Green IT: opportunities and challenges for companies

Digital transformation is at the heart of every business. So are the challenges of sustainability. Digital pollution is growing exponentially. Sustainability challenges are increasingly ambitious.

In a context where digital and environmental strategies are often not aligned, how can IT strategies meet organizations' climate objectives?

The main challenge lies in understanding the problem. What is digital pollution? Is it that important for a company? For a service company, digital pollution can account for up to 40% of its total footprint.

As a result, over 100 companies in Europe are already on the road to Green IT and have been certified with the international Sustainable IT label.

In this keynote, we will take a closer look at what digital pollution is, what it means for companies, and what the first steps are in measuring digital impact and defining a Green IT strategy.

Ready to take the first step?

Sovereign DBaaS: A practical vision for self-implementation of DBaaS

IaaS and DBaaS solutions revolutionized application development by offloading operational burden and providing a low-commitment consumption commercial model. But, they are not without their limitations; e.g., lack of workload access and portability, and recent controversy around security events and reliability.

Severalnines CEO Vinay Joosery envisions a different future. In his presentation, Vinay will trace the history of Cloud and DBaaS, highlighting their key developmental stages through to today and making a case for the reconceptualization of cloud and DBaaS as operating and implementation models that are independent of providers.

He’ll address the current model’s disadvantages, e.g. managed license instability, vendor, environment and ecosystem lock-in, high costs at scale and increasing regulatory scrutiny. He’ll propose his vision for its next stage, Sovereign DBaaS, which will return control to DevOps teams by providing them control through workload access and portability.

He’ll move from the theoretical to the practical, providing advice on the concepts, frameworks, deployment patterns, and orchestration tooling needed to accomplish this, as well as a sample architecture and real-world case study of how ABSA is successfully putting the implementation model into practice with their 3000+ node hybrid environment in a highly regulated environment.

Attendees will leave the talk with a good idea of what implementing a Sovereign DBaaS looks like using alternative infrastructure schemes and providers, open-source and source-available databases, provisioning and config management tooling and off-the-shelf orchestration platforms to leverage the strengths of the traditional models without suffering their trade-offs.

Can the modern Frankenstein pass the Turing test? 

RAGs, GAI, LLMs etc are all the rage, but are they any good at answering Database or SQL problems? Would you like to talk to Jonathan Lewis, Tim Hall (oracle-base.com) or other Oracle Experts without actually talking to them? We’ll build and use RAG & LLM using different sources, and explore if it is as good as the Real Thing. 

Spotlight on your CI/CD Pipelines: Integrating security with SUSE NeuVector 

Coding is built, tested and deployed through CI/CD pipelines in a series of structured steps. However, bugs and vulnerabilities can exist anywhere. Fortunately, there are solutions available today that can help us reduce or, at most, mitigate these vulnerabilities. In this session, we will explore how you can integrate the SUSE security platform into your pipeline workflow. 

Does ChatGPT write better SQL than human intelligence? 

ChatGPT can be a great help for programming, also in SQL. In this session we have a bunch of questions that we want to answer with SQL queries based on a given data structure. Andrea solves them with the help of ChatGPT, Dani uses his own brain. This way we can find out how to prompt ChatGPT to provide helpful code. We also will see how the code can be easily adapted to our own data. 

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Unlocking Data insight with Elasticsearch 

Global overview on Elastic Stack, Elasticsearch use cases, Dasha and David will show how Elastic can answer customers needs. 

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How Cyber Criminals and Malware Creators Protect Their Intellectual Property and Stolen Data 

In the ever-evolving domain of cybercrime, protecting intellectual property and stolen data has become a crucial priority for cyber criminals and malware creators. As cybersecurity defenses grow more sophisticated, these malicious actors continuously develop advanced strategies to safeguard their valuable assets from detection and recovery. 

Useful AWS services to operate SQL Server in the Cloud (off-session)

The Lift and Shift approach allows you to move to the Cloud and operate your SQL Server databases using the same tools as on-premises. However, the Cloud offers many more services and using them could be an asset to your infrastructure. Discover how to combine AWS services with SQL Server to operate your databases more efficiently.

Please note: Nicolas Jardot's session will take place during the lunch break (off-session).

