The rise of cloud computing has had a smaller climate impact than feared

Source:-engadget.com Computing output jumped 6 times while power consumption rose only 6 percent. As more and more gargantuan data centers come on line, environmentalists have been concerned about massive increases in electricity consumption and pollution. However, according to a new study published in Science, that simply hasn’t happened. While cloud computing output has jumped by 600 percent from 2010 to 2018, energy consumption rose by just 6 percent. That’s because companies like Google have massively increased efficiencies with new chip

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OpenStack remains essential: How to get your private cloud builds right

Source:-techbeacon.com When SUSE announced in October that it was pulling out of the OpenStack market, it renewed industry speculation that the once massively hyped technology is sliding toward irrelevance. Nothing could be further from the truth. OpenStack’s alleged decline has become one of tech’s favorite tropes. The infrastructure-as-a-service model of hosting private clouds was all the rage in the early and mid-2010s, touted (unfairly) by some as an alternative to public clouds. That early excitement faded when OpenStack gained a

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Top 10 Cloud Architect Skills

Source:-sdxcentral.com Skills specific for cloud architects will vary depending on an organization’s specific cloud infrastructure. It’s a good idea to have a broad range of experience and the aptitude to pick up new skills quickly. There are several certification courses available through edX, industry groups, and open-source foundations, both for free and for a testing fee. Here are the top 10 cloud architect skills. Network Engineering and/or Administration Cloud architects tend to previous experience as network administrators, says Dan Kohn,

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How does DevOps in networking change network requirements?

Source:-searchnetworking.techtarget.com As more organizations embrace DevOps in networking, the approach can transform network requirements, such as visibility and security policies, which networks teams should consider. DevOps, continuous integration/continuous delivery or Agile teams have different network requirements than any other department. All three of these teams aim to eliminate roadblocks that slow down software development innovations. Thus, the speed of network deployments and changes is crucial to these development methodologies’ overall success. While network and application speeds constitute one area where

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AZURE DEVOPS: ULTIMATE TOOL TO MANAGE INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-A-CODE

Source:-techgenix.com Azure DevOps is the complete package and management tool to plan and track tasks and teams, version control of your code, automate deployments, testing, documentation, and much more. Sometimes it is overlooked by infrastructure professionals as the primary tool to manage Microsoft Azure. Azure DevOps can be the single location to manage all your subscriptions as infrastructure-as-a-code (IaaC) and save you time and money using an integrated tool with the Microsoft platform. In this article, we are going to

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DLT Framework to Spur Government DevOps Adoption

Source:-containerjournal.com DLT Solutions LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tech Data, has defined a Secure Software Factory (SSF) framework that provides U.S. public sector agencies with a framework for implementing a set of best DevOps practices based on Kubernetes. Company CTO David Blankenhorn says the SSF framework spans tools and platforms from Checkmarx, CloudBees, Dynatrace, GitHub, GitLab, Eggplant, MindPoint Group, Parasoft, Red Hat, Sonatype, StackRox, Sysdig, XebiaLabs and ZenHub. The goal, he says, is to make it easier for government agencies and

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UCI Division of Continuing Education Joins AWS Academy to Offer Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing Curriculum

Source:-globenewswire.com UCI Division of Continuing Education today announced participation in AWS Academy, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) program designed to help students acquire the skills and credentials needed to successfully join the cloud IT workforce. Beginning in spring 2020, students can enroll in the course that will prepare them to pursue careers in the fast-growing cloud computing space and industry-recognized AWS Certifications. “We are proud to make AWS Academy curriculum available to our students,” said Stephane Muller, director of business

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Datadog Announces Integration with Nessus

Source:-aithority.com Datadog, the monitoring and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, and business users in the cloud age, announced an integration with Nessus from Tenable, Inc. The integration ensures advanced vulnerability assessment capabilities from Nessus are available as part of a secure, end-to-end DevOps process. This enables DevOps teams that rely on Datadog for their critical cloud monitoring to have constant visibility into the health and status of their Nessus deployments. The Datadog integration with Nessus can detect when

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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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Google Cloud Puts Amazon and Microsoft on Notice

Source:-marketrealist.com Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) wants to close the gap with Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) in the cloud computing market. This week, Google cloud announced plans to invest $10 billion to develop its infrastructure in the US this year. The investment will allow the company to add more cloud computing capacity to better serve its large enterprise customers. Last year, the company announced plans to invest $3.3 billion to expand its cloud capacity in Europe. Amid the aggressive investment in capacity,

