Application Management

The architectural pattern of decomposing an application into microservices has proven extremely effective at delivering software faster. However, this type of an architecture comes with its fair share of challenges.

Fortunately, Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers many services that can be leveraged to overcome these challenges and adopt microservice best practices. If you are just starting to consider using AWS for running your microservices or if you have already started on the journey and looking for opportunities to improve, then this webinar will be beneficial for you.

Understanding the customers’ business model and reaching a healthy consensus between the push of technology (e.g., IoT and 5G) is required in data center design and planning to meet the demand for ubiquitous coverage and the demand of data anytime, anywhere. This presentation will provide an overview of data center design, the changes in the upcoming revision of ANSI/TIA-942 Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers, and review use cases in the implementation of ANSI/TIA-942.

Speakers:
 Jonathan Jew, J&M Consultants
 Glenn Sexton, President and Principal Consultant, NIS

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About TR-42 Telecommunications Cabling Systems Committee:
The TR-42 Telecommunications Cabling Systems Committee develops and maintains voluntary telecommunications standards for telecommunications cabling infrastructure in user-owned buildings, such as commercial buildings, residential buildings, homes, data centers and industrial buildings. The generic cabling topologies, design, distances and outlet configurations as well as specifics for these locations are addressed.

The ANSI/TIA-942 Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers is developed by the TR-42.1 Generic and Premises Cabling Subcommittee. TR-42.1 develops and maintains cabling standards for generic customer-owned telecommunications networks. These standards are intended to specify open systems designed to support a wide variety of voice, data, video, and other low voltage, power-limited applications. TR-42.1 also develops and maintains telecommunications cabling standards for premises networks such as commercial buildings, data centers, building automation, etc. This Subcommittee specifies cabling system topology, architecture, design, installation, testing and performance requirements. Go to https://www.tiaonline.org/all-standards/committees/tr-42 for further info.

Participate in TR-42: Stephanie Montgomery: [email protected].

From pilot to production, eG Enterprise empowers enterprise organizations to deliver a better user experience and increased ROI by delivering comprehensive, converged performance management of Java application services. With optimized Java platforms delivered through Zing, Azul Systems enables Java-based businesses to focus on functionality and long-term lower operating costs rather than daily firefighting. Together, eG Enterprise and Azul Systems offer a proven Java environment designed to optimize the deployment, management, and scale of Java application services.

Join us for this webinar where Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO of eG Innovations and Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO of Azul Systems will present how:

- Java Application Service Management can be simplified and made more cost-effective, while delivering a better user experience
- eG Enterprise enhancements provide insights into Java applications running on the Zing runtime
- eG Enterprise and Azul Zing working together in a production Java installation can reduce costs, optimize deployments and deliver optimum user satisfaction

Part of the Industrial Internet Consortium's Webinar Series on Securing the Industrial IoT, this session will feature Protecting Your Industrial Control System from Digital Threats.

Industrial Control Systems are everywhere. They’re running power grids, regulating data center energy use in large buildings, or managing production processes in at your favorite snack food manufacturer. What makes Industrial Control Systems so important, yet so difficult to secure? Learn about types of security challenges that operators of industrial control systems face and the tools available to help alleviate risk.

A decade ago, tech deal flow barely trickled into and out of China. While M&A in the world’s second-largest economy is still relatively small, it has dramatically accelerated in recent years, with the overall number of tech transactions in China having doubled over the past half-decade to a record level in 2016. Spending on deals also surged to unprecedented levels last year. However, there are some concerns about whether the M&A boom will continue. China’s currency has weakened, economic growth has slowed and relations with its main tech partner – the US – have soured. Will M&A falter, too?

Join 451 Research’s Brenon Daly, Research Director, Financials, Agatha Poon, Research Director of APAC Services, and Tim Miller, VP of Financial Markets for a 45-minute webinar on the state of M&A in China now, as well as the outlook for the coming years.

