The Cloud computing trend is increasingly commoditizing and delocalizing several different elements of the computing stack. It all started with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) but companies are starting to quickly understanding and leveraging the value of Platform/Middleware as a Service (PasS/MaaS).
Cloud Messaging is an example of PaaS/MaaS services at the foundation of virtually all cloud-applications. This webcast will introduce the use case for cloud messaging, and will demonstrate how a very efficient Cloud Messaging solution can be built end deployed on a public or private cloud using OpenSplice DDS and its technology ecosystem. This presentation explores the technical and business benefits deriving from the use of OpenSplice at the foundation of a Cloud Messaging solution.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing models including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It defines each model and discusses their key characteristics and when each makes sense to use versus when alternatives may be better. Case studies are provided of companies using SaaS and PaaS solutions. The document aims to help readers understand the different cloud computing options and how to determine the best solution for their needs.
The document discusses private clouds and their benefits for government organizations. A private cloud provides dedicated cloud resources either on-premises or hosted remotely, allowing more control over security, customization, and governance than a public cloud. A private cloud can help optimize existing server capacity, increase data center efficiency, and provide consistent services. When comparing private cloud providers, an organization should consider attributes like security, management capabilities, storage options, supported services, and customer support. A private cloud can help agencies lower costs while supporting initiatives like data center consolidation, telework support, and greener computing.
Cloud Computing is a growing research topic in recent years. The key concept of Cloud Computing is to provide a resource sharing model based on virtualization, distributed file system, parallel algorithm and web services. But how can we provide a testbed for cloud computing related training courses? In this talk we will share our experience to build cloud computing testbed for virtualization, high throughput computing and bioinformatics applications. It covers lots of open source projects, such as DRBL, Xen, Hadoop and bioinformatics related applications.
In short, Diskless Remote Boot in Linux (DRBL) provides a diskless or systemless environment for client machines. It works on Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS and SuSE. DRBL uses distributed hardware resources and makes it possible for clients to fully access local hardware.
Xen is one of open source hypervisor for linux kernel. It had been used in Amazon EC2 production environment to provide cloud service model (1) — "Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)". In this talk, we will show you how DRBL can help on fast deployment of Xen playground in classroom.
Hadoop is becoming the well-known open source cloud computing technology developed by Apache community. It is very power tool for data mining. It had been used in Yahoo and Facebook production environment to provide cloud service model (2) — "Platform as a Service (PaaS)". It’s easy to setup single hadoop node but difficult to manage a hadoop cluster. In this talk, we will show you how DRBL can help on fast deployment and management.
Most bioinformatics applications are open source, such as R, Bioconductor, BLAST, Clustal, PipMaker, Phylip, etc. But it also require traditional cluster job submission. In this talk we will show you how DRBL can help to build a testbed of bioinformatics research and provide cloud service model (3) — "Software as a Service (SaaS)". In this talk, we will cover how to:
- 1. Use DRBL to deploy Xen virtual cluster (drbl-xen)
- 2. Use DRBL to deploy Hadoop cluster (drbl-hadoop)
- 3. Use DRBL to deploy bioinformatics cluster (drbl-biocluster)
A live demonstration about drbl-hadoop and drbl-biocluster will be done in the talk, too.
The document summarizes key points from a presentation on cloud computing security best practices. It discusses auditing practices from several organizations, including ENISA, CSA, and Microsoft. ENISA recommendations include personnel security practices, supply chain assurance, operational security controls like change management and logging, and software integrity protections. The presentation provides an overview of cloud computing concepts and case studies on government and commercial cloud users.
IAPP Atlanta Chapter Meeting 2013 FebruaryPhil Agcaoili
The document discusses cloud assurance basics and provides an overview of cloud computing concepts, models, and security concerns. It outlines key legal and privacy issues to consider regarding data location, applicable laws and regulations. It also summarizes the latest developments in cloud security standards and frameworks, including the Cloud Security Alliance's Cloud Controls Matrix, Consensus Assessments Initiative, Security, Trust and Assurance Registry, and Open Certification Framework.
1. The document discusses effective storage management strategies for cloud computing environments. It describes different cloud configurations like private, public, and hybrid clouds.
2. Key aspects of storage management in clouds are data protection and recovery, data lifecycle management, storage utilization and optimization, and storage resource management.
3. IBM software solutions help with data migration between storage tiers, automating storage policies, and providing visibility into cloud storage resources and asset utilization.
Cloud 9: Nine Reasons to Take the Cloud Seriously_White PaperNewton Day Uploads
Private sector businesses and Government departments around the world are under pressure to achieve the improbable - deliver improvements in the quality of services to citizens while finding sizeable cashable efficiency savings. Cloud computing is a paradigm shift in the way information management systems are architected and is heralded as the saviour of IT budgets. So what are the practical operational advantages of Cloud technology?
This paper examines nine very good reasons why it makes sense to take cloud computing seriously.
The Future of Cloud is Hybrid over DistanceRackspace
The document discusses a proof of concept test conducted by Rackspace to explore using multi-site hybrid clouds connected over distance. The test involved synchronously replicating data between data centers within a metro area and moving a live virtual machine between the clouds. The goal was to advance the capability for organizations to seamlessly use multi-site hybrid clouds without concerns over inefficiencies caused by distance like increased latency and connection reliability issues.
These are the slides of my presentation at the NYC MySQL Meetup on Sep 21 2012. There are tips and tricks about MySQL in the cloud and the SkySQL cloud data suite
The document discusses how cloud service providers (CSPs) can help software developers by hosting their applications and services. It recommends partnering with a CSP to gain access to infrastructure, platforms, and services without having to build and maintain them. Developers should choose a CSP based on their technical capabilities, geographic coverage, security, scalability, and customer service/support. The case study profiles a payroll company that chose RackForce as their CSP due to its Canadian data centers, strong service level agreements, ease of use and support, security, and ability to scale on demand.
Access security on cloud computing implemented in hadoop systemJoão Gabriel Lima
This document summarizes a research paper on implementing access security on a Hadoop cloud computing system using fingerprint identification and face recognition. The researchers built a Hadoop cloud computing system connected to mobile and thin client devices over wired and wireless networks. They used fingerprint and face recognition for rapid user identification and verification on the cloud system within 2.2 seconds. The goal was to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of access security on the Hadoop cloud computing platform.
Future of the Cloud: Cloud Platform APIs are the Business of ComputingReadWrite
This document discusses how cloud platforms are the future of computing and outlines several types of clouds including infrastructure clouds, app store clouds, enterprise clouds, and identity clouds. It also explores how VMware and Intel technologies provide the foundation for virtualization that allows managed service providers like Opus Interactive to offer flexible, on-demand hosting services and better value to clients.
Cloud computing allows for on-demand access to shared computing resources like networks, servers, storage, applications and services. It provides accessibility, agility and flexibility through rapid provisioning and releasing of resources with minimal management effort. Some key aspects of cloud computing include virtualization, multi-tenancy, broad network access, resource pooling and measured service. Cloud computing is changing the nature of IT by moving computing resources from local desktops and data centers to the internet.
This document describes implementing Software as a Service (SaaS) in a cloud computing environment. It discusses different cloud delivery models including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. It also covers cloud deployment models like public, private, and hybrid clouds. The document then demonstrates creating a virtual machine running Ubuntu to enable a basic calculator application as an example SaaS implementation in a cloud. It shows how to access and use the application within the virtual machine while it runs simultaneously with the host operating system.
Cloud lockin and interoperability v2 indic threads cloud computing conferen...IndicThreads
This document discusses cloud lock-in and interoperability. It begins with recapping cloud computing concepts like deployment models and service models. It then defines lock-in, portability, and interoperability. Lock-in occurs when there are significant costs to switch cloud vendors. The document discusses how portability and interoperability benefit customers by increasing choice and lowering costs. It provides examples of lock-in for different cloud platforms and analyzes emerging standards from groups like DMTF, SNIA, and CSA. Best practices are outlined to minimize lock-in for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. The document concludes that while lock-in exists now, interoperability is improving and portability
Cloud computing is the next evolution of systems architecture that promises to deliver computing infrastructure
at lower cost, greater flexibility and significantly higher levels of scalability than ever before. The benefits of
cloud computing are primarily built on the notion that cloud environments allow you to achieve these results
by virtualizing the different work-loads that you run, and deploying them within an environment that can
automatically scale up, or down, as work-load demands change over ti me.