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GitHub Student Developer Pack adds 14 new offers

Source:-mspoweruser.com Real world developer tools will cost a fortune. So, it is not possible for most students to get hands-on experience with most developer tools. To solve this problem, GitHub introduced Student Developer Pack six years ago. GitHub Student Developer Pack give students free access to the best developer tools in one place. The GitHub Student Developer Pack includes GitHub Pro and several exclusive offers from GitHub Education partners. Today, GitHub announced that 14 new partners have joined GitHub Student

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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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Checkmarx simplifies AST automation for modern development and DevOps environments

Source:-helpnetsecurity.com Checkmarx, the global leader in software security solutions for DevOps, announced at the RSA Conference 2020 new enhancements to its market-leading Software Security Platform to empower more seamless implementation and automation of application security testing (AST) in modern development and DevOps environments. Available now, Checkmarx ‘Flow’ (CxFlow) is an orchestration module for the Checkmarx Software Security Platform that tightly integrates with application release orchestration and agile planning tools. This results in improved operational ‘flow’ of secure software development and

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Next Cloud Security Challenge: Containers and Kubernetes

Source:-bankinfosecurity.com The increasing use of containers and orchestration tools, such as Kubernetes, are driving demand for new cloud security and application deployment processes, according to research from the Cloud Security Alliance presented Monday at the RSA 2020 conference in San Francisco. The goal is to build security into the application development cycle as early as possible, says John Yeoh, global vice president of research at the not-for-profit alliance. “As we have seen with the use of containers and micro-services and

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CircleCI now has AWS GovCloud support plus several other updates

Source:-appdevelopermagazine.com CircleCI announced the availability of AWS GovCloud support among several other updates to their server solution. GovCloud is an AWS service specifically built for U.S. government agencies, defense companies, and other regulated industries such as healthcare, finance, justice/public safety, and energy. As of today, CircleCI server installations on AWS are configured to work on GovCloud — helping customers meet a variety of regulatory requirements such as FedRAMP, ITAR, DoD SRG, CJIS, and HIPAA. With AWS GovCloud, users gain the

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World Application Release Orchestration Software market research report 2025

Source:-whatech.com Ricerca Alfa offers a recently published research report on the Application Release Orchestration Software Market that gives an in-depth analysis of the key factors that are affecting the market. It also provides key quantitative as well as qualitative market information that helps customers in finding factors that are contributing to the market growth worldwide. A 200 pages report contains information pertaining to the important Application Release Orchestration Software Market insight including competitive analysis, on-going industry trends, market sizing, and

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NetOps vs DevOps vs DevSecOps – What’s the Difference?

Source:-tripwire.com One thing I have noticed is that each industry comes up with their own terms and acronyms. Unfortunately, these inventions often vary depending on the person you speak to due to a lack of a governing body that decides on an exact definition. At times, acronyms can even overlap, causing further confusion. Therefore, when it comes to definitions, I always look to ask a variety of persons from across industries on how they would define certain terms. In fact,

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VMware Cloud Foundation Gets Security Breakthrough At RSA

Source:-crn.com VMware’s popular VMware Cloud Foundation is receiving a major shot in the arm with new security capabilities from Carbon Black and NSX as the virtualization star continues its march to make security intrinsic in all its products. At RSA 2020 conference on Tuesday, VMware unveiled that VMware Cloud Foundation – which includes offers such as VMware Cloud on AWS and VMware Cloud on Dell EMC – has been injected with Carbon Black’s workload protection Real-time Workload Audit/Remediation technology as

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JetBrains plugs security vulns, fixes dozens of bugs in TeamCity 2019.2.2

Source:-devclass.com JetBrains has blasted out TeamCity 2019.2.2, which amongst other things includes a brace of security fixes significant enough for the vendor to “strongly recommend” customers upgrade quickly. The vendor is not disclosing the nature of the security fixes to the CI/CD server for now, but has detailed over 60 issues overall that are fixed in the latest version, as well as a trio of new features. The latter includes the ability to add multiple Docker accounts to Teamcity’s Docker

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Google Cloud unveils new tools for detecting modern threats

Source:-zdnet.com Google Cloud on Monday announced a series of new security capabilities, including a new way to detect threats with Chronicle’s security analytics platform. The new security tools line up with Google Cloud’s broader efforts to cater to enterprise customers. CLOUD Cloud computing: Spending is breaking records, Microsoft Azure slowly closes the gap on AWS Microsoft to combine its Windows client and hardware teams under Chief Product Officer Panos Panay Top cloud providers in 2020: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google

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