This document discusses big data analytics tools and technologies. It begins with an overview of big data challenges and available tools. It then discusses Packetloop, a company that provides big data security analytics using tools like Amazon EMR, Cassandra, and PostgreSQL on AWS. Next, it discusses how EMR and Redshift from AWS can be used as big data tools for tasks like batch processing, data warehousing, and live analytics. It concludes by discussing how Intel technologies can help power big data platforms by providing optimized processors, networking, and storage to enable analytics at scale.
Expert IT analyst groups like Wikibon forecast that NoSQL database usage will grow at a compound rate of 60% each year for the next five years, and Gartner Groups says NoSQL databases are one of the top trends impacting information management in 2013. But is NoSQL right for your business? How do you know which business applications will benefit from NoSQL and which won't? What questions do you need to ask in order to make such decisions?
If you're wondering what NoSQL is and if your business can benefit from NoSQL technology, join DataStax for the Webinar, "How to Tell if Your Business Needs NoSQL". This to-the-point presentation will provide practical litmus tests to help you understand whether NoSQL is right for your use case, and supplies examples of NoSQL technology in action with leading businesses that demonstrate how and where NoSQL databases can have the greatest impact."
Speaker: Robin Schumacher, Vice President of Products at DataStax
Robin Schumacher has spent the last 20 years working with databases and big data. He comes to DataStax from EnterpriseDB, where he built and led a market-driven product management group. Previously, Robin started and led the product management team at MySQL for three years before they were bought by Sun (the largest open source acquisition in history), and then by Oracle. He also started and led the product management team at Embarcadero Technologies, which was the #1 IPO in 2000. Robin is the author of three database performance books and frequent speaker at industry events. Robin holds BS, MA, and Ph.D. degrees from various universities.
(BDT201) Big Data and HPC State of the Union | AWS re:Invent 2014Amazon Web Services
Leveraging big data and high performance computing (HPC) solutions enables your organization to make smarter and faster decisions that influence strategy, increase productivity, and ultimately grow your business. We kick off the Big Data and HPC track with the latest advancements in data analytics, databases, storage, and HPC at AWS. Hear customer success stories and discover how to put data to work in your own organization.
Aberdeen Oil & Gas Event - Enterprise Cloud Adoption PatternsAmazon Web Services
In this presentation from the recent AWS Oil & Gas event in Aberdeen, AWS Technical Evangelist Ian Massingham describes and discusses the common patterns for adoption of the AWS Cloud within established enterprises.
Using real time big data analytics for competitive advantageAmazon Web Services
Many organisations find it challenging to successfully perform real-time data analytics using their own on premise IT infrastructure. Building a system that can adapt and scale rapidly to handle dramatic increases in transaction loads can potentially be quite a costly and time consuming exercise.
Most of the time, infrastructure is under-utilised and it’s near impossible for organisations to forecast the amount of computing power they will need in the future to serve their customers and suppliers.
To overcome these challenges, organisations can instead utilise the cloud to support their real-time data analytics activities. Scalable, agile and secure, cloud-based infrastructure enables organisations to quickly spin up infrastructure to support their data analytics projects exactly when it is needed. Importantly, they can ‘switch off’ infrastructure when it is not.
BluePi Consulting and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are giving you the opportunity to discover how organisations are using real time data analytics to gain new insights from their information to improve the customer experience and drive competitive advantage.
AWS Webcast - Journey through the Cloud - Cost OptimizationAmazon Web Services
From turning systems off at night to implementing bidding strategies on the spot market, there are many ways in which you can manage costs in AWS. This presentation outlines strategies to help you save money in the AWS Cloud.
Kubernetes and Terraform in the Cloud: How RightScale Does DevOpsRightScale
This document summarizes a presentation about how RightScale uses Kubernetes, Terraform, and other tools in their cloud management platform. It discusses how RightScale has transitioned from using Docker containers on individual VMs ("Bay of Containers") to using Kubernetes container clusters in the cloud ("Sea of Containers"). RightScale built custom images with Kubernetes components pre-installed to speed up cluster creation. Terraform is used to provision infrastructure including Kubernetes clusters and integrate with the RightScale platform. The goal was to enable developers to have self-managed Kubernetes clusters using infrastructure as code principles. Key aspects included making clusters disposable while maintaining high availability, and distributing Terraform modules to development teams to simplify cluster creation and management
Prepare Your Enterprise Cloud Strategy for 2019: 7 Things to Think About NowRightScale
Cloud adoption just keeps on growing and now is the time to take control. Your enterprise cloud strategy for 2019 needs to address the broad impact of cloud use in your company. Your strategy should also cover implications for your technical processes, as well as supporting areas including finance, governance, organization, and culture.
How to Set Up a Cloud Cost Optimization Process for your EnterpriseRightScale
As cloud spend grows, enterprises need to set up internal processes to manage and optimize their cloud costs. This process will help organizations to accurately allocate and report on costs while minimizing wasted spend. In this webinar, experts from RightScale’s Cloud Cost Optimization team will share best practices in how to set up your own internal processes.
Expert IT analyst groups like Wikibon forecast that NoSQL database usage will grow at a compound rate of 60% each year for the next five years, and Gartner Groups says NoSQL databases are one of the top trends impacting information management in 2013. But is NoSQL right for your business? How do you know which business applications will benefit from NoSQL and which won't? What questions do you need to ask in order to make such decisions?
If you're wondering what NoSQL is and if your business can benefit from NoSQL technology, join DataStax for the Webinar, "How to Tell if Your Business Needs NoSQL". This to-the-point presentation will provide practical litmus tests to help you understand whether NoSQL is right for your use case, and supplies examples of NoSQL technology in action with leading businesses that demonstrate how and where NoSQL databases can have the greatest impact."
Speaker: Robin Schumacher, Vice President of Products at DataStax
Robin Schumacher has spent the last 20 years working with databases and big data. He comes to DataStax from EnterpriseDB, where he built and led a market-driven product management group. Previously, Robin started and led the product management team at MySQL for three years before they were bought by Sun (the largest open source acquisition in history), and then by Oracle. He also started and led the product management team at Embarcadero Technologies, which was the #1 IPO in 2000. Robin is the author of three database performance books and frequent speaker at industry events. Robin holds BS, MA, and Ph.D. degrees from various universities.
(BDT201) Big Data and HPC State of the Union | AWS re:Invent 2014Amazon Web Services
Leveraging big data and high performance computing (HPC) solutions enables your organization to make smarter and faster decisions that influence strategy, increase productivity, and ultimately grow your business. We kick off the Big Data and HPC track with the latest advancements in data analytics, databases, storage, and HPC at AWS. Hear customer success stories and discover how to put data to work in your own organization.
Aberdeen Oil & Gas Event - Enterprise Cloud Adoption PatternsAmazon Web Services
In this presentation from the recent AWS Oil & Gas event in Aberdeen, AWS Technical Evangelist Ian Massingham describes and discusses the common patterns for adoption of the AWS Cloud within established enterprises.
Using real time big data analytics for competitive advantageAmazon Web Services
Many organisations find it challenging to successfully perform real-time data analytics using their own on premise IT infrastructure. Building a system that can adapt and scale rapidly to handle dramatic increases in transaction loads can potentially be quite a costly and time consuming exercise.
Most of the time, infrastructure is under-utilised and it’s near impossible for organisations to forecast the amount of computing power they will need in the future to serve their customers and suppliers.
To overcome these challenges, organisations can instead utilise the cloud to support their real-time data analytics activities. Scalable, agile and secure, cloud-based infrastructure enables organisations to quickly spin up infrastructure to support their data analytics projects exactly when it is needed. Importantly, they can ‘switch off’ infrastructure when it is not.
BluePi Consulting and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are giving you the opportunity to discover how organisations are using real time data analytics to gain new insights from their information to improve the customer experience and drive competitive advantage.
AWS Webcast - Journey through the Cloud - Cost OptimizationAmazon Web Services
From turning systems off at night to implementing bidding strategies on the spot market, there are many ways in which you can manage costs in AWS. This presentation outlines strategies to help you save money in the AWS Cloud.
Kubernetes and Terraform in the Cloud: How RightScale Does DevOpsRightScale
This document summarizes a presentation about how RightScale uses Kubernetes, Terraform, and other tools in their cloud management platform. It discusses how RightScale has transitioned from using Docker containers on individual VMs ("Bay of Containers") to using Kubernetes container clusters in the cloud ("Sea of Containers"). RightScale built custom images with Kubernetes components pre-installed to speed up cluster creation. Terraform is used to provision infrastructure including Kubernetes clusters and integrate with the RightScale platform. The goal was to enable developers to have self-managed Kubernetes clusters using infrastructure as code principles. Key aspects included making clusters disposable while maintaining high availability, and distributing Terraform modules to development teams to simplify cluster creation and management
Prepare Your Enterprise Cloud Strategy for 2019: 7 Things to Think About NowRightScale
Cloud adoption just keeps on growing and now is the time to take control. Your enterprise cloud strategy for 2019 needs to address the broad impact of cloud use in your company. Your strategy should also cover implications for your technical processes, as well as supporting areas including finance, governance, organization, and culture.
How to Set Up a Cloud Cost Optimization Process for your EnterpriseRightScale
As cloud spend grows, enterprises need to set up internal processes to manage and optimize their cloud costs. This process will help organizations to accurately allocate and report on costs while minimizing wasted spend. In this webinar, experts from RightScale’s Cloud Cost Optimization team will share best practices in how to set up your own internal processes.
Using RightScale CMP with Cloud Provider ToolsRightScale
Large organizations are using cloud management platforms (CMPs) to manage and govern multi-cloud environments. They need their CMPs to work regardless of the cloud provider tools used by development teams, including AWS Cloud Formation templates, Azure Resource Manager templates, and container services. We will show how RightScale CMP can add operation orchestration and governance regardless of how you provision your workloads.