Emulex and IDC Present Why I/O is Strategic for the Cloud Emulex Corporation
This webcast is the third in a monthly series on why I/O is strategic for the data center. Rick Villars, vice president, Information and Cloud, IDC will present on the critical role I/O presents for public cloud service provider environments.
This document discusses NASA JPL's adoption of cloud computing. It provides background on JPL's mission and infrastructure challenges. It then outlines JPL's approach to cloud computing, including developing prototypes to test enabling capabilities, educating stakeholders, and partnering with cloud providers like Google and Microsoft. Several current and potential cloud uses at JPL are presented, such as citizen science projects, image processing, and modeling computations. Benefits observed so far include faster processing times and more time for scientists. The document concludes by advocating keeping cloud initiatives realistic and transitioning cloud from pilots to operations.
VMware's strategic focus areas include re-thinking end-user computing, modernizing application development, and evolving infrastructure. The document discusses trends in applications moving to cloud-ready frameworks and data fabrics. It introduces Cloud Foundry as an open platform as a service that allows deploying and scaling applications across clouds simply and without vendor lock-in. Key benefits of Cloud Foundry include being open source, simple to use, and providing choice of frameworks, services, and cloud infrastructures.
The document discusses Logicalis' cloud solutions and services, including:
1) Private Cloud - bespoke and highly virtualized data center infrastructure built specifically for a customer's needs.
2) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - readymade compute, storage, and networking solutions delivered as an SLA-based contractual service from Logicalis' UK data centers.
3) Cooperative Cloud - an integrated private and hosted cloud providing a single cloud service and the ability to move applications/data between a customer's private infrastructure and Logicalis' hosted cloud.
cloud computing alcances e implementacionJorge Guerra
This document provides an overview of cloud computing implementation and technology. It begins with definitions of cloud computing and discusses taxonomy, costs, and examples of implementations. It then covers topics such as virtualization technology, different types of cloud computing including SaaS, and examples of cloud computing platforms like Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, and Google AppEngine. Overall, the document provides a high-level introduction to key concepts and trends in cloud computing.
Cloud computing has spawned a new taxonomy for IT. Ubuntu explains 50 key terms to help DevOps and IT professionals to lead their organizations through the journey to the cloud.
Presidio's Data Center Practice focuses on delivering advanced data center solutions to customers by implementing virtual data center architectures using VMware, Cisco, and EMC technologies. Presidio has extensive expertise in server virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure, converged networks, unified computing, storage solutions, and backup/recovery, allowing it to rapidly deploy virtual data centers. It operates the first EMC Velocity Solution Center to demonstrate these technologies and help customers.
Presentation on basics of cloud computing models, current status and future use in healthcare environments, differences between traditional outsourcing contracting and cloud contracting, and discussion of e-discovery issues created by cloud environments.
This document discusses cloud computing and compares it to building and maintaining infrastructure on-premises. It notes that cloud computing allows companies to avoid the large upfront costs and complexity of managing their own infrastructure by paying only for the computing resources they use. It also discusses the benefits of scaling resources easily in the cloud without having to purchase and set up new hardware. Finally, it addresses common concerns about security, privacy, and control when using cloud services and outlines steps cloud providers take to isolate customer data and ensure its security.
These slides describe the scenario that were demonstrated during the OMG DDS Interoperability demo that was held in Washington DC on the 14th of July 2009, during the last OMG Real-Time Workshop.
Getting Started with DDS in C++, Java and ScalaAngelo Corsaro
This document provides an overview and outline for a tutorial on getting started with the Data Distribution Service (DDS) in C++, Java, and Scala. The tutorial will cover DDS basics, data reader/writer caches, quality of service, data and state selectors, and advanced DDS topics. Upon completion, students will have a firm understanding of DDS concepts and the ability to design and write DDS applications. The tutorial will be highly interactive with examples and live demonstrations.
The Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service (DDS) and the OPC Foundation OLE for Process Control Unified Architecture (OPC-UA) are commonly considered as two of the most relevant technologies for data and information management in the Industrial Internet of Things. Although several articles and quotes on the two technologies have appeared on various medias in the past six months, there is still an incredible confusion on how the two technology compare and what’s their applicability.
This presentation, was motivated by the author's frustration with reading and hearing so many mis-conceptions as well as “apple-to-oranges” comparisons. Thus to contribute to clarity and help with positioning and applicability this webcast will (1) explain the key concepts behind DDS and OPC-UA and relate them with the reason why these technologies were created in the first place, (2) clarify the differences and applicability in IoT for DDS and OPC-UA, and (3) report on the ongoing standardisation activities that are looking at DDS/OPC-UA inter-working.
The Future of Cloud is Hybrid over DistanceRackspace
The document discusses a proof of concept test conducted by Rackspace to explore using multi-site hybrid clouds connected over distance. The test involved synchronously replicating data between data centers within a metro area and moving a live virtual machine between the clouds. The goal was to advance the capability for organizations to seamlessly use multi-site hybrid clouds without concerns over inefficiencies caused by distance like increased latency and connection reliability issues.
These are the slides of my presentation at the NYC MySQL Meetup on Sep 21 2012. There are tips and tricks about MySQL in the cloud and the SkySQL cloud data suite
The document discusses how cloud service providers (CSPs) can help software developers by hosting their applications and services. It recommends partnering with a CSP to gain access to infrastructure, platforms, and services without having to build and maintain them. Developers should choose a CSP based on their technical capabilities, geographic coverage, security, scalability, and customer service/support. The case study profiles a payroll company that chose RackForce as their CSP due to its Canadian data centers, strong service level agreements, ease of use and support, security, and ability to scale on demand.
Access security on cloud computing implemented in hadoop systemJoão Gabriel Lima
This document summarizes a research paper on implementing access security on a Hadoop cloud computing system using fingerprint identification and face recognition. The researchers built a Hadoop cloud computing system connected to mobile and thin client devices over wired and wireless networks. They used fingerprint and face recognition for rapid user identification and verification on the cloud system within 2.2 seconds. The goal was to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of access security on the Hadoop cloud computing platform.
Future of the Cloud: Cloud Platform APIs are the Business of ComputingReadWrite
This document discusses how cloud platforms are the future of computing and outlines several types of clouds including infrastructure clouds, app store clouds, enterprise clouds, and identity clouds. It also explores how VMware and Intel technologies provide the foundation for virtualization that allows managed service providers like Opus Interactive to offer flexible, on-demand hosting services and better value to clients.
Cloud computing allows for on-demand access to shared computing resources like networks, servers, storage, applications and services. It provides accessibility, agility and flexibility through rapid provisioning and releasing of resources with minimal management effort. Some key aspects of cloud computing include virtualization, multi-tenancy, broad network access, resource pooling and measured service. Cloud computing is changing the nature of IT by moving computing resources from local desktops and data centers to the internet.
This document describes implementing Software as a Service (SaaS) in a cloud computing environment. It discusses different cloud delivery models including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. It also covers cloud deployment models like public, private, and hybrid clouds. The document then demonstrates creating a virtual machine running Ubuntu to enable a basic calculator application as an example SaaS implementation in a cloud. It shows how to access and use the application within the virtual machine while it runs simultaneously with the host operating system.
Cloud lockin and interoperability v2 indic threads cloud computing conferen...IndicThreads
This document discusses cloud lock-in and interoperability. It begins with recapping cloud computing concepts like deployment models and service models. It then defines lock-in, portability, and interoperability. Lock-in occurs when there are significant costs to switch cloud vendors. The document discusses how portability and interoperability benefit customers by increasing choice and lowering costs. It provides examples of lock-in for different cloud platforms and analyzes emerging standards from groups like DMTF, SNIA, and CSA. Best practices are outlined to minimize lock-in for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. The document concludes that while lock-in exists now, interoperability is improving and portability
Cloud computing is the next evolution of systems architecture that promises to deliver computing infrastructure
at lower cost, greater flexibility and significantly higher levels of scalability than ever before. The benefits of
cloud computing are primarily built on the notion that cloud environments allow you to achieve these results
by virtualizing the different work-loads that you run, and deploying them within an environment that can
automatically scale up, or down, as work-load demands change over ti me.
