Data Ctr Efficiency via IT Optimization, Standards &Collaboration

Looking for more cost-effective ways to implement fibre channel cabling? Learn why proper cabling is important and how it fits into data center designs. Join this webcast to hear FCIA experts discuss:
- Cable and connector types, cassettes, patch panels and other cabling products
- Variables in Fiber Optic and Copper Cables: Reflectance, Insertion Loss,
Crosstalk, Speed/Length Limitations and more
- Different variations of Structured Cabling in an environment with FC
- Helpful tips when planning and implementing a cabling infrastructure within a SAN

The SNIA Swordfish™ specification helps to provide a unified approach for the management of storage and servers in hyperscale and cloud infrastructure environments, making it easier for IT administrators to integrate scalable solutions into their data centers. Swordfish builds on the Distributed Management Task Force’s (DMTF’s) Redfish® specification using the same easy-to-use RESTful methods and lightweight JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) formatting. Join this session to receive an overview of Swordfish including the new functionality added in version 1.0.6 released in March, 2018.

To simplify the development process, microservice development is increasingly being conducted using containers. However, the picture is not always rosy, especially in an enterprise environment where both old and new processes must be managed simultaneously and elegantly in order to avoid chaos.

This session will review the top issues that must be addressed when making this transition--including development, operations, and even the finance department--with a focus on microservice development in hybrid cloud environments.

About the presenter:
Robert Starmer is a cloud advisor and the founder of Kumulus Technologies. At Kumulus, Robert and his team provide infrastructure-focused DevOps, systems reliability engineering, and cloud computing consulting, enabling companies at all levels to optimize their cloud usage. He also uses his more than 20 years of experience in cloud, SRE, and DevOps to educate the industry through articles, presentations, and curriculum development. Robert is a Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) and a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Form3 Chief Platform Architect, Edward Wilde, shares his experience of building a pure microservices architecture for real-time payment processing. Architecture includes Terraform, Docker, Vault, Consul, Linkerd and AWS: SQS, SNS, EC2, RDS.

Essentially these technologies enable high levels of availability, processing performance and continuous product deployment, all at a fraction of the cost of legacy software deployed in proprietary data centers. Even the most sophisticated challenger bank and Fintech’s have said this is a technology stack that they really want to have in the future!

About the presenter:

Edward Wilde is the Platform Architect at Form3, leading the development of a novel distributed payment system allowing connectivity, payment processing, clearing and settlement services for a wide range of regulated financial institutions, including leading banks and fintechs.

The use of microservice architectures has exploded over the past couple years, but does that mean they are right for every business? When it comes to building a business case for containers and microservices, how do you determine whether or not this model is the right fit for your organization?

Join this live expert panel moderated by Haidee McMahon, SDDC Technical Solutions Marketing Manager at Intel, for a deeper look and discussion around deriving value from microservices. Whether in a complex data center app or a web or mobile app hosted on cloud infrastructure, what is the underlying architecture behind the scenes? What are the pros and cons from a UX/UI perspective, if any, and how do you make a case for microservices in your enterprise?

Panelists:
Chris Priest, Senior Consultant & Technical Lead, Amido
Duncan Doyle, JBoss Technology Evangelist, Red Hat
Roel Hodzelmans, Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat

Brought to you by the Vivit Automation & Cloud Builders Special Interest (SIG) Group.

Attend this webinar to receive a live demonstration of public cloud service brokering, aggregation and governance using the Micro Focus Hybrid Cloud Management solution. HCM allows IT to easily aggregate public cloud resources into an end-user catalog, while providing governance and analytics to ensure business unit consumption is visible and within budget. In addition, learn how improved control of public cloud spending can help you start building a strong business case for cloud management.

Cloud Aggregation & Brokering
- Cloud service aggregation to quickly aggregate hybrid cloud services and publish offerings in catalog
- Self-service web portal access to catalog services for end users to consume services

Hybrid Cloud Governance
- Get visibility into IT cloud costs with show-back reporting for LOBs/organizations
- Policy-based budget quota management to proactively track cloud costs and notify on quota overages

What are the common challenges and success factors for implementing containerization and microservices? Learn about field implementations of different container, container orchestration, and microservices implementations across organizations of many sizes.

