Enabling the Shift towards Agile and DevOps Capabilities

Everyone talks about IoT, and many organizations are implementing it and reaping the business benefits. But even those who have had IoT projects deployed for years may not have a comprehensive architecture and framework in place to help guide technology decisions and streamline operations.

Join Nemertes CEO Johna Till Johnson as she reviews the IoT architecture and framework and shares guidance gleaned from leading-edge clients and research study participants.

SIG Talk: IT Operations - Operations Bridge API’s and Hybrid IT Blueprint for Application Portfolio [Complete Edition]

Join us for the next IT Operations SIG Talk to hear from Vivit member experts about working with OpsBridge API's and building a Hybrid IT Blueprint for your application portfolio. These two presentations will give in depth insight and takeaways.

Speaker: Amr Fahmy
Work with OpsBridge API’s: In this session, Amr will give a small introduction of OpsBridge and then will start with a basic introduction about OpsBridge API. Next, he will give a simple example on how we can call the OpsBridge API’s and start creating custom Attributes in the events. Finally, Amr will do some modifications on Events Custom Scripts.

What you can expect to take away from this session:

•Basic information on how API’s works and the difference between them
•How to integrate third party applications with OpsBridge using API
•Basic Bash Scripts or Python Script depending on the Operation system we will use

Speaker: Bobby Allen
Building a Hybrid IT Blueprint – Discover the right mix of public vs. private providers and services for your application portfolio: Many decision makers will say they need more information. The reality is that most leaders are actually drowning in information. What they really need is to move from information to clarity to insight. Attend our talk on building a hybrid it blueprint to see how CloudGenera can quickly take large amounts of data about your applications and provide data-driven analysis on best execution venue. We believe these sorts of insights should happen in minutes not months.

Attendees will learn the following:

•Elements that must be part of Total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis
•How to analyze public vs. private execution venues
•How to quickly revisit decisions when inputs or market factors change

Security professionals accept the paradigm of “more protection equals more false positives (FPs)” as a fact of life. The tighter they make the “screws” of the security policies in their DLP, Web or Email Gateways, UEBA, application control/whitelisting and AV tools, the higher the likelihood something benign is misclassified as malicious. That’s why it is not uncommon to see false positive rates exceed 5% using the most aggressive settings.

What if we were thinking about this wrong? Can we break this correlation between more security and more FPs?

During this webinar we will briefly review the definition of false positives, false negatives, true positives and true negatives, as well as the history of “more protection = more FPs” paradigm. Then we will turn the paradigm on its head and discuss how more protection can actually mean fewer FPs.


About the Speaker
Nir Gaist, Founder and CTO of Nyotron, is a recognized information security expert and ethical hacker. He started programming at age 6 and began his studies at the Israeli Technion University at age 10. Nir has worked with some of the largest Israeli organizations, such as the Israeli Police, the Israeli parliament and Microsoft’s Israeli headquarters. He also wrote cybersecurity curriculum for the Israel Ministry of Education. Nir holds patents for the creation of a programming language called Behavior Pattern Mapping (BPM) that enables monitoring of the integrity of the operating system behavior to deliver threat-agnostic protection.

edgeSuite is a fully secure, system control plane that integrates your applications and data into SPoG (Single Pane of Glass) in a 4D solution. edgeSuite is unique in the marketplace because it incorporates the data within your environment, and the methods used to manage your business to create a single tool for both back-end and front-end solutions. When you are dealing with multiple data sets and multiple data sources, you are faced with the problem of complex navigation of different software solutions, and the inability to access them simultaneously in an efficient and effective way. Come to our webinar and learn how you can optimize your current Micro Focus investments. Seeing is believing!

What you will learn:

•How our ETV technology collects data for visualization and actionable response
•How our Click-to-Write-Back and Click-to-Navigate technologies streamline operations over your digital transformation suite
•How to create Role-Based views
•How a Single Pane of Glass solution is built

A recent survey conducted by Ensono, in partnership with the Cloud Industry Forum, showed that 89% of respondents believed that legacy technology was a barrier to effective digital transformation. Given that many organisations operate a complex technology landscape often with elements in different locations, and with core components that are regarded as ‘legacy but critical’, there needs to be a clear and simple approach to overcoming these obstacles.

Breaking down the barriers requires effective change in people, process and technology to attain a viable level velocity that will enable transformation without being held back by perceptions of legacy issues.

Examining these issues, this webinar will provide insight and thought provoking approaches for organisations seeking to transform their operations against this backdrop.

Integrate IBM mainframe & iSeries (AS/400) into Micro Focus Universal Discovery

IBM Mainframe and IBM i (iSeries-AS/400) environments continue to play a very critical part in today’s corporate IT infrastructures, processing some of the most valued and important data. Learn how one of the world’s largest insurance companies brought their IBM environments into the modern era by extending their Micro Focus Universal Discovery (UD) platform to include the key IBM systems.