Emulex and IDC Present Why I/O is Strategic for the Cloud Emulex Corporation
This webcast is the third in a monthly series on why I/O is strategic for the data center. Rick Villars, vice president, Information and Cloud, IDC will present on the critical role I/O presents for public cloud service provider environments.
This document discusses NASA JPL's adoption of cloud computing. It provides background on JPL's mission and infrastructure challenges. It then outlines JPL's approach to cloud computing, including developing prototypes to test enabling capabilities, educating stakeholders, and partnering with cloud providers like Google and Microsoft. Several current and potential cloud uses at JPL are presented, such as citizen science projects, image processing, and modeling computations. Benefits observed so far include faster processing times and more time for scientists. The document concludes by advocating keeping cloud initiatives realistic and transitioning cloud from pilots to operations.
VMware's strategic focus areas include re-thinking end-user computing, modernizing application development, and evolving infrastructure. The document discusses trends in applications moving to cloud-ready frameworks and data fabrics. It introduces Cloud Foundry as an open platform as a service that allows deploying and scaling applications across clouds simply and without vendor lock-in. Key benefits of Cloud Foundry include being open source, simple to use, and providing choice of frameworks, services, and cloud infrastructures.
The document discusses Logicalis' cloud solutions and services, including:
1) Private Cloud - bespoke and highly virtualized data center infrastructure built specifically for a customer's needs.
2) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - readymade compute, storage, and networking solutions delivered as an SLA-based contractual service from Logicalis' UK data centers.
3) Cooperative Cloud - an integrated private and hosted cloud providing a single cloud service and the ability to move applications/data between a customer's private infrastructure and Logicalis' hosted cloud.
cloud computing alcances e implementacionJorge Guerra
This document provides an overview of cloud computing implementation and technology. It begins with definitions of cloud computing and discusses taxonomy, costs, and examples of implementations. It then covers topics such as virtualization technology, different types of cloud computing including SaaS, and examples of cloud computing platforms like Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, and Google AppEngine. Overall, the document provides a high-level introduction to key concepts and trends in cloud computing.
Cloud computing has spawned a new taxonomy for IT. Ubuntu explains 50 key terms to help DevOps and IT professionals to lead their organizations through the journey to the cloud.
Presidio's Data Center Practice focuses on delivering advanced data center solutions to customers by implementing virtual data center architectures using VMware, Cisco, and EMC technologies. Presidio has extensive expertise in server virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure, converged networks, unified computing, storage solutions, and backup/recovery, allowing it to rapidly deploy virtual data centers. It operates the first EMC Velocity Solution Center to demonstrate these technologies and help customers.
Presentation on basics of cloud computing models, current status and future use in healthcare environments, differences between traditional outsourcing contracting and cloud contracting, and discussion of e-discovery issues created by cloud environments.
This document discusses cloud computing and compares it to building and maintaining infrastructure on-premises. It notes that cloud computing allows companies to avoid the large upfront costs and complexity of managing their own infrastructure by paying only for the computing resources they use. It also discusses the benefits of scaling resources easily in the cloud without having to purchase and set up new hardware. Finally, it addresses common concerns about security, privacy, and control when using cloud services and outlines steps cloud providers take to isolate customer data and ensure its security.
These slides describe the scenario that were demonstrated during the OMG DDS Interoperability demo that was held in Washington DC on the 14th of July 2009, during the last OMG Real-Time Workshop.
Getting Started with DDS in C++, Java and ScalaAngelo Corsaro
This document provides an overview and outline for a tutorial on getting started with the Data Distribution Service (DDS) in C++, Java, and Scala. The tutorial will cover DDS basics, data reader/writer caches, quality of service, data and state selectors, and advanced DDS topics. Upon completion, students will have a firm understanding of DDS concepts and the ability to design and write DDS applications. The tutorial will be highly interactive with examples and live demonstrations.
The Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service (DDS) and the OPC Foundation OLE for Process Control Unified Architecture (OPC-UA) are commonly considered as two of the most relevant technologies for data and information management in the Industrial Internet of Things. Although several articles and quotes on the two technologies have appeared on various medias in the past six months, there is still an incredible confusion on how the two technology compare and what’s their applicability.
This presentation, was motivated by the author's frustration with reading and hearing so many mis-conceptions as well as “apple-to-oranges” comparisons. Thus to contribute to clarity and help with positioning and applicability this webcast will (1) explain the key concepts behind DDS and OPC-UA and relate them with the reason why these technologies were created in the first place, (2) clarify the differences and applicability in IoT for DDS and OPC-UA, and (3) report on the ongoing standardisation activities that are looking at DDS/OPC-UA inter-working.
The Industrial IoT depends on connectivity and information exchange. Much of the business value derives from the ability to have independent systems share information in order to derive knowledge, make "smart decisions", and offer behavior and functionality never before possible.
Many industrial systems were designed with a focus on reliability and safety at a time were implicit trust of all components and communication was the norm. Restricting physical access is currently the only practical method for protecting this existing critical infrastructure. This includes the electrical power grid, process control, transportation, or manufacturing systems. This is changing with increased connectivity to the Internet and personal computers as well as awareness of malicious insider threats. Many industrial systems are being (or want to be) connected to external networks using standard technologies like Ethernet and the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/UDP/IP). These technologies make systems more functional and efficient, unfortunately they also open the critical infrastructure to cyber attacks.
New IIoT Systems are being designed with security as a key concern. New systems can leverage a solid set of security technologies and building blocks for Authentication, Cryptography, Integrity, etc. However these security technologies must be used correctly and in ways that do not disrupt the performance or access to the legitimate applications/devices, yet limit legitimate access to just the needed information (to minimize the insider threats) and denies access to all others. Adding to this difficulties the new systems need to co-exist and (securely) exchange information with the already-deployed legacy systems which were built without such security elements.
Secure DDS (a recent standard from the OMG) is a "secure connectivity middleware" technology that can be used to address these three needs: (1) Build modern secure IIoT systems, (2) Secure legacy Industrial systems being connected on the Internet, and (3) Securely bridge between new and legacy systems. Secure DDS extends the proven Data-Distribution Service (DDS) and Real-Time Publish-Subscribe Protocol (DDS-RTPS) standards with enterprise-grade authentication, encryption and fine-grained security controls while maintaining the peer-to-peer, robustness and scalability features (including secure multicast) that have made DDS a clear choice for critical infrastructure systems.
This presentation introduces the DDS Security specification and provide describe several use-cases that exemplify how these standards are deployed in real-world applications.
Vietnam is a country located in Southeast Asia. It has a population of over 95 million people and its capital and largest city is Hanoi. The country has experienced a long history of conflict and was controlled by France until 1954.
This document discusses various Christmas traditions in Catalan, including decorating the Christmas tree, Christmas dinner, the log that is said to defecate gifts, the Three Wise Men, waiting impatiently for Santa Claus and the gifts he will bring if they have behaved well, adding some humor, a cry for peace, white Christmas, and the nativity scene. It concludes by wishing the reader good holidays.
This workshop aims to explain and demonstrate flipped learning through examples. Flipped instruction involves students learning curriculum at home through online resources like videos and websites, while teachers use class time for group work and individual instruction. When implementing flipped learning, teachers must consider whether students and teachers are ready, technology is available, and adequate support systems are in place. While the idea of flipped learning is not new, modern technologies like the Internet, Web 2.0 sites, and online videos have enabled new forms of flipped instruction.
The document describes the Reach Your Peak challenge that runs from January 10 to March 6, 2011. Teams of 4 can choose between three difficulty levels and will earn points for physical activities that accumulate over 8 weeks towards climbing one of three mountains. There are bonus weeks where points can be doubled for specific activities. An optional weight loss challenge runs concurrently where participants can earn points and prizes for losing 6 or 12 pounds.
The document lists important upcoming dates for assignments and tests in an art class, including a wiki due on January 23rd, another wiki starting on January 26th, and DORA testing on January 28th and 29th. It also lists some frequently used websites for the class, such as Voki.com, Slideshare.net, Google.com, Imagechef.com and Colourlovers.com.
Beyond Europe: Priorities for Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Capacity ...LINKInnovationStudies
We are now entering the age of the "New Philanthropists', soon to become the biggest source of agricultural R&D grant-giving. Against this backdrop, and taking into aacount how national identities shape views on how science, technology and innovation should be “done”, an Englishman and a Dutchman share their personal fantasies about how they would spend their hypothetical millions in grants.