7 Common Questions About a Cloud Management PlatformRightScale
You already know you need to deliver software more quickly. But what’s the best route to get that agility? Cloud, containers, and DevOps can all help, and a cloud management platform (CMP) pulls it all together. Get answers to the common questions about a CMP.
This document discusses cloud cost optimization strategies and techniques. It begins with introducing the author and their background in cloud computing. Then, it outlines the key pillars of cost optimization including right-sizing elasticity, understanding storage classes and pricing models, measuring usage, and designing systems with cost in mind. Next, it describes the cost optimization process of identifying unnecessary resources, idling resources, and repetitive work. Tools for establishing cost visibility like the AWS billing dashboard and Cost Explorer are also highlighted. The document concludes by noting the latest trends in cloud cost optimization.
(BDT311) MegaRun: Behind the 156,000 Core HPC Run on AWS and Experience of On...Amazon Web Services
"Not only did the 156,000+ core run (nicknamed the MegaRun) on Amazon EC2 break industry records for size, scale, and power, but it also delivered real-world results. The University of Southern California ran the high-performance computing job in the cloud to evaluate over 220,000 compounds and build a better organic solar cell. In this session, USC provides an update on the six promising compounds that we have found and is now synthesizing in laboratories for a clean energy project. We discuss the implementation of and lessons learned in running a cluster in eight AWS regions worldwide, with highlights from Cycle Computing's project Jupiter, a low-overhead cloud scheduler and workload manager. This session also looks at how the MegaRun was financially achievable using the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance market, including an in-depth discussion on leveraging Spot Instances, a strategy to deal with the variability of Spot pricing, and a template to avoid compromising workflow integrity, security, or management.
After a year of production workloads on AWS, HGST, a Western Digital Company, has zeroed in on understanding how to create on-demand clusters to maximize value on AWS. HGST will outline the company's successes in addressing the company's changes in operations, culture, and behavior to this new vision of on-demand clusters. In addition, the session will provide insights into leveraging Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to reduce costs and maximize value, while maintaining the needed flexibility, and agility that AWS is known for.andquot;
"
Best Practices for Cloud Managed Services Providers: The Path to CMP SuccessRightScale
Managed services providers (MSPs) and other IT services providers offering managed services across multiple clouds use a cloud management platform (CMP) as a foundational technology. But what are the best practices for MSPs to leverage a CMP for success with end customers? MSPs need to implement appropriate account hierarchies, tagging strategies, cost management practices, templating and automation approaches, and DevOps processes.
This session will address Cassandra's tunable consistency model and cover how developers and companies should adopt a more Optimistic Software Design model.
The document discusses how cloud computing has changed the game by allowing for innovation, scale, cost savings, and global reach. It outlines four key areas of change enabled by cloud computing: innovation through rapid experimentation, global scale through multiple regions and edge locations, cost optimization by paying for only what is used, and the ability to go global easily. Examples are given of companies innovating faster and scaling globally using AWS cloud services like EC2, S3, DynamoDB, and others.
The document discusses best practices for enterprise IT operations and management on AWS based on AWS Support's experience. It provides examples of how AWS Support helps customers optimize costs, improve security and performance, and handle large-scale events. Key services and capabilities mentioned include Trusted Advisor, Technical Account Managers, infrastructure event management, and development of application deployment templates aligned with best practices. The document also outlines trends seen among enterprise customers around further enhancing services like Trusted Advisor and integrating management tools.
In this video from the 2014 HPC User Forum in Seattle, David Pellerin from Amazon presents: Update on HPC Use on AWS.
"High Performance Computing (HPC) allows scientists and engineers to solve complex science, engineering, and business problems using applications that require high bandwidth, low latency networking, and very high compute capabilities. AWS allows you to increase the speed of research by running high performance computing in the cloud and to reduce costs by providing Cluster Compute or Cluster GPU servers on-demand without large capital investments. You have access to a full-bisection, high bandwidth network for tightly-coupled, IO-intensive workloads, which enables you to scale out across thousands of cores for throughput-oriented applications."
Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-d0n
Should You Move Between AWS, Azure, or Google Clouds? Considerations, Pros an...RightScale
The media is highlighting scores of stories about companies that have moved from one public cloud to another for business or technical reasons. Regardless of whether you are running on AWS, Azure, or Google, there will likely come a time that you’ll want to consider switching cloud providers. Whether you are contemplating a move now or just want to keep your options open in the future, you will need to consider a variety of cost, service, and technical factors. In this webinar, we’ll walk you through the evaluation process of migrating to another cloud provider and highlight the pros and cons.
Hightail is a file sharing and collaboration platform that was formerly known as YouSendIt. In 2015, Hightail transitioned from solely file sending to broader file sharing and collaboration tools. This required overhauling Hightail's technical stack, which was previously on-premise. Hightail evaluated AWS, Google, and IBM for cloud compute and storage and chose AWS in late 2016 due to AWS's tiered storage options, data lifecycle management, competitive pricing and financial incentives, lower operational costs and risks compared to on-premise, and AWS's experience supporting other companies through similar migrations. Hightail completed migrating its infrastructure and data to AWS by August 2017.
Cloud Migration and Portability (with and without Containers)RightScale
Companies are moving more workloads to cloud and many need the flexibility to move some workloads between cloud providers on a one time or ongoing basis. The use of containers is further enabling companies to embrace portability. IT organizations need to understand the considerations, architectures, and tools that are needed to successfully migrate to and between clouds and create portable workloads.
Monitorama - Please, no more Minutes, Milliseconds, Monoliths or Monitoring T...Adrian Cockcroft
Monitorama opening keynote talk on the challenges of Monitoring in a world where we need to deal with continuous delivery, cloud, and automated control feedback loops.
This document outlines the importance of planning for cloud migration. It defines different types of cloud services like Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. While many organizations use cloud applications, less than a third have defined governance and planning. The document recommends developing a cloud plan through discovery, analysis, and design phases to understand current needs, future demands, and costs in order to design an optimal hybrid cloud strategy. Proper planning is key to avoiding unexpected challenges when migrating to the cloud.
This document provides an overview of cost optimization strategies when using AWS. It discusses building cloud architectures with cost in mind by following best practices like right-sizing instances, using the appropriate pricing model, and matching usage to the proper storage class. It also covers implementing and maintaining cost optimization at scale through automation, measurement, and monitoring. Key recommendations include tagging resources, using tools like AWS Trusted Advisor, and potentially working with partners to help manage costs across accounts and metrics.
12 Ways to Manage Cloud Costs and Optimize Cloud SpendRightScale
It can be difficult to manage cloud costs. As a result, you are likely wasting 30-45 percent or more of your cloud spend. Cloud governance, IT, and finance teams need to understand where costs are coming from, allocate those costs to the appropriate departments, and find ways to reduce waste and save money. In this webinar, we will show you how to manage cloud costs and optimize spend.
ProtectWise Revolutionizes Enterprise Network Security in the Cloud with Data...DataStax Academy
ProtectWise has revolutionized enterprise network security with its Security DVR Platform, which combines detection, visibility, and response capabilities into a single cloud-based solution. The Platform ingests and analyzes massive amounts of network data using technologies like Cassandra, Solr, and stream processing to detect threats, gain network visibility, and power responsive analytics over days, months, and years of historical data. A demo of the Security DVR Visualizer was provided.
Tagging Best Practices for Cloud GovernanceRightScale
In the cloud, it’s critical to implement specific global tags across your organization that enable cloud governance and cost management. If, like most enterprises, you are using multiple clouds, you will want to ensure consistency across all of the clouds you use, despite varying tagging capabilities on each cloud.
Webinar Nebula&Scalr : Increasing Business Agility with Real-time Processing ...ScalrCMP
Businesses need to operate in real-time to maintain a competitive edge. Emergent big data technologies like Hadoop YARN and Apache Spark can build processing workflows that parse, categorize, and score information in real-time. Data processing tiers must be able to auto-scale to accommodate the volume, velocity, and variety of big data. Nebula's turnkey private cloud and Scalr's intelligent cloud management platform meet these demands by delivering an orchestrated infrastructure that can auto scale compute and storage resources on-demand to process data feeds in real-time.
Richard Rapoport - McGill University Division of Social & Transcultural Psych...Richard Rapoport
1) Colonialism in Canada has profoundly impacted Aboriginal identities and cultures, contributing to feelings of marginalization, alienation, loss of self-esteem, identity confusion, and shame. The residential school system exacerbated this cultural denigration and damaged core Aboriginal identities.
2) Unaddressed shame can persist across generations and undermine healing. It also plays a role in prolonged conflicts as humiliations are avenged through further shaming. Native self-deprecating humor has been identified as an adaptive response to shame.
3) Experiences of shame in early childhood, such as lacking a caregiver's attentiveness and admiration, can lead to ongoing feelings of shame and difficulties needing support as an adult. Understanding and
Using RightScale CMP with Cloud Provider ToolsRightScale
Large organizations are using cloud management platforms (CMPs) to manage and govern multi-cloud environments. They need their CMPs to work regardless of the cloud provider tools used by development teams, including AWS Cloud Formation templates, Azure Resource Manager templates, and container services. We will show how RightScale CMP can add operation orchestration and governance regardless of how you provision your workloads.
7 Common Questions About a Cloud Management PlatformRightScale
You already know you need to deliver software more quickly. But what’s the best route to get that agility? Cloud, containers, and DevOps can all help, and a cloud management platform (CMP) pulls it all together. Get answers to the common questions about a CMP.
