GitLab wants 1,000 Meltano users by Christmas, targets version control, collaboration

Source:- devclass.com GitLab is banking on attracting 1,000 users per month for its Meltano platform by the end of this year, as it becomes the latest firm to try and bring a bit of collaboration and version control to the data space. The CI/CD/Dev(sec)Ops vendor first unveiled the platform in August 2018, before going uncharacteristically quiet. However, at its London shindig earlier this month, it announced that Meltano had officially hit v1.0, and could be installed/run from Digital Ocean. The project is

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How to create a cloud centre of excellence: A guide

Source:-cloudcomputing-news.net You may have heard that creating a cloud centre of excellence (CCoE) is formative in your cloud strategy, resulting in a huge difference in the value of cloud migration for an organisation. Here’s how to plan it out for success. What is a cloud centre of excellence? In the simplest terms, a CCoE is a team of experts, either in-house or external, who have the knowledge, experience and skills to help you plan and move to the cloud. In reality,

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Demand for cloud computing skills continues to outpace supply

Source – searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com As enterprises continue to adopt cloud technology, the looming IT skills gap, particularly around public cloud poses an ongoing challenge. “Many firms are having trouble finding qualified individuals for their cloud projects,” said James Stanger, senior director, product development, for CompTIA. While demand for IT pros with generic cloud computing skills continues to be high, those with specific experience in public cloud and open source platforms, such as Cloud Foundry, are especially coveted. Cloud continues to drive IT hiring At

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5 Steps to Migrate Unisys Mainframes to AWS

Source – infoq.com The Mainframe Conundrum If you have a Unisys mainframe, you may be thinking that cloud computing isn’t an option. You’d like to take advantage of all that cloud computing offers but don’t think it’s possible because it can’t handle your transaction workloads, or the architectures are just too disparate to merge, or even that it’s just plain too hard to do. I used to think the same thing. And until fairly recently, it was true. But cloud computing

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