The document summarizes the history of the free software and open source movements. It discusses early hacker culture at MIT, the founding of the GNU project and Free Software Foundation by Richard Stallman, the development of Linux by Linus Torvalds, and Eric Raymond's analysis of open source collaboration in "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." It also covers diversity between the free software and open source communities and the impact of open source software.
Overcoming Speech Apprehension refers to reducing the fear and anxiety experienced when public speaking. Symptoms include anticipation anxiety before speaking, a surge of anxiety when beginning, and gradual decline of anxiety after starting. Better preparation and skills training can help minimize nervousness, and listeners may not notice if a speaker feels nervous. Practicing speeches in different styles like conversational, impromptu, scripted, and extemporaneous can help build confidence.
The periodic table arranges elements in order of increasing atomic number and groups elements with similar chemical properties together. Elements in the same group have the same number of electrons in their outer shell, giving them similar chemical properties. Atoms are made up of protons and neutrons in the nucleus and electrons in energy levels outside the nucleus. Atoms are neutral when they have an equal number of protons and electrons. Isotopes are atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons, giving them different atomic masses. An element's relative atomic mass takes into account the abundance of each isotope.
An afternoon follow-up session to a morning of co-teaching in science. Here Comes the Garbage Barge by Jonah Winter (Red Nose Studio) used to teach inference and quick writes.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing including market drivers, services, architecture, delivery models, deployment models, benefits, and concerns. Key points include:
- Cloud computing is driven by cost savings, scalability, and flexibility benefits over traditional IT. The market is growing rapidly and projected to reach $150 billion by 2013.
- Common cloud services include SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. SaaS provides applications, PaaS provides development platforms, and IaaS provides infrastructure resources.
- Cloud computing uses a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be accessed over the internet on-demand in a self-service manner. Resources are metered and elastic.
- Common
Swarm Computing Next Generation Clouds and the role of SOAJürgen Kress
Jürgen Kress of Oracle EMEA presented on swarm computing as the next generation of clouds. Current cloud solutions like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS were discussed. An order to cash process example was used to demonstrate the need for integration across clouds. Swarm computing was defined as the behavior of aggregates of clouds working together to support business processes in a self-organizing manner. Oracle's cloud platform and Exalogic Elastic Cloud were presented as examples of platforms enabling swarm computing.
The document provides an overview of cloud computing, including its definition, history, characteristics, service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), and green benefits. It examines cloud computing elements like on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, and rapid elasticity. The document also previews top obstacles for cloud computing growth, like availability of service, data lock-in, and data transfer bottlenecks, as well as opportunities to address them through approaches like using multiple cloud providers, standardizing cloud computing, and deploying encryption.
The document provides an overview of cloud computing. It defines cloud computing as enabling on-demand access to configurable computing resources over the internet. There are five essential cloud characteristics: on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. There are three cloud service models: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). There are also four deployment models: private cloud, community cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud. The document discusses advantages and challenges of cloud computing as well as trends in data centers and cloud adoption.
This document discusses migrating enterprises to cloud computing. It defines cloud computing as scalable IT capabilities provided as an on-demand service over the internet. There are three service models: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). There are also four deployment models: public clouds, private clouds, hybrid clouds, and community clouds. Migrating to the cloud provides benefits like lower costs, faster innovation, and elastic resources, but also raises concerns around data security, privacy, and network performance.
Dell powers some of the largest cloud providers and top search engines. Dell views different needs governing different cloud approaches, from evolutionary clouds focusing on infrastructure to revolutionary application-focused platforms. Dell supports the OpenStack open source cloud which has support from major industry players and was collaboratively developed, having an API friendly to service providers and able to demonstrate scale. Dell's Crowbar tool automates OpenStack deployment from initial server boot to full configuration.
Oracle provides cloud computing solutions including technology for building private clouds and deploying applications in public clouds. Oracle's strategy includes offering applications as software as a service (SaaS) and providing a platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for both private and public clouds. Oracle has experience implementing cloud solutions for its own development and university environments that improved productivity, utilization, and reduced costs.
This was presented at 2009 Web World Conference.
The presentation analyzes some trends of cloud computing, and prospects the futures of cloud computing.
This document summarizes a survey on cloud computing and its services. It discusses key aspects of cloud computing including characteristics, types of cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), related terminology, and tools for cloud development and simulation. Specifically, it covers CloudSim and eXo IDE as important tools - CloudSim enables simulation of cloud computing environments and eXo IDE provides a development environment for cloud applications. The paper also reviews related work on cloud computing platforms, operating systems, challenges, and management of cloud infrastructure and resources.
Cloud computing provides on-demand access to shared computing resources like networks, servers, storage, applications and services available over the internet. It has its origins in the 1960s and the term "cloud" was used to depict the demarcation point between the service provider's responsibility and the user's responsibility. There are various cloud service models like SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Major players investing heavily in cloud computing include Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Apple etc. Cloud computing has huge potential in India given its large population and rapid urbanization. However, concerns around security and reliability need to be addressed for it to be widely adopted.
Cloud Computing: On the Air or Down to Earth - Beneficios para la EmpresaSoftware Guru
The document discusses cloud computing, including definitions, service models, technology architectures, providers, adoption trends, risks, and benefits. It defines cloud computing as using internet-accessible software and hardware resources that can be dynamically provisioned on-demand. The key service models are infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Major providers include Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, each with their own technology architectures and core services. Factors driving adoption include cost savings and scalability, while risks include security and loss of control. Benefits of cloud computing include reduced costs, increased flexibility and scalability.
Introduction: Build infrastucture-as-a-service Clouds with Apache CloudStackbuildacloud
This document provides an agenda and introduction for a presentation on building infrastructure-as-a-service clouds with Apache CloudStack. The agenda includes sections on introductions to CloudStack, user experiences and demos, CloudStack architecture, DevCloud, and Apache participation. The introduction defines CloudStack as an open source, multi-tenant cloud orchestration platform that allows users to build clouds the way the world's most successful clouds are built. It provides on-demand access to infrastructure through a self-service portal and supports private, public, and hosted cloud strategies.
Cloud Computing and Eclipse technology - how does it fit together?Markus Knauer
Today, many companies, such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others claim to provide the one and only cloud solution, but their offerings are different, aren’t they? Or do they have more in common than we think? Our talk starts with an introduction to cloud technology as it exists today by comparing the different products from the cloud providers. Next we will outline how technology from the Eclipse Runtime projects can contribute to a combined ’Cloud Stack’ and discuss currently available and possible future scenarios.
Cloud computing provides on-demand access to shared computing resources like networks, servers, storage, applications and services over the internet. It has characteristics like massive scale, resilience, virtualization, and low cost software. Common service models include Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Virtualization allows multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical machine. Cloud computing enables companies to save costs by using infrastructure on demand rather than owning their own data centers and servers. Commercial cloud offerings provide services like storage, computing resources, and platforms.
Cloud computing. five essential characteristics 1.4Alex Tregubov
The document discusses the five essential characteristics of cloud computing: on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. It provides examples of on-demand access through Amazon EC2 and how resource pooling allows resources to be dynamically allocated based on demand. The last sentences note some reasons for the popularity of cloud platforms, including pay-as-you-go pricing and cost reductions.
The document discusses cloud computing, providing definitions and an overview of key concepts. It describes the three main cloud service models - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Examples of applications are given for each model. Advantages of cloud computing include lower costs, automatic software updates, unlimited storage, and collaboration capabilities. However, cloud computing also has disadvantages such as reliance on internet connectivity and potential security and data loss issues.
Saurabh Gupta presented on Openstack cloud services. He began with an overview of open source software and key open source principles like free redistribution and access to source code. He then discussed cloud computing concepts like IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and different cloud deployment models. The presentation focused on introducing Openstack as an open source IaaS solution, describing its core components, architecture and implementation scenarios. Saurabh discussed the benefits of Openstack for building cloud services and some points to consider in operationalizing Openstack, like the need for additional integration of billing solutions. He also compared Openstack to other open source cloud platforms like Cloudstack and Eucalyptus.
