Are you ahead or behind? Research findings on Application Security in DevOps

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

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=.

According to the 2017-18 World Quality Report, 88% of companies surveyed are using or experimenting with DevOps, and that number is growing. Making the transformation is not easy, and it’s made even more complicated by tools that aren’t integrated with each other, do not communicate with each other, and do not offer end-to-end visibility into and collaboration across the DevOps pipeline.

Micro Focus recently introduced their DevOps Suite, consisting of best-of-breed lifecycle management (ALM Octane), functional and performance testing (StormRunner Functional and StormRunner Load), and production monitoring (AppPulse) tools.

Attend this webinar to hear about the DevOps Suite, and how it can help your team accelerate application delivery at high quality and scale. We’ll also show you an end-to-end demo of the products. Here is what you will learn:

• Challenges facing organizations making an agile or DevOps transformation today
• Why it’s critical for organizations to have DevOps tools that share data and insights with each other as well as being tightly integrated with the pipeline
• How the Micro Focus DevOps Suite provides you with lifecycle and
pipeline management, continuous functional and performance testing
from the cloud, and production monitoring for continuous assessment

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=

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.

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

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=.

Two speakers will share their "Tips & Tricks" insights on implementation on an effective test automation framework in DevOps and dos and don'ts with Unified Function Testing (UFT) and Lean Functional Testing (LeanFT). 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: Bob Crews
Seven Tips to Implement an Effective Test Automation Framework in DevOps: This presentation will provide seven strategic, proven tips to more effectively design and implement a robust test automation framework in an Agile and DevOps environment. A brief overview of the critical components and characteristics of an effective framework will be presented followed by the key value and benefits, essential for justification to leadership.

•Speaker: Carsten Neise
Dos and Don'ts with Micro Focus UFT and LeanFT: Carsten will demonstrate what bottlenecks you may fall into daily from installing Micro Focus UFT up to usage. Additionally, he will show some differences in using Micro Focus LeanFT and UFT.

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, April 17, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1083510&group=.

Seven Tips to Implement an Effective Test Automation Framework in DevOps

This presentation will provide seven strategic, proven tips to more effectively design and implement a robust test automation framework in an Agile and DevOps environment. A brief overview of the critical components and characteristics of an effective framework will be presented followed by the key value and benefits, essential for justification to leadership.

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, April 17, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1083510&group=.

Dos and Don'ts with Micro Focus UFT and LeanFT

Carsten will demonstrate what bottlenecks you may fall into daily from installing Micro Focus UFT up to usage. Additionally, he will show some differences in using Micro Focus LeanFT and UFT.

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, April 17, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1083510&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

With the growth of the number of cyberattacks, having a Security Information Event Management (SIEM) Technology in place can aggregate and correlate data from security feeds. These include: network discovery and vulnerability assessment systems, risk and compliance systems, log management systems, penetration testing tools, firewalls, IPS, threat intelligence feeds, host antivirus systems, web security appliances, and email security appliances. SIEM can be a "single pane of glass" for the security analysts to monitor the enterprise.

SIEM Technology also allows companies to be able to correlate data from various sources to surface patterns that could represent malicious or suspicious activity. This way, they can prevent, block, or contain all nefarious networks activity and attacks.

For this Vivit SIG Talk session, 2 Performance Testing thought leaders will be featured. They will share their knowledge and expertise with you.

Below is a quick outline of the agenda and topics for you:

Speaker: Scott Moore - Performance Testing Internet of Things:

• An overview of IoT architecture and protocols
• A deeper look into the MQTT and CoAP protocols specifically
• A demonstration of how to test the performance of IoT applications using LoadRunner 12.55

Speaker: Chris Trimper - Using Splunk to Analyze Performance Metrics:

• Introduction to Splunk
• Process of preparing LR data for Splunk consumption
• Building dashboards and performing analytics in Splunk

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, March 13, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1073255&group=.

Performance Testing Internet of Things

Scott Moore will take a dive into performance testing Internet of Things (IoT) applications and platforms. It includes a deeper look into two of the most popular protocols being used today: MQTT and CoAP. Learn how you can ensure your IoT platform and applications scale and reduce the risk of failure under load in highly constrained environments.

What will be covered:

• An overview of IoT architecture and protocols
• A deeper look into the MQTT and CoAP protocols specifically
• A demonstration ofhow to test the performance of IoT applications using LoadRunner 12.55

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, March 13, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1073255&group=.

Using Splunk to Analyze Performance Metrics

Chris Trimper will show you how to leverage Splunk for storing and analyzing performance data from LoadRunner. This allows for easy trending and possible collaboration with other application metrics stored in Splunk. We will also look at building self-service dashboards showing application performance metrics.

You will be hearing about:

• Introduction to Splunk
• Process of preparing LR data for Splunk consumption
• Building dashboards and performing analytics in Splunk

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, March 13, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1073255&group=.

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