This document discusses cloud cost optimization strategies and techniques. It begins with introducing the author and their background in cloud computing. Then, it outlines the key pillars of cost optimization including right-sizing elasticity, understanding storage classes and pricing models, measuring usage, and designing systems with cost in mind. Next, it describes the cost optimization process of identifying unnecessary resources, idling resources, and repetitive work. Tools for establishing cost visibility like the AWS billing dashboard and Cost Explorer are also highlighted. The document concludes by noting the latest trends in cloud cost optimization.
(BDT311) MegaRun: Behind the 156,000 Core HPC Run on AWS and Experience of On...Amazon Web Services
"Not only did the 156,000+ core run (nicknamed the MegaRun) on Amazon EC2 break industry records for size, scale, and power, but it also delivered real-world results. The University of Southern California ran the high-performance computing job in the cloud to evaluate over 220,000 compounds and build a better organic solar cell. In this session, USC provides an update on the six promising compounds that we have found and is now synthesizing in laboratories for a clean energy project. We discuss the implementation of and lessons learned in running a cluster in eight AWS regions worldwide, with highlights from Cycle Computing's project Jupiter, a low-overhead cloud scheduler and workload manager. This session also looks at how the MegaRun was financially achievable using the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance market, including an in-depth discussion on leveraging Spot Instances, a strategy to deal with the variability of Spot pricing, and a template to avoid compromising workflow integrity, security, or management.
After a year of production workloads on AWS, HGST, a Western Digital Company, has zeroed in on understanding how to create on-demand clusters to maximize value on AWS. HGST will outline the company's successes in addressing the company's changes in operations, culture, and behavior to this new vision of on-demand clusters. In addition, the session will provide insights into leveraging Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to reduce costs and maximize value, while maintaining the needed flexibility, and agility that AWS is known for.andquot;
"
Best Practices for Cloud Managed Services Providers: The Path to CMP SuccessRightScale
Managed services providers (MSPs) and other IT services providers offering managed services across multiple clouds use a cloud management platform (CMP) as a foundational technology. But what are the best practices for MSPs to leverage a CMP for success with end customers? MSPs need to implement appropriate account hierarchies, tagging strategies, cost management practices, templating and automation approaches, and DevOps processes.
This session will address Cassandra's tunable consistency model and cover how developers and companies should adopt a more Optimistic Software Design model.
The document discusses how cloud computing has changed the game by allowing for innovation, scale, cost savings, and global reach. It outlines four key areas of change enabled by cloud computing: innovation through rapid experimentation, global scale through multiple regions and edge locations, cost optimization by paying for only what is used, and the ability to go global easily. Examples are given of companies innovating faster and scaling globally using AWS cloud services like EC2, S3, DynamoDB, and others.
The document discusses best practices for enterprise IT operations and management on AWS based on AWS Support's experience. It provides examples of how AWS Support helps customers optimize costs, improve security and performance, and handle large-scale events. Key services and capabilities mentioned include Trusted Advisor, Technical Account Managers, infrastructure event management, and development of application deployment templates aligned with best practices. The document also outlines trends seen among enterprise customers around further enhancing services like Trusted Advisor and integrating management tools.
In this video from the 2014 HPC User Forum in Seattle, David Pellerin from Amazon presents: Update on HPC Use on AWS.
"High Performance Computing (HPC) allows scientists and engineers to solve complex science, engineering, and business problems using applications that require high bandwidth, low latency networking, and very high compute capabilities. AWS allows you to increase the speed of research by running high performance computing in the cloud and to reduce costs by providing Cluster Compute or Cluster GPU servers on-demand without large capital investments. You have access to a full-bisection, high bandwidth network for tightly-coupled, IO-intensive workloads, which enables you to scale out across thousands of cores for throughput-oriented applications."
Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-d0n
Should You Move Between AWS, Azure, or Google Clouds? Considerations, Pros an...RightScale
The media is highlighting scores of stories about companies that have moved from one public cloud to another for business or technical reasons. Regardless of whether you are running on AWS, Azure, or Google, there will likely come a time that you’ll want to consider switching cloud providers. Whether you are contemplating a move now or just want to keep your options open in the future, you will need to consider a variety of cost, service, and technical factors. In this webinar, we’ll walk you through the evaluation process of migrating to another cloud provider and highlight the pros and cons.
Hightail is a file sharing and collaboration platform that was formerly known as YouSendIt. In 2015, Hightail transitioned from solely file sending to broader file sharing and collaboration tools. This required overhauling Hightail's technical stack, which was previously on-premise. Hightail evaluated AWS, Google, and IBM for cloud compute and storage and chose AWS in late 2016 due to AWS's tiered storage options, data lifecycle management, competitive pricing and financial incentives, lower operational costs and risks compared to on-premise, and AWS's experience supporting other companies through similar migrations. Hightail completed migrating its infrastructure and data to AWS by August 2017.
Cloud Migration and Portability (with and without Containers)RightScale
Companies are moving more workloads to cloud and many need the flexibility to move some workloads between cloud providers on a one time or ongoing basis. The use of containers is further enabling companies to embrace portability. IT organizations need to understand the considerations, architectures, and tools that are needed to successfully migrate to and between clouds and create portable workloads.
Monitorama - Please, no more Minutes, Milliseconds, Monoliths or Monitoring T...Adrian Cockcroft
Monitorama opening keynote talk on the challenges of Monitoring in a world where we need to deal with continuous delivery, cloud, and automated control feedback loops.
This document outlines the importance of planning for cloud migration. It defines different types of cloud services like Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. While many organizations use cloud applications, less than a third have defined governance and planning. The document recommends developing a cloud plan through discovery, analysis, and design phases to understand current needs, future demands, and costs in order to design an optimal hybrid cloud strategy. Proper planning is key to avoiding unexpected challenges when migrating to the cloud.
This document provides an overview of cost optimization strategies when using AWS. It discusses building cloud architectures with cost in mind by following best practices like right-sizing instances, using the appropriate pricing model, and matching usage to the proper storage class. It also covers implementing and maintaining cost optimization at scale through automation, measurement, and monitoring. Key recommendations include tagging resources, using tools like AWS Trusted Advisor, and potentially working with partners to help manage costs across accounts and metrics.
12 Ways to Manage Cloud Costs and Optimize Cloud SpendRightScale
It can be difficult to manage cloud costs. As a result, you are likely wasting 30-45 percent or more of your cloud spend. Cloud governance, IT, and finance teams need to understand where costs are coming from, allocate those costs to the appropriate departments, and find ways to reduce waste and save money. In this webinar, we will show you how to manage cloud costs and optimize spend.
ProtectWise Revolutionizes Enterprise Network Security in the Cloud with Data...DataStax Academy
ProtectWise has revolutionized enterprise network security with its Security DVR Platform, which combines detection, visibility, and response capabilities into a single cloud-based solution. The Platform ingests and analyzes massive amounts of network data using technologies like Cassandra, Solr, and stream processing to detect threats, gain network visibility, and power responsive analytics over days, months, and years of historical data. A demo of the Security DVR Visualizer was provided.
Tagging Best Practices for Cloud GovernanceRightScale
In the cloud, it’s critical to implement specific global tags across your organization that enable cloud governance and cost management. If, like most enterprises, you are using multiple clouds, you will want to ensure consistency across all of the clouds you use, despite varying tagging capabilities on each cloud.
Webinar Nebula&Scalr : Increasing Business Agility with Real-time Processing ...ScalrCMP
Businesses need to operate in real-time to maintain a competitive edge. Emergent big data technologies like Hadoop YARN and Apache Spark can build processing workflows that parse, categorize, and score information in real-time. Data processing tiers must be able to auto-scale to accommodate the volume, velocity, and variety of big data. Nebula's turnkey private cloud and Scalr's intelligent cloud management platform meet these demands by delivering an orchestrated infrastructure that can auto scale compute and storage resources on-demand to process data feeds in real-time.
Richard Rapoport - McGill University Division of Social & Transcultural Psych...Richard Rapoport
1) Colonialism in Canada has profoundly impacted Aboriginal identities and cultures, contributing to feelings of marginalization, alienation, loss of self-esteem, identity confusion, and shame. The residential school system exacerbated this cultural denigration and damaged core Aboriginal identities.
2) Unaddressed shame can persist across generations and undermine healing. It also plays a role in prolonged conflicts as humiliations are avenged through further shaming. Native self-deprecating humor has been identified as an adaptive response to shame.
3) Experiences of shame in early childhood, such as lacking a caregiver's attentiveness and admiration, can lead to ongoing feelings of shame and difficulties needing support as an adult. Understanding and
Holistic mindbody approach to trauma resolution. Trauma can be conscious or unconscious and can cause everything from depression to chronic pain via the autonomic nervous system stress response. Here I look at ways to overcome these 'unresolved emotional memories', usually laid down in childhood and exacerbated by adult events.
This document discusses various treatment approaches for PTSD, including cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), exposure therapy, and alternative therapies like acupuncture, dog training, and transcendental meditation. It provides details on CBT and its goal of modifying erroneous cognitions and promoting effective coping. EMDR is described as involving imaginal exposure to trauma and lateral eye movements or tapping. The document also notes some studies found EMDR to be more effective than CBT for PTSD and that exposure therapy provides long-term benefits.
Bilateral stimulation involves rhythmic alternation of stimulation between the left and right hemispheres. It can take visual, tactile, or auditory forms. Auditory bilateral stimulation using music may help resolve trauma, enhance resources, reduce symptoms, and improve brain functioning by activating accelerated processing and the reconsolidation period. Benefits include its receptiveness, ability to access varying strengths, utilize music properties, and access pre-verbal encoding.