The document provides an overview of cloud computing concepts including definitions, categories, architecture, security best practices, economics, pitfalls and recommendations for adoption. It discusses the main service models of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). It also addresses common myths around cloud computing such as concerns regarding security, reliability and performance.
Oracle provides a strategy for cloud computing that includes both public and private cloud offerings. Their private cloud platform utilizes Oracle software and tools to provide infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Key aspects of Oracle's private cloud strategy include the Oracle Enterprise Manager for centralized monitoring and management, the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder for application packaging and deployment, and policy-based management of cloud resources.
This was the opening presentation of the Zenoh Summit in June 2022. The presentation goes through the motivations that lead to the design of the zenoh protocol and provides an introduction of its core concepts. This is the place to start to understand why you should care about zenoh and the way in which is disrupts existing technologies.
The recording for this presentation is available at https://bit.ly/3QOuC6i
This document provides an introduction to Eclipse Zenoh, an open source project that unifies data in motion, data at rest, and computations in a distributed system. Zenoh elegantly blends traditional publish-subscribe with geo-distributed storage, queries, and computations. The presentation will demonstrate Zenoh's advantages for enabling typical edge computing scenarios and simplifying large-scale distributed applications through real-world use cases. It will also provide an overview of Zenoh's architecture, performance, and APIs.
This document provides an overview of Zenoh, an open-source distributed data-centric middleware. It summarizes Zenoh's key features including pub/sub, storage/query, compute capabilities and how these can be used in peer-to-peer, routed, and geo-distributed communication patterns. It also describes how to install and use Zenoh in Python and Docker, configure routers and backends, and interact with the system using its REST API.
Data Decentralisation: Efficiency, Privacy and Fair MonetisationAngelo Corsaro
A presentation give at the European H-Cloud Conference to motivate decentralisation as a mean to improve energy efficiency, privacy, and opportunity for monetisation for your digital footprint.
zenoh: zero overhead pub/sub store/query computeAngelo Corsaro
Unifies data in motion, data in-use, data at rest and computations.
It carefully blends traditional pub/sub with distributed queries, while retaining a level of time and space efficiency that is well beyond any of the mainstream stacks.
It provides built-in support for geo-distributed storages and distributed computations
zenoh -- the ZEro Network OverHead protocolAngelo Corsaro
This presentation introduces the key ideas behind zenoh -- an Internet scale data-centric protocol that unifies data-sharing between any kind of device including those constrained with respect to the node resources, such as computational resources and power, as well as the network.
zenoh -- the ZEro Network OverHead protocolAngelo Corsaro
This document introduces Zenoh, a new data-centric networking protocol being developed by ADLINK Tech. Inc. Zenoh allows applications to asynchronously read and write data associated with URIs and supports pub/sub and storage/query models. It is designed to unify data sharing across all types of devices, including extremely constrained ones. Zenoh provides reliability, load balancing, and a small protocol footprint to enable connectivity in resource-limited environments. A live demo is available to showcase Zenoh's capabilities.
This document provides recommendations for sights to see, things to eat, and places to swim in eastern Sicily. Key places mentioned include Piazza del Duomo and Via Crociferi in Catania, the fish market in Catania, Acireale known for its Baroque architecture, Acitrezza home to writer Verga, Acicastello with its Norman castle, the Roman mosaics at Villa Romana del Casale near Piazza Armerina, Taormina with its Greek theater, Mount Etna volcano, Syracuse with its Greek theater and Ortigia island, Noto known for its Baroque architecture, and beaches like Isola Bella, Cala Mosche, and V
This document introduces fogOS, an open-source distributed computing infrastructure developed by ADLINK's Advanced Technology Office. FogOS aims to provide a decentralized platform for managing heterogeneous compute, storage, networking and I/O resources across cloud and edge devices. It addresses limitations of cloud-centric architectures by bringing more control and analytics closer to data sources. The document outlines FogOS concepts including nodes, entities, networks and plugins. It also demonstrates FogOS through a prototype smart home application deployed across heterogeneous devices in a unified manner.
Making the right data available at the right time, at the right place, securely, efficiently, whilst promoting interoperability, is a key need for virtually any IoT application. After all, IoT is about leveraging access data – that used to be unavailable – in order to improve the ability to react, manage, predict and preserve a cyber-physical system.
The Data Distribution Service (DDS) is a standard for interoperable, secure, and efficient data sharing, used at the foundation of some of the most challenging Consumer and Industrial IoT applications, such as Smart Cities, Autonomous Vehicles, Smart Grids, Smart Farming, Home Automation and Connected Medical Devices.
In this presentation we will (1) introduce the Eclipse Cyclone DDS project, (2) provide a quick intro that will get you started with Cyclone DDS, (3) present a few Cyclone DDS use cases, and (4) share the Cyclone DDS development road-map.
Fog Computing is a paradigm that complements and extends cloud computing by providing an end-to-end virtualisation of computing, storage and communication resources. As such, fog computing allow applications to be transparently provisioned and managed end-to-end. This presentation first motivates the need for fog computing, then introduced fog05 the first and only Open Source fog computing platform!
The document summarizes key points from a lecture on Scala programming:
1. Implicits allow defining implicit conversions to resolve type mismatches and fix compiler errors. Monads separate composition timeline from execution and allow computations to carry extra data.
2. The Option type in Scala is equivalent to Haskell's Maybe monad. It provides flatMap and map operations for monadic computations.
3. Scala supports parallel collections for parallelism and futures for composable concurrent programming. Futures are monads that can be operated on and composed asynchronously.
This document provides a summary of key topics from the third lecture in a Scala programming course, including:
1) Reviewing fold operations like foldLeft and foldRight.
2) Exploring Scala classes in more detail, covering abstract classes, implementing abstract values lazily, overriding methods and values, and the Scala type hierarchy.
3) Introducing algebraic data types through sum and product types, and how case classes and pattern matching are used to represent them in Scala.
4) Examples of different pattern matching techniques like wildcard, constant, variable, constructor, typed and guarded patterns.
5) Revisiting for expressions and examples of using generators, definitions, and filters
This document provides an overview of a lecture on functional programming in Scala. It covers the following topics:
1. A recap of functional programming principles like functions as first-class values and no side effects.
2. An introduction to the Haskell programming language including its syntax for defining functions.
3. How functions are defined in Scala and how they are objects at runtime.
4. Examples of defining the factorial function recursively in Haskell and Scala, and making it tail recursive.
5. Concepts of first-class functions, currying, partial application, and an example of implementing looping in Scala using these techniques.
This document provides an overview of the "Programming in Scala" course, including:
- The course is divided into lectures introducing Scala features and a individual project to develop a non-trivial Scala application.
- It covers programming paradigms like object-oriented programming, functional programming, and compares imperative vs functional styles.
- Scala is introduced as a multi-paradigm language that blends OOP and FP on the JVM, making it appealing for its concise syntax and ability to seamlessly use Java libraries.
- The first Scala application example shows the object keyword, Unit return type, and string interpolation.
- Primitive types in Scala include integral,
Data Sharing in Extremely Resource Constrained EnvionrmentsAngelo Corsaro
This presentation introduces XRCE a new protocol for very efficiently distributing data in resource constrained (power, network, computation, and storage) environments. XRCE greatly improves the wire efficiency of existing protocol and in many cases provides higher level abstractions.
DDS (Data Distribution Service) is a standard for real-time data sharing across networked devices. It provides a global data space abstraction that allows applications to asynchronously publish and subscribe to data topics. DDS supports features like dynamic discovery, decentralized implementation, and adaptive connectivity to enable interoperable and efficient data distribution.
RUSTing is not a tutorial on the Rust programming language.
I decided to create the RUSTing series as a way to document and share programming idioms and techniques.
From time to time I’ll draw parallels with Haskell and Scala, having some familiarity with one of them is useful but not indispensable.
Offshore IT Support: Balancing In-House and Offshore Help Desk Techniciansjohn823664
In today's always-on digital environment, businesses must deliver seamless IT support across time zones, devices, and departments. This SlideShare explores how companies can strategically combine in-house expertise with offshore talent to build a high-performing, cost-efficient help desk operation.
From the benefits and challenges of offshore support to practical models for integrating global teams, this presentation offers insights, real-world examples, and key metrics for success. Whether you're scaling a startup or optimizing enterprise support, discover how to balance cost, quality, and responsiveness with a hybrid IT support strategy.
