March 19, 2021 bestdevops IT Training Leave a comment

SAS continues leadership streak in Gartner MQ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms

Source:-https://channellife.co.nz/ SAS has been named a leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms for the eighth year in a row. The report analysed vendors based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. It states, “To achieve fully mature, advanced analytic capabilities, organisations must plan for and invest in the end-to-end data science life cycle. “The lifecycle includes processes for accessing and transforming data, conducting analysis and building analytic models, operationalising and

February 20, 2021 bestdevops IT Training Leave a comment

Remote learning and collaboration: How to set up your cloud storage strategy for success

Source:-https://cloudcomputing-news.net/ With the UK in the midst of its third lockdown of the last twelve months, the enforced shift to remote learning has been a learning curve for schools, universities and other education providers, with teachers and students now required to access course materials and administrative documents via digital means. It has shown just how essential digital solutions are to creating a successful learning environment online. Additionally, continued advances in the education sector mean that it’s an industry generating huge

January 22, 2021 bestdevops Cloud Computing Leave a comment

CIOs see cloud computing as the bedrock of digital transformation

Source:-https://www.expresscomputer.in/ In a power packed ‘AWS CXO’ panel that saw participation of Sourabh Chatterjee, President and Head – IT, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Co, Balkrishna Singhania, EVP and Head – Digital, HDFC Life and Manish Verma, CTO, SonyLiv agreed on a common view that cloud computing is the most important technology for their digital transformations during the past five years. The session was chaired by Puneet Chandok, President – Commercial Business, Amazon Internet Services Private Limited, AWS India and South

December 22, 2020 bestdevops Continuous Deployment Leave a comment

How a DevOps culture can make the hybrid cloud work

Source:-https://www.siliconrepublic.com Today, many companies are facing a strong push towards the cloud, especially in light of this year’s events. However, organisations are often finding that the pure-play public cloud is not the panacea that they thought it would be. In practice, they find that they have to juggle working across multiple public cloud providers, along with their own private cloud solutions. In particular, the growing need to put computational capacity near the edge has spurred many companies to realise that

December 19, 2020 bestdevops DevOps, IT Training Leave a comment

Shifting mindsets from DevOps to DevSecOps

Source:-https://www.businesscloud.co.uk DevOps is a set of practices that looks to combine and automate the processes between software development and operational teams during an application life cycle. Although the current DevOps mindset is certainly an improvement on the traditional method of software development where the development and operations teams were kept separate, it could still do with an upgrade to ensure the best outcomes for businesses. As the tech industry constantly experiences changes and developments, we must also always be on

December 12, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

Thales and Google Cloud partner to help enterprises control their data in the cloud

Source:-https://www.intelligentcio.com Thales has announced a new collaboration with Google Cloud that will accelerate the ability of enterprises to safely migrate sensitive data between public cloud, hybrid and private IT infrastructures. Together, the two companies will offer new capabilities that enable security teams to own and control their encryption keys while helping to fulfill heightened regulatory requirements amidst today’s highly-distributed workforce. Building on a multi-year history of innovation around a variety of cloud security initiatives, Thales and Google Cloud will now

December 12, 2020 bestdevops Cloud Computing Leave a comment

Cloud computing shows it can handle businesses of all sizes

Source:-https://gulfnews.com The cloud is becoming an increasing part of our lives, integrated throughout many aspects. Our phones sync photos of family and friends with the cloud, as well as an ever growing list of contacts. Gaming consoles ensure that we don’t lose achievements from the hours spent. Even in offices, our software offers the option to back up to the cloud. This technology is capable of so much more than simply providing backup – it is driving digital transformation, economic

December 9, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

Thales and Google Cloud collaborate to secure public and private clouds

Source:-https://www.helpnetsecurity.com Thales announced a new collaboration with Google Cloud that will accelerate the ability of enterprises to safely migrate sensitive data between public cloud, hybrid and private IT infrastructures. Together, the two companies will offer new capabilities that enable security teams to own and control their encryption keys while helping to fulfill heightened regulatory requirements amidst today’s highly-distributed workforce. Building on a multi-year history of innovation around a variety of cloud security initiatives, Thales and Google Cloud will now empower

December 5, 2020 bestdevops Cloud Computing Leave a comment

Zoom makes Amazon Web Services its preferred cloud provider

Source:-https://cloudcomputing-news.net Amazon Web Services (AWS) has ‘extended its strategic relationship’ with videoconferencing provider Zoom, casting doubt on the latter’s dealings with Oracle. Amid the plethora of announcements which have come out of re:Invent, AWS’ major annual event, this week, the news that Zoom is using AWS as its preferred cloud provider flew somewhat under the radar. AWS made the point that Zoom had been a customer since 2011, with the companies ‘collaborating to develop new solutions for Zoom’s enterprise users,

November 30, 2020 bestdevops Azure Leave a comment

SAS launches cloud platform on Azure in Sydney

Source:-https://itbrief.com.au SAS has now brought its SAS Cloud platform to Australia, with the help of Microsoft Azure. Customers in Australia and the wider region can now access SAS Cloud on Azure in Sydney, meaning that cloud tools such as analytics and artificial intelligence are closer to home than ever before. “Australian organisations are increasingly aware of the power of data, analytics and AI to support their people, to deliver exceptional customer experiences and to ensure businesses thrive and succeed,” comments