The company’s former process of conducting manual audits was a time consuming, resource intensive, and outdated way of doing things at best. Attendees will:

•Learn how the combination of Micro Focus Software and EView Technology provided a cost-effective, comprehensive, automated, and real-time view of their business services across their multi-IBM system enterprise
•Hear a brief overview of the architecture of the solution and the business benefits
•View a short demo of the seamless integration

Advanced Data Analysis with Operations Bridge

Every day big data becomes bigger, and each day enterprises are coming up with new use cases for the data they have at their disposal. Finding systems that have the capabilities and the horsepower to deliver on the use case is a challenge. Greenlight Group will review one such use case, and how Operations Bridge System Collectors and Operations Bridge Analytics were leveraged to harness the power of big data to process millions per day and provide near live dashboards of critical IBM DataPower statistics for one of its customers.

We will show real world Perl scripting examples for you to try in your environment.

IT Operations SIG Talk Series: Mainframe to UD, Data Analysis with OpsBridge, Vertica into BVD (complete edition)

This Vivit SIG Talk session will feature speakers who will share their vast knowledge and experience on Mainframe to Universal Discovery (UD), Data Analysis with Operations Bridge and Vertica into BVD.

Shown below is an outline of the agenda and topics:

•Speaker: Chip Sutton
Integrate IBM mainframe & iSeries (AS/400) into Micro Focus Universal Discovery

•Speaker: Brian Bowden
Advanced Data Analysis with Operations Bridge

•Speaker: Jay Batson
How to Integrate Vertica and other 3rd party data sources into BVD

This Vivit SIG Talk session will feature speakers who will share their vast knowledge and experience on SiteScope and OMi. Vivit is excited to present this informative SIG Talk on these important topics.

Shown below is an outline of the agenda and topics:

Speaker: Nels Hoenig
Web Site Monitoring using SiteScope the WebScript Monitor Tool and a LoadRunner Script: Join us for this presentation of the power of a SiteScope Webscript to monitor your websites in a production environment to provide real time checking on a website including interactions ( login, screen validation, etc). Learn how this will also generate alerts to the OPS team when something is wrong.

Speaker: Bogdan Vosnjak
Surviving OMW to OMi Migration: The customer with a well-developed OMW-based monitoring solution was faced with a challenge to migrate to OMi10 due to OMW obsolescence. Their old monitoring system was deeply integrated, highly customized and exposed to the outside world (their partners and customers) on a 24/7 basis. Migration challenges included:

- Migration of event sources (OM agents, SNMP Trap sources, NNMi, SiteScope)
- Migration of Service models with complex propagation/calculation rules
- Migration of customized Incident ticketing integration (Service Manager)
- Migration of custom applications (event archive, Service availability web portal, downtime management)
- Minimum downtime during migration

In this presentation, attendees will learn how these challenges were addressed and ultimately overcome.

Leading The Intelligent Operations with Micro Focus Operations Bridge (OpsBridge)

The management of IT Operations in a dynamic and highly scalable MSP environment can be difficult. With the right partner and strong expertise, you can be helped to lead in the “New”. Join Kulvinder Singh from Accenture as he discusses the deployment of OpsBridge as standard within their MSP Platform. Learn the objectives, scope, methodology, and results of their deployment, as Accenture continues to scale and mature this capability with the increasing number of their clients.

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, May 17, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1089263&group=.

This Vivit SIG Talk session will feature 2 speakers who will share their vast knowledge and experience on SACM Practice and Micro Focus Operations Bridge. Vivit is excited to present this informative SIG Talk on these important topics.
Shown below is an outline of the agenda and topics:

Speaker: Bill Curran
Areas of Focus to Create a Successful SACM Practice: For Citizens Bank, major difficulties were encountered not just in implementing software itself, but in creating a sustainable and successful Service Asset and Configuration Management (SACM) practice. Come and learn 3 key areas to focus on to create and sustain a successful SACM process in order to:
- Provide robust reporting for audit and regulations
- Promote and maintain confidence in the quality of CMS data
- Provide ITSM users with the information they need, when they
need it

Speaker: Kulvinder Singh
Leading The Intelligent Operations with Micro Focus Operations Bridge (OpsBridge): The management of IT Operations in a dynamic and highly scalable MSP environment can be difficult. With the right partner and strong expertise, you can be helped to lead in the “New”. Join Kulvinder Singh from Accenture as he discusses the deployment of OpsBridge as standard within their MSP Platform. Learn the objectives, scope, methodology, and results of their deployment, as Accenture continues to scale and mature this capability with the increasing number of their clients.

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, May 17, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1089263&group=.

SMB to Enterprise-level organizations are increasingly using or considering the use of outsourced IT infrastructure providers to remain cost-effectively competitive and productive. But while the rewards may be attractive, there are inherent risks that need to be understood.

