AWS Leads in Cloud AI Dev Services, Research Says

Source:-virtualizationreview.com Amazon Web Services (AWS), a dominant cloud computing platform that tops many industry rankings, is also No. 1 when it comes to cloud artificial intelligence (AI) developer services, according to new research. AWS and the usual cast of leading cloud characters, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), along with the IBM cloud, are the vendors named as “Leaders” in the Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services published by research firm Gartner in late February. The report analyzes

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A Blueprint for Running Stateful Services on Kubernetes

Source:-thenewstack.io Managing stateful applications has been challenging for engineering and operations teams long before the debut of Kubernetes. In this post, we’ll explore all aspects of your deployments of stateful applications on Kubernetes, from the underlying hardware to Pod update strategies, and provide insights into how LogDNA uses stateful Kubernetes to build one of the world’s fastest log management platforms. First, we’ll describe what “stateful” and “state” means in a cloud native context. “State” refers to the condition that an

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VMware amps up its cloud and data-center security

Source:-networkworld.com Upgrades to VMware security software rely on technology it bought with the purchase of Carbon Black, Avi Networks, Cloud Coreo and CloudHealth. VMware this week further integrated and added new features to its security software in an effort to bring unified protection to resources in data centers, and private clouds and public clouds. The company rolled out three new offerings: VMware Advanced Security for Cloud Foundation – an integrated package of VMware Carbon Black technology, NSX Advanced Load Balancer

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Cisco Accelerates Applications in a Hybrid Multicloud World

Source:-albawaba.com Businesses are realizing that applications are the business and the gateway to their customers. 78 percent of customers say their expectations of digital experiences are growing*. As companies pivot towards becoming app-centric businesses, it places enormous strain on enterprise IT, exposing dangerous silos between teams and technologies. To help businesses address the increasing demand for flawless digital experiences, Cisco today unveiled a multi-domain approach that bridges application and infrastructure teams with full-stack visibility and operational insight, allowing both real-time

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SPARKING THE GAP BETWEEN AI AND DEVOPS

Source:-nextplatform.com The term “AIOps” is getting a lot of work these days, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise. Massive amounts of data is coming at enterprises from all directions, not only from inside their own datacenters but also from the cloud and the edge, driven by such trends as the Internet of Things (IoT), the growing use of multiple clouds – both public and private – a proliferation of devices at the edge and applications being created and moved in rapidly increasing numbers of containers. Contained

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Q&A: Intel reiterates its stance on multicloud, tips hat to VMware NSX

Source: siliconangle.com There is no cloud; it’s just someone else’s computer, as the saying goes. Cloud computing’s ethereal nature makes it easy to forget there’s real hardware down on the ground as software service models virtualize hardware management. But at soirees such as VMworld, the invisible comes to light as an ecosystem of storage and networking providers reiterate their role in modern, multicloud computing architectures. “We’ve been able to round out our platform capabilities from a solution perspective to bring

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Oracle and Microsoft Expand Their Multicloud Alliance to the London Region

Source: oracle.com In June, Microsoft and Oracle jointly announced an industry-first multicloud collaboration. This collaboration enables customers to interconnect the two company’s clouds and simplify management for IT environments and individual applications that span both clouds. Since the announcement, we’ve been excited, but not surprised, by the volume of joint Microsoft and Oracle customers who are interested in creating innovative multicloud solutions. To meet customer demand, we’re expanding availability to more regions. We’re excited to announce that today we’re extending

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Analyzing VMware’s past to chart the future of multicloud

Source: siliconangle.com In this the 10th year of theCUBE’s coverage of VMworld, I’m going to take a look at the ebb and flow of VMware Inc.’s role in the waves of change in the technology industry and what’s coming next. The rise of virtualization Server virtualization is pervasive today, but in the early days, it took a lot of time to educate and sort out the details of what would and wouldn’t work. The timing of server virtualization was good:

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AWS automation skills in demand for DevOps, multicloud

Source – techtarget.com Automation is a big focus as more businesses migrate to the cloud and implement DevOps strategies. And while IT shops can gradually learn AWS automation skills — if they don’t have them already — the demand for that knowledge continues to rise rapidly. “Perhaps a direct reason for this is the more widely adopted principles and practices of DevOps,” said Scott Thomson, director of public cloud at Softchoice, an IT consulting and managed services provider based in Toronto. DevOps

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