Data to GenAI made easy: Overcoming the Challenge to Become a Data-Driven Organization 

In the quest to become data-driven, organizations often face significant challenges in managing and analyzing large volumes of data, extracting real-time insights, and integrating advanced AI and machine learning capabilities. These challenges can hinder timely decisionmaking, reduce operational efficiency, and limit innovation. This session tackles these critical issues and illustrates how Oracle HeatWave supports organizations overcome these obstacles. We will focus on the entire journey from data gathering to lightning-fast analytics & real-time insights, advanced machine learning capabilities and Generative AI, enabling organizations to become truly data-driven. 

AI-powered ransomware detection with NetApp storage - The most secure Storage on the Planet !

The rise of ransomware has made robust cybersecurity a top priority for businesses. Our session spotlights the integration of AI-powered ransomware detection with NetApp's acclaimed storage solutions, offering a proactive defense for the digital landscape. We will explore how NetApp harnesses artificial intelligence to identify and block ransomware in real-time, safeguarding data without relying on outdated methods. 

Attendees will learn about the cutting-edge AI techniques that fortify NetApp's storage systems, making them a formidable barrier against cyber threats. This session promises to provide a concise overview of how AI and NetApp's secure storage work in tandem to protect your organization's valuable data assets from the ransomware threats of today and tomorrow. 

How to work with other people... the example of the PostgreSQL community 

Lack of awareness around Mental Health issues has always been a problem in IT circles, leading often to unnecessary stress, burnout and strained relationships with colleagues and employers. This in turn can lead to employee churn for companies and strife within open source projects. 

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Delphix - Continuous Data for your Databases

Continuous Data is the database virtualization tool from Delphix. It helps reducing storage costs, speeding up test/dev databases' provisioning and it proposes Self-Service data flow. Let's find out how it works. 

Effective and secure use of generative AI in the enterprise: Practical examples and solutions with VARIOS AI

Generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT and DALL-E offer great potential for increasing productivity. However, they also pose challenges related to privacy, security, and effective implementation. This session presents a practical solution that addresses these issues. 

Using VARIOS AI, we will show how interfaces in conjunction with a DLP solution can ensure high privacy, data security, and technology openness. A concrete use case will illustrate how these technologies can automate tasks, reduce workload, and meet the highest security standards. Technically savvy attendees will gain insight into the architecture and implementation of generative AI solutions and experience how technical challenges can be creatively solved. 

PostgreSQL in Kubernetes: Operation - Day 2 

The talk will address the important issues of running a database (in our case - PostgreSQL) in the Kubernetes environment: 1. Choosing the right storage for the database. 2. Database patching. 3. High availability and geo-redundancy are very important in the database environment. 

Say Goodbye to Information Chaos 

Knowledge workers are vital to the success of almost any business. Forward-thinking organizations. should harness their ability to absorb information, draw insights, and share new knowledge globally. However, most knowledge workers waste valuable time trying to locate information or performing routine, manual tasks that distracts from more fulfilling, value-added work. Today, leading companies leverage knowledge work automation, powered by generative AI, to improve tasks, processes, and actions that previously required human interaction. They also leverage AI to allow knowledge workers to deeply interact with their data using natural language, which makes information discovery smoother and more efficient. 

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Running Virtual Machines on Openshift Virtualization 

 With Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, you can now effortlessly deploy and manage VMs side-by-side with containers, all within a unified, cutting-edge platform powered by KVM.

In this presentation you will learn:

• How to create, configure and run VM's on OpenShift Virtualization.
• What requirements for storage, network and migration are needed.
• how to properly setup OpenShift bare-metal.

Witness the entire platform in motion and gain hands-on insights into running VMs within this powerful, unified environment.

Unlocking AI for Swiss SMEs: Strategies and real-life applications 

This session introduces Swiss SMEs to the fundamentals of artificial intelligence (AI). We will demystify key AI concepts, discuss its practical applications, and explore strategies for integrating AI into business operations. The focus will be placed return on investment, data privacy, and real-life examples of successful AI implementations that demonstrate tangible benefits for SMEs.
 

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Mental health: predicting and measuring accidents and recoveries 

Mental health and its matching pendants of motivation and productivity are prime subjects in today's workplace, and this even more so in a post-COVID era. 

While this subject is often talked about in private and more rarely in public circles, it is often managed in an unmeasured and unscientific approach. 

In a conference like this, I would like to propose a structured, measurable and repeatable way to tackle these issues. 

After discovering my personal journey, we will learn and use a full toolset and its outcomes to be able to measure each workplace.