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5 can’t-miss VMware sessions at IBM InterConnect 2017

VMware is looking to have a big showing at IBM InterConnect this year.
With several VMware sessions planned for the conference, attendees will learn how their businesses can benefit when optimizing, migrating or extending workloads with VMware and IBM Cloud.
Here are five sessions VMware fans won’t want to miss:
Client experiences
Three breakout sessions offer an unbiased view from clients, who will explain the successes they’ve seen with VMware on IBM Cloud.
CIBC: Breaking virtualization beyond data center boundaries
Marc Gunter from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) will share how the bank has taken advantage of the IBM and VMware partnership to accelerate its strategy for a multi-vendor hybrid cloud. This session is directed to IT managers, architects and decision makers. It will cover benefits, lessons learned, things to consider, pitfalls and more.
Dream Payments: Building an enterprise-class hybrid cloud with IBM Cloud for VMware solutions
Christian Ali and Chad Whittaker from Dream Payments, a FinTech company that powers payments for thousands of businesses across mobile devices and the Internet of Things (IoT), will explain how their company uses IBM technology to manage a payment volume that’s growing by more than 30 percent per month. They’ll also share how Dream Payments used VMware on IBM Cloud to migrate to cloud with ease and speed.
Multiplus: Design and deployment of VMware on IBM Cloud
Fabiano Barros will introduce attendees to Multiplus, the leader in Brazil for loyalty reward programs. He’ll explain how the company has benefited from implementing a hybrid cloud infrastructure with VMware on IBM Cloud.
VMware Expertise
The techies from VMware and IBM are top notch. Not only are they some of the smartest people on the planet, but they’re passionate about helping businesses get the most from VMware on IBM Cloud. Attendees can take advantage of their expertise and get answers to their toughest deployment questions.
IBM and VMware: Connecting it all
VMware experts Simon Kofkin-Hansen from IBM and Anil Kapur from VMware take attendees through solutions available with VMware on IBM Cloud, and how businesses can benefit from them; organizations can now migrate or extend existing VMware workloads to the cloud in hours rather than weeks. Kofkin-Hansen and Kapur will cover technology such as VMware Cloud Foundation, vCenter Server and NSX.
Networking magic: Intercontinental vMotion on IBM Bluemix in minutes
VMware Networking Sales Engineer Jon Schulz will demonstrate a long-distance vMotion across continents via the IBM Bluemix private network. He’ll review the topology of a truly distributed configuration on IBM Bluemix, including VMware vSphere, VMware NSX and VMware Virtual SAN. Schulz will also discuss application mobility, disaster avoidance, and automated disaster recovery between sites.
Find out more about what’s happening at InterConnect and get registration information.
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FOSDEM Day 0 – CentOS Dojo

FOSDEM starts tomorrow in Brussels, but there’s always a number of events the day before.

This year, several speakers from the RDO community are participating in the CentOS Dojo ahead of the main event tomorrow.

Haïkel Guémar, Matthieu Huin – CI in the cloud – How RDO uses OpenStack infra tools for packaging
Spyros Trigazis – OpenStack @ CERN: Status update
Nicolas Planel, Sylvain Afchain, Sylvain Baubeau – Skydive – a real time network analyzer

Of course, since RDO works so closely with the CentOS CI infrastructure, all of the other content is relevant too. We’re looking forward to learning about the various aspects of the CentOS project, and strengthening our bonds between the two communities, today, and in the coming years.

Here’s KB addressing the opening session (Video).
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APM and DevOps: A complementary approach to agile, responsive development

Digital transformation has profound ramifications for your organization. The new landscape is disrupting business models, raising customer expectations and creating new channels to do business.
I bet you’re seeing the impact of digital transformation on your organization’s application development cycle as well. The rate of development probably isn’t decided entirely by you anymore. Instead, it’s driven by customers and the pace of the competitive marketplace—and the time between releases grows ever shorter.
Today, it’s standard for development teams to start on the next version of an application before the previous version is delivered or even completed. So how do you keep pace with these iterative, responsive and agile development cycles? An environment that incorporates both DevOps and end-to-end Application Performance Management (APM) is critical to business success.
What DevOps delivers

DevOps is a vital component of digital transformation. A recent survey by Evans Data found that 76 percent of developers polled considering DevOps to be very or somewhat important for their future.
DevOps breaks down the barrier between development and operations to deliver three key value propositions:

Accelerate the delivery of innovation with more frequent application updates
Reduce operational costs of delivering releases, eliminating expenses that have traditionally hindered agile delivery
Engage directly with the user base to focus development resources on high-value initiatives.

If you’re still uncertain how to make DevOps and APM a reality, download your very own APM DevOps for Dummies ebook.
What APM delivers
Before DevOps, APM tools used to be focused on production operations. But as more organizations adopt DevOps models, APM tools are expanding from operations into development. Development and testing environments tie closely to production environments, which makes APM easier to expand and implement. This enables development teams to take advantage of traditionally production-oriented APM capabilities that include:

Lower overhead and low cost monitoring
Management of complex dependencies and end-user experience
Highly scalable and flexible deployments with effective collaboration across development and operations

As one CIO of a retail organization summarized, “you’re going to increase productivity because you’re going to give the users [their] applications faster. You’re going to reduce IT resources and get more things done.”
Bring DevOps and APM together
To summarize, environments that incorporate both DevOps and complete APM enable development teams to be agile, responsive and ultimately more optimized for the dynamic, always-on hybrid cloud world. Embracing the DevOps methodology will help your organization reduce your delivery cycle times to hours instead of months, leaving more time to work on delivering a richer user experience.
Read this DevOps whitepaper to learn how development and operations can collaborate to optimize user experience every step of the way, leaving more time for your next big innovation.
Finally, check out all the DevOps expertise and best practices to be shared at IBM InterConnect 2017 in March.
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Calculating the TCO of moving SAP workloads to cloud