With the advent of Software, Platform, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings in the public cloud, many enterprise IT organizations have a mandate to leverage the public cloud to deliver applications and services. Meanwhile, organizations with petabytes-scale rich content depots are finding moving persistent data storage wholesale to the public cloud is more expensive in the long run. IT has an opportunity to add value by delivering a catalog of standard, S3- and Swift-compatible, object storage services at a cost, quality, and speed comparable to the best external cloud providers.  To address this, IT organizations are turning to the Hybrid Cloud to streamline and automate management of their rich content data at scale.

In this webinar customers will learn how to evolve to succeed in the data-powered digital era utilizing flexible deployment options, multi-tenant global namespaces, automated data policies, and ease of configuration— all powered by NetApp StorageGRID Webscale software and Intel X86 servers.

HGST has recently announced new Enterprise SSDs with SAS and NVMe interfaces. In this webinar we will discuss the benefits of upgrading from the existing FusionIO PCIe cards to the new SN260 NVMe SSD and from the existing UltraStar SAS SSD to SS200 SAS SSDs.

The importance and significance of Software Asset Management (SAM) has increased significantly over the past ten years. This is due to increased complexity of license metrics, enhanced technologies and the threat of vendor audits.

In this webinar, Snow Software will walk you through the Top 5 Reasons as to why you need Software Asset Management within your organization.

Data-driven applications in the cloud often consist of several components that must ingest, process, and publish their data to users. Deploying and integrating it all on a bare-metal or virtual platform can prove difficult for any organization. Orchestrating and assembling these components on a cloud platform presents a new set of challenges to engineers, operators, and data scientists.

However, by combining Apache Spark's deployment methodology with Kubernetes' proven capability for repeatable integration patterns, it’s easy to create insightful analytics applications. Watch this webcast featuring a case study of an Apache Spark-based, data-driven application developed by a distributed team and deployed onto a containerized cloud platform.

Environments running microservices are highly dynamic and could present a level of complexity in their operational data that makes root cause analysis particularly challenging and time consuming. Join Kamala Dasika from Pivotal and Michael Villiger from Dynatrace, to learn about how teams are overcoming this to manage services at scale by taking advantage of:
- Automatic application-environment discovery
- Service and process flows integrated with platform visibility, and
- Self healing platforms

This is the third webinar in the series presented by Pivotal and Dynatrace on modernizing your application portfolio to cloud-native.

Webinars in this series are searchable by title:
- Journey to Cloud-Native: Where to start in your app modernization process
- Journey to Cloud-Native: Continuous Delivery with Artificial Intelligence
- Journey to Cloud-Native: Making Sense of Your Service Interactions
- Journey to Cloud-Native: Reducing Production Risks at Scale

Thank you in advance for joining us.

About the Speakers:
Kamala Dasika has been working on the Cloud Foundry product team since its inception in 2011 and previously held various product or engineering positions at VMware, Tibco, SAP and Applied Biosystems.

Mike Villiger helps Dynatrace customers implement Application Performance Management technologies and processes in the worlds of Public/Private Cloud, DevOps, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and NoSQL.

Open source software is the lifeblood of today’s enterprise applications, comprising 80%-90% of the code. However, open source use comes with significant security and IP risks that both enterprise and smaller organizations are ill-prepared to address.

As development teams increasingly automate the software development lifecycle (SDLC) through the use of agile DevOps tools and practices, the need to mitigate these risks through integration of Software Composition Analysis (SCA) into the DevOps tool chain has become critical.

In this 60-minute webinar, guest speaker, Forrester Principal Analyst Amy DeMartine, and Black Duck Director of Product Marketing Patrick Carey, will discuss findings from the recent report: The Forrester Wave™: Software Composition Analysis, Q1 2017 and why SCA should be a key part of your Secure DevOps strategy.