November 27, 2020 bestdevops GitHub Leave a comment

Weekly threat roundup: VMware, GitHub, Facebook, and MobileIron

Source:-https://www.itpro.co.uk Patch management is far easier said than done, and security teams may often be forced into prioritising fixes for several business-critical systems, all released at once. It’s become typical, for example, to expect dozens of patches to be released on Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, with other vendors also routinely getting in on the act. Below, IT Pro has collated the most pressing disclosures from the last seven days, including details such as a summary of the exploit mechanism, and whether

November 27, 2020 bestdevops Cloud Computing Leave a comment

‘Hybrid cloud may grow exponentially as more firms explore cloud without disturbing on-premise setup’

Source:-https://www.financialexpress.com Every successful company needs a scalable infrastructure that can support complex functions, faster delivery of time-sensitive information, data transformation, and visibility on all data that flows in and out of their ecosystems. Hence major businesses across verticals are now adopting the cloud. In the past decade, digitalisation has moved and skyrocketed in new and unexpected directions. As digital technologies are shaping industries, enterprises are pursuing these measures to drive business goals and gain a competitive edge. The cloud has

November 25, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Three keys to scaling enterprise DevOps use

Source:-https://www.techcentral.ie The most mature organisations in their devops journeys rely on self-service internal platforms, automated change management processes, and integrated security, according to the 2020 State of Devops report by Puppet and CircleCI. The report surveyed more than 35,000 technical professionals around the world about their continued adoption of devops and agile practices, with three key themes emerging from the most mature, high-performing organizations: leveraging internal platforms, establishing effective change management processes, and tightly integrating security. Let’s tackle them one

November 24, 2020 bestdevops AWS Leave a comment

AWS targets larger banks to drive Cloud growth in India

Source:-https://www.expresscomputer.in After gaining traction among some of the smaller banks, Amazon Web Services, the Cloud computing business of e-commerce giant Amazon, is planning “to go deeper across some of the larger banks as well in India,” a top company executive has said. AWS said that amid the pandemic, it has seen an acceleration both in terms of customer adoption and how they ae using the cloud. “I can give you an example of RBL Bank which has been a customer

November 23, 2020 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

GCloud VMware Engine available in Sydney cloud region

Source:-https://datacenternews.asia From today, organisations can run the Google Cloud VMware Engine from Google’s Sydney cloud region. The Engine is an integrated first-party offering and fully owned and operated service that enables enterprises to migrate or extend their VMware-based applications to Google Cloud without any major changes to application policies, tools or processes. This allows customers to keep what they like about their on-prem application environment and tap into next-generation hardware and application services with minimal effort. “VMware technologies form the

November 19, 2020 bestdevops Micro Services Leave a comment

Global:Integrated insurance operators to shape the industry in next 10-20 years — dacadoo

Source:-https://www.asiainsurancereview.com Swiss health and InsurTech firm dacadoo, which provides digital health engagement and health risk quantification systems to insurers, has coined the term “integrated insurance operators” to describe insurers that will truly grow and define the next 10-20 years in the industry. Such insurers offer a fully integrated digital ecosystem, including a tangible health and wellbeing proposition, to elevate the customer experience and engage their members through mobile-first digital health engagement platforms. “They will drive the disruption from within,” said

November 16, 2020 bestdevops Splunk Leave a comment

Forescout expands integrations with partner solutions

Source:-https://securitybrief.com.au Forescout Technologies has expanded its partnerships and integrations with Splunk, CrowdStrike and CyberArk to enable joint customers to bridge security gaps and strengthen the cyber-physical risk posture across the entire network, while maintaining operational integrity of critical systems. “Organisations with complicated networks struggle with outdated methods of managing industrial control system (ICS) and OT assets across their infrastructure. Forescout’s integrations with industry-leading technologies from Splunk, CrowdStrike and CyberArk deliver cohesive and contextual insights of all assets, improve operational integrity

November 9, 2020 bestdevops Vmware Leave a comment

Telkomtelstra rolls out VMware SD-WAN to more than 5000 sites across Indonesia

Source:-https://sg.channelasia.tech Telkomtelstra has deployed VMware SD-WAN solutions to more than 5000 sites across Indonesia, delivered as one managed services project nationwide. In response to heightened demand for SD-WAN technologies at a local level, the roll-out comes eight months after the managed services provider (MSP) partnered with VMware to help enterprise customers overhaul networking capabilities to drive digital transformation agendas. Operating as a joint venture between Telkom Indonesia and Telstra Australia, Telkomtelstra offers VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud – acquired in late

November 7, 2020 bestdevops AWS Leave a comment

A short guide to AWS Savings Plans, and how this impacts system integrators

Source:-https://sg.channelasia.tech Cloud buying is getting renewed attention as enterprises seek added cost savings after migrating systems to the cloud in response to Covid-19. It’s time for corporate cloud buyers to learn more about the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Savings Plans, launched in November 2019, which provide cost savings of up to 72 per cent for cloud buyers. A recent survey of more than 50 IT executives on Pulse.qa, a social research platform, showed that only 16 per cent of IT

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