The document provides an overview of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) treatment. It describes EMDR as a psychological method used to treat emotional difficulties caused by disturbing experiences. It discusses hypothesized mechanisms of how EMDR works, including activating the brain's natural information processing system during REM sleep. The document also reviews research supporting EMDR's efficacy in treating conditions like PTSD, phobias, substance abuse, and more. Case examples illustrate how EMDR is used to target traumatic memories and reprocess related beliefs, emotions and sensations.
Lean Enterprise, Microservices and Big DataStylight
This document discusses enabling the lean enterprise through technologies like microservices, continuous integration/deployment, and cloud computing. It begins by defining the lean enterprise and the OODA loop concept. It then explains how technologies like AWS, big data, and microservices can help organizations continuously observe, orient, decide, and act. Specific AWS services like EC2, EMR, Kinesis, Redshift, S3, and DynamoDB are reviewed. The benefits of breaking up monolithic systems into microservices and implementing devops practices like CI/CD are also summarized.
SpringPeople - Introduction to Cloud ComputingSpringPeople
Cloud computing is no longer a fad that is going around. It is for real and is perhaps the most talked about subject. Various players in the cloud eco-system have provided a definition that is closely aligned to their sweet spot –let it be infrastructure, platforms or applications.
This presentation will provide an exposure of a variety of cloud computing techniques, architecture, technology options to the participants and in general will familiarize cloud fundamentals in a holistic manner spanning all dimensions such as cost, operations, technology etc
Learn more about the tools, techniques and technologies for working productively with data at any scale. This presentation introduces the family of data analytics tools on AWS which you can use to collect, compute and collaborate around data, from gigabytes to petabytes. We'll discuss Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Hadoop, structured and unstructured data, and the EC2 instance types which enable high performance analytics.
Jon Einkauf, Senior Product Manager, Elastic MapReduce, AWS
Alan Priestley, Marketing Manager, Intel and Bob Harris, CTO, Channel 4
Businesses are generating more data than ever before.
Doing real time data analytics requires IT infrastructure that often needs to be scaled up quickly and running an on-premise environment in this setting has its limitations.
Organisations often require a massive amount of IT resources to analyse their data and the upfront capital cost can deter them from embarking on these projects.
What’s needed is scalable, agile and secure cloud-based infrastructure at the lowest possible cost so they can spin up servers that support their data analysis projects exactly when they are required. This infrastructure must enable them to create proof-of-concepts quickly and cheaply – to fail fast and move on.
Estimating the Total Costs of Your Cloud Analytics PlatformDATAVERSITY
Organizations today need a broad set of enterprise data cloud services with key data functionality to modernize applications and utilize machine learning. They need a platform designed to address multi-faceted needs by offering multi-function Data Management and analytics to solve the enterprise’s most pressing data and analytic challenges in a streamlined fashion. They need a worry-free experience with the architecture and its components.
The document provides information about an experienced machine learning solutions architect. It includes details about their experience and qualifications, including 12 AWS certifications and over 6 years of AWS experience. It also discusses their vision for MLOps and experience producing machine learning models at scale. Their role at Inawisdom as a principal solutions architect and head of practice is mentioned.
At Netweb we believe that innovation is a critical business need. As data analytics, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence continue to evolve, we are building solutions and to help you keep pace with the constantly evolving landscape.
Software-defined storage (SDS) provides storage independent of underlying hardware through abstraction, automation, and policy-driven provisioning. It can help reduce costs by using commodity hardware and reusing existing resources. While SDS offers benefits like flexibility, efficiency, and delivering storage as a service, there are also challenges to consider like lack of vendor testing for all hardware combinations and difficulty gauging performance. Whether SDS makes sense depends on individual use cases, such as for remote/small offices, scale-out storage, or hyper-convergence. Overall, SDS is a real concept that is already in use today across the industry.
Leapfrog into Serverless - a Deloitte-Amtrak Case Study | Serverless Confere...Gary Arora
This talk was delivered at the Serverless Conference in New York City in 2017. Deloitte and Amtrak built a Serverless Cloud-Native solution on AWS for real-time operational datastore and near real-time reporting data mart that modernized Amtrak's legacy systems & applications. With Serverless solutions, we are able leapfrog over several rungs of computing evolution.
Gary Arora is a Cloud Solutions Architect at Deloitte Consulting, specializing on Azure & AWS.
Join us for a series of introductory and technical sessions on AWS Big Data solutions. Gain a thorough understanding of what Amazon Web Services offers across the big data lifecycle and learn architectural best practices for applying those solutions to your projects.
We will kick off this technical seminar in the morning with an introduction to the AWS Big Data platform, including a discussion of popular use cases and reference architectures. In the afternoon, we will deep dive into Machine Learning and Streaming Analytics. We will then walk everyone through building your first Big Data application with AWS.
Red Hat Ansible Client presentation Level 2.PPTXAlejandro Daricz
This document provides an overview of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. It begins with discussing business challenges around digital transformation and the need for automation. It then covers Red Hat's portfolio for open hybrid cloud, including Ansible. The document discusses how Ansible can accelerate digital transformation through coordinated automation. It provides examples of how clients have used Ansible for tasks like cloud automation, network automation, security automation, and more. It also outlines the components of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and the business value it provides through improved productivity, efficiency, and reduced risk.
Datapipe, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, has built and customized a global monitoring platform specifically for AWS. This presentation discusses the challenges encountered when architecting this solution and provides a live demonstration of the platform and its specific monitoring capabilities.
This document discusses big data tools like Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) and Amazon Redshift. EMR allows users to run Hadoop frameworks on AWS to process and analyze large datasets. It provides options for transient "ad-hoc" clusters or long-running "alive" clusters. Redshift is a data warehousing service that allows petabyte-scale analytics on data in Amazon S3. It is optimized for business intelligence tools and has high performance at low cost. The document compares EMR and Redshift and how they can be used together for big data analytics workflows on AWS.
A popular pattern today is the injection of declarative (or functional) mini-languages into general purpose host languages. Years ago, this is what LINQ for C# was all about. Now there are many more examples such as the Spark or Beam APIs for Java and Scala. The opposite embedding is also possible: start with a declarative (or functional) language as the outer host and then embed a general purpose language. This is the path we took for Scope years ago (Scope is a Microsoft-internal big data analytics language) and have recently shipped as U-SQL. In this case, the host language is close to T-SQL (Transact SQL is Microsoft’s SQL language for SQL Server and Azure SQL DB) and the embedded language is C#. By embedding the general purpose language in a declarative language, we enable all-of-program (not just all-of stage) optimization, parallelization, and scheduling. The resulting jobs can flexibly scale to leverage thousands of machines.
The document discusses the financial impacts of cloud computing. It defines various cloud service models like SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and provides examples. Moving workloads to the cloud can significantly reduce IT costs by eliminating upfront hardware/software costs and allowing companies to pay based on usage and scale resources up or down as needed. This flexible "opex model" of the cloud can save companies 30-40% of annual IT costs on average compared to maintaining infrastructure on-premises. The cloud also enables faster innovation by making it easier to deploy applications and experiments without large capital investments.
"Configure once, deploy anywhere" is one of the most sought-after enterprise operations requirements. Large-scale IT shops want to keep the flexibility of using on-premises and cloud environments simultaneously while maintaining the monolithic custom, complex deployment workflows and operations. This session brings together several hybrid enterprise requirements and compares orchestration and deployment models in depth without a vendor pitch or a bias. This session outlines several key factors to consider from the point of view of a large-scale real IT shop executive. Since each IT shop is unique, this session compares strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and the risks of each model and then helps participants create new hybrid orchestration and deployment options for the hybrid enterprise environments.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides a broad selection of instance types to accommodate a diverse mix of workloads. In this technical session, we provide an overview of the Amazon EC2 instance platform, key platform features, and the concept of instance generations. We dive into the current generation design choices of the different instance families, including the General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Storage Optimized, Memory Optimized, and GPU instance families. We also detail best practices and share performance tips for getting the most out of your Amazon EC2 instances.
Azure + DataStax Enterprise Powers Office 365 Per User StoreDataStax Academy
We will present our O365 use case scenarios, why we chose Cassandra + Spark, and walk through the architecture we chose for running DataStax Enterprise on azure.
Best of re:Invent 2016 meetup presentationLahav Savir
At re:Invent 2016, AWS announced major and exciting services which finalized their product pipeline providing customers with a comprehensive end-to-end solution in all product realms including Data and BI, CI/ CD, Serverless Applications, Security and Mobile. Join us and find out what’s coming next and learn how to utilize the complete AWS platform.
AWS Summit Berlin 2013 - Big Data AnalyticsAWS Germany
Learn more about the tools, techniques and technologies for working productively with data at any scale. This session will introduce the family of data analytics tools on AWS which you can use to collect, compute and collaborate around data, from gigabytes to petabytes. We'll discuss Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Hadoop, structured and unstructured data, and the EC2 instance types which enable high performance analytics.
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Come costruire servizi di Forecasting sfruttando algoritmi di ML e deep learn...Amazon Web Services
Il Forecasting è un processo importante per tantissime aziende e viene utilizzato in vari ambiti per cercare di prevedere in modo accurato la crescita e distribuzione di un prodotto, l’utilizzo delle risorse necessarie nelle linee produttive, presentazioni finanziarie e tanto altro. Amazon utilizza delle tecniche avanzate di forecasting, in parte questi servizi sono stati messi a disposizione di tutti i clienti AWS.
In questa sessione illustreremo come pre-processare i dati che contengono una componente temporale e successivamente utilizzare un algoritmo che a partire dal tipo di dato analizzato produce un forecasting accurato.
