BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//OpenACalendar//NONSGML OpenACalendar//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Amazon Web Services User Group Edinburgh: AWS User Group Edinb urgh #16 Scottish Government\, VMware & AWS - Open Tech Calendar BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9126@otc.opentechcalendar.co.uk URL:https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/9126-aws-user-group-edinburgh-16 SUMMARY:Amazon Web Services User Group Edinburgh: AWS User Group Edinburgh #16 Scottish Government\, VMware & AWS DESCRIPTION:Agenda:\n6:30pm - 7pm: Refreshments and networking\n7:00pm - 7: 50pm: 1st talk Scottish Government Virtualizes Critical Legacy Apps in VMw are Cloud on AWS\n\nNeill Smith\, Head of Infrastructure at the Directorat e for Agriculture and Rural Economy will walk us through ARE's desire to e mbrace a modern hybrid cloud strategy. This was complicated by many missio n-critical\, legacy applications and Oracle databases that were perceived to be impossible to virtualize or move to the cloud due to their dependenc e on legacy technologies such as the SPARC/Solaris platform\, Oracle Datab ase 10g\, and Oracle APEX. ARE virtualised their legacy application stacks using VMware vSphere\, and leveraged VMware HCX and VMware Cloud on AWS ( VMC) as a disaster recovery platform. ARE proved that even the most stubbo rn legacy applications can be a good fit for a hybrid cloud environment bu ilt on the strong technological foundations provided by AWS and VMware.\n\ n7:50pm - 8:00pm: Break\n8:00pm - 8:50pm: Designing Serverless application s with Operations in mind\n\nPawan Puthran\, a Senior Specialist Technical Account Manager (TAM) - Serverless\, will cover some of the best practice s from AWS as well the lessons learnt from AWS customers when it comes to Serverless operations.\n\nTopics include:\n- Deployment patterns\n- Unders tand the health of your serverless application\n- Logging\, Tracing\, Metr ics\n- Measuring Business and Operational Metrics\n- AWS Service limits\n\ nThank you to Skyscanner for hosting the event and CirrusHQ for the pizza! \nhttps://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/9126-aws-user-group-edinburgh-16\nP owered by Open Tech Calendar X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Agenda:
6:30pm - 7pm: Refres
hments and networking
7:00pm - 7:50pm: 1st talk Scottish Government Vir
tualizes Critical Legacy Apps in VMware Cloud on AWS
Neill Smith\,
Head of Infrastructure at the Directorate for Agriculture and Rural Econom
y will walk us through ARE's desire to embrace a modern hybrid cloud strat
egy. This was complicated by many mission-critical\, legacy applications a
nd Oracle databases that were perceived to be impossible to virtualize or
move to the cloud due to their dependence on legacy technologies such as t
he SPARC/Solaris platform\, Oracle Database 10g\, and Oracle APEX. ARE vir
tualised their legacy application stacks using VMware vSphere\, and levera
ged VMware HCX and VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) as a disaster recovery platfo
rm. ARE proved that even the most stubborn legacy applications can be a go
od fit for a hybrid cloud environment built on the strong technological fo
undations provided by AWS and VMware.
7:50pm - 8:00pm: Break
8:0
0pm - 8:50pm: Designing Serverless applications with Operations in mind
Pawan Puthran\, a Senior Specialist Technical Account Manager (TAM) -
Serverless\, will cover some of the best practices from AWS as well the l
essons learnt from AWS customers when it comes to Serverless operations.
Topics include:
- Deployment patterns
- Understand the health
of your serverless application
- Logging\, Tracing\, Metrics
- Measu
ring Business and Operational Metrics
- AWS Service limits
Thank
you to Skyscanner for hosting the event and CirrusHQ for the pizza!
More info: https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/9126-aws-user-group -edinburgh-16
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