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Intelligent Automation with VMware

By : Ajit Pratap Kundan
Book Image

Intelligent Automation with VMware

By: Ajit Pratap Kundan

Overview of this book

This book presents an introductory perspective on how machine learning plays an important role in a VMware environment. It offers a basic understanding of how to leverage machine learning primitives, along with a deeper look into integration with the VMware tools used for automation today. This book begins by highlighting how VMware addresses business issues related to its workforce, customers, and partners with emerging technologies such as machine learning to create new, intelligence-driven, end user experiences. You will learn how to apply machine learning techniques incorporated in VMware solutions for data center operations. You will go through management toolsets with a focus on machine learning techniques. At the end of the book, you will learn how the new vSphere Scale-Out edition can be used to ensure that HPC, big data performance, and other requirements can be met (either through development or by fine-tuning guidelines) with mainstream products.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Application development life cycles


It is important to understand the change that has taken place in terms of application development life cycles in order to understand application transformation. When the pace of change was slow, application development always had a pre-determined plan with a finite end goal. The design of the application was thought through and agreed up-front, including capturing all of the user's requirements. Then, a series of steps followed that involved developing the plan, testing the functionality of the application, testing whether the application would run efficiently and to the right scale (non-functional testing), user acceptance testing to agree that the application had been built the way it was supposed to be, before finally going live in its final format.

The pace of change in some modern applications, coupled with the fact that they can be very experimental in nature, means that the waterfall approach (where the final application design is fully understood...