Big Data per le Startup: come creare applicazioni Big Data in modalità Server...Amazon Web Services
La varietà e la quantità di dati che si crea ogni giorno accelera sempre più velocemente e rappresenta una opportunità irripetibile per innovare e creare nuove startup.
Tuttavia gestire grandi quantità di dati può apparire complesso: creare cluster Big Data su larga scala sembra essere un investimento accessibile solo ad aziende consolidate. Ma l’elasticità del Cloud e, in particolare, i servizi Serverless ci permettono di rompere questi limiti.
Vediamo quindi come è possibile sviluppare applicazioni Big Data rapidamente, senza preoccuparci dell’infrastruttura, ma dedicando tutte le risorse allo sviluppo delle nostre le nostre idee per creare prodotti innovativi.
Ora puoi utilizzare Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) per eseguire pod Kubernetes su AWS Fargate, il motore di elaborazione serverless creato per container su AWS. Questo rende più semplice che mai costruire ed eseguire le tue applicazioni Kubernetes nel cloud AWS.In questa sessione presenteremo le caratteristiche principali del servizio e come distribuire la tua applicazione in pochi passaggi
Vent'anni fa Amazon ha attraversato una trasformazione radicale con l'obiettivo di aumentare il ritmo dell'innovazione. In questo periodo abbiamo imparato come cambiare il nostro approccio allo sviluppo delle applicazioni ci ha permesso di aumentare notevolmente l'agilità, la velocità di rilascio e, in definitiva, ci ha consentito di creare applicazioni più affidabili e scalabili. In questa sessione illustreremo come definiamo le applicazioni moderne e come la creazione di app moderne influisce non solo sull'architettura dell'applicazione, ma sulla struttura organizzativa, sulle pipeline di rilascio dello sviluppo e persino sul modello operativo. Descriveremo anche approcci comuni alla modernizzazione, compreso l'approccio utilizzato dalla stessa Amazon.com.
Come spendere fino al 90% in meno con i container e le istanze spot Amazon Web Services
L’utilizzo dei container è in continua crescita.
Se correttamente disegnate, le applicazioni basate su Container sono molto spesso stateless e flessibili.
I servizi AWS ECS, EKS e Kubernetes su EC2 possono sfruttare le istanze Spot, portando ad un risparmio medio del 70% rispetto alle istanze On Demand. In questa sessione scopriremo insieme quali sono le caratteristiche delle istanze Spot e come possono essere utilizzate facilmente su AWS. Impareremo inoltre come Spreaker sfrutta le istanze spot per eseguire applicazioni di diverso tipo, in produzione, ad una frazione del costo on-demand!
In recent months, many customers have been asking us the question – how to monetise Open APIs, simplify Fintech integrations and accelerate adoption of various Open Banking business models. Therefore, AWS and FinConecta would like to invite you to Open Finance marketplace presentation on October 20th.
Event Agenda :
Open banking so far (short recap)
• PSD2, OB UK, OB Australia, OB LATAM, OB Israel
Intro to Open Finance marketplace
• Scope
• Features
• Tech overview and Demo
The role of the Cloud
The Future of APIs
• Complying with regulation
• Monetizing data / APIs
• Business models
• Time to market
One platform for all: a Strategic approach
Q&A
Rendi unica l’offerta della tua startup sul mercato con i servizi Machine Lea...Amazon Web Services
Per creare valore e costruire una propria offerta differenziante e riconoscibile, le startup di successo sanno come combinare tecnologie consolidate con componenti innovativi creati ad hoc.
AWS fornisce servizi pronti all'utilizzo e, allo stesso tempo, permette di personalizzare e creare gli elementi differenzianti della propria offerta.
Concentrandoci sulle tecnologie di Machine Learning, vedremo come selezionare i servizi di intelligenza artificiale offerti da AWS e, anche attraverso una demo, come costruire modelli di Machine Learning personalizzati utilizzando SageMaker Studio.
OpsWorks Configuration Management: automatizza la gestione e i deployment del...Amazon Web Services
Con l'approccio tradizionale al mondo IT per molti anni è stato difficile implementare tecniche di DevOps, che finora spesso hanno previsto attività manuali portando di tanto in tanto a dei downtime degli applicativi interrompendo l'operatività dell'utente. Con l'avvento del cloud, le tecniche di DevOps sono ormai a portata di tutti a basso costo per qualsiasi genere di workload, garantendo maggiore affidabilità del sistema e risultando in dei significativi miglioramenti della business continuity.
AWS mette a disposizione AWS OpsWork come strumento di Configuration Management che mira ad automatizzare e semplificare la gestione e i deployment delle istanze EC2 per mezzo di workload Chef e Puppet.
Scopri come sfruttare AWS OpsWork a garanzia e affidabilità del tuo applicativo installato su Instanze EC2.
Microsoft Active Directory su AWS per supportare i tuoi Windows WorkloadsAmazon Web Services
Vuoi conoscere le opzioni per eseguire Microsoft Active Directory su AWS? Quando si spostano carichi di lavoro Microsoft in AWS, è importante considerare come distribuire Microsoft Active Directory per supportare la gestione, l'autenticazione e l'autorizzazione dei criteri di gruppo. In questa sessione, discuteremo le opzioni per la distribuzione di Microsoft Active Directory su AWS, incluso AWS Directory Service per Microsoft Active Directory e la distribuzione di Active Directory su Windows su Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Trattiamo argomenti quali l'integrazione del tuo ambiente Microsoft Active Directory locale nel cloud e l'utilizzo di applicazioni SaaS, come Office 365, con AWS Single Sign-On.
Dal riconoscimento facciale al riconoscimento di frodi o difetti di fabbricazione, l'analisi di immagini e video che sfruttano tecniche di intelligenza artificiale, si stanno evolvendo e raffinando a ritmi elevati. In questo webinar esploreremo le possibilità messe a disposizione dai servizi AWS per applicare lo stato dell'arte delle tecniche di computer vision a scenari reali.
Amazon Web Services e VMware organizzano un evento virtuale gratuito il prossimo mercoledì 14 Ottobre dalle 12:00 alle 13:00 dedicato a VMware Cloud ™ on AWS, il servizio on demand che consente di eseguire applicazioni in ambienti cloud basati su VMware vSphere® e di accedere ad una vasta gamma di servizi AWS, sfruttando a pieno le potenzialità del cloud AWS e tutelando gli investimenti VMware esistenti.
Molte organizzazioni sfruttano i vantaggi del cloud migrando i propri carichi di lavoro Oracle e assicurandosi notevoli vantaggi in termini di agilità ed efficienza dei costi.
La migrazione di questi carichi di lavoro, può creare complessità durante la modernizzazione e il refactoring delle applicazioni e a questo si possono aggiungere rischi di prestazione che possono essere introdotti quando si spostano le applicazioni dai data center locali.
Crea la tua prima serverless ledger-based app con QLDB e NodeJSAmazon Web Services
Molte aziende oggi, costruiscono applicazioni con funzionalità di tipo ledger ad esempio per verificare lo storico di accrediti o addebiti nelle transazioni bancarie o ancora per tenere traccia del flusso supply chain dei propri prodotti.
Alla base di queste soluzioni ci sono i database ledger che permettono di avere un log delle transazioni trasparente, immutabile e crittograficamente verificabile, ma sono strumenti complessi e onerosi da gestire.
Amazon QLDB elimina la necessità di costruire sistemi personalizzati e complessi fornendo un database ledger serverless completamente gestito.
In questa sessione scopriremo come realizzare un'applicazione serverless completa che utilizzi le funzionalità di QLDB.
Con l’ascesa delle architetture di microservizi e delle ricche applicazioni mobili e Web, le API sono più importanti che mai per offrire agli utenti finali una user experience eccezionale. In questa sessione impareremo come affrontare le moderne sfide di progettazione delle API con GraphQL, un linguaggio di query API open source utilizzato da Facebook, Amazon e altro e come utilizzare AWS AppSync, un servizio GraphQL serverless gestito su AWS. Approfondiremo diversi scenari, comprendendo come AppSync può aiutare a risolvere questi casi d’uso creando API moderne con funzionalità di aggiornamento dati in tempo reale e offline.
Inoltre, impareremo come Sky Italia utilizza AWS AppSync per fornire aggiornamenti sportivi in tempo reale agli utenti del proprio portale web.
Database Oracle e VMware Cloud™ on AWS: i miti da sfatareAmazon Web Services
Molte organizzazioni sfruttano i vantaggi del cloud migrando i propri carichi di lavoro Oracle e assicurandosi notevoli vantaggi in termini di agilità ed efficienza dei costi.
La migrazione di questi carichi di lavoro, può creare complessità durante la modernizzazione e il refactoring delle applicazioni e a questo si possono aggiungere rischi di prestazione che possono essere introdotti quando si spostano le applicazioni dai data center locali.
In queste slide, gli esperti AWS e VMware presentano semplici e pratici accorgimenti per facilitare e semplificare la migrazione dei carichi di lavoro Oracle accelerando la trasformazione verso il cloud, approfondiranno l’architettura e dimostreranno come sfruttare a pieno le potenzialità di VMware Cloud ™ on AWS.
1) The document discusses building a minimum viable product (MVP) using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
2) It provides an example of an MVP for an omni-channel messenger platform that was built from 2017 to connect ecommerce stores to customers via web chat, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and other channels.
3) The founder discusses how they started with an MVP in 2017 with 200 ecommerce stores in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and have since expanded to over 5000 clients across Southeast Asia using AWS for scaling.
This document discusses pitch decks and fundraising materials. It explains that venture capitalists will typically spend only 3 minutes and 44 seconds reviewing a pitch deck. Therefore, the deck needs to tell a compelling story to grab their attention. It also provides tips on tailoring different types of decks for different purposes, such as creating a concise 1-2 page teaser, a presentation deck for pitching in-person, and a more detailed read-only or fundraising deck. The document stresses the importance of including key information like the problem, solution, product, traction, market size, plans, team, and ask.