Perfect for IT managers, operations leads, and business owners considering global help desk solutions.
Jira Administration Training – Day 1 : IntroductionRavi Teja
This presentation covers the basics of Jira for beginners. Learn how Jira works, its key features, project types, issue types, and user roles. Perfect for anyone new to Jira or preparing for Jira Admin roles.
Improving Developer Productivity With DORA, SPACE, and DevExJustin Reock
Ready to measure and improve developer productivity in your organization?
Join Justin Reock, Deputy CTO at DX, for an interactive session where you'll learn actionable strategies to measure and increase engineering performance.
Leave this session equipped with a comprehensive understanding of developer productivity and a roadmap to create a high-performing engineering team in your company.
New Ways to Reduce Database Costs with ScyllaDBScyllaDB
How ScyllaDB’s latest capabilities can reduce your infrastructure costs
ScyllaDB has been obsessed with price-performance from day 1. Our core database is architected with low-level engineering optimizations that squeeze every ounce of power from the underlying infrastructure. And we just completed a multi-year effort to introduce a set of new capabilities for additional savings.
Join this webinar to learn about these new capabilities: the underlying challenges we wanted to address, the workloads that will benefit most from each, and how to get started. We’ll cover ways to:
- Avoid overprovisioning with “just-in-time” scaling
- Safely operate at up to ~90% storage utilization
- Cut network costs with new compression strategies and file-based streaming
We’ll also highlight a “hidden gem” capability that lets you safely balance multiple workloads in a single cluster. To conclude, we will share the efficiency-focused capabilities on our short-term and long-term roadmaps.
European Accessibility Act & Integrated Accessibility TestingJulia Undeutsch
Emma Dawson will guide you through two important topics in this session.
Firstly, she will prepare you for the European Accessibility Act (EAA), which comes into effect on 28 June 2025, and show you how development teams can prepare for it.
In the second part of the webinar, Emma Dawson will explore with you various integrated testing methods and tools that will help you improve accessibility during the development cycle, such as Linters, Storybook, Playwright, just to name a few.
Focus: European Accessibility Act, Integrated Testing tools and methods (e.g. Linters, Storybook, Playwright)
Target audience: Everyone, Developers, Testers
Jeremy Millul - A Talented Software DeveloperJeremy Millul
Jeremy Millul is a talented software developer based in NYC, known for leading impactful projects such as a Community Engagement Platform and a Hiking Trail Finder. Using React, MongoDB, and geolocation tools, Jeremy delivers intuitive applications that foster engagement and usability. A graduate of NYU’s Computer Science program, he brings creativity and technical expertise to every project, ensuring seamless user experiences and meaningful results in software development.
Nix(OS) for Python Developers - PyCon 25 (Bologna, Italia)Peter Bittner
How do you onboard new colleagues in 2025? How long does it take? Would you love a standardized setup under version control that everyone can customize for themselves? A stable desktop setup, reinstalled in just minutes. It can be done.
This talk was given in Italian, 29 May 2025, at PyCon 25, Bologna, Italy. All slides are provided in English.
Original slides at https://slides.com/bittner/pycon25-nixos-for-python-developers
Maxx nft market place new generation nft marketing placeusersalmanrazdelhi
PREFACE OF MAXXNFT
MaxxNFT: Powering the Future of Digital Ownership
MaxxNFT is a cutting-edge Web3 platform designed to revolutionize how
digital assets are owned, traded, and valued. Positioned at the forefront of the
NFT movement, MaxxNFT views NFTs not just as collectibles, but as the next
generation of internet equity—unique, verifiable digital assets that unlock new
possibilities for creators, investors, and everyday users alike.
Through strategic integrations with OKT Chain and OKX Web3, MaxxNFT
enables seamless cross-chain NFT trading, improved liquidity, and enhanced
user accessibility. These collaborations make it easier than ever to participate
in the NFT ecosystem while expanding the platform’s global reach.
With a focus on innovation, user rewards, and inclusive financial growth,
MaxxNFT offers multiple income streams—from referral bonuses to liquidity
incentives—creating a vibrant community-driven economy. Whether you
'
re
minting your first NFT or building a digital asset portfolio, MaxxNFT empowers
you to participate in the future of decentralized value exchange.
https://maxxnft.xyz/
Co-Constructing Explanations for AI Systems using ProvenancePaul Groth
Explanation is not a one off - it's a process where people and systems work together to gain understanding. This idea of co-constructing explanations or explanation by exploration is powerful way to frame the problem of explanation. In this talk, I discuss our first experiments with this approach for explaining complex AI systems by using provenance. Importantly, I discuss the difficulty of evaluation and discuss some of our first approaches to evaluating these systems at scale. Finally, I touch on the importance of explanation to the comprehensive evaluation of AI systems.
Agentic AI Explained: The Next Frontier of Autonomous Intelligence & Generati...Aaryan Kansari
Agentic AI Explained: The Next Frontier of Autonomous Intelligence & Generative AI
Discover Agentic AI, the revolutionary step beyond reactive generative AI. Learn how these autonomous systems can reason, plan, execute, and adapt to achieve human-defined goals, acting as digital co-workers. Explore its promise, key frameworks like LangChain and AutoGen, and the challenges in designing reliable and safe AI agents for future workflows.
Sticky Note Bullets:
Definition: Next stage beyond ChatGPT-like systems, offering true autonomy.
Core Function: Can "reason, plan, execute and adapt" independently.
Distinction: Proactive (sets own actions for goals) vs. Reactive (responds to prompts).
Promise: Acts as "digital co-workers," handling grunt work like research, drafting, bug fixing.
Industry Outlook: Seen as a game-changer; Deloitte predicts 50% of companies using GenAI will have agentic AI pilots by 2027.
Key Frameworks: LangChain, Microsoft's AutoGen, LangGraph, CrewAI.
Development Focus: Learning to think in workflows and goals, not just model outputs.
Challenges: Ensuring reliability, safety; agents can still hallucinate or go astray.
Best Practices: Start small, iterate, add memory, keep humans in the loop for final decisions.
Use Cases: Limited only by imagination (e.g., drafting business plans, complex simulations).
Droidal: AI Agents Revolutionizing HealthcareDroidal LLC
Droidal’s AI Agents are transforming healthcare by bringing intelligence, speed, and efficiency to key areas such as Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), clinical operations, and patient engagement. Built specifically for the needs of U.S. hospitals and clinics, Droidal's solutions are designed to improve outcomes and reduce administrative burden.
Through simple visuals and clear examples, the presentation explains how AI Agents can support medical coding, streamline claims processing, manage denials, ensure compliance, and enhance communication between providers and patients. By integrating seamlessly with existing systems, these agents act as digital coworkers that deliver faster reimbursements, reduce errors, and enable teams to focus more on patient care.
Droidal's AI technology is more than just automation — it's a shift toward intelligent healthcare operations that are scalable, secure, and cost-effective. The presentation also offers insights into future developments in AI-driven healthcare, including how continuous learning and agent autonomy will redefine daily workflows.
Whether you're a healthcare administrator, a tech leader, or a provider looking for smarter solutions, this presentation offers a compelling overview of how Droidal’s AI Agents can help your organization achieve operational excellence and better patient outcomes.
A free demo trial is available for those interested in experiencing Droidal’s AI Agents firsthand. Our team will walk you through a live demo tailored to your specific workflows, helping you understand the immediate value and long-term impact of adopting AI in your healthcare environment.
To request a free trial or learn more:
https://droidal.com/
Introducing FME Realize: A New Era of Spatial Computing and ARSafe Software
A new era for the FME Platform has arrived – and it’s taking data into the real world.
Meet FME Realize: marking a new chapter in how organizations connect digital information with the physical environment around them. With the addition of FME Realize, FME has evolved into an All-data, Any-AI Spatial Computing Platform.
FME Realize brings spatial computing, augmented reality (AR), and the full power of FME to mobile teams: making it easy to visualize, interact with, and update data right in the field. From infrastructure management to asset inspections, you can put any data into real-world context, instantly.
Join us to discover how spatial computing, powered by FME, enables digital twins, AI-driven insights, and real-time field interactions: all through an intuitive no-code experience.
