April 11, 2020 bestdevops IT Monitoring, IT Training Leave a comment

BigPanda Provides Free 90-Day Access to IT Ops Platform

Source:-devops.com BigPanda, a provider of an IT ops platform infused with machine learning algorithms, this week announced it will make available for free for 90 days an instance of its software available to IT professionals working from home to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Mohan Kompella, vice president of product marketing for BigPanda, said the IT Ops From Home program is intended to make it easier for IT teams to manage IT operations using a platform that was designed from the ground up to remotely

April 11, 2020 bestdevops Cloud Computing, Cloud Transformed Leave a comment

Who’s Hiring During COVID-19 Pandemic? Cloud Giants

Source:-virtualizationreview.com If there was ever a crucial “use case” for cloud computing, it’s a global pandemic. While the U.S. and other economies around the world crumble, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are hiring. “We are currently hiring Software Development Engineers, Product Managers, Account Managers, Solutions Architects, Support Engineers, System Engineers, Designers and more,” says a blurb appearing on AWS sites. Along with the AWS tech talent, Amazon itself is hiring on several fronts, as detailed in

April 11, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

TIM, Google Cloud Develop Remote Working Tool to Help Italian Companies during COVID-19

Source:-thefastmode.com TIM and Google Cloud have developed an offer for agile working tools with Intesa Sanpaolo to offer Italian companies advanced technology solutions to support business continuity during Covid-19. The second goal of this collaboration is to also help Italian businesses plan for the future when they will be able to restart any paused business activities and to promote the evolution of ways of working and production practices. The initiative follows TIM and Google Cloud’s recently signed collaboration agreement to

April 11, 2020 bestdevops Digital Transformation Leave a comment

COVID-19 And Our Surprising Digital Transformation

Source:-forbes.com How Google Meet Supports Two Million New Users Each Day More than a decade ago we introduced secure, easy-to-use business collaboration and productivity apps (now known as G Suite), and we envisioned a new way of working in the cloud. And although we always knew the value of cloud-based collaboration, it is more important than ever at a time like this. Over the past several weeks, we’ve seen Google Meet—G Suite’s video conferencing solution—help millions of people stay connected,

April 10, 2020 bestdevops Vmware Leave a comment

Vodafone taps VMware to complete European roll-out of network virtual infrastructure

Source:-computerweekly.com Operator taps virtual infrastructure firm to add last piece of pan-European digital infrastructure architecture and gain agility and flexibility. With the completion of work in Albania, Vodafone has finalised its ambition to build a single digital network architecture across all its European business regions and 21 markets. The reason behind the build, it said, was that operating a reliable, agile network that can be more efficiently upgraded to maintain the quality of coverage has never been more important. It said

April 10, 2020 bestdevops AWS Leave a comment

InterVision Achieves AWS Migration Competency Status

Source:-aithority.com Achievement Follows Strategic Service Provider’s Honor as an AWS Premier Partner InterVision, a leading IT strategic service provider, announced it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Migration Competency status. This achievement recognizes InterVision’s extensive experience helping clients successfully and efficiently move to AWS, regardless of migration complexity or scale. “In 2020, we will continue to invest in our cloud services as a strategic focus.” As a Premier Consulting Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN), InterVision’s AWS Cloud Migration

April 9, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

Appvia Simplifies Kubernetes Deployments for Developer Teams

Source:-containerjournal.com Appvia this week launched a distribution of Kubernetes that is easier to provision and deploy on behalf of developer teams. Company CEO Jonathan Shanks says Appvia developed its open source Appvia Kore platform as an outgrowth of the experience company founders gained deploying Kubernetes clusters on behalf of the British Home Office. It quickly became apparent that other IT organizations would also need a prescriptive approach to deploying Kubernetes clusters for teams of developers in a highly repeatable fashion.

April 9, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

How Enterprises Can Overcome Barriers to DevOps

Source:-eweek.com eWEEK DATA POINTS: The CEO of Coralogix explores barriers to DevOps and proposes potential solutions that enable deeper cooperation to ultimately deliver higher quality products at a faster pace. Data Point No. 1: Resistance to the unknown Humans are creatures of habit. We also need proof that new ways of doing things will benefit us and the way we work. One way to onboard skeptical employees to a DevOps culture is by creating a DevOps champion or champion team

April 9, 2020 bestdevops AWS, Azure Leave a comment

Asleep at the wheel: Why did it take 5 HOURS for Microsoft to acknowledge an Azure DevOps TITSUP*?