This document discusses building serverless web applications using AWS services like API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 and Amplify. It provides an overview of each service and how they can work together to create a scalable, secure and cost-effective serverless application stack without having to manage servers or infrastructure. Key services covered include API Gateway for hosting APIs, Lambda for backend logic, DynamoDB for database needs, S3 for static content, and Amplify for frontend hosting and continuous deployment.
This document provides tips for fundraising from startup founders Roland Yau and Sze Lok Chan. It discusses generating competition to create urgency for investors, fundraising in parallel rather than sequentially, having a clear fundraising narrative focused on what you do and why it's compelling, and prioritizing relationships with people over firms. It also notes how the pandemic has changed fundraising, with examples of deals done virtually during this time. The tips emphasize being fully prepared before fundraising and cultivating connections with investors in advance.
AWS_HK_StartupDay_Building Interactive websites while automating for efficien...Amazon Web Services
This document discusses Amazon's machine learning services for building conversational interfaces and extracting insights from unstructured text and audio. It describes Amazon Lex for creating chatbots, Amazon Comprehend for natural language processing tasks like entity extraction and sentiment analysis, and how they can be used together for applications like intelligent call centers and content analysis. Pre-trained APIs simplify adding machine learning to apps without requiring ML expertise.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) è un servizio di gestione dei container altamente scalabile, che semplifica la gestione dei contenitori Docker attraverso un layer di orchestrazione per il controllo del deployment e del relativo lifecycle. In questa sessione presenteremo le principali caratteristiche del servizio, le architetture di riferimento per i differenti carichi di lavoro e i semplici passi necessari per poter velocemente migrare uno o più dei tuo container.
MySQL InnoDB Storage Engine: Deep Dive - MydbopsMydbops
This presentation, titled "MySQL - InnoDB" and delivered by Mayank Prasad at the Mydbops Open Source Database Meetup 16 on June 8th, 2024, covers dynamic configuration of REDO logs and instant ADD/DROP columns in InnoDB.
This presentation dives deep into the world of InnoDB, exploring two ground-breaking features introduced in MySQL 8.0:
• Dynamic Configuration of REDO Logs: Enhance your database's performance and flexibility with on-the-fly adjustments to REDO log capacity. Unleash the power of the snake metaphor to visualize how InnoDB manages REDO log files.
• Instant ADD/DROP Columns: Say goodbye to costly table rebuilds! This presentation unveils how InnoDB now enables seamless addition and removal of columns without compromising data integrity or incurring downtime.
Key Learnings:
• Grasp the concept of REDO logs and their significance in InnoDB's transaction management.
• Discover the advantages of dynamic REDO log configuration and how to leverage it for optimal performance.
• Understand the inner workings of instant ADD/DROP columns and their impact on database operations.
• Gain valuable insights into the row versioning mechanism that empowers instant column modifications.
CNSCon 2024 Lightning Talk: Don’t Make Me Impersonate My IdentityCynthia Thomas
Identities are a crucial part of running workloads on Kubernetes. How do you ensure Pods can securely access Cloud resources? In this lightning talk, you will learn how large Cloud providers work together to share Identity Provider responsibilities in order to federate identities in multi-cloud environments.
MongoDB vs ScyllaDB: Tractian’s Experience with Real-Time MLScyllaDB
Tractian, an AI-driven industrial monitoring company, recently discovered that their real-time ML environment needed to handle a tenfold increase in data throughput. In this session, JP Voltani (Head of Engineering at Tractian), details why and how they moved to ScyllaDB to scale their data pipeline for this challenge. JP compares ScyllaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL, evaluating their data models, query languages, sharding and replication, and benchmark results. Attendees will gain practical insights into the MongoDB to ScyllaDB migration process, including challenges, lessons learned, and the impact on product performance.
Automation Student Developers Session 3: Introduction to UI AutomationUiPathCommunity
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program: http://bit.ly/Africa_Automation_Student_Developers
After our third session, you will find it easy to use UiPath Studio to create stable and functional bots that interact with user interfaces.
📕 Detailed agenda:
About UI automation and UI Activities
The Recording Tool: basic, desktop, and web recording
About Selectors and Types of Selectors
The UI Explorer
Using Wildcard Characters
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
User Interface (UI) Automation
Selectors in Studio Deep Dive
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EverHost AI Review: Empowering Websites with Limitless Possibilities through ...SOFTTECHHUB
The success of an online business hinges on the performance and reliability of its website. As more and more entrepreneurs and small businesses venture into the virtual realm, the need for a robust and cost-effective hosting solution has become paramount. Enter EverHost AI, a revolutionary hosting platform that harnesses the power of "AMD EPYC™ CPUs" technology to provide a seamless and unparalleled web hosting experience.
Brightwell ILC Futures workshop David Sinclair presentationILC- UK
As part of our futures focused project with Brightwell we organised a workshop involving thought leaders and experts which was held in April 2024. Introducing the session David Sinclair gave the attached presentation.
For the project we want to:
- explore how technology and innovation will drive the way we live
- look at how we ourselves will change e.g families; digital exclusion
What we then want to do is use this to highlight how services in the future may need to adapt.
e.g. If we are all online in 20 years, will we need to offer telephone-based services. And if we aren’t offering telephone services what will the alternative be?
The Strategy Behind ReversingLabs’ Massive Key-Value MigrationScyllaDB
ReversingLabs recently completed the largest migration in their history: migrating more than 300 TB of data, more than 400 services, and data models from their internally-developed key-value database to ScyllaDB seamlessly, and with ZERO downtime. Services using multiple tables — reading, writing, and deleting data, and even using transactions — needed to go through a fast and seamless switch. So how did they pull it off? Martina shares their strategy, including service migration, data modeling changes, the actual data migration, and how they addressed distributed locking.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 2DianaGray10
This session is focused on setting up Project, Train Model and Refine Model in Communication Mining platform. We will understand data ingestion, various phases of Model training and best practices.
• Administration
• Manage Sources and Dataset
• Taxonomy
• Model Training
• Refining Models and using Validation
• Best practices
• Q/A
Elasticity vs. State? Exploring Kafka Streams Cassandra State StoreScyllaDB
kafka-streams-cassandra-state-store' is a drop-in Kafka Streams State Store implementation that persists data to Apache Cassandra.
By moving the state to an external datastore the stateful streams app (from a deployment point of view) effectively becomes stateless. This greatly improves elasticity and allows for fluent CI/CD (rolling upgrades, security patching, pod eviction, ...).
It also can also help to reduce failure recovery and rebalancing downtimes, with demos showing sporty 100ms rebalancing downtimes for your stateful Kafka Streams application, no matter the size of the application’s state.
As a bonus accessing Cassandra State Stores via 'Interactive Queries' (e.g. exposing via REST API) is simple and efficient since there's no need for an RPC layer proxying and fanning out requests to all instances of your streams application.
How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer ExperienceAggregage
The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Join this webinar where industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions will explore the power of automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!
Guidelines for Effective Data VisualizationUmmeSalmaM1
This PPT discuss about importance and need of data visualization, and its scope. Also sharing strong tips related to data visualization that helps to communicate the visual information effectively.
Day 4 - Excel Automation and Data ManipulationUiPathCommunity
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program: https://bit.ly/Africa_Automation_Student_Developers
In this fourth session, we shall learn how to automate Excel-related tasks and manipulate data using UiPath Studio.
📕 Detailed agenda:
About Excel Automation and Excel Activities
About Data Manipulation and Data Conversion
About Strings and String Manipulation
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Excel Automation with the Modern Experience in Studio
Data Manipulation with Strings in Studio
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Dev Dives: Mining your data with AI-powered Continuous DiscoveryUiPathCommunity
Want to learn how AI and Continuous Discovery can uncover impactful automation opportunities? Watch this webinar to find out more about UiPath Discovery products!
Watch this session and:
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Leveraging AI for Software Developer Productivity.pptxpetabridge
Supercharge your software development productivity with our latest webinar! Discover the powerful capabilities of AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT 4.X. We'll show you how these tools can automate tedious tasks, generate complete syntax, and enhance code documentation and debugging.
In this talk, you'll learn how to:
- Efficiently create GitHub Actions scripts
- Convert shell scripts
- Develop Roslyn Analyzers
- Visualize code with Mermaid diagrams
And these are just a few examples from a vast universe of possibilities!
Packed with practical examples and demos, this presentation offers invaluable insights into optimizing your development process. Don't miss the opportunity to improve your coding efficiency and productivity with AI-driven solutions.
2. Overview
• The Big Data Challenge
• Big Data tools and what can we do with them ?
• Packetloop – Big Data Security Analytics
• Intel technology on big data.
3. An engineer’s definition
When your data sets become so large that you have to start
innovating how to collect, store, organize, analyze and
share it
7. Generated data
Available for analysis
Data volume
Gartner: User Survey Analysis: Key Trends Shaping the Future of Data Center Infrastructure Through 2011
IDC: Worldwide Business Analytics Software 2012–2016 Forecast and 2011 Vendor Shares
12. What is Amazon Redshift ?
Amazon Redshift is a fast and powerful, fully managed,
petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the AWS
cloud
Easy to provision and scale
No upfront costs, pay as you go
High performance at a low price
Open and flexible with support for popular BI tools
14. How does EMR work ?
EMR
EMR Cluster
S3
Put the data
into S3
Choose: Hadoop distribution, # of
nodes, types of nodes, custom
configs, Hive/Pig/etc.