The discussion topics will include:
- Why you need a software composition analysis (SCA) solution
- How SCA solutions help you manage open source vulnerability, compliance, and component quality risks
- Criteria to consider when selecting an SCA solution
- Why it's important to integrate SCA into your automated DevOps environment

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a field within AI that makes machines learn by trial-and-error. RL systems have improved enormously in the recent years, being able to master games like Space Invaders or Go.

However, we have many challenges ahead: How can we make RL systems that live in the real world, with real people? How can we make sure these systems remain stable and well-behaved?

In this talk we will explore these challenges and suggest a few ways forward to bring useful RL technology to people's daily lives.

Chris will be presenting on risk and resilience in 2017, looking specifically at:

- The current risks to businesses
- The current threat landscape
- The importance of resilience, including cyber resilience and how it is more than just cyber security
- What companies need to do to become and stay resilient

Quali’s CloudShell has become the de-facto cloud sandbox software platform for a variety of use-cases ranging from DevOps automation, continuous testing, cyber ranges, lab-as-a-service, hybrid cloud, demo and POC compliance and many more. With hundreds of marquee customers worldwide, it continues to add new capabilities that significantly increase Dev/Test productivity and innovation velocity while lowering costs. Release 8.0 expands upon these capabilities focusing on a multi-cloud offering with “one-click” cloud deployment paths for Microsoft Azure and OpenStack. It also includes Ansible integration.



Quali’s VP of Engineering, Edan Evantal, shares what’s under the hood of Release 8.0 and provides a no-BS engineer’s perspective.

Learn how Extremely Heavy Industries successfully develops beautiful, data-intensive applications for desktop and mobile platforms using Ext JS. Join this webinar to see Anselm McClain, Partner and Developer at Extremely Heavy Industries, share his real-world development experience of using robust web development stacks. You’ll learn about:

- Best practices and challenges of developing high-performance JavaScript applications with a large code base.
- Building your own toolkit of custom components and code patterns to maximize application usability and consistency for end-users while enhancing productivity and encouraging code re-use for developers.
- Improving the success of data-dense web applications through the visualization of information and the tight integration of traditional grid data with technologies such as D3.

The session will include a review of a cross-platform demo trading application, and discuss how Ext JS is particularly well suited to data-intensive industries like asset management and financial services.

Sencha will also provide a brief overview and demonstration of Ext JS, highlighting some of the 115+ high-performance, pre-tested, and integrated UI components.

Athenahealth is on a mission to ‘unbreak’ the US health care provider experience, and they are using data to do it. With a new Snowflake data warehouse and Looker data platform on top, data analysts at Athenahealth are delivering data to more people in their organization, and improving patient experience in the US healthcare system.

In this webinar, you'll hear from Greg Joondeph-Breidbart, Senior Manager of Data Engineering at Athenahealth, on why they moved from legacy systems to the cloud. They now have:

- Iterative product analytics which allow them to continually update, analyze and tweak their product without fear of adjusting their schema or redefining business logic

- Row-level details so the people closest to the data can drill into the why behind every report and take action on any inconsistencies immediately

- Feature-rich reporting that leverages Snowflake’s unique concurrency functionality and simplicity with the power and flexibility of Looker’s modeling layer

Please join us for the next Black Duck Customer Success Webinar and learn about the features and enhancements in the latest Hub release – version 3.6. It includes new usability and project management improvements as well as administration and integration enhancements.

We’ll discuss:

- Leveraging the new Hub Reporting Database to programmatically access project, project version, component version, and component license data for custom data reporting and analysis.
- Taking advantage of the new Print View option which displays the Bill of Materials in a format suitable for easy printing or exporting.
- Adding subprojects to your Bill of Materials. For example, if you have projects used by other applications, you can add them to a BOM so that the BOM accurately reflects the elements in your application.
- Using the updated Hub 3.6 Scan Client to scan Docker Images. We’ve introduced a new script, bundled with the Hub Scanner, to scan your Docker images for open source.

