The silence of the cloud: What is truly driving growth – and what should be?

Source:- cloudcomputing-news.net Opinion Cloud in various iterations has been around now for approaching 20 years (longer if you go back the concept of compute as a public utility introduced by scientist John McCarthy in the 1960s), many remembering seeing iterations such as the ASP (application service provider) as a failed step along that journey until we matured to the SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and varying other ‘as a service’ offerings now in the market. We have witnessed the varying vendor hype

June 12, 2019 bestdevops Appscan Leave a comment

The Upgrade: These Four Apps Will Help You Outsource Your Most Annoying Tasks

Source:essence.com Whoever said adulting was going to be fun, lied. Ok, we take that back, there are definitely some awesome sides to being a grown-up like running your own business, traveling the world with your girls or living the good life with bae. But the rest, we can live without. IJS. Standing in long lines at the supermarket, and spending precious weekend time cleaning and doing laundry are on the long list of things that were conveniently omitted when they

June 12, 2019 bestdevops Azure Leave a comment

5 Must-Haves for Effectively Securing Azure

Source:- fortinet.com As enterprises move more data and applications to the cloud, security becomes an even more a foundational component because, in order to meet industry compliance requirements, and map to an organization’s larger security strategy, it must be built into the overall cloud platform. When security is deployed as an afterthought, it often needs to be reconfigured by hand when network resources adjust to meet new business needs. Which defeats the whole purpose of building and deploying a scalable

June 12, 2019 bestdevops Azure Leave a comment

Azure Functions grows up

Source:- infoworld.com For a technology that was born on Azure, beginning life as a derivative of its original platform WebJobs, Azure Functions has come a long way. It’s not just a cloud service, as it can be hosted in containers and run anywhere you’ve got Docker support: from your own dev hardware, to IoT devices at the edge of your network, to on-premises, and even to other cloud platforms. And Azure Functions is still evolving, adding new features and new

June 12, 2019 bestdevops Splunk Leave a comment

Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK): Shocking Change:

Source:- newsparent.com If one intends to pursue a career as a trader, then one must understand and choose between two basic categories of trading i.e. day trading vs swing trading. Nevertheless, the eventual aim in the case of a day trader or a swing trader remains the same which is to generate profits. However, the holding period and the technical tools which are being used to achieve the ultimate aim differ between the two classes of traders which will be

June 12, 2019 bestdevops Continuous Delivery Leave a comment

Shift Left Without Fear: The Role of Security in Enabling DevOps

Source:- devops.com It’s the age of DevOps, and we all want to shift left, which refers to the idea of performing processes earlier in the CI/CD cycle. That includes security checks and audits. By starting security operations earlier in the delivery pipeline, it becomes easier to find problems, and teams have more time to address them before pushing code into production. The challenge, of course, is building a shift-left security operation that allows you to perform security operations early without

June 11, 2019 Roushan Kumar Azure Leave a comment

DIGGING INTO AZURE SENTINEL, MICROSOFT’S NEW SIEM TOOL

Source:- techgenix.com Wouldn’t be nice if you could see threats coming and stop them before they happen? Recent technological developments in cloud computing and artificial intelligence are bringing this goal within reach. One of these new technologies is called Azure Sentinel and in simple terms it acts as a kind of virtual agent always at your side watching over your Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, collecting data across all of your devices, applications and users in order to detect, investigate and respond

June 11, 2019 Roushan Kumar Continuous Integration Leave a comment

Python popularity reaches an all-time high

Source:- infoworld.com At the current pace of growth, Tiobe estimates Python could surpass Java and C in popularity in three to four years Python has reached its highest rating ever in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity. On its current trajectory, Tiobe noted, Python could leapfrog Java and C in the next three or four years to become the index’s most-popular language. The June Tiobe rating of 8.53 percent for Python tops its previous high of 8.376 percent achieved last

June 11, 2019 Roushan Kumar Continuous Deployment Leave a comment

Accelerate Azure Kubernetes Services Deployment with BreakFree RapidDeploy for AKS

Source:- globenewswire.com ROSEMONT, Ill., June 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BreakFree Solutions, provider of practical cloud, DevOps and automation professional services to enterprise IT, has announced the launch of a new service offering, BreakFree RapidDeploy for AKS, that deploys, operationalizes, and onboards development teams onto the Azure Kubernetes Services development platform in weeks. Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) is a secure and fully managed Kubernetes service from Microsoft Azure that makes deploying and managing container applications easy. Containers are essential for enterprises looking for native,

June 11, 2019 Roushan Kumar Kubernetes Leave a comment

Kubernetes Advantage: Considerations for a Multi-Cloud World

Source:- informationweek.com As more IT leaders deploy Kubernetes into mainstream production environments, the ecosystem around Kubernetes will grow and drive innovation. We’ve been seeing more and more use cases around how Kubernetes and containers are helping IT leaders and their teams bridge on-premises and public cloud environments. The fact that major cloud providers including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud have all embraced Kubernetes and are all offering Kubernetes-as-a-service options is a significant benefit for enterprises. Because it’s available as

June 11, 2019 Roushan Kumar Google Cloud Leave a comment

Will Google’s Outage Shake Confidence in Its Cloud Service?

