destination LUN. When this is the case, the source LUN blocks are read into
the storage controller’s memory and then written to the destination LUN,
eliminating the need for a massive amount of block level data being moved
into the ESX server’s memory space and then being pushed out. This is
like having extra by-pass lanes on the highway for the rush hour traffic.
According to Virtual Geek’s lab test report the difference with or without
XCOPY can be significant.
Having an intelligent
mechanism to guarantee
QoS for applications is
a good thing. It’s like
implementing a sensor
on the highway entrance
ramp that enables
better control of onramp
traffic, thereby ensuring
better utilization of the
highway bandwidth.
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Unfortunately, VMware
has only implemented
XCOPY for moving data
between LUNs that
are under the same
storage controller (which
means within a single
storage system space).
This is NOT ideal for a
real storage migration
scenario, since VMware
simply cannot support
XCOPY if the source LUN
and destination LUN
are on different physical
storage systems (even
for the same vendor and
same model).
Storage vMotion performance is more than 5 times faster with XCOPY.
Unfortunately, VMware has only implemented XCOPY for moving data
between LUNs that are under the same storage controller (which means
within a single storage system space). This is NOT ideal for a real storage
migration scenario, since VMware simply cannot support XCOPY if the
source LUN and destination LUN are on different physical storage systems
(even for the same vendor and same model). This is understandable due
to the fact that such a migration project would require a complex setup
on the FC fabric to allow the source and destination storage to “see” each
other, and would require a significant amount of compatibility testing
across storage controllers from various vendors, a Herculean task at best.
When using Cirrus Data’s DMS, in addition to providing iQoS to intelligently
control migration aggressiveness, the migration traffic is 100 percent
offloaded onto the DMS appliance, away from VMware’s ESX hosts. This is
like a having universal XCOPY capability implemented across all storage,
regardless of where the source and destination LUNs reside. With DMS
capabilities, why would you ever want to use VMware to migrate data?
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Cirrus Data’s DMS is the only data migration tool that can guarantee the
Quality of Service for applications while utilizing all available migration slots
to compress the length of time to complete the migration. DMS iQoS
uses a unique approach that ensures the lowest possible impact to active
applications while accelerating the time line to completion for larger scale,
online storage migrations.
Compared to other rate-based throttling methods, iQoS and the offloaded
copying features of Cirrus Data’s DMS provide a much more effective
method for moving the large amounts of data across a network. Cirrus
iQoS relieves the negative performance impact to the application resulting
from conflicting migration traffic on the disks being migrated. DMS delivers
guaranteed application storage performance with the highest QoS while
allowing migration projects to be completed at a much faster rate by more
intelligently using all available bandwidth. Cirrus Data’s DMS provides the
functionality to ensure that all data migration projects are completed on
time, every time, without negative impact to the application owners.
DMS delivers guaranteed
application storage
performance with the
highest QoS while
allowing migration
projects to be completed
at a much faster rate by
more intelligently using
all available bandwidth.