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Pulumi Corporation today announced the availability of its Cloud Native SDK for Kubernetes enabling a code-based approach to creating, deploying and managing applications across clouds including Microsoft AKS, Amazon EKS, and Google GKE, in addition to on-premises and hybrid environments. Pulumi also announced it has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to accelerate development and delivery of its cloud native programming tools and framework.

The Pulumi SDK provides full access to Kubernetes APIs and enables execution of all Kubernetes operations through ‘configuration as code,’ the use of real programming languages for configuration of cloud native resources. This provides clear productivity benefits by enabling code reuse and abstraction, in addition to easing previously difficult operations such as complex multi-stage cloud application deployments, or combining Kubernetes deployments with other cloud resources such as datastores. Pulumi also supports existing Helm and YAML-based configuration of Kubernetes.

Pulumi stacks can be coded using a variety of common languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Go and work consistently across all Kubernetes, serverless, data and infrastructure services from cloud platforms, eliminating the need for developers and DevOps teams to support multiple DSLs and configuration dialects.

Under the agreement, government agencies will have access to Veritas data protection and cloud solutions at negotiated prices to allow for improved data management. The agreement is derived from the GSA IT Schedule 70 and fully supports the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) Enhancement Program.

The agreement brings Veritas’ award-winning enterprise data management portfolio to all eligible federal, state, local and tribal government agencies. These agencies can build upon the data protection foundation of Veritas NetBackup and add additional data management capabilities to accelerate their cloud initiatives. Some of the initial offerings include:

Trim Your To-Do List

The problem that some people have is that they start their days with so much on their to-do lists that they have no chance of getting everything done in time. To try and combat this, you need to think a little more logically about the things you need to do and prioritize. Create a list of the top 3-5 things that are the highest priority and do those instead of other less important tasks. Concentrate on each of the errands individually and make sure you complete them fully before moving onto the next.

Although you may be familiar with virtual machines, container-based technology is quickly emerging as a popular way to virtualize workloads. From an orchestration perspective, Kubernetes is often mentioned and written about. But how does Kubernetes work, and why should you care?

This guide was written to uncover the benefits of Kubernetes and to showcase its features.  

In This Guide You’ll Learn:
 

•  The critical role that Kubernetes plays in a successful digital transformation
• The nuts and bolts behind Kubernetes architecture and deployments
• The differences between Kubernetes, Docker and Mesos
• Benefits of Kubernetes for AWS and Azure

 

Today’s digital consumers demand an always-on level of service that backups simply cannot provide.  The recently announced Zerto IT Resilience Platform, that converges backup, disaster recovery, and cloud mobility solutions into a single, simple, scalable platform, is changing the way companies think about protecting their data.

Listen in as Steve Blow, Technology Evangelist, explains Zerto’s vision for the future of backup and learn how continuous journal-based protection is disrupting legacy backup.

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Striim, provider of an enterprise-grade platform for streaming data integration, announced today that it has expanded integration with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to continuously feed real-time data from a broad range of data sources to Google BigQuery and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and MySQL. This integration helps Google customers to move toward a hybrid cloud infrastructure by making real-time enterprise data available for data warehousing, advanced analytics, operational reporting and machine learning solutions.

Striim’s platform-as-a-service solutions for the GCP infrastructure platform simplify the creation of real-time data pipelines from existing databases and data warehouses into Google BigQuery and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and MySQL.

CIS recently released CIS Hardened Images for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 into the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Microsoft Azure. CIS Hardened Images are virtual machines preconfigured according to the security recommendations of the CIS Benchmarks. In the past year, CIS has released a total of 18 CIS Hardened Images for various operating systems into the Azure Marketplace and the Azure Government Marketplace.

Hardening is the process of limiting potential vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers and cyber criminals. The CIS Benchmarks are a set of consensus-based recommendations developed by cybersecurity experts around the world to improve cybersecurity defenses for various technologies. While operating systems can have hundreds of vulnerabilities by default, CIS Hardened Images are preconfigured to strengthen security, reduce system build costs, and help accelerate workload deployment time. 

Other key findings from the newly released U.S. analysis include:

• Microsoft and Mobile Operators remain the top two vendors in consideration for IoT deployments among U.S. firms.
• IBM is closing in on Mobile Operators, having improved to 3^rd position, up from 5^th in 2017.
• Amazon has jumped into 5^th position from outside the top 10 in 2017; while Google has also improved and now sits in the top 5 ranking.
• Figure 1 illustrates the top 5 vendors considered for IoT deployments by U.S. firms, as ranked by IoT decision makers in 10 vertical markets.

As a core part of Strategy Analytics IoT Strategies service, the U.S. Enterprise IoT Deployment Survey provides detailed analysis of the status of the IoT industry, including:

myDevices, Inc. today announced the availability of turnkey Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, in partnership with the IoT Business Unit of Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group. myDevices will market and sell IoT in a Box solutions in China through Alibaba Cloud’s existing reseller distribution network. These remote monitoring solutions protect important assets for small businesses and large enterprise customers across a wide variety of industries for use cases in the commercial refrigeration and facility management vertical markets.

"Integrating myDevices’ IoT Solutions with Alibaba Cloud and the LinkWAN network exponentially accelerates the adoption of the Internet of Things for businesses of all sizes across China through our vast distribution ecosystem," said Wang Yunci, Marketing Director of the IoT Business Unit at Alibaba Cloud. "By offering custom and expandable, commercially-ready solutions, this initiative will enable our direct and partner sales channels to thrive as well."

These enterprise ready IoT Solutions powered by myDevices combine an Ethernet or cellular connected gateway, over 95 sensor types, device management, LinkWAN network server, and an iOS/Android mobile application that provides key features for remote monitoring such as automating sensor data recordings, email and SMS text alerts, and reporting. Pre-packaged and ready-for-sale solutions are deployed in minutes with built-in provisioning technology and can scale to adapt to a multitude of use cases instantly.