As I was leaving our local movie theater on a recent day out with my family, my daughter noticed that I looked annoyed. She asked what was wrong. I decided not to say what I was really thinking: that’s two hours and $30 we’d never get back.
This made me think about all the other small investments we make, and then the bigger things, which ultimately reminded me of a question I get asked regularly when talking to clients: how can I assess the benefits of moving to cloud and managed services before making the investment?
Moving to the cloud can affect the bottom line. It can be hard to justify the total cost of ownership (TCO) up front when you don’t have a clear understanding of what the key tangible and intangible benefits might be, especially when moving ERP applications to the cloud. Fortunately, there are tools that can help you assess the net incremental revenue benefits of getting services to market faster.
One of those tools is the Cost Benefits Estimator, which helps organizations look at managed infrastructure, including those designed specifically SAP workloads. The results are based on third-party validated financial metrics and justification models.
How does it work?
It’s a self-driven tool that asks a few basic questions such as:

How many servers will be moved to the cloud?
How many full-time equivalent headcounts are required to support your current infrastructure and applications?
What industry are you in?
How many customers do you have?
What are the key drivers? (To increase customer reach? Improve time to market? Other factors?)

By answering these questions, the tool can help organizations estimate annual savings based on their environments. It can help them determine the numeric value of infrastructure savings. For example, it enables comparisons between the costs of SAP support labor costs for the current environment versus managed services on the IBM cloud infrastructure.
Wherever you decide to invest your time and money, tools like these can help spur wiser investments. As Lynda Stadtmueller, vice president of #cloud computing services with Stratecast-Frost & Sullivan, wrote in a recent blog post, “Whether you are in the information or finance organization, the smartest technology investment is the one that delivers maximum value to the business.”
Calculate your estimated annual savings from an investment in IBM cloud managed services by trying the Cost Benefits Estimator for SAP Applications. You can also try it for non-SAP applications. It takes no more than 15 to 20 minutes to see your results.
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Services Management using Red Hat CloudForms (Video)

In this short video, we specifically look at service management within Red Hat CloudForms. The demonstration highlights the following platform capabilities:

Self-Service portal with lifecycle, operations management and reporting
Service Catalog presented to end-user consumers
Service Definition, built as stand-alone, or from service composites
Life-cycle status monitoring and notifications
Usage consumption and chargeback reports

 
 
Additional information on Red Hat CloudForms can be found on the Red Hat website.
 
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Cloud digital revolution: disrupt or be disrupted

The future that analysts, technologists and science fiction authors predicted is here—we now live in a digital economy. As consumers, we don’t just access information, we use it to make decisions in real time. We don’t just use a service, we expect an experience that is fast, simple and intuitive. Consumers expect immediate access, speed and connectivity in technologies and show no patience for products, services and businesses that fail to meet expectations.
This fundamental shift in consumer behavior is rapidly driving enterprise products, services and business models to transform. Cloud and cognitive are at the center of this transformation. I want to share three very different examples of how companies are leveraging the latest cloud technologies to build value and wow customers.
But first, I’d like to introduce myself to Thoughts on Cloud readers. My name is Shahz Afzal. I recently joined IBM after spending 16 years at Microsoft working on strategies and programs to help customers transition to the first wave of cloud.  I could not be prouder to be part of the IBM Cloud team building the future through technologies like connected apps, cognitive computing and the Internet of Things.

Gartner predicts that by 2020, businesses without cloud capabilities will be as uncommon as businesses without Internet are today. 30 percent of the largest new software investments will exist entirely on the cloud. Amazing.
If you are wondering how the cloud might impact your business, here are just a few examples where clients have used cloud to redefine what’s possible for their customers.
1. Accelerating time-to-market with Walmart
What do developers want once they have an idea? Fast access to development tools. IBM helped Walmart create a cloud platform driven by APIs to provide developers access to resources such as infrastructure, storage, databases and web servers. Walmart estimates they can now deliver resources to developers 100 times faster, meet unpredictable spikes in demand and accelerate updates to market.
2. Shaping the future of sports with the KLM open
How cool is it to not just watch sports live, but also have a TV-like experience at the event? The KLM Open, one of the oldest golf tournaments in the European Tour, wanted to provide an interactive mobile application, but it didn’t have the expertise or infrastructure to make that vision a reality. IBM used WebSphere to help create a live, third-screen mobile experience for golf fans, helping spike a 25 percent increase in visitors by delivering an engaging mobile app for fans.
3. Enabling rapid growth with Bernhardt Furniture
What business doesn’t want higher sales and profits? Bernhardt Furniture needed a faster way to improve business applications and a more flexible architecture to accommodate rapid growth. They built a hybrid cloud solution to support business applications with a microservices architecture and API infrastructure. And this meant they could adopt the DevOps approach to continuously deliver upgrades to customers. But take a look at the results: Bernhardt engaged 20 percent more customers during sales events and netted a 20 percent sales increase through improved ordering capabilities.
The bottom line: the cloud is revolutionizing business models across a diverse range of industries. In my view, it is truly a question of disrupting or being disrupted. Where would you rather be?
If you are as thrilled with the rapid innovation in cloud as I am, be sure to register for IBM InterConnect, the industry’s preeminent event for cloud solutions. My colleagues and I would love to meet you.
I look forward to working with partners and clients to help usher in the future of cloud. Together we have the power to change the world. And I want to hear from you. Continue the discussion by leaving a comment below, tweeting @IBMCloud or finding me on LinkedIn.
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