March 21, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

NetApp cans Kubernetes and Cloud Volumes services on HCI. But what is waiting in the wings?

Source:-blocksandfiles.com NetApp is shuttering NKS on HCI and Cloud Volumes on HCI, with effect from April 20. In their place, the storage giant is readying “some very cool things in the works for NetApp and Kubernetes where there is more value than NKS (NetApp Kubernetes Services) was and is,” a source close to the company told us. NetApp said yesterday via a customer communique it would simplify and unify Kubernetes services across ONTAP and other product lines. “Both partners and

March 12, 2020 bestdevops Cloud Computing Leave a comment

What Is An Advanced Cloud?

Source:-forbes.com Not all computing clouds are created equal. To be clear, there is no actual cloud in cloud computing. As we have said before, the cloud gets its name from the curly cartoon circle that network engineers have always used to represent ‘clouds’ of connected network resources. So naturally and logically then, not all clouds are equal because any combination of various network resources, tools, performance boosts and optimizations could be brought together to coalesce into the abstracted space that

March 7, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

Running containers and Kubernetes? You’re completely normal, CNCF figures show

Source:-devclass.com Kubernetes and related projects are most definitely in production, the latest Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s user survey shows. The survey covered 1,337 respondents, drawn from the CNCF community. So, we are talking about the already converted here. Europe accounted for 37 per cent of respondents, North American 38 per cent and Asia, 71 per cent. But the figures were enough for the CNCF to declare containers as the “norm”, with 84 per cent of respondents using them in production,

February 10, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

Interview: Cloud’s biggest threat? The customers who use it SPECIAL Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/interview-cloud-s-biggest-threat-the-customers-who-use-it/article/566808#ixzz6DWdOCMHH

Source:-digitaljournal.com The cloud computing market is growing rapidly, backed by major players like Google and Amazon. However impactful, companies need to consider the cybersecurity risks involved in gravitating to the cloud. A security consultant provides an overview. Each year cloud continues to expand. In fact, the public cloud market is projected to reach 354.6 billion by 2022. However, these numbers don’t mean cloud providers such as Oracle and Google Cloud have nothing to fear. in fact, one survey finds that

February 3, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

Global Cloud Computing in Higher Education Market 2020 – Blackboard, Cisco, Ellucian, Instructure, Adobe Systems

Source:-galusaustralis.com Global Cloud Computing in Higher Education Market Report identifies the assessable estimation of the market including Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, Outlook and Forecasts 2019-2026″ present in the industry space. The report studies historical data, facts, attentive opinions, current growth factors, and market threats with competitive analysis of major Cloud Computing in Higher Education Market Players, value chain analysis, and future roadmap. The essential objective of the report is to gain the comprehensive understanding of the market in

February 3, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

Google launches two new cloud certifications

Source:-itbrief.co.nz Google Cloud has two new certifications for technical leaders and DevOps engineers. The Google Cloud Certified Fellow programme will identify and recognise technical leaders who can help organisations transform their business through hybrid- and multi-cloud technology. The Cloud DevOps Engineer certification addresses the cloud skills shortage and helps organisations quickly identify qualified talent. The Google Cloud Certified Fellow programme is an invitation-only certification programme for technical leaders who are experts in designing innovative enterprise solutions with Anthos – Google’s

January 31, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

Why Kubernetes job searches grew by 2,125% in 4 years

Source:-techrepublic.com The most popular Kubernetes-related tech roles include DevOps engineer, software engineer, and cloud engineer. Find out how to kick off your career. Kubernetes is the king of container management. Between October 2015 and October 2019—a mere four-year timespan—the share of Kubernetes job searches increased by 2,125%. Kubernetes-related jobs per million also grew by 2,141% in that same time period, according to a blog post from Seen by Indeed. SEE: What is Kubernetes? (free PDF) (TechRepublic) “Kubernetes gained dominance by

January 30, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

Give your Edge an Adrenaline Boost: Using Kubernetes to Orchestrate FPGAs and GPU

Source:-businessghana.com Over the past year, we’ve been experimenting with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) to improve edge compute performance and reduce the overall cost of edge deployments. Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past 2 years, you’ve heard all the excitement about edge computing. For the uninitiated, edge computing allows for applications that previously required special hardware to be on customer premises to run on systems located near customers. These workloads require either very