In this one-hour webinar, you’ll:
-Explore what FME Realize includes and how it fits into the FME Platform
-Learn how to deliver real-time AR experiences, fast
-See how FME enables live, contextual interactions with enterprise data across systems
-See demos, including ones you can try yourself
-Get tutorials and downloadable resources to help you start right away
Whether you’re exploring spatial computing for the first time or looking to scale AR across your organization, this session will give you the tools and insights to get started with confidence.
Protecting Your Sensitive Data with Microsoft Purview - IRMS 2025Nikki Chapple
Session | Protecting Your Sensitive Data with Microsoft Purview: Practical Information Protection and DLP Strategies
Presenter | Nikki Chapple (MVP| Principal Cloud Architect CloudWay) & Ryan John Murphy (Microsoft)
Event | IRMS Conference 2025
Format | Birmingham UK
Date | 18-20 May 2025
In this closing keynote session from the IRMS Conference 2025, Nikki Chapple and Ryan John Murphy deliver a compelling and practical guide to data protection, compliance, and information governance using Microsoft Purview. As organizations generate over 2 billion pieces of content daily in Microsoft 365, the need for robust data classification, sensitivity labeling, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) has never been more urgent.
This session addresses the growing challenge of managing unstructured data, with 73% of sensitive content remaining undiscovered and unclassified. Using a mountaineering metaphor, the speakers introduce the “Secure by Default” blueprint—a four-phase maturity model designed to help organizations scale their data security journey with confidence, clarity, and control.
🔐 Key Topics and Microsoft 365 Security Features Covered:
Microsoft Purview Information Protection and DLP
Sensitivity labels, auto-labeling, and adaptive protection
Data discovery, classification, and content labeling
DLP for both labeled and unlabeled content
SharePoint Advanced Management for workspace governance
Microsoft 365 compliance center best practices
Real-world case study: reducing 42 sensitivity labels to 4 parent labels
Empowering users through training, change management, and adoption strategies
🧭 The Secure by Default Path – Microsoft Purview Maturity Model:
Foundational – Apply default sensitivity labels at content creation; train users to manage exceptions; implement DLP for labeled content.
Managed – Focus on crown jewel data; use client-side auto-labeling; apply DLP to unlabeled content; enable adaptive protection.
Optimized – Auto-label historical content; simulate and test policies; use advanced classifiers to identify sensitive data at scale.
Strategic – Conduct operational reviews; identify new labeling scenarios; implement workspace governance using SharePoint Advanced Management.
🎒 Top Takeaways for Information Management Professionals:
Start secure. Stay protected. Expand with purpose.
Simplify your sensitivity label taxonomy for better adoption.
Train your users—they are your first line of defense.
Don’t wait for perfection—start small and iterate fast.
Align your data protection strategy with business goals and regulatory requirements.
💡 Who Should Watch This Presentation?
This session is ideal for compliance officers, IT administrators, records managers, data protection officers (DPOs), security architects, and Microsoft 365 governance leads. Whether you're in the public sector, financial services, healthcare, or education.
🔗 Read the blog: https://nikkichapple.com/irms-conference-2025/
6th Power Grid Model Meetup
Join the Power Grid Model community for an exciting day of sharing experiences, learning from each other, planning, and collaborating.
This hybrid in-person/online event will include a full day agenda, with the opportunity to socialize afterwards for in-person attendees.
If you have a hackathon proposal, tell us when you register!
About Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
Introduction and Background:
Study Overview and Methodology: The study analyzes the IT market in Israel, covering over 160 markets and 760 companies/products/services. It includes vendor rankings, IT budgets, and trends from 2025-2029. Vendors participate in detailed briefings and surveys.
Vendor Listings: The presentation lists numerous vendors across various pages, detailing their names and services. These vendors are ranked based on their participation and market presence.
Market Insights and Trends: Key insights include IT market forecasts, economic factors affecting IT budgets, and the impact of AI on enterprise IT. The study highlights the importance of AI integration and the concept of creative destruction.
Agentic AI and Future Predictions: Agentic AI is expected to transform human-agent collaboration, with AI systems understanding context and orchestrating complex processes. Future predictions include AI's role in shopping and enterprise IT.
Adtran’s SDG 9000 Series brings high-performance, cloud-managed Wi-Fi 7 to homes, businesses and public spaces. Built on a unified SmartOS platform, the portfolio includes outdoor access points, ceiling-mount APs and a 10G PoE router. Intellifi and Mosaic One simplify deployment, deliver AI-driven insights and unlock powerful new revenue streams for service providers.
Evaluation Challenges in Using Generative AI for Science & Technical ContentPaul Groth
Evaluation Challenges in Using Generative AI for Science & Technical Content.
Foundation Models show impressive results in a wide-range of tasks on scientific and legal content from information extraction to question answering and even literature synthesis. However, standard evaluation approaches (e.g. comparing to ground truth) often don't seem to work. Qualitatively the results look great but quantitive scores do not align with these observations. In this talk, I discuss the challenges we've face in our lab in evaluation. I then outline potential routes forward.
Grannie’s Journey to Using Healthcare AI ExperiencesLauren Parr
AI offers transformative potential to enhance our long-time persona Grannie’s life, from healthcare to social connection. This session explores how UX designers can address unmet needs through AI-driven solutions, ensuring intuitive interfaces that improve safety, well-being, and meaningful interactions without overwhelming users.
3. Cloud Computing
☐ Cloud computing is the delivery of
computing as a service rather than
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a product
☐ Cloud computing provides
virtualized hardware, middleware,
software, data access, storage, etc.
OpenSplice DDS
☐ Cloud Services do not require end-
user knowledge of the physical
location and configuration of the
system that delivers the services –
like in power-grids
4. Cloud Computing Stack
Cloud Based Delivery Stack
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☐ Established with IaaS and SaaS, Software as a Service (SaaS)
Cloud computing is now
quickly expanding into PaaS Platform as a Service (PaaS)
OpenSplice DDS
Infrastructure as a Service
(IaaS)
Cloud Computing is the “Next Big Thing” in IT!
5. Traditional vs. Cloud Stack
Traditional Delivery Stack Cloud Based Delivery Stack
Application Software as a Service (SaaS)
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Middleware Platform as a Service (PaaS)
OpenSplice DDS
Infrastructure and Hardware Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
☐ Functionally, the Cloud Computing stack mirrors the traditional stack
☐ Yet, not all the layers of Cloud Computing (e.g. PaaS) are mature or
available as COTS offering
6. PaaS
Cloud Based Delivery Stack
☐ Gartner identifies into PaaS the
Cloud-based Middleware Services, Software as a Service
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such as:
☐ Enterprise Application Integration Platform as a Service (PaaS)
☐ Messaging
OpenSplice DDS
☐ Data Bases
☐ Application Servers Infrastructure as a Service
☐ …
7. Public vs. Private Clouds
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☐ Although most of the hype is Cloud Based Delivery Stack
on public clouds, most of the
deployments are today on Software as a Service (SaaS)
private clouds
OpenSplice DDS
☐ OpenSource infrastructures Platform as a Service (PaaS)
are more and more available
for easily set-up and run Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
private clouds
9. Cloud Messaging
Cloud Messaging provides a ubiquitous and universally accessible
“Internet Service” for distributing messages from producers to
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consumers
☐ Cloud Messaging replaces local
infrastructure and integration
technologies with an Ubiquitous
OpenSplice DDS
Internet Service
☐ Cloud Messaging allows
companies to elastically and
transparently deal with changes of
workload and scale
10. Cloud Messaging Applicability
Cloud Messaging has Universal Applicability
Key building block for SaaS, next
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☐
generation Internet Services and
Applications (e.g. Twitter, Yammer,
Foursquare, etc.)
OpenSplice DDS
☐ Applicability across vertical domains
☐ Medical, Smart Energy/Grid, Smart Cities,
Utilities, Finance, Defense/Aerospace,
SCADA, Internet Apps, Gaming,
Transportation, and Telecommunications
11. Cloud Messaging vs Messaging in the Cloud
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Messaging in the Cloud
☐ Commonly used to integrate applications deployed in the cloud
with a messaging/data-distribution technology
OpenSplice DDS
Cloud Messaging
☐ Messaging as a Service available to applications running within
and outside the cloud infrastructure
12. What should a
Cloud Messaging
OpenSplice DDS
Deliver?