This webcast will show what the common pitfalls are, industry learnings, and how your organization can take the lessons of others to assess and implement your own microservices and/or containerization strategy.

Follow Eric Wright, Technology Evangelist at Turbonomic, at discoposse.com and @discoposse.

File vs. Block vs. Object Storage

When it comes to storage, a byte is a byte is a byte, isn’t it?

One of the enduring truths about simplicity is that scale makes everything hard, and with that comes complexity. And when we’re not processing the data, how do we store it and access it?

The only way to manage large quantities of data is to make it addressable in larger pieces, above the byte level. For that, we’ve designed sets of data management protocols that help us do several things: address large lumps of data by some kind of name or handle, organize it for storage on external storage devices with different characteristics, and provide protocols that allow us to programmatically write and read it.

In this webcast, we'll compare three types of data access: file, block and object storage, and the access methods that support them. Each has its own use cases, and advantages and disadvantages; each provides simple to sophisticated data management; and each makes different demands on storage devices and programming technologies.

Perhaps you’re comfortable with block and file, but are interested in investigating the more recent class of object storage and access. Perhaps you’re happy with your understanding of objects, but would really like to understand files better, and what advantages or disadvantages they have compared to each other. Or perhaps you want to understand how file, block and object are implemented on the underlying storage systems – and how one can be made to look like the other, depending on how the storage is accessed. Join us as we discuss and debate:

Storage devices
oHow different types of storage drive different management & access solutions
Block
oWhere everything is in fixed-size chunks
oSCSI and SCSI-based protocols, and how FC and iSCSI fit in
Files
oWhen everything is a stream of bytes
oNFS and SMB
Objects
oWhen everything is a blob
oHTTP, key value and RESTful interfaces
Altogether…
oWhen files, blocks and objects collide

Shown below is an outline of the agenda and topics:

Speaker: Mark Ford
Integrate your SDLC Tools Quickly and Easily with Tasktop Hub: Integrating your Micro Focus tools with other SDLC tools can bridge gaps and facilitate far better communication paths than emails and excel sheets alone. Sure, it would be great to have everyone under the same umbrella, but that’s not always the reality we live in. So why not allow other teams to work on the same Micro Focus ALM Requirement, Test, or Defect from their own SDLC tool? I’ll show you how you can set up a basic Defect synchronization between Micro Focus ALM and Atlassian JIRA for example in as little as 5 minutes using a product from Micro Focus partner Tasktop called Tasktop Hub
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Speaker: Arvind Namasivayam
Tips and Tricks of Installing, Administering and Using Micro Focus Mobile Center: In this segment you will be introduced to a quick overview on Micro Focus Mobile Center. Arvind will explain some o the challenges that he faced while installing the tool. He will also share valuable tips and tricks on effectively implementing and using Micro Focus Mobile Center.

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, May 8, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1089251&group=.

Integrate your SDLC Tools Quickly and Easily with Tasktop Hub

Integrating your Micro Focus tools with other SDLC tools can bridge gaps and facilitate far better communication paths than emails and excel sheets alone. Sure, it would be great to have everyone under the same umbrella, but that’s not always the reality we live in. So why not allow other teams to work on the same Micro Focus ALM Requirement, Test, or Defect from their own SDLC tool? I’ll show you how you can set up a basic Defect synchronization between Micro Focus ALM and Atlassian JIRA for example in as little as 5 minutes using a product from Micro Focus partner Tasktop called Tasktop Hub.

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, May 8, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1089251&group=.

Best Practices of Installing, Administering and Using Micro Focus Mobile Center

In this segment you will be introduced to a quick overview on Micro Focus Mobile Center. Arvind will explain some of the challenges that he faced while installing the tool. He will also share valuable tips and tricks on effectively implementing and using Micro Focus Mobile Center.

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, May 8, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1089251&group=.

Join this live webcam panel moderated by Krishnan Subramanian, Founder and Chief Research Advisor, Rishidot Research, LCC for a technical deep-dive into enterprise DevOps and cloud-native applications.

Topics covered will include:

- Cloud-native and container-based applications
- Container security and governance in microservices
- Enterprise DevOps and how it can enable the journey to becoming cloud-native

Expert panelists include:

- Matthias Haeussler, Managing Consultant, NovaTec
- Jim Bugwadia, Founder, Nirmata Inc.

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.