Get the output from
S3
Launch the cluster using the
EMR console, CLI, SDK, or
APIs
You can also store
everything in HDFS
19. Resize Nodes with Spot Instances
Cost without Spot Add 10 nodes on spot
10 node cluster running for 14 hours
Cost = 1.2 * 10 * 14 = $168
20 node cluster running for 7 hours
Cost = 1.2 * 10 * 7 = $84
= 0.6 * 10 * 7 = $42
= Total $126
25% reduction in price
50% reduction in time
20. Ad-Hoc Clusters – What are they ?
EMR Cluster
S3
When processing is complete, you
can terminate the cluster (and stop
paying)
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21. Ad-Hoc Clusters – When to use
EMR Cluster
S3
Not using HDFS
Not using the cluster 24/7
Transient jobs
1
22. EMR
EMR Cluster
“Alive” Clusters – What are they ?
S3
If you run your jobs 24 x 7 , you
can also run a persistent cluster
and use RI models to save costs
2
24. S3 instead of HDFS
S3
EMR
EMR Cluster
• S3 provides 99.99999999999% of
durability
• Elastic
• Version control against failure
• Run multiple clusters with a single
source of truth
• Quick recovery from failure
• Continuously resize clusters
3
25. S3 and HDFS
S3
EMR
EMR Cluster
Load data from S3 using S3DistCP
Benefits of HDFS
Master copy of the data in S3
Get all the benefits of S3
HDFS
S3distCP
4
33. Disclaimer and Urban Myth
Customers must make the decision to upload data to Packetloop.
We do not transparently intercept customer traffic, nor is it possible within
AWS to do this.
AWS does not give us access to any other AWS customer traffic.
34. What is Packetloop?
• Big Data Security Analytics
• Uses complete data set from the network flow via packet capture
• 100% delivered in the Cloud
• Instantly available, always up to date
• Powerful visualizations
• Intuitive to use
• Reduces security analysis to minutes
35.
36. What business problems are we solving?
• Security related information is growing exponentially
• The current generation of technology is struggling to deliver the intelligence
organizations needs, and these technologies create friction due to:
– Solution complexity
– Amount of integration and customization required
– Lack of context and fidelity
• Threats are becoming more complex, including blended attacks and long
running attacks (spanning months and potentially terabytes of flow data)
• Analysts have less time and are forced to be more reactive
37. Who are we targeting?
• Any organization that definitively wants to know exactly what is happening on
their networks using information that can be determined in real-time and the
information that can be added over time.
• Customers that are currently not receiving what was promised by SIEM
solutions in terms of analytics, size and scale, fidelity and drill-down capabilities.
• Organizations that are already leveraging Cloud providers such as Amazon
AWS.
• Security consultants, Analysts, Penetration Testers who want to take packet
captures and quickly analyze them by uploading to the cloud.
38. What business challenges did we face?
• Fastest processing possible
• Infinite scale and storage
• Global presence
• Always be available and up to date
• Commodity affordability
• Small team of people
• Limited capital
• Based only in Sydney
• Current databases don’t scale the
way we needed.
The Vision The Reality
39. Why choose AWS?
• Brand – number 1 in Cloud market
• Presence - everywhere we need to be
• Availability options – allows us to build in the resilience we need
• Flexibility and elasticity – only use what we need and when we need it, whilst
supporting limitless horizontal growth
• Feature sets - always expanding, allows us to constantly refine our offering
• Support – AWS supports our business growth
• Cost – low to start with, always improving, easy to understand and predict
40. What do we use?
PgSQLCASS CASSLOOP IPS
WEB WEB
Subnet A/24
Subnet B/24
ZONE: US-WEST-2a ZONE: US-WEST-2b
NAT to Elastic IP's NAT to Elastic IP's
www.packetloop.com?
Loop Network
PgSQLCASS CASSLOOP IPS
WEB WEB
Subnet C/24
Subnet D/24
Loop Network
VPC
ROUTER
Cassandra Replicates between availability zones
Postgres is Active/Active between availability zones
Elastic Load Balancer
EMR-1 EMR-N EMR-1 EMR-N
41. What do we use?
• Elastic MapReduce (EMR) – Hadoop to process jobs to extract security
analytics
• Cassandra – Patented insertion method for storing security metrics data
• PgSQL – user databases, customer settings
• IPS – 2 open source and 2 commercial to obtain indicators and warnings
• S3 – Packet capture storage, both long term and temporary
• VPC – handles replication and active/active traffic between Availability Zones
• Elastic Load Balancer – allows us to scale out Web instances as needed
• Cloudflare (not shown) – cache and acceleration
42. What has AWS allowed us to achieve?
• Global presence and big company performance
• To be the first truly Cloud centric Security Analytics tool
• Deliver a revolutionary security analytics tool to any user/analyst on the Internet
as a commodity service (charged per GB/per month)
• To dynamically change development and architecture direction without worrying
about any capital investment we may have already made, and while maintaining
a full production instance
• Determine exactly what we spend and 100% link it to customer demand
• To remain a self funded startup
43. What’s next?
• Shift from batch processing and post hoc analysis to real time processing
• Addition of On Premise appliances, Virtual Machines and AMIs to perform local
capture, preprocessing and transmission of security metrics to Cloud
• Additional modules for analyzing Sessions, Protocols and Files
• Move to Probabilistic Threat Analysis using machine learning
44. Do your own Big Data Security Analytics…..
• Packetpig is an open source version of our Network Security Analytics toolset
available at github.com/packetloop/packetpig
• Optimised in October 2012 to use AWS Elastic Map Reduce - how to configure
blog.packetloop.com/2012/10/packetpig-on-amazon-elastic-map-
reduce.html
• Configurable scripts to specify what size AWS instances are used for Hadoop,
and how many instances are to be spawned to run the mappers and reducers
47. Analysis of Data Can Transform
Society
Create new
business
models and
improve
organizationa
l processes.
Enhance
scientific
understanding
, drive
innovation,
and
accelerate
Increase
public safety
and improve
energy
efficiency
with smart
grids.
49. Intel at the Intersection
of Big Data
Enabling
exascale
computing on
massive data
sets
Helping
enterprises
build open
interoperab
le clouds
Contributin
g code and
fostering
ecosystem
HPC Clou
d
Open
Source
50. Intel at the Heart of the Cloud
Server
Storage
Network
51. Scale-Out Platform
Optimizations for Big Data
Cost-effective
performance
•Intel® Advanced Vector
Extension Technology
•Intel® Turbo Boost
Technology 2.0
•Intel® Advanced
Encryption Standard New
Instructions Technology
52. 52
Intel® Advanced Vector
Extensions Technology
• Newest in a
long line of
processor
instruction
innovations
• Increases
floating point
operations per
clock up to
2X1
performance1 : Performance comparison using Linpack benchmark. See backup for configuration details.
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measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other
information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products.
53. Intel® Turbo Boost Technology
2.0
More
Performance
Higher turbo
speeds maximize
performance for
single and
multi-threaded
applications
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The key messages that we want to deliver with this slide are 1. Elastic MapReduce is a hosted hadoop service. We use the most stable version of apache hadoop and provide a hosted service, and build integration point withs other services on the AWS eco-system such as S3, Cloudwatch, Dynamodb etc. We make other improvements to Hadoop so that it becomes easier to scale and manage on AWS2. We will keep iterating on the different versions of hadoop as they become stable. When you use the console you launch the latest version of hadoop, but you also have the choice or launching an older version of hadoop via the CLI or the SDK. 3. So what all you can do with EMR ?You can build applications on Amazon EMR, just like you would with HadoopIn order to develop custom Hadoop applications, you used to need access to a lot of hardware to test your Hadoop programs. Amazon EMR makes it easy to spin up a set of Amazon EC2 instances as virtual servers to run your Hadoop cluster. You can also test various server configurations without having to purchase or reconfigure hardware. When you're done developing and testing your application, you can terminate your cluster, only paying for the computational time you used.Amazon EMR provides three types of clusters (also called job flows) that you can launch to run custom map-reduce applications, depending on the type of program you're developing and which libraries you intend to use.
EMR supports multiple instance types including the latest HS1 instance types EMR now supports High Storage Instances (hs1.8xlarge) in US East. These new instances offer 48 TB of storage across 24 hard disk drives, 35 EC2 Compute Units (ECUs) of compute capacity, 117 GB of RAM, 10 Gbps networking, and 2.4+ GB per second of sequential I/O performance. High Storage Instances are ideally suited for Hadoop and they significantly reduce the cost of processing very large data sets on EMR. We look forward to adding support for High Storage Instances in additional regions early next year.
10 x 10 = 100 nodes running for 1 hour
And the concept of adding nodes works well with hadoop – especially on the cloud since 10 nodes running for 10 hours costs the same as 100 nodes running for 1 hour.
10 x 10 = 100 nodes running for 1 hour
10 x 10 = 100 nodes running for 1 hour
10 x 10 = 100 nodes running for 1 hour
10 x 10 = 100 nodes running for 1 hour
Speaker Notes:Often the question about Big Data is, “What can it do for me?” And that’s a very important question because without the value proposition, Big Data would just be an exercise. But I’m here to tell you Big Data services, provided by AWS and supported by Intel, are a Game Changer.For example: Yes, Big Data offers insights into how we conduct business. But it also enables scientific discovery, opens up the possibility to treat and cure diseases, and enhances our communities with intelligent power grids and highways. These are just a handful of ideas. The frontier of Big Data is so much more. The technology provided means no limits to how you use the information. People are innovating new uses for Big Data every day.