13. [Cloud Messaging]
Desirable Properties
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Scalability
☐ Effectively support
localized as well as
OpenSplice DDS
global applications
potentially spanning
over the whole
globe
14. [Cloud Messaging]
Desirable Properties
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Throughput
☐ Cope effectively
OpenSplice DDS
with single-stream as
well as aggregated
high throughputs
15. [Cloud Messaging]
Desirable Properties
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QoS Control
☐ Provide control over
key QoS impacting
OpenSplice DDS
resource usage (e.g.
network bandwidth)
as well as end-to-
end message deliver
16. [Cloud Messaging]
Desirable Properties
Push/Pull/Push-Pull
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Communication
☐ To allow the
optimization of the
performance/
OpenSplice DDS
resource-usage
trade-off, the cloud
messaging should
support different
notification
paradigms
17. [Cloud Messaging]
Desirable Properties
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Connectivity
☐ Provide access to REST/HTTP
the messaging DDSI/RTPS
OpenSplice DDS
service via multiple XMPP
protocols, and
technologies, such WebSocket
DDSI/RTPS
as, REST, SOAP, HTTP,
REST/HTTP
DDS/RTPS. XMPP, etc.
19. OpenSplice DDS [1/2]
☐ Designed ground-up for addressing the
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challenges of modern complex distributed
s
e/ Real-
tor
Ga T
te l on Netw ime
ec
w da ted orkin
systems across several different application an a
nn
ay g
St der
Co
DBM Fe
domains, such as, Aerospace & Defense,
Se
S
cu
C/C
r
Air Traffic Control, SCADA, Smart-* (e.g. +
ity
+
RM
OpenSplice DDS
S
Tuner
Smart Cities, Smart Energy, ), Automotive,
DD
I
Java
OpenSplice
Simulation, Medical, Big-Data, etc. Tester C#
Tools
le r
ode
☐ Promotes an architectural style that leads M
h ark DDSI-RTPS
to loosely coupled, evolvable, polyglot, ire
S
x
W
nu
s
ow
scalable, dependable and high
Li
S
nd
RTO
Wi
performance distributed systems
20. Standard-Based
Application Application
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2013 API 2013
RPC over DDS RPC over DDS
2012 2010 2010 2012
ANSI C ISO C++ Java-5 Scala
2004 2010 2010 2013
Security
Security
X-Types
X-Types
OpenSplice DDS
DDS 2004
DDSI-RTPS DDSI-RTPS
2006 2006
Wire Protocol
UDP, TCP, (WebSocket)
21. Performances
Latency
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☐ 15-20 usec Inter-Core Latency
☐ 75 usec over GBps Ethernet
OpenSplice DDS
Throughput Performance measured on
Linux boxes running on Intel i7
☐ Up to 10+M msg/sec inter-core processors
☐ Up to 5M msg/sec inter node
22. Key Features
☐ Connectivity with over 80 communication
and storage technologies, such as,
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WebSockets, HBase, JMS, etc.
☐ Content-Filtering and Queries
s
e/ Real-
tor
Ga T
te l on Netw ime
ec
w da ted orkin
an a
nn
ay g
☐ Streams extensions for efficiently dealing St der
Co
DBM Fe
Se
OpenSplice DDS
S
with high-volumes sensor data
cu
C/C
rit
++
y
RM
Built-in Fault-Tolerance
S
☐ Tuner
DD
I
Java
OpenSplice
C#
☐ Rich Tools ecosystem Tester
Tools
☐ Packet Inspectors le r
M ode
☐ Recoding and Replay h ark DDSI-RTPS
S
ire
Modeling Tools
x
☐ W
nu
s
ow
Li
S
nd
RTO
Open Source!
Wi
☐
24. Defense and Aerospace
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OpenSplice DDS
Integrated Modular Vetronics Training & Simulation Systems Naval Combat Systems
Air Traffic Control & Management Unmanned Air Vehicles Aerospace Applications
25. Commercial Applications
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OpenSplice DDS
Agricultural Vehicle Systems Large Scale SCADA Systems Smart Cities
Train Control Systems Complex Medical Devices High Frequency Auto-Trading
27. QoS
☐ OpenSplice provides a rich set of QoS that allow
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control of:
☐ resource usage,
☐ end-to-end data delivery, and
☐ data availability
OpenSplice DDS
29. QoS [ex-1]
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Cloud
Messaging
Internet
Bank
Exchange
OpenSplice DDS
☐ Batching ☐ Data Durability
☐ Priority ☐ Redundancy
☐ Deadline ☐ Data History
30. QoS
☐ OpenSplice provides a rich set of QoS that allow
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control of:
☐ resource usage,
☐ end-to-end data delivery, and
☐ data availability
OpenSplice DDS
31. QoS [ex-2]
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☐ Temporal Filtering Cloud
☐ Batching Messaging
OpenSplice DDS
Internet
☐ Data History
32. Communication Model eliver y
ta d l by
al da nera
optim s in ge
The nd wor k
depe on and net nts
odel licati
m
e app co nstrai
th
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☐ DDSI/RTPS supports multiple delivery
models:
☐ Push: Data is pushed to subscribers
☐ Push-Pull: Notification of new data are pushed
OpenSplice DDS
to subscriber which in turn pull data when
needed
Cloud
☐ The Pull delivery model is available Messaging
supported through REST Internet
33. Connectivity
JMS
High performance, QoS-Enabled,
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☐
XM
Extensible and configurable
ST
PP
RE
OpenSplice
protocol gateway framework Gateway
P
Cu
AMQ
sto
Automatically bridging across
OpenSplice DDS
☐
m
communication technologies DDSI-RTPS
☐ Allows to expose relevant data to
Supported Connectors Include:
over 80 communication protocols, - JMS - HTTP
without imposing changes into - REST - AMQP
- CometD - XMPP
existing systems! - CFX - Hibernate
- TCP & UDP Sockets - Custom
34. An Example Application
Enterprise Application
Done
Web Application
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JMS
XM
ST
PP
RE
OpenSplice
Gateway
P
Cu
AMQ
The OpenSplice Gateway
sto
☐
m
OpenSplice DDS
mediates from DDS to over 80
DDSI-RTPS
technologies
“dds:Foo:1/FooType”
DDS DDS
to
“jms:topic:Foo”
36. Cloud Infrastructures
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Public Clouds
☐ Select a IaaS provider that supports native applications
☐ RedHat OpenShift via DIY (Do it Yourself) applications
OpenSplice DDS
☐ Amazon EC2
Private Cloud
☐ Consider a Cloud Infrastructure that allows native applications
37. OpenSplice on the Cloud
TTP
/H
E ST
We R
bS
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ock
et
t
JMS
ke
XM
ST
oc
PP
RE
OpenSplice
Gateway
S
eb
P
Cu
AMQ
st
om
JMS
W
XM
DDSI-RTPS
ST
PP
RE
OpenSplice
Gateway
P
Cu
AMQ
st
om
JMS
DDSI-RTPS
XM
ST
PP
RE
OpenSplice
Gateway
P
Cu
AMQ
st
om
DDSI-RTPS
OpenSplice DDS
JMS
XM
ST
JMS
PP
RE
OpenSplice
XM
ST
Gateway
PP
RE
P
Cu
OpenSplice
AMQ
Gateway
sto
m
P
Cu
AMQ
sto
DDSI-RTPS
m
DDSI-RTPS
HTTPS
DDSI/RTPS
38. Cloud Messaging with OpenSplice
WebSocket
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JMS
XM
ST
PP
RE
OpenSplice
Gateway
DDSI
P
Cu
AMQ
sto
m
DDSI
DDSI-RTPS JMS
XM
ST
PP
DDSI
RE
OpenSplice
Gateway
OpenSplice DDS
P
Cu
AMQ
sto
m
DDSI-RTPS
WebSocket
DDSI
40. Concluding Remarks
☐ OpenSplice DDS can be easily deployed on existing public cloud
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infrastructures to provide “Messaging in the Cloud”
☐ The OpenSplice DDS technology ecosystem provides all the
building-blocs for creating a very powerful Cloud Messaging
OpenSplice DDS
☐ OpenSplice DDS based Cloud Messaging, provides several
advantages over existing solutions, such as:
☐ Scalability
☐ Efficiency (per message)
☐ Performance
☐ QoS