January 28, 2020 bestdevops Cloud Computing Leave a comment

Environmental sustainability – the new cloud computing battleground

Source:-verdict.co.uk Environmental sustainability has become a major new competitive battleground for cloud computing giants, Google, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS). All three companies are already committed to improved energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy within their international network of data centres – even if those goals have not yet fully realised. However, that commitment is now being extended to new areas, including helping customers with their own sustainability objectives. This will open-up a whole new competitive battleground

January 25, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

Google Cloud can store all your passwords

Source:-itproportal.com Google wants to help secure your passwords, and its new tool makes it simple. Called Secret Manager, this Google Cloud service helps users store passwords, certificates and API keys. It is designed to be a centralised solution, a unified place for the safekeeping of secrets. “Many applications require credentials to connect to a database, API keys to invoke a service, or certificates for authentication,” said Google developer advocate Seth Vargo and product manager Matt Driscoll. “Managing and securing access

January 24, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

Google Cloud wants to keep users’ secrets…at a charge

Source:-devclass.com Devs using Google Cloud who feel like it could really do with some better secret management can now head over to their accounts and take the currently in beta Secret Manager service for a spin. Up until now, GC customers could always resort to command line tool Berglas to store and retrieve confidential data such as API keys and credentials. Secret Manager however is more of an integrated service, more along the lines of what Google’s competitors offer as

January 23, 2020 bestdevops AWS Leave a comment

AWS, Capgemini, More Make Significant Europe-Centric Cloud Deals

Source:-channelfutures.com There’s a lot happening in the world of cloud computing — and not just in the United States. From Amazon Web Services to Capgemini, here’s a short roundup of the latest cloud news from Europe of interest to the channel. AWS Lands Expanded UK Home Office Contract Amazon Web Services may have lost out on the U.S. Department of Defense’s $10 billion cloud computing contract, but the situation is quite different in the U.K. The U.K. Home Office –

January 23, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

Google Cloud Intensifies Battles Against Microsoft, Amazon with 4 Key Moves

Source:-cloudwars.co Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is buying and building new firepower to snatch customers, prospects and market share from Microsoft and Amazon in the viciously competitive enterprise-cloud marketplace. While each of these moves is significant, the true impact is how they cumulatively reveal Google Cloud’s true intention of becoming not just a better version of itself but ultimately the world’s pre-eminent enterprise-cloud player. Already this month, Kurian and Google Cloud have strengthened their capabilities considerably through four deals: the

January 20, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

Multicloud Gets Real, Virtual Machines Reboot, Security Goes Vertical: Are You Ready for Cloud 2020?

Source:-cbronline.com “On-premise set-ups can be controlled by cloud providers…” Let’s start with a statement: 2020 will look vastly different to anything we have seen in our industry over the past ten years, writes Cloudhelix CEO David Blesovsky. 2019 was the year of change for the cloud provision sector, and this year will see those developments come to fruition. These are the ones we think you’ll want to know more about… Gate-Crasher turns Change-Maker… Kubernetes is the gate crasher at the

January 13, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

True Fit Partners With Google Cloud to Host and Leverage the World’s Largest Data Set for Fashion

Source:-apnews.com True Fit ®, the data-driven personalization platform for footwear and apparel, today announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud that makes it easy for retailers to leverage the Fashion Genome™, the largest connected data set for fashion. Retailers can use the Fashion Genome™ to insert style, fit, and size recommendations into every phase of the customer journey. Together, True Fit and Google Cloud are helping retailers go beyond the hype cycle of artificial intelligence and machine learning, to drive

January 11, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

Wayfair expands Google Cloud deal for hybrid cloud strategy

Source:-zdnet.com Ahead of NRF, Google Cloud announced a win with Wayfair to expand its hybrid cloud efforts. Wayfair is ramping its hybrid cloud strategy with a bet on Google Cloud Platform. SPECIAL REPORT Data, AI, IoT: The Future of Retail (free PDF) Data, AI, IoT: The Future of Retail (free PDF) This ebook looks at the rise of e-commerce and the digital transformation of retail companies. Read More The win for Google Cloud is significant since it highlights inroads to

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