Source:- marketrealist.com Network congestion caused the disruptive outage An outage hit Google’s (GOOGL) digital services early this month, with the effects being felt by businesses that run on Google’s cloud platform as well. Google services YouTube and Gmail were unavailable for several hours across the US and Europe on June 2, the Verge reported. Also affected by the outage were Shopify (SHOP) and Snap (SNAP), which host some of their applications and data on Google’s cloud platform. Google blamed the outage

June 11, 2019 Roushan Kumar Nexus Leave a comment

Architectural Nexus Selected as 2019 Intermountain Design Firm of the Year

Source:- enr.com Kenner Kingston, president of Salt Lake City-based Architectural Nexus, has some schematic sketches on his desk he’s reviewing with one of the firm’s associates. The drawings are not for a state-of-the-art laboratory or the new wing of a hospital, both market segments where the firm has gained particular prominence. Rather, they’re for a system that will collect and reuse rainwater for an off-the-grid house in Moab, Utah, a desert town in the southeastern part of the state. The firm

June 11, 2019 Roushan Kumar IT Training Leave a comment

Google Cloud looks to Looker for greater data analytics – but with the multi-cloud focus

Source:- cloudcomputing-news.net Late last week, Google announced its intention to acquire business intelligence platform Looker for $2.6 billion (£2.05bn) in an all-cash transaction, with Looker joining Google Cloud upon the acquisition’s close. For Google Cloud – whose bill is chump change compared to what Salesforce is outlaying for Tableau – Looker represents more options for customers looking to migrate data from legacy technology stacks to BigQuery, Google’s enterprise data warehouse. As Google Cloud chief Thomas Kurian put it, it will help offer customers

June 11, 2019 Roushan Kumar Cloud Computing Leave a comment

How the combination of cloud and AI is influencing IT investment strategy

Source:- cloudcomputing-news.net The pace of change from a traditional capital-intensive IT infrastructure model to a more flexible hybrid multi-cloud services model is influencing enterprise spending trends across the globe. Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3.79 trillion in 2019 — that’s an increase of just 1.1 percent from 2018, according to the latest global market study by Gartner. IT infrastructure market development “Currency headwinds fuelled by the strengthening US dollar have caused us to revise our 2019 IT spending forecast down

June 11, 2019 Roushan Kumar Maven Leave a comment

They Said WHAT!? They Did WHAT!?

Source:- collegesportsmaven.io Sports, as we know, is often much more than winning and losing. So with that in mind, we at TMG will begin a regular look at some of the more bizarre statements and actions in the world of sports. No one can question the coaching skills of Urban Meyer, who has put together undefeated seasons and national championship teams at Utah, Florida and Ohio State. Meyer is on hiatus–for health reasons–and will work next season as a college football

June 11, 2019 Roushan Kumar Google Cloud Leave a comment

Microsoft wastes no time in countering Google’s cloud gaming ambitions

Source:-telecoms.com A few days ago Google added some substance to its cloud gaming ambitions by announcing more details, including a list of games and pricing, of its Stadia platform. Shortly after Microsoft had its big E3 reveal, which of course focused on plans for its Xbox gaming console. These included the ability to stream games from a console to a mobile device and the opportunity for attendees to stream games from the cloud via the Project xCloud streaming service. The difference between

June 11, 2019 Roushan Kumar Continuous Inspection Leave a comment

MHI CONDUCTS RUNNING TEST OF EXPLOSION-PROOF PLANT INSPECTION ROBOT EX ROVR

Source:- chemengonline.com Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.com) has conducted a running test of the prototype EX ROVR, a plant inspection robot with explosion protection features to limit the danger of the robot itself igniting an explosion or fire from electric sparks or heat, even in areas with flammable gas. The test was conducted jointly with JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corp. at its Mizushima Refinery in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture. During the test, the EX ROVR moved autonomously through several

June 11, 2019 Roushan Kumar Splunk Leave a comment

Here’s What Hedge Funds Think About Splunk Inc (SPLK)

Source:- finance.yahoo.com “Since 2006, value stocks (IVE vs IVW) have underperformed 11 of the 13 calendar years and when they beat growth, it wasn’t by much. Cumulatively, through this week, it has been a 122% differential (up 52% for value vs up 174% for growth). This appears to be the longest and most severe drought for value investors since data collection began. It will go our way eventually as there are too many people paying far too much for today’s darlings,

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