Speaker notes:Intel’s vision of Big Data is more than just the possibility for streamlined business. We see entire cities and communities connected, using the data we generate in every aspect – business and personal – to inform us and enable us to make better decisions about our lives. And all of this is made possible by the innovations developed in partnership between Intel and Amazon Web Services. A Big Data infrastructure, vast enough to handle the data we produce, and cost effective enough for us to use. Big Data really is about the, a future of challenges and great opportunities AWS and Intel are ready and eager to tackle.
Speaker notes:As you can see, Intel is at the intersection of enabling Big Data:- Exascale-level High Performance Computing and cloud environments based on Intel® Xeon® processors. - Plus, Intel is encouraging the growth of the open source ecosystem to foster innovation among developers, and keep cloud services, like AWS, affordable for all.
Speaker Notes:And to be at that intersection, to allow the proverbial traffic of Big Data goes smoothly, we’ve built the technological backbone for Big Data. The challenges to scale and the capabilities we’ve built into the Intel® Xeon® processor are needed across the entire data center – servers, storage devices and network solutions. It should be noted, Intel is #1 in Servers, Storage and Networks. - These industry-standard, modular building blocks allow efficient and cost-effective scaling of compute, storage and network systems to match user needs.- Traditionally storage devices used lower performance, proprietary ASICs, but today the demand for performance has increased to tackle challenges like data de-duplication and improved archiving. This in addition to distributed files systems for cloud based storage and a desire for improved analytics drives a need for more processing power… and vendors are increasingly turning to Intel® Xeon® processors. Plus, the improvements that Intel offers in our latest processors can benefit every aspect of what your infrastructure does. And these building blocks are what makes amazing software like Hadoop work.
Speaker Notes:Key points:Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family provides:Cost-effective performanceIntel® Advanced Vector Extension TechnologyIntel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions Technology Significant performance gains delivered by featuressuch as new Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions and improved Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 providing performance when you need it. Dramatically reduce compute time with Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions Accelerate floating point calculation for scientific simulations & financial analyticsPerformance when you need it with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 Up to 80% performance boost vs. prior gen To improve flexibility and operational efficiency significant improvements in I/O with new Intel® Integrated I/O which reduces latency ~30% will adding more lanes and higher bandwidth with support for PCI Express 3.0Cost-effective performance for standardizing scale out nodes for Hadoop Intel® AES-NI to accelerate security encryption workloads Optimized core to memory footprint ratios Top Memory Channels and frequency for nothing shared scalingStory:To meet the growing demands of IT such as readiness for cloud computing, the growth in users and the ability to tackle the most complex technical problems, Intel has focused on increasing the capabilities of the processor that lies at the heart of a next generation data center. The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family is the next generation Xeon® processor that replaces Platforms based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 & 5500 series. Continuing to build on the success of the Intel® Xeon® 5600, the E5-2600 product family has increased core count and cache size in addition to supporting more efficient instructions with Intel® Advance Vector Extensions, to deliver up to an average of 80% more performance across a range of workloads. These processors will offer better than ever performance no matter what your constraint is – floor space, power or budget – and on workloads that range from the most complicated scientific exploration to simple, yet crucial, web serving and infrastructure applications. In addition to the raw performance gains, we’ve invested in improved I/O with Intel Integrated I/O which reduces latency ~30% will adding more lanes and higher bandwidth with support for PCIe 3.0. This helps to reduce network and storage bottlenecks to unleash the performance capabilities of the latest Xeon processor. The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family – versatile processers at the heart of today’s data center.
Key points: Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions Technology is a collection of CPU instructions that increase floating point performance by doubling the length of the FP registers to 256-bits and reducing the number of operations required to execute large FP tasks Applications include: Science/Engineering, Data Mining, Visual Processing, HPCStory:Another avenue that Intel has taken advantage to add more flexible performance is to add in instructions that make the processor do more work every clock cycle. Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions can offer up to double the floating point operations per clock cycle by doubling the length of registers. Where this is used is when you need to address very complex problems or deal with large-number calculations, integral to many technical, financial and scientific computing problems. Workloads that can see improvements from AVX range from manufacturing optimizations, to the analysis of competing options to content creation and engineering simulations. Intel® AVX is the newest in a long line of instruction innovations going back to the mid 90’s with MMX and SSE1 which are all now standard software practices. Intel AVX is supported by Intel and 3rd party compilers that take advantage of the latest instructions to optimize code to significantly reduce compute time enabling faster time to results. With the Xeon processor E5-2600 family you can be confident that you’ll benefit from those optimizations as new applications are introduced and updates to existing software packages are released.Legal Info:(AVX Performance) Source: Performance comparison using Linpack benchmark. Baseline score of 159.4 based on Intel internal measurements as of 5 December 2011 using a Supermicro* X8DTN+ system with two Intel® Xeon® processor X5690, Turbo Enabled, EIST Enabled, Hyper-Threading Enabled, 48 GB RAM, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 6.1. New score of 347.7 based on Intel internal measurements as of 5 December 2011 using an Intel® Rose City platform with two Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2690, Turbo Enabled or Disabled, EIST Enabled, Hyper-Threading Enabled, 64 GB RAM, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 6.1. Intel does not control or audit the design or implementation of third party benchmark data or Web sites referenced in this document. Intel encourages all of its customers to visit the referenced Web sites or others where similar performance benchmark data are reported and confirm whether the referenced benchmark data are accurate and reflect performance of systems available for purchase.
Key points:Get more computing power when you need it with performance that adapts to spikes in your workload. with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0New Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 delivers up to 2x more performance upside than previous generation turbo technology.Story:Beyond simply making the processor more capable with more cores, cache, & memory we’ve also focused on making the processor more adaptive and intelligent. Starting with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series (formerly codenamed Nehalem-EP) we introduced a feature called Intel Turbo Boost Technology which allowed the processor to increase frequency at the OS’ request to handle workload spikes as well as shift power across the processor so if you had one core working hard and one core idle the processor could “turbo up” by redirecting power from the idle core to the active one. With the Xeon processor E5-2600 product family we are able to refine this technology to enable even higher turbo speeds – for example the top Xeon processor 5690 with only 1 core active could turbo up ~266 MHz while the top Xeon processor E5-2690 can frequency 900 MHz specifically. This greater ability to turbo up is due to improved power and thermal management data across the platform – the processor keeps track of how hard it’s been running and will modulate how far it will push itself in a turbo situation to provide the maximum frequency while meeting Intel’s stringent reliability standards. In addition we’ve improved the turbo algorithm to assess if the core speed is the limiter or if the processor is waiting for data from memory or I/O before it commits power to the burst of speed. The goal of turbo is to get workload spikes dealt with as quickly as possible to get back to a lower power state which reduces average power draw and cost of operation.Legal Info:Source: Performance comparison using SPECint*_rate_base2006 benchmark with turbo enabled and disabled. Estimated scores of 393 (turbo enabled) and 376 (turbo disabled) based on Intel internal estimates as of 6 March 2012 using a Supermicro* X8DTN+ system with two Intel® Xeon® processor X5690, Turbo Enabled (or Disabled), EIST Enabled, Hyper-Threading Enabled, 48 GB RAM, Intel® Compiler 12.0, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 6.1 for x86_6. Estimated scores of 659 (turbo enabled) and 594 (turbo disabled) based on Intel internal estimates using an Intel® Rose City platform with two Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2680, Turbo Enabled (or Disabled), EIST Enabled, Hyper-Threading Enabled, 64 GB RAM, Intel® Compiler 12.1, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 6.1 for x86_6.
Intel AES-NI: What is it?Key Point: Data Encryption shows 10xspeedup1 in AES encryptionIntel AES-NI is a set of new instructions for enhancing the performance for cryptography using the widely-accepted Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm.There are 7 new instructions in the processor that target some of the more complex and compute-expensive encryption, decryption, key expansion and multiplication steps (and there are multiple steps in every instance of working with encrypted data) that increase the performance and efficiency of these operations. But note that the instructions do not implement the entire AES algorithm in silicon—only the most processor intensive elements have been targeted. This provides more flexibility and balance between HW performance and SW extensibility. Another benefit of the new instructions is that actually helps protect the data better as well. The use of the more efficient steps enabled in AES-NI makes the use of “side channel” snooping attacks. These attacks use SW agents to analyze how a system processes data and searches for cache and memory access patterns to try to gather patterns or other system data to help deduce elements of the cryptographic processing—and therefore make it easier to “crack”. AES-NI helps hide critical elements such as table lookups, making it harder to determine what elements of crypto processing are happening.Taking down the performance tax frees IT managers to use encryption more broadly without sacrificing performance.
Speaker Notes:So let’s see rubber meet road and look at how the technology enables high performance computing. Right here you’re seeing the Intel-based ecosystem at work. - Start with a 4 hour process time to sort 1 Terabyte of data. - Upgrade the processor to the latest Intel® Xeon® processor to cut compute time in half.- Add an SSD to reduce by another 80%.- Upgrade to 10 Gigabit Ethernet for additional reductions.The end result is a fraction of the original compute time: 10 minutes to sort 1 Terabyte of data. These datacenter innovations streamline the process and make affordable Big Data analytics possible.As this testing shows, as important as the processor is in improving the customer experience, it’s not the entire solution. By understanding the benefits of SSDs, 10GbE and Intel SW tools we can give an even better experience with Intel optimized platforms, and boost business results.
Speaker Notes:If you wanted to see this process of transforming Big Data into action, it would look something like this.- Big Data provides rich, personalized, immersive experiences for clients. - This in turn creates more rich interactions, and generates more data into the cloud.- Which leads to higher volumes of data to analyze through intelligent systems, - Which leads to even more rich, personalized, and immersive experiences. As you can see, the cycle feeds into itself. And, this brings users into the fold. We’re not just talking businesses anymore, but we’re looking at how Big Data affects us all on a day-to-day basis.