Source:-theregister.co.uk We’ll have to wait until the US wakes up before we can answer that one In an impressively frank postmortem, Microsoft has admitted that at least part of its organisation was asleep at the wheel in a very real sense while its European DevOps tooling tottered. The travails of Azure during the current surge in usage are well-documented but, as well as showing the limits of cloudy tech, the pandemic-induced capacity constraints have also shown up some all too

April 8, 2020 bestdevops Kubernetes Leave a comment

Canonical Adds Managed Services for Kubernetes Environments

Source:-containerjournal.com As part of an effort to help organizations accelerate their transition to modern applications based on Kubernetes clusters, Canonical is making available 10 complementary databases and tools as a set of services that it will continually manage and update on behalf of customers. Canonical will manage databases including MySQL, InfluxDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and ElasticSearch along with Kafka, open source event streaming software and Open Source Mano, a platform for managing network functions virtualization (NFV) software. In addition, access to Grafana, Prometheus

April 7, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Salesforce DevOps solution offered free

Source:-enterprisetimes.co.uk Copado has added its name to the list of companies offering free access to their platform to a subset of global organisations. Copado offers a native DevOps solution for organisations using the Salesforce platform. It adds mature development tools to Salesforce development suite that include version control, source repositories and more. This latest announcement sees it offer free access “to its platform for anyone working on applications to fight COVID-19”. The offer sees Copado waive its platform fees for

April 7, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Copado Launches DevOps COVID-19 Initiative

Source:-devops.com Copado, a provider of a DevOps platform building and deploying applications on top of Salesforce software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, will make its platform available for free to anyone working on applications to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, Copado has launched a virtual DevOps training center and opened its DevOps community to anyone in the Salesforce ecosystem by making DevOps certifications available for free for 90 days to anyone who can pass an online examination. Previously, Copado charged $250

April 7, 2020 bestdevops GitHub Leave a comment

Tencent Open-Sources Another AI-Powered Tool to Help Conduct Preliminary Self-evaluation Regarding COVID-19 Infection

Source:-aithority.com Tencent Holdings Limited, announced to deepen collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). As part of the agreement, Tencent will provide technology support to combat the pandemic and open-sources another AI-powered tool today to assist the global fight against the coronavirus outbreak. The COVID-19 self-triage assistant, which is now available on Github for developers around the world, enables preliminary self-evaluation regarding infection of the disease and provides tips on its prevention. Prior to this tool, Tencent open-sourced a COVID-19

April 3, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

Google Cloud Unveils Massive, Wide-Ranging Global Response to COVID-19

Source:-cloudwars.co Mirroring its marketplace ambitions to become one of the world’s top cloud-computing vendors, Google Cloud has disclosed a remarkably broad and deep set of initiatives to help people, businesses and government agencies overcome the COVID-19 crisis. The Google Cloud efforts span a vast range of objectives. They include getting 1,100 retail workers in Germany running remotely on G Suite in 48 hours, donating $20 million in cloud credits to COVID-19 researchers, handling a 25X super-spike in demand for Google

April 3, 2020 bestdevops GitLab Leave a comment

GitLab Shifts 18 Features Into Core Open Source Platform

Source:-devops.com GitLab this week announced it has moved 18 features that previously organizations had to pay for into the core open source version of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Scott Williamson, executive vice president of product management for GitLab, said as a general rule the company makes available DevOps tools for teams across the four tiers of services that organizations can employ. Features now being migrated to the Core offering include: Plan: Synchronize collaboration with “related issues,” “export

April 2, 2020 bestdevops Cloud Computing Leave a comment

WILL FATE OF CLOUD COMPUTING CHANGE DURING THE CURRENT PANDEMIC?

Source:-analyticsinsight.net Internet is flooded with memes about Earth being closed due to one of the biggest pandemic of the 21st century: COVID-19. While the world is hell-bent in trying to push back on novel coronavirus, Cloud Computing firms could emerge as a prominent and strong key player in this battle. With large-scale industrial shutdowns, public lockdown taking place around the globe to contain virus spread, work from home has gained more importance than before. As people are caught up in

April 2, 2020 bestdevops Cloud Computing, Cloud Transformed Leave a comment

VMware, a leader in cloud infrastructure and remote work, dropped employees at the worst time

Source:-media.thinknum.com Coronavirus pandemic shelter-at-home mandates have led to a massive rise in work-from-home tools like Zoom and Cisco Webex teleconferencing software, the former seeing usage spike by as much as 300%. This has led to reports of Microsoft Cloud server demand being up by 775%. Several of our 10 early indicators of recovery are related or connected factors, such as online classes. Yet, strangely, VMware ($NYSE:VMW) is losing employees after a quiet round of layoffs beginning in February, according to

April 2, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps Institute Upskilling the Enterprise

Source:-devops.com DevOps Institute released its annual Upskilling the Enterprise survey and the results are as interesting as last year. The organization of DevOps teams and its interaction with speed/success was one area that intrigued me, and sent me off looking for more information on the topic. This led me to this interesting site that does a great job of delving deeper than “We’ve all heard of Conway’s law.” Good descriptions there on what works and why that will be useful

March 31, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

Paymentsense proves agility during Coronavirus thanks to Google Cloud migration

Source:-diginomica.com Paymentsense is one of Europe’s fastest growing fintech companies, offering small businesses an affordable payment processing service and software. It currently has 70,000 customers, processes approximately £10 billion of sales every year, along with 250 million transactions annually. Up until recently Paymentsense mostly managed the relationship with its customers and was essentially a sales/service organisation, whilst another separate financial services organisation did the acquisition and core processing. However, Paymentsense has since applied to the FDA to become an e-money

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