As data is increasingly accessed and shared across geographic boundaries, a growing web of conflicting laws and regulations dictate where data can be transferred, stored, and shared, and how it is protected. The Object Management Group® (OMG®) and the Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC) recently completed a significant effort to analyze and document the challenges posed by data residency.
Data residency issues result from the storage and movement of data and metadata across geographies and jurisdictions. Attend this webinar to learn more about data residency:

•How it may impact users and providers of IT services (including but not limited to the cloud)
•The complex web of laws and regulations that govern this area
•The relevant aspects – and limitations -- of current standards and potential areas of improvement
•How to contribute to future work

Join Dan Waymire, Senior Manager of UCSL Feature Development at HOSTING, as he dives into hybrid cloud best practices and how companies can align business and IT objectives to achieve organization goals. During the webcast, he will go over the following:

- Utilizing hybrid environments to drive better business outcomes
- Aligning IT and business goals to deliver solutions
- Case Study: A look into how HOSTING built a brand new service to resolve a real-life company need
- An introduction to HOSTING’s Monitoring Insights Service, a first-to-market solution that provides a single-pane view of all of your hybrid IT tools

As a partner in the oneM2M global IoT standards development Partnership, TIA supports its deployment around the world. oneM2M is designed as an architecture and standards platform for IoT deployments in many industry sectors including Smart Cities, Industrial Automation, Home Automation and eHealth and Telemedicine, among others.

Now in its second published release, it is being deployed in a number of projects.

Now in its second published release, it is being tested for resilience as an IoT standard in a number of projects. This webcast will focus on:

• 3 projects such as Korean Smart Cities(Busan, Ilsan) and Wise-IoT which is the Joint European-Korean project.
• In England, U.K.’s oneTRANSPORT intelligent system trial which serves four U.K. counties. This trial involves England’s highways transportation agency and two private sector sensor-network owners over a single, interoperable IoT platform powered by the oneM2M™ standard.
• Overview of oneM2M certification(including background of the need for oneM2M certification program).
• Introduction of Certified Product (Target service and use cases are included per each company).
• An update from the National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST) on its IoT-enabled Smart City Framework and oneM2M smart city collaboration.

Speakers:
-- Ken Figueredo, IoT Strategy Industry Advisor, InterDigital
-- Sookhyun Jeon, Senior Engineer, Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA)
-- JaeSeung Song, Associate Professor, Sejong University and Korea Electronics Technology Institite (KETI)
-- David Wollman, Deputy Director, Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems Program Office NIST

To speak to TIA about oneM2M for further information, contact: Victoria Mitchell, Director, Global Standards Programs, at [email protected].

To learn more about oneM2M, visit: http://www.onem2m.org/
To learn more about oneM2M certification by TTA, visit: http://www.onem2mcert.com/main/main.php

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GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is just over a year away, and many organisations are still trying to understand what this new regulation means to them, their organisation and their data.

Join us for the first in a series of webinars which focus on how organisation's can begin to action GDPR - with this first short session focusing on Understanding Your Data with Informatica Axon.

Informatica Axon Powers Informatica's Enterprise Data Governance Solution and in the context of GDPR will help organisations show how personal data is connected and used throughout the business and make it high-quality, consistent, trustworthy and secure at all levels of the organisation.

This session will cover:
- Key GDPR documentation requirements, and how companies need to be able to respond & action
- Bringing visibility of end-to-end data flows across and beyond organisational boundaries
- Capturing GDPR policies, rule & requirements and linking back to the data concepts & processes
- Live Demo of Informatica Axon – visualising how data is interconnected & how information flows through the business

Spark is a dynamic execution engine that can take relatively simple Scala code and create complex and optimized execution plans. In this talk, we will describe how user code translates into Spark drivers, executors, stages, tasks, transformations, and shuffles. We will describe how this is critical to the design of Spark and how this tight interplay allows very efficient execution. Users and operators who are aware of the concepts will become more effective at their interactions with Spark.