Nutanix Brings HCI Platform to AWS

Source:-devops.com Nutanix today announced that Nutanix Clusters are now available on bare-metal instances of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Manoj Agarwal, senior vice president of engineering for Nutanix, said Nutanix Clusters on AWS will provide IT organizations with access to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) capabilities based on Nutanix virtual machine that AWS doesn’t provide today on a public cloud. IT organizations that already have Nutanix clusters deployed in on-premises IT environment will not

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12 Factor App with MicroProfile and Kubernetes

Source:-msdynamicsworld.com The 12 Factor App approach is for defining a clean contract between the application and running environment. The application and running environment can focus on their own domain and will not step into each others’ toes. You might have heard of the 12 Factor App application development methodology, published by Heroku, and specifically designed to create applications that will serve as the foundation for a Software-as-a-Service offering. In this article, we will walk you through the 12 Factor App

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Rubrik Looks to Meld Data Management and DevOps

Source:-devops.com During its FORWARD Digital Summit event last week, Rubrik made a case for the melding of DevOps and data management. The company announced that its Polaris Data Management Platform, delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, has added the ability to protect workloads running on virtual machines on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Rubrik already provides support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure clouds. In addition, Rubrik announced it has extended its AWS data protection support to include

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DevOps and AIOps: Better Together

Source:-devops.com DevOps is an attempt to scale technology with humans but AIOps is the ultimate answer. In today’s world, where so many essential business tasks have become digitized, IT teams must deal with constant change while ensuring zero downtime. The irony is that, although IT has become business-critical, the productivity and agility of the people building and supporting the customer experiences has plummeted. This has serious consequences for businesses. When your apps and services malfunction, you lose customers and revenue

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Need for Increased Training — Strained Budgets Strain Enterprise IT Teams

Source:-devops.com As enterprises have increasingly embraced cloud, hybrid IT environments and DevOps methodologies, many of the old siloes associated with IT departments have crumbled—while demand for training and skills that reflect new technology requirements have risen considerably. This new reality was reflected in the findings of a new survey from IT management software provider SolarWinds, and was published in the SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2020. While the survey was conducted prior to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the results highlight the

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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

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Cloud Computing: Rackspace Goes Into EMEA, IBM Targets Hybrid Cloud

Source:-channelfutures.com Take a break from pandemic news to learn what three cloud-centric providers are doing that impacts the channel now. COVID-19 dominates nearly all conversations and news sites, but companies continue to make announcements not related to the virus. Take a break from pandemic developments to learn what three cloud computing-centric providers are doing that impacts the channel now. Here’s how Rackspace, IBM and Zenoss are helping partners develop their business strategies to adapt to a changing world. Rackspace’s EMEA

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How cloud-native app development can help future-proof your business

Source:-tahawultech.com Adopting a cloud-native strategy can provide organisations with a significant competitive advantage for many years to come, says Erica Langhi, EMEA senior solutions architect, Red Hat. The increased focus on digital transformation highlights the business advantages of change. But, due to the complexities and challenges faced in the pursuit of innovation, organisations do not always obtain real long-term value. One of the biggest challenges with digital transformation projects is that systems need to remain functional, secure, and predictable in

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Threading the Needle on Kubernetes Complexity with AI-Powered Observability

Source:-devops.com If you run down the laundry list of major industries–transportation, retail, healthcare, automotive, financial services–you’ll see that the major players in each have essentially become software companies. What they do and how they serve their customers rests entirely on their software working perfectly. Underpinning this is a massive digital transformation that has shifted organizations away from the old, static ways of enterprise IT monoliths. Instead, today’s businesses are working in more dynamic IT environments–agile, multi-cloud and, especially for new

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Start a high-paying IT career with this AWS prep course

Source:-engadget.com This 17-hour training package will help you ace the exam for one of tech’s most coveted credentials. If you’re interested in either beginning or furthering a career in IT, you’re not alone. More and more people are flocking to this increasingly lucrative field thanks to high salaries, job security, and unparalleled opportunities for advancement—but that means that competition for the best positions in the industry can be fierce. As one of the world’s leading cloud computing infrastructures, Amazon Web

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DevOps Deeper Dive: SUSE Sets DevOps Course

Source:- devops.comThere was a time when SUSE was considered to be the second-biggest force driving the adoption of Linux in the enterprise, after Red Hat. Then came an odyssey to rival any epic written by Homer. A few short years after moving its corporate headquarters from Germany to Oakland, California, the company was sold to Novell, which was then later acquired by Attachmate. Three years later, Attachmate was acquired by Micro Focus. Three years after that, SUSE (as an arm

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DevOps in India and ITIL 4

Source:- dqindia.com Over the past 10 years, the idea of combining development and production within IT operations – known as DevOps – has spread throughout the world of IT. A report by Markets and Markets estimates the global DevOps market growth at up to $10.31 Billion by 2023. The demand for DevOps will be driven by several factors such as lower costs, flexibility, agility, and fast application delivery. Therefore, this opens up significant career opportunities for DevOps engineers in India and worldwide.

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DevSecOps Becomes a Higher Cloud-Native Priority

Source:-devops.com At the Cloud Native Security Summit, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) today revealed the results of a survey of 600 senior IT leaders that finds organizations are looking at DevSecOps as a way to address the complexities of managing and securing cloud-native applications. According to the survey results, 43% of respondents said their biggest challenge with cloud-native applications is maintaining consistency across disparate infrastructures. As a result, the same number of respondents said DevSecOps automation as their highest cloud security priority. Commissioned by

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At the AWS Security Conference, Experts Address Cloud Concerns

Source :-  itprotoday.com The new AWS security conference brought together experts across the industry to reflect on challenges and best practices in securing public and multi-cloud environments. It wasn’t that long ago when the prevailing attitude towards security was that while it was important, it slowed down the processes of launching an application or bringing a product to market. Too often security was tacked on at the end of a product launch, which created roadblocks for developers. Today, security is

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