If you are considering moving your infrastructure to an IT provider, or changing your current provider, join us during this 30-minute webinar to hear more about:

• Outsourced IT Infrastructure Drivers
• Common Risks and Rewards
• Frustrations that Customers Have Had with Service Providers
• Case study of a Customer that Moved Their Infrastructure to Steadfast and Why
• How Steadfast Approaches IT Infrastructure Management Differently
• Live Q&A

Getting help to manage your IT Infrastructure can help you to regain focus on your core business. But, before you make that move, make sure you understand all the nuances of your decision.

A “real” migration into the Hybrid Cloud (HCM, PlateSpin, and Cloud Assess)

The Hybrid cloud has either been a unicorn (something beautiful but not real) or a boogey man (something to prevent disruption) in our ecosystem for the last several years. In marketing and static architectures, we have seen a lot of promises, but very little actual progress.

Hybrid Cloud is becoming more important everyday as nearly all companies are in (or will be in) the public cloud but many of these same companies ‘know’ that they cannot be 100% public. So, the problem we are all trying to solve is how can we provide all the features, functions and automations.
What will be covered:

•Building and migrating existing workloads to a Hybrid cloud
•Use Cloud Assess product to discover and right size
•Plate spin to move – migrate – in automation
•Use HCM product for day-to-day management, automation and ITSM control

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Thursday, April 19, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1081712&group=.

Vivit launches its first ever IT Operation Management (ITOM) SIG Talk event. We have 3 speakers who will give you insights in the ITSMA Containers Concept and migration into the Hybrid Cloud. They will share their knowledge and expertise and provide thought-provoking and actionable content.

Shown below is an outline of the agenda and topics:

•Speaker: Eric Krueger
Everything you need to know about the Micro Focus ITSMA Containers Concept: Containers are here and they are the best way to deploy, maintain and upgrade software. What are containers? How are they deployed? How is the software different on containers than traditional platforms? Why did HPE/Micro Focus decide on a containerization approach to their ITSM suite? Tune in and find out why containers are the deployment method of the future and how to transition your existing ITSM suite from your Linux or Windows environment to a Containerized environment.

•Speakers: David Angradi
A “real” migration into the Hybrid Cloud (HCM, PlateSpin, and Cloud Assess): The Hybrid cloud has either been a unicorn (something beautiful but not real) or a boogey man (something to prevent disruption) in our ecosystem for the last several years. In marketing and static architectures, we have seen a lot of promises, but very little actual progress.

Hybrid Cloud is becoming more important everyday as nearly all companies are in (or will be in) the public cloud but many of these same companies ‘know’ that they cannot be 100% public. So, the problem we are all trying to solve is how can we provide all the features, functions and automations.

What will be covered:

•Building and migrating existing workloads to a Hybrid cloud
•Use Cloud Assess product to discover and right size
•Plate spin to move – migrate – in automation
•Use HCM product for day-to-day management, automation and ITSM control

4/19 SIG Talk: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1081712&group=

Business pressures are driving many IT organizations toward faster release cadence, Lean, and more Agile-like development processes. Many groups have developed processes and practices that already work very effectively, without requiring significant change. But to succeed in a bimodal world, many customers are looking at multiple tools to support newer practices and Continuous Integration (CI). Micro Focus ALM customers already have access to the tools and capabilities to succeed.

Join this webinar:

To understand what’s new in the Micro Focus ALM portfolio
To see all the new capabilities that help you unlock your existing investment. To view a demonstration of the latest capabilities in the ALM platform, including the integrations between ALM and ALM Octane and the Development, Testing, and Build environments

The Data Centre Maturity Model (DCMM) was created by The Green Grid and can help assess the current and desired states of your data centre(s), highlighting areas that could be enhanced using a maturity modeling approach.

*Please note: this webinar will be presented in Dutch.

This webinar covers the various legislation and policies, at a European level as well as their application in four different countries, namely: United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany and France. Legislation and Policies have an important role to play to steer, stimulate and support new products and services but also new business models.

*Please note: this webinar will be presented in French.

Listen to Sophie Legault, Director of T&D Business Unit at EXFO as she talks about the 4G to 5G transition, the implication of highly dense networks, impact on the costs of maintenance on fronthaul networks and the challenges MNOs may face. She will also delve into best practices for addressing interference and PIM in mobile networks and improving the quality of fiber-based fronthaul and CRAN deployments.

Project and Portfolio Management, PPM, is continuously evolving, especially with the Agile adoption in the Enterprise. Portfolio managers are now asked to manage integrated portfolios with hybrid projects (Waterfall & Agile).

PPM version 9.42 brings a new portfolio management module, including Epic and seamless integration with Agile tools. You can now create your own KPIs to measure success of the various portfolios and integrated programs and projects. These new features bring agility and more insight data, so that you can focus on what is most important for the business.

In this webinar, you will learn about:

New integrated PPM Portfolio management
How to create unlimited portfolio scenarios
How to create Epics in PPM and integrate with Agile tools
New KPIs to